30th Annual Webby Awards Podcast Nominees

The Webby Awards continues to see significant growth in podcast submissions, solidifying their status as the largest, most prestigious, and competitive honors in the industry. As audio and video storytelling reach new heights, this year’s awards reflect that evolution with expanded podcast categories, including all new Best New Podcast, Best Video Podcast, and Best Video Podcast Host. Video podcast nominees include titles such asThe Mel Robbins Show, Only Murders in the Building: Official Podcast, and Good Hang with Amy Poehler. Other podcast nominees include hitshows such as Las Culturistas, SmartLess and Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard; business podcasts including The Diary of a CEO, Pivot, and My First Million; comedy podcasts such as The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast, Handsome and Wisecrack; new live podcast recordings like Crime Junkie Live on Tour, Sing For Science’s The Magic of Mushrooms with Kacey Musgraves and Paul Stamets, and On Purpose with Jay Shetty; and shows highlighting powerful female voices like Aspire with Emma Grede, Baby, This is Keke Palmer, and Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce.

30TH ANNUAL WEBBY PODCAST NOMINEES

Scripted (Fiction), Shows (Podcasts)

• DC High Volume: Batman - Realm
• Red For Revolution - Red For Revolution
• The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery - Audible
• Calm Sleep Stories - Calm, Inc
• Buzz: The Man & The Moon - iHeartMedia

Best Partnership or Collaboration, Features (Podcasts)

• The Rest Is History: The Complete History of The Beatles with Tom Holland and Conan O Brian - Goalhanger
• The Bowen Yang/Matt Rogers X Sesame Street X NBC Olympics Crossover Event - iHeartPodcasts
• Not Gonna Lie, with Kylie Kelce “My Disney Spectacular” from Walt Disney World, Episode 43 - Disney Experiences
• The Story of Woman in Kenya, with Orchid Project - The Story of Woman
• Downton Abbey: The Official Podcast - Treefort Media

Best Host, Features (Podcasts)

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler  - Kovert Creative
• Next Question with Katie Couric - Katie Couric Media
• The Mel Robbins Podcast - Best Host - SiriusXM
• Baby, This is Keke Palmer - Wondery
• Reclaiming with Monica Lewinsky - Wondery

Lifestyle, Shows (Podcasts)

• We Can Do Hard Things - Silver Tribe Media
• Coffee Convos Podcast - KILLR Network
• Food Network Obsessed - Food Network
• Bookmarked by Reese’s Book Club - iHeartMedia
• Nice Talk with Nikki Ogunnaike - Future PLC

Sports, Shows  (Podcasts)

• Pablo Torre Finds Out  - Meadowlark Media
• All The Smoke - All The Smoke Productions
• New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce - Wondery
• Bussin’ With The Boys - Hirsch Leatherwood
• 7PM in Brooklyn with Carmelo Anthony - Metro PR

Best Video Podcast, Features (Podcasts)

• Good Hang with Amy Poehler - Kovert Creative
• The Mel Robbins Podcast - 143 Studios, Inc.
• That Was Us - Rabbit Grin Productions
• Only Murders in the Building: Official Podcast - Hulu Originals
• 21 Questions w/ Madison Tevlin - by coastal inc.

Interview or Talk Show - News, Business & Society, Shows (Podcasts)

• On with Kara Swisher - Vox Media
• The Assignment with Audie Cornish - CNN
• My First Million - HubSpot
• The Diary Of A CEO - R. Agency
• Not Another CEO Podcast - Ringmaster B2B Podcasting

Interview or Talk Show - Entertainment & Culture, Shows (Podcasts)

• Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim - Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim
• All There Is with Anderson Cooper - CNN
• Office Ladies - Audacy
• Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard - Wondery
• Baby, This is Keke Palmer - Wondery

Best Co-Hosts, Features (Podcasts)

• SmartLess - SiriusXM
• Sibling Rivalry - Studio71
• The Pivot Podcast - The Pivot Podcast
• New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce - Wondery
• The Lonely Island and Seth Meyers Podcast - Rabbit Grin Productions

Belonging & Inclusion, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Handsome with Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster, and Mae Martin - Headgum
• UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham - The Meteor
• The Anti-Trans Hate Machine - Trans Lash Media
• Driving All Night: The Relentless Rise of Brooke Goff - Rankings.io
• Rebel Girls Get to Know - Rebel Girls

