The Webby Awards were released this week, and the focus here is the Podcasts category (revised from the previous categorization of Digital Audio & Podcasts).
Inside the category, the Webbys recognize 23 sub-categories like Business, Crime & Justice, sports, and Technology. The announcement page is rather difficult to navigate (ironically), and The Verge has helpfully provided a simple list of winners:
- Arts & Culture: New York Times Audio’s Still Processing
- Best Branded Podcast or Segment: Trained by Nike, Gizmodo’s The Sauce
- Webby Award for Best Host: Pod Save the People
- Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Host: Mythical’s Ear Biscuits
- Best Individual Episode: Wondery’s Dr. Death, Cafe’s Stay Tuned With Preet
- Best Mini Series: PRX’s The Great God of Depression from Radiotopia’s Showcase, Michigan Radio’s Believed
- Best Original Music/ Sound Design: Wolverine: The Long Night, Twenty Thousand Hertz
- Webby Award for Best Podcast Series: Slate Magazine’s Slow Burn Season 2
- Webby People’s Voice Award for Best Series: Serial
- Best Writing: Serial Season 3, Stuff You Missed in History Class
- Business: Wondery’s Business Wars, Freakonomics Radio- “After the Glass Ceiling, A Glass Cliff”
- Comedy: My Dad Wrote a Porno, And That’s Why We Drink
- Crime & Justice: In the Dark (Season 2), PRX’s Criminal
- Documentary: Ear Hustle
- Family & Kids: The Longest Shortest Time, Tai Asks Why
- Health & Wellness: 10% Happier
- Interview/Talk Show: Everything is Alive
- Lifestyle: Unladylike, Proof by America’s Test Kitchen
- News & Politics: Pod Save the People, Mueller She Wrote
- Science & Education: American History Tellers, StarTalk Radio with Neil Degrasse Tyson
- Sports: 30 for 30 Podcasts: The Six Who Sat
- Technology: The Wall Street Journal’s The Future of Everything (Season 3), The Verge’s Vergecast
- Television & Film: How Did This Get Made? Podcast, The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Note that each category has two winners: one for People’s Choice, and one for “Best.” Non-winning nominees are note represented here, as are the creator/network credits.
Scripps and Wondery sent out notices of their success. Scripps-owned Stitcher won five awards, thereby taking bragging rights for a single network. Wondery took home three prizes.
The winning Stitcher shows are:
- Freakonomics Radio (Business)
- How Did This Get Made (Television and Film)
- The Longest Shortest Time (Family and Kids)
- Unladylike (Lifestyle)
- Wolverine: The Lost Trail (Original Score / Sound Design)
Wondery’s wins:
Dr. Death (Individual Episode)
American History Tellers (Science and Education)
Business Wars (Business)