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10/29/2024 | Press release | Distributed by Public on 10/29/2024 09:15

Signal Awards Reveal 2024 Winners, Recognizing The Podcasts That Define Culture:

NEW YORK, October 29th, 2024- Today, The Signal Awards revealed the Winners for its Third Annual honors, recognizing the podcasts that define culture. Mainstream and independent, underground and above the fold, The Signal Awards' 2024 Winners represent a diverse, discerning range of storytellers across both the content spectrum and creator ecosystem. Series and hosts and who earned the dual-honors of both a Signal Award Gold and Listener's Choice Award include: All There Is with Anderson Cooper[Interview or Talk Show], On with Kara Swisher [Best Host, Current Events], Questlove Supreme [Music], Unlocking Us with Brené Brown [Best Conversation Starter], Handsome with Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin [Best Co-Host Team], The Sporkful [Food & Drink], Twenty Thousand Hertz [Creativity & Marketing] and more.

In tandem with its focus on the podcasts that define culture, the 2024 Signal Awards introduced a slate of new categories, such as the Athletes, Artists & Designers, Business People & Entrepreneurs, Curators and Comedians Shaping Culture. First-time winners of both the Gold and Listener's Choice Awards in these categories include: Club Shay Shay, hosted by Super Bowl Champion Shannon Sharpe [Athletes Shaping Culture], What Now? with Trevor Noah [Comedians Shaping Culture] and The Stoop: Black, Queer and Free [Curators Shaping Culture].

"The Signal Awards is an opportunity to recognize the immense influence that authentic storytelling and discussion have on our culture at large," says Jemma Rose Brown, General Manager of The Signal Awards. "With more and more podcasts becoming so integrated into listeners' lives, there is a bigger need for a discerning voice to cut through, and make sure that great work can rise to the top. The most effective way to define excellence in this hyper-diverse medium is to look at what nourishes or challenges us, and changes our perspective on the world. All of this year's winners have made an impact worth celebrating."

Other Gold winners ranged from Oprah's Super Soul, The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya, Next Question with Katie Couric to Backfired: The Vaping Wars, Death, Sex & Money and Today, Explained. Listeners also chose timely shows like Dark History, Prosecuting Donald Trump, The Nightingale of Iran, The Prof G Pod with Scott Galloway, Victory Light with The Kid Mero, Who Killed JFK? and more as some of their favorites.

The Signal Awards is also honoring a set of renegades with its first-ever Special Achievement Awards, including Where Should We Begin?'s Esther Perel and Las Culturistas' Matt Rogers & Bowen Yang, for their work changing habits, sculpting new perspectives and, therefore, embodying the podcasts that define culture. Furthermore, for the second year in a row, Audible has been awarded The Signal Awards' Company of The Year, having earned the most honors across all categories. With a total of 25 wins, Audible's 2024 achievements come for breakthrough series such as Backfired: The Vaping Wars, Class of '88, George Orwell's 1984, Hot White Heist, In the Room with Peter Bergen, Your Mama's Kitchen, ...And Your Ass Will Follow and more.

All of the previously announced 2024 Finalists were eligible to win two of the industry's only distinctions that celebrate the most potent, meaningful and unprecedented audio projects being made today: The Signal Award and The Listener's Choice Award. Garnering more than 170,000 public votes in just two weeks, from nearly 75,000 fans around the world, this year's Listener's Choice Awards drew the largest voting body in The Signal Awards' three-history, reaffirming the growing prevalence that podcasts and their creators have in listeners' life patterns and daily routines. Additionally, with demarcations for Gold, Silver and Bronze, each Signal Award was selected by the Signal Awards Judging Academy, an esteemed and newly expanded cohort of the architects, instigators and trailblazers of the medium, who together reviewed thousands of hours of audio submissions from the US, Australia, Canada, China, UAE, UK, Vietnam and beyond.