Comedy, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Paul Rudd 3.0 on TYSO - TYSO Productions
• On Par with Maury Povich Podcast/Kathy Griffin Talks About Being The Most Hated Woman In America in 1-On-1 Interview With Maury - A Better Life Media
• Wisecrack - Tenderfoot TV
• The Nightly - Hatch
• When The Cops Say No, We Say Yes - A step too far productions

Best Video Podcast Host, Features (Podcasts)

• The Don Lemon Show - Lemon Media Network
• Seen on the Screen with Jacqueline Coley - We Are Social North America
• This Is Gavin Newsom - Independent
• In the Test Kitchen - America’s Test Kitchen
• Take Your Shoes Off - TYSO Productions

Best Live Podcast Recording, Features (Podcasts)

• On Purpose with Jay Shetty - On Purpose
• Eva Guzman: You Are Enough | Women, Ambition, & Reinvention in Law - MMO Media, LLC
• Surface Level Live - Surface Level
• Crime Junkie Live on Tour - Audiochuck
• The Magic of Mushrooms with Kacey Musgraves and Paul Stamets - Sing For Science

Featured Guest, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Michelle Obama Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Fear, Faith & Hope - The Jamie Kern Lima Show - The Jamie Kern Lima Show
• Aspire with Emma Grede - Audacy
• Skip Intro - Netflix
• One Song - Hartbeat
• Mark Ruffalo Says ‘Boycott, Divest, Sanction, and Prosecute’ Israel - Zeteo

Advice & How-To, (Podcasts)

• Don’t Listen To Us - Lemonada Media
• The Ramsey Show - Ramsey Solutions
• Mick Unplugged - Mick Unplugged
• Today’s Tips from AARP
• Lost Boys - Belay LLC

Arts & Culture, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• 5 Good Things - CNN
• Jane Austen 250th Anniversary | MASTERPIECE Studio - MASTERPIECE
• American Masters: Creative Spark - American Masters
• 99% Invisible: The Great American Pyramid - 99% Invisible
• Totally Booked with Zibby - Zibby Media

Arts & Culture, Shows (Podcasts)

• ANTIQUES ROADSHOW DETOURS - GBH
• We Disrupt This Broadcast - Center for Media and Social Impact
• American Masters: Creative Spark
• Not Skinny But Not Fat
• Sounds Like A Cult - Margie Grove LLC

Belonging & Inclusion, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• We’re Doing the Wiz - Radiotopia
• Our New South - Next Chapter Podcasts
• Man Up: Conversations on Gendered Hate in the Digital Age - Long Story Short Media
• Truth Be Told - Buffalo Toronto Public Media
• Climbing the Walls - Understood.org

Belonging & Inclusion, Shows (Podcasts)

• UNDISTRACTED with Brittany Packnett Cunningham - The Meteor
• Freedom to Thrive: Resistance, Justice, and Resilience - National Immigration Law Center
• Storyhole: Loads of Gay Stories
• Surface Level Podcast
• 21 Questions w/ Madison Tevlin - by coastal inc.

Best Branded Podcast or Segment, Features (Podcasts)

• Things Bakers Know: The King Arthur Baking Podcast - King Arthur Baking Company
• Wild Ideas Worth Living - Puddle Creative
• Grindr’s ‘Who’s The Asshole?’ Season 3 - Sling and Stone
• Via Podcast Season 2 - Via magazine/AAA Mountain West Group
• Lock and Code: A trusted podcast for a distrustful internet - Malwarebytes.com

Best Creator or Influencer Series, Features (Podcasts)

• I Shaved My Vag For This - Katie Thompson & Soul People Productions
• Wild Wild Web with Eric Sedeño - Longview Artists
• We’re Your Girls Podcast | Taryn Delanie Smith and Tiffani Singleton - Shoshalmedia
• Iconic Origins: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles - Paramount Pictures
• Almost Athletes with Dude Perfect

Best Indie Podcast, Features (Podcasts)

• Flightless Bird - Flightless Bird
• Shame Less with Lilly Singh - Unicorn Island Fund
• Solved with Mark Manson - Mark Manson
• Nobody Should Believe Me - Season Six - Nobody Should Believe Me LLC
• Bad Queers Podcast - Bad Queers Podcast

Best Indie Podcast - Limited Run, Features (Podcasts)

• The Astrology of America - Cosmic Coven
• Her Magic Mushroom Memoir - Divine Sign Productions LLC
• 1968 Blackflower Drive - Pryzsons Break Productions
• LEAD how this story ends is up to us - Emblem Entertainment
• Senseless with Erika Mahoney - Erika Mahoney, LLC

