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The first-ever major live awards event voted by podcast listeners will be held in January to honor the best in podcasting and celebrate the talent and variety of leaders in the booming industry.

The live iHeartRadio Podcast Awards are scheduled for Jan. 18, 2019, iHeartMedia announced today in a press release.

Podcasts now have twice the reach of all of satellite radio, and the iHeartRadio Podcast Network says it has seen a nearly 200 percent year-over-year growth in podcast listening in the past year.

The 90-minute award ceremony will have a live audience with host Charlamagne Tha God, nationally-syndicated on-air host and co-host of “The Brilliant Idiots” and “The Breakfast Club”. Live streaming will be hosted by Mario Lopez, on-air and TV personality.

Podcasts came on the scene more than 10 years ago, and the industry steadily grew in listenership and popularity. More than 44 percent of Americans have listened to a podcast.

“Podcasting has roared onto the audio scene, creating the most excitement since the advent of streaming music services,” said Conal Byrne, President of iHeartMedia’s Podcasting Division, in a prepared statement. “The iHeartRadio Podcast Awards will provide a forum to celebrate the high-caliber, creative content that has made podcasting a major new audio category — and that truly reflects America’s favorite podcasts, voted by the listeners themselves”

 

 

In addition to Charlamagne Tha God, other hosts and presenters at the event include:

• Holly Frey, co-host of “Stuff You Missed in History Class,” one of the top history podcasts.
• Bobby Bones, top Country radio host, multiplatform personality and host of the leading Country music focused podcast “Bobbycast” and creator of the Nashville Podcast Network.
• Payne Lindsay (“Up & Vanished”).
• Aaron Mahnke (“Lore”).
• Jake Brennan (“Disgraceland”).

Podcast fans will decide the winners in 17 of 22 categories at the iHeartRadio Podcast Awards, honoring the most entertaining and innovative podcasts of 2018.

Judges will decide the winner in five categories: Podcast of the Year, Breakout Podcast, Best Branded Podcast, Best Social Impact from Podcast/Host and Podcast Innovator Award.

Judges include include Marc Smerling, “Crimetown”; Jake Brennan, “Disgraceland”; Alex Blumberg, Gimlet; Conal Byrne and Chris Peterson, iHeartMedia; Aaron Mahnke, “Lore”; Anya Grundmann, NPR; Max Cutler, Parcast; Owen Grover, Pocket Casts; Maggie Taylor, PRX; Chuck Bryant and Josh Clark, “Stuff You Should Know”; Holly Frey, “Stuff You Missed in History Class”; Donald Albright and Payne Lindsay, Tenderfoot TV; Sim Sarna, Unqualified Media; and Hernan Lopez, Wondery.

Nominees for Podcast of The Year include:

• “Atlanta Monster”
• “Dirty John”
• “Hardcore History,
• “Joe Rogan”
• “Radiolab”
• “Serial”
• “Slow Burn”
• “Stuff You Should Know”
• “The Daily”
• “The Habitat”

Nominees for Best Business & Enterprise Podcast include:

• “Business Unusual with Barbara Corcoran”
• “Business Wars”
• “The GaryVee Audio Experience”
• “How I Built This with Guy Raz”
• “Planet Money”
• “RISE Podcast”

Fans can vote for nominated podcasts now through Jan. 6, 2019 online and socially across Twitter and Instagram. Visit iHeartPodcastAwards.com for a complete list of nominees and voting details. Winners will be announced during the live show and stream from the iHeartRadio Theater Los Angeles.

iHeartRadio carries more than 20,000 podcasts from its own podcasts to other podcast publishers ranging from NPR, Wondery and WNYC to ESPN and Gimlet. Nominees include podcasts from all creators, distributors and platforms — not just those developed by or available on the iHeartRadio Podcast Network.

iHeartMedia also recently acquired Stuff Media, LLC, the leading for-profit publisher of entertaining and informative podcast content, which includes the HowStuffWorks podcasting business. Conal Byrne, president and CEO of Stuff Media has now become the president of the iHeartRadio Podcast Division.

iHeartMedia is the top commercial podcast publisher in the world.

“The podcasting space is on fire and we are excited to recognize its leaders, as decided by the fans and a panel of industry creatives and experts,” said iHeartMedia chairman and CEO Bob Pittman. “We are delighted to use our expertise with events and awards shows to build the first major industry awards show for podcasts, to use our unparalleled size and scale to promote and market the event — and to include these great companies and luminaries in the celebration.”