iHeartRadio Podcast Award Winners
• The first annual iHeartRadio Podcast Awards Presented By Capital One® brought some of the biggest names in podcasting together at the iHeartRadio Theater in Burbank last Friday evening. As voted on by the listeners, the live awards event honored the best in podcasting and spanned 22 categories and celebrated the incredible talent and wide variety of leaders across the booming podcasting industry.
The live 90-minute event was hosted by Holly Frey, Charlamagne Tha God, Bobby Bones and livestream host Mario Lopez and carried on more than 150 iHeartMedia radio stations and live streamed on iHeartRadio’s Twitter feed. The event featured appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters and other special guests including Mike Tyson, Dax Shepard, Jillian Michaels, Jana Kramer, Topher Grace, Dr. Drew and more.
Among the highlights: NPR was honored with the first-ever iHeartRadio Podcast Pioneer Award; Slate’s Slow Burn took home the coveted Podcast of the Year award; Marc Smerling, host of Crimetown and The RFK Tapes was awarded Podcast Innovator by a blue-ribbon panel of podcast industry leaders. Other awards: Best Business Podcast: RISE Podcast; Best Comedy Podcast: The Joe Rogan Experience; Best Crime Podcast: Up and Vanished; Best Entertainment TV Podcast: Whine Down with Jana Kramer; Best Food Podcast: Sips, Suds, & Smokes; Best Curiosity Podcast: Stuff You Should Know; Best History Podcast: Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History; Best News Podcast: The Ben Shapiro Show; Breakout Podcast: Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard. The complete list of all of the winners is posted online.
iHeartMedia/Premiere’s own Breakfast Club and Bobby Bones also took home some hardware — The Breakfast Club was named Best Multicultural Podcast, while Bones’ Bobbycast won for Best Music Podcast. Pictured, (l-r): Charlamagne Tha God, Bobby Bones and Mario Lopez. [Photo credit: Getty Images for iHeartMedia]