Best Individual Episode, Features (podcasts)

• Michelle Obama Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Fear, Faith & Hope - The Jamie Kern Lima Show
• Creator to Creator: Vince Gilligan (Pluribus) & Jason Connell (Ghost of Yotei) - Sony
• The Telepathy Tapes - Podcast Nation
• The Louis Theroux Podcast - Mindhouse Productions
• ABC Audio | 20/20: Devil in the Desert - ABC News

Best Limited Series, Features (Podcasts)

• Fela Kuti: Fear No Man - Audible
• Lost Boys with Scott Galloway and Anthony Scaramucci - Belay
• Emotions of Change - The Great Full
• Gloves Off with Stephen Marche - Insurgentsia Productions
• Pursuit: The Founders’ Guide to Happiness - National Constitution Center

Best New Podcast - Entertainment & Culture, Features (Podcasts)

• The Rest Is Science - Goalhanger
• On Par with Maury Povich Podcast/Don Lemon Talks Life After CNN In One-On-One Interview With Maury - A Better Life Media
• Joe and Jada - Hirsch Leatherwood
• Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce - Wave Sports and Entertainment
• What Are We Even Doing? with Kyle MacLachlan - Full Picture Productions

Best New Podcast - News, Business & Society, Features (Podcasts)

• The Joy Reid Show - Image Lab Media Group
• The Intersection by MeidasTouch - MeidasTouch
• Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis - Agoric Media
• The Narco’s Children - Rainbow Lobster
• Apathy Is Not An Option - SPLC

Best Writing, Features (Podcasts)

• Tough Cookie: The Wally “Famous” Amos Story - Vanity Fair
• Aftermath: Hunt For The Anthrax Killer - CBC Podcasts
• Killer Psyche - Treefort Media
• Grim Death and Bill the Electrocuted Criminal - Echoverse
• Left Arm Treasure Society - GZM Shows

Business, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• If/Then - Stanford Graduate School of Business
• Thoma Bravo’s Behind the Deal - FGS Global
• The Heart of Healthcare - The Heart of Healthcare
• 3 Takeaways- StillGood Creative
• Take on Tomorrow: Is quantum computing about to radically change the world? - PwC’s strategy+business

Business, Shows (Podcasts)

• Pivot - Vox Media
• Is Business Broken? - WBUR CitySpace Productions
• HBR IdeaCast - Harvard Business Review
• Morning Brew Daily - Morning Brew Inc
• TLDR - Wealthsimple Media

Business & Thought Leadership, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• Behind the Business with Michelle Toh - Behind the Business
• The Breakout Booth: Money and Financial Healing - The Breakout Booth
• Disruptors: The Canada Project - Royal Bank of Canada
• In My Finance Era - Vanguard
• Startup Dad - The Startup Dad

Comedy, Shows (Podcasts)

• Conan O’Brien Needs A Friend - SiriusXM
• SmartLess - SiriusXM
• Fly on the Wall - Audacy
• Comedy Bang Bang - SiriusXM
• Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - iHeartMedia

Creativity & Marketing, Shows (Podcasts)

• Marketing Brew Weekly - Morning Brew Inc
• This Could Work Podcast: Exploring the Ideas, Risks, and Visionaries Driving Modern Culture - Saylor
• CREATOR: The Podcast - Matador Network
• Smart Route - Smart Route
• AMA’s Marketing / And Podcast - American Marketing Association

Crime & Justice, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• 48 hours at El Refugio: A haven for families of ICE detainees - The Futuro Media Group
• Post Mortem - CBS News
• Women Beyond Walls Podcast - Women Beyond Walls
• Clues with Morgan Absher and Kaelyn Moore - PAVE Studios
• ABC Audio | 20/20: What Happened to Holly Bobo? - ABC News

Crime & Justice, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• Who Took Misty Copsey? - The Free Press
• Spiral: Murder in Detroit - The Free Press
• Spotlight: Snitch City - The Boston Globe
• Wisecrack - Tenderfoot TV
• The Con: Kaitlyn’s Baby - CBC Podcasts

Crime & Justice, Shows (Podcasts)

• Dateline: Missing in America - Dateline NBC
• True Crime with Kendall Rae - Mile Higher Media
• Bone Valley Season 3 | Graves County - Lava for Good
• Crime Junkie - Audiochuck
• ABC Audio and 20/20 - Cold Blooded: Mystery in Alaska - ABC News