Members of The Signal Awards Judging Academy include Jay Shetty (Host, On Purpose with Jay Shetty), Dan Taberski (Host, Hysterical), Leon Neyfakh (Co-Founder & President, Prologue Projects and Co-Creator, Slow Burn), Shima Oliaee (Co-Host, Dolly Parton's America and Founder, Shirazad Productions) and myriad other creators, as well as industry leaders at Acast, CNN, Condé Nast, KCRW, Lemonada Media, NPR, QCODE, Reductress, Vox Media, Stitcher, Sony Music and more.

The Signal Awards will celebrate all of its 2024 honorees during the upcoming Winners Party on November 12th, taking place at Public Records in Brooklyn, NY.

About The Signal Awards

The Signal Awards are mission-focused on uplifting the podcast medium by recognizing the most potent, meaningful and unprecedented audio projects being made today. Now in its third year, entrants to The Signal Awards are reviewed by The Signal Awards Judging Academy, an esteemed collective made up of the architects, instigators and trailblazers of the medium. The Signal Awards set a standard for editorial excellence by honoring the organizations, artists, mavericks, brands and storytellers who are shaping the podcast industry.

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2024 Winner Highlights

Interview or Talk Show

Slate's Death, Sex & Money GOLD

Your Mama's Kitchen GOLD

Apple News In Conversation GOLD

Podcrushed

New Lines Magazine Presents: The Lede

Time Sensitive

All There Is with Anderson Cooper GOLD, LISTENER'S CHOICE

Marc Summers Unwraps

On Being with Krista Tippett

Best Co-Host Team (Shows)

Handsome Podcast GOLD, LISTENER'S CHOICE

The Need to Know Podcast GOLD

Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway

A Field Guide To Gay Animals

Pretendians

Dead Writers

Nightcap

Culture Bites

And That's Why We Drink

Varnamtown

Best Commute Podcast

Today, Explained GOLD

Netflix is a Daily Joke GOLD

And That's Why We Drink GOLD LISTENER'S CHOICE

Where does Florida keep its memorabilia?

Hangin' Out with the Old Fellas

The McKinsey Podcast

Very Special Episodes

TED Talks Daily

Best Co-Host Team (Pop Culture Podcasts)

The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya GOLD

Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect GOLD

KERMODE AND MAYO'S TAKE LISTENER'S CHOICE

Newcomers with Lauren Lapkus & Nicole Byer

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Best Host (Current Events)

On with Kara Swisher GOLD, LISTENER'S CHOICE

Next Question with Katie Couric GOLD

The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich

Apple News Today

Conspiracy, She Wrote

Best Host

Oprah's Super Soul GOLD

Apple News Today GOLD

Your Mama's Kitchen GOLD

Dark History LISTENER'S CHOICE

How to Fail with Elizabeth Day

Reality with the King

Limited Series Documentary

Hysterical GOLD

The Youth Development Center GOLD

Backfired: The Vaping Wars GOLD

Grapevine GOLD

The Nightingale of Iran LISTENER'S CHOICE

The Good Thief

Long Shadow: In Guns We Trust

After Hotel Rwanda

In The Dark: The Runaway Princesses

Limited Series History

Pack One Bag GOLD

Inheriting

Road to Rickwood

The 99% Invisible Breakdown: The Power Broker

Who Killed JFK? LISTENER'S CHOICE

Unbiased History of Israel and Palestine

Limited Series & Specials News & Politics

In the Room with Peter Bergen GOLD

Big Take GOLD

The Political Scene GOLD

Talking Feds

Prosecuting Donald Trump LISTENER'S CHOICE

White Picket Fence

Pod Save America

Stay Tuned with Preet

Comedians Shaping Culture

What Now? with Trevor Noah GOLD, LISTENER'S CHOICE

Carefully Reckless with Jess Hilarious

Lovett or Leave It

Seek Treatment with Cat & Pat

Self-Improvement & Self-Help

The Mel Robbins Podcast GOLD

Everyday Better with Leah Smart GOLD

Big Lash Energy - Are You Faking Happy Too? LISTENER'S CHOICE

The Get Back To It Podcast

Whiskey, Jazz and Leadership

A Place of Yes

Real Men Feel

Therapy For Black Girls