Nominees Announced for The 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards

RADIO ONLINE | Monday, February 5, 2024 | 4:25pm CT

iHeartPodcast Awards

iHeartMedia has announced the nominees for the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards presented by The Hartford live at SXSW. The awards, which will honor the very best in podcasting from 2023 and celebrate the most innovative talent and content creators in the industry, will feature 29 categories spanning podcast genres. This year, iHeartMedia teamed up with South by Southwest (SXSW) Conference and Festivals to host the live and in-person ceremony in Austin, Texas at the Fairmont Hotel on Monday, March 11 at 8pm CT.

The ceremony will also broadcast on select iHeartMedia radio stations nationwide, digitally through the iHeartRadio app and video stream in partnership with YouTube on the iHeartRadio Channel. The event will additionally be available on demand following the initial live stream on YouTube.

"As the podcast industry continues to rapidly grow, this past year has clearly proven that podcasters are always innovating in the audio space and finding new ways to reach and engage new audiences," said iHeartMedia's Digital Audio Group CEO Conal Byrne. "The nominees for the 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards reflect the results of honing that creativity and we're thrilled to celebrate and once again empower these creators and elevate the podcast industry together live in person at SXSW."

The Awards will also honor the podcast "Rotten Mango" with the Innovator Award presented by YouTube. The Innovator Award celebrates the voices that are breaking new creative ground in podcasting, and "Rotten Mango" continues to show unique storytelling through both audio and video.

Last year, the virtual 2023 iHeartPodcast Awards, hosted by actor and comedian Brian Baumgartner, featured a variety of appearances by award nominees, celebrity presenters and special guests including Jason Alexander and Peter Tilden, Jason Bateman, Sean Hayes and Will Arnett, Mayim Bialik, Alex Borstein, Zach Braff and Donald Faison, Nicole Byer, Charlamagne Tha God, Colin Cowherd, Bob Costas, Malcolm Gladwell, Draymond Green, Bethany Joy Lenz, Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang, Enrique Santos, Iliza Shlesinger, Questlove, Angela Yee and more.

The full 2024 category nominees are:

Podcast of the Year:

• Crime Junkie
• The Daily
• My Favorite Murder
• New Heights
• Normal Gossip
• On Purpose with Jay Shetty
• The Retrievals
• Scamanda
• SmartLess
• Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus

• Direct Deposit
• How I Built This
• MoneyWatch with Jill Schlesinger
• Networth & Chill with Your Rich BFF
• Planet Money

• Baby, This is Keke Palmer
• Handsome
• SmartLess
• This Is Important
• Why Won't You Date Me

• Crime Junkie
• The Girlfriends
• The Retrievals
• Scamanda
• Something Was Wrong

• Las Culturistas
• I've Had It
• Just B with Bethenny Frankel
• Search Engine
• Watch What Crappens

• Cereal Killers
• Hungry for History
• Recipe Club
• The Splendid Table
• Sporkful

• Huberman Lab
• Maintenance Phase
• The Mel Robbins Podcast
• On Purpose with Jay Shetty
• Therapy For Black Girls

• Mobituaries with Mo Rocca
• Revisionist History
• Slow Burn
• Throughline
• You're Wrong About

• Good Inside with Dr. Becky
• Kids Short Stories with Mr. Jim
• Sound Detectives
• Story Pirates
• The Suga

• Disgraceland
• Million Dollaz Worth of Game
• Popcast
• Questlove Supreme
• Song Exploder

• The Daily
• Pivot
• Pod Save America
• Today Explained
• Up First

• Ad Lucem
• Full Body Chills
• The Mantawauk Caves
• Radio Rental
• The Space Within

• Around The NFL
• Club Shay Shay
• The Dan Le Batard Show
• New Heights
• Pardon My Take

• Hidden Brain
• Inner Cosmos
• Ologies
• Radio Lab
• StarTalk

• All-In
• Hard Fork
• Lex Fridman Podcast
• TED Radio Hour
• Vergecast

• Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
• Heavyweight
• How Did This Get Made?
• Say More with Dr. Sheila
• SmartLess

• Joe Budden (The Joe Budden Podcast)
• Jonathan Goldstein (Heavyweight)
• Julia Louis-Dreyfus (Wiser Than Me)
• Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess)
• Nicole Byer (Why Won't You Date Me?)

• The 85 South Show
• Handsome
• New Heights
• SmartLess
• Today, Explained

• The Ben Shapiro Show
• CNN Inside Politics
• Countdown with Keith Olbermann
• NPR Politics Podcast
• Pod Save America

• Drama Queens
• Films to be Buried With
• Give Them Lala w/ Lala Kent
• How Did This Get Made?
• Pop Culture Happy Hour

• Getting Curious
• Dear Chelsea
• Michelle Obama: The Light Podcast
• This Keeps Happening with Vienna Pharaon
• We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle

• Add to Cart with Kulap Vilaysack & SuChin Pak
• Articles of Interest
• Fool Coverage with Manny MUA and Laura Lee
• The Goop Pursuit: Healing in a Sick Society
• Lipstick On The Rim

• As Told By Nomads
• Atlas Obscura
• The Travel Hacking Mom Show
• Travel With Rick Steves
• Women Who Travel

• Climate of Change
• Discarded
• Living on Earth
• TED Climate
• Sea Change

• The Bible in a Year with Fr. Mike Schmitz
• The Bible Recap
• Elevation with Steve Furtick
• On Being with Krista Tippett
• Women Evolve

• Crimson Hearts Collide (Hallmark Media)
• Love In Gravity (ViiV Healthcare)
• Mind the Business (Intuit Quickbooks)
• Symptomatic (Novartis)
• Townsizing (HGTV)

• Classy
• Handsome
• How to Destroy Everything
• I've Had It
• The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff

The 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards is part of iHeartMedia's roster of nationally recognized events including the iHeartRadio Music Awards, iHeartRadio Music Festival, the nationwide iHeartRadio Jingle Ball Concert Tour, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina, iHeartCountry Festival and iHeartRadio ALTer Ego. Additional information including guest hosts, presenters, celebrity appearances and more will be announced soon.