Documentary, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• A Summer Break That Wasn’t: American Kids Living in Fear of ICE - The Futuro Media Group
• Blowback - Airwave
• The Palisades Fire: Episode 1 Get they Boys Ready - Wave Maker Media
• Not a Very Good Murderer - Audible
• 99% Invisible: The Quiet Storm - 99% Invisible

Documentary, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• CROOK COUNTY - Common Enemy
• Hot Money S3: Agent of Chaos - Financial Times
• Migrating to America: A Dream Worth Dying For - Cool Zone Media
• Suspicious Minds: AI and Psychosis - Agoric Media
• Where the Schools Went - The Branch

Documentary, Shows (Podcasts)

• Something Was Wrong - Something Was Wrong // Broken Cycle Media
• Reveal: Hard Truths. Real Consequences. - Mother Jones
• Levittown - Debbie Hoffman
• Heavyweight - Pushkin Industries
• Long Shadow: Breaking the Internet - Long Lead

Experimental & Innovation, Features (Podcasts)

• Our Ancestors Were Messy - Our Ancestors Were Messy
• Behind the Bastards - Cool Zone Media
• What Could Go Wrong? - Audible
• Pablo Torre Finds Out - Meadowlark Media
• The Quantum Kid - an educational podcast co-hosted by a 9 year old - Tesseract Quantum non-profit

Health, Science & Education, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• NASA’s Curious Universe: The Earth Series - NASA
• Unearthed: The need for seeds - Fresh Air Production
• Self Correction - Nature
• The Threshold - Foreign Policy
• Where the Schools Went - The Branch

Health, Wellness & Fitness, Shows (Podcasts)

• Where Should We Begin? with Esther Perel - Vox Media
• Chasing Life with Dr. Sanjay Gupta - CNN
• My So-Called Midlife with Reshma Saujani - Moms First
• Radio Headspace - Headspace
• Mayim Bialik’s Breakdown - ICON PR

Health, Wellness & Lifestyle, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• The disruptHER Podcast - Dr. Somi
• UnPaused - The Pause Life
• Modern Wisdom - alignPR
• The Tamsen Show - Tamsen Fadal Media
• The Solutionists - Deadset Studios

History, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• StoryCorps - Voices From the Storm: Remembering Hurricane Katrina - StoryCorps
• The History Chicks - Airwave
• The Last Boat - The Economist
• 12 Years That Shook the World - USHMM
• The TransLash Podcast with Imara Jones: Unearthing Black Trans History - TransLash Media

History, Shows (Podcasts)

• National Park After Dark - National Park After Dark
• Geekstorians - Geektown.co.uk
• History That Doesn’t Suck - Audacy
• Stuff You Missed in History Class - Best History Podcast - iHeartMedia
• Dark History - Monday Archives

Interview or Talk Show, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Jane Goodall on hope, AI, and the natural world - Palette Media
• The Oprah Podcast - Harpo
• Conversations with Coleman - The Free Press
• The (Free) Bus Stops Here — A Firewall & Race to Gracie Mansion Podcast - Tusk Holdings
• The Unusual Suspects - Audible

Interview or Talk Show, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• Michelle Obama Reveals All: Life-Changing Lessons on Fear, Faith & Hope - The Jamie Kern Lima Show - The Jamie Kern Lima Show
• Kevin Harvick’s Happy Hour - FOX Sports
• Exonerated: The Cost of Wrongful Conviction - WURD Radio
• SINNERS: IN PROXIMITY PODCAST - Proximity Media
• Legacy Talk with Lena Waithe - Lemonada Media

Kids & Family, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Lulu’s Late Night - Hatch
• Parents You’ve Got This - The Expert Guide to Parenthood Podcast - Parents You’ve Got This
• Funky Foodies: The Funkies’ Garden Gets Washed Out - Funky Foodies
• Narwhals Are Real?! Dive Into the Arctic’s Coolest Secret! - Culture Kids Productions
• If Objects Could Talk - J. Paul Getty Trust

Kids & Family, Shows (Podcasts)

• Culture Kids - Culture Kids Productions
• Greeking Out - Disney Consumer Products
• Cookie Monster Mysteries - Audible
• Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest - Realm
• Live from Mount Olympus | Theseus and Ariadne - Onassis Foundation

Music, Shows (Podcasts)

• Queer the Music: Jake Shears On The Songs That Changed Lives - Mercury Studios
• Ctrl+B by Splice - Splice
• The Third Story Podcast - Unlimited Media, Ltd
• Chasing the Sound - Audible
• Joe and Jada - Hirsch Leatherwood

News & Politics, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Question Everything - Placement Theory
• Never Post: A.I. and New American Fascism - Charts & Leisure
• Project 2025 Is Even More Radical Than You Think - Independent
• Joy Behar’s Message To Stephen Colbert - The View
• ABC Audio | 20/20 - Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy - ABC News

News & Politics, Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• Trumpland with Alex Wagner - MS NOW
• Three part series: 20th Anniversary of Katrina - Big Picture Science
• It Could Happen Here - Cool Zone Media
• The State of Abortion, 3 Years Since Dobbs - The Story Exchange
• ABC Audio | 20/20 - Bad Rap: The Case Against Diddy - ABC News

News & Politics, Shows (Podcasts)

• Legal AF by MeidasTouch - MeidasTouch
• Today, Explained - Vox Media
• The Intercept Briefing - The Intercept
• Strict Scrutiny - Crooked Media
• Raging Moderates - Prof G Media

Original Music Score / Sound Design, Features (Podcasts)

• Full Body Chills Score - Audiochuck
• Red For Revolution - Red For Revolution
• The Strange Thing About… - Bang Zoom! Studios
• Richard III - Original Music by David Molina and Lindsay Jones / Sound Design by Lindsay Jones - Next Chapter Podcasts
• Hamlet - Make-Believe Association

Public Service & Activism, Shows (Podcasts)

• Chapters: Season Five (Chapter Five) - Incarceration - Past Forward
• Rebuilding L.A. - LA Times Studios
• The Anti-Trans Hate Machine - TransLash Media
• We the Unhoused - iHeartPodcasts
• Decoding Democracy One Episode at a Time - JAR Podcast Solutions

Science & Education, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• Altered States - UC Berkeley Center for the Science of Psychedelics
• Gas Station Heroin: The Kratom Crisis - Oh Gross
• Houston We Have a Podcast: Artemis II: The Mission - NASA
• Templeton Ideas--Brian Greene (Ultimate Reality) - John Templeton Foundation
• Screen Deep - Children and Screens: Institute of Digital Media and Child Development

Science & Education, Shows (Podcasts)

• Ologies with Alie Ward - Ologies
• Nice Genes! - JAR Podcasts
• Thriving Kids Podcast - Child Mind Institute
• The Cancer Letter Podcast - The Cancer Letter
• Particles of Thought - GBH, NOVA PBS

Scripted (Fiction), Limited-Series & Specials (Podcasts)

• The Murderer Killings - A True Crime Podcast - The Murderer Killings
• The Set Up - Sonoro
• Sacrilege: Curse of the Mbirwi - Audible
• The Void - StillGood Creative
• Hatch Classics: Queer Romance - Hatch

Scripted (Fiction), Shows (Podcasts)

• DC High Volume: Batman - Realm
• Red For Revolution - Red For Revolution
• The Big Fix: A Jack Bergin Mystery - Audible
• Calm Sleep Stories - Calm, Inc
• Buzz: The Man & The Moon - iHeartMedia

Sustainability & Environment, Shows (Podcasts)

• Broken Ground Podcast: A Podcast by the Southern Environmental Law Center - Rural Justice; Season 7 - Southern Environmental Law Center
• The Fire Problem: Season One - Past Forward
• Nature is the Solution - WBUR CitySpace Productions
• Sustainably Speaking - POOLHOUSE
• A People’s Climate - Counterstream Media

Technology, Shows (Podcasts)

• Future Around & Find Out - Modern Product Minds
• Computer Says Maybe - The Maybe
• Marketing Against the Grain - HubSpot
• The Most Interesting Thing in AI - Atlantic Re:think
• The Vergecast - The Verge

Television & Film, Individual Episode (Podcasts)

• The White Lotus Official Podcast - Warner Bros. Discovery
• Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast - Golden Girls Deep Dive
• True Crime Obsessed - True Crime Obsessed
• Skip Intro - Netflix
• ReLiving Single - Hartbeat

Television & Film, Shows (Podcasts)

• How Did This Get Made - Television & Film - SiriusXM
• The Severance Podcast - Audacy
• Golden Girls Deep Dive Podcast - Golden Girls Deep Dive
• Hacks Podcast - Warner Bros. Discovery
• The Wednesday Season 2 Official Woecast - Netflix