2023 iHeartPodcast Awards Winners

Podcast Of The Year (Socially Voted):

“Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend”
“Crime Junkie”
“Fly On The Wall”
“Las Culturistas” - WINNER
“Love and Noraebang”
“Maintenance Phase”
“Morbid”
“On Purpose with Jay Shetty”
“Scam Goddess”
“SmartLess”

Best Overall Ensemble:

“Best Friends with Nicole Byer & Sasheer Zamata”
“Conan O'Brian Needs a Friend”
“Just Between Us”
“Let's Make a Sci-Fi!”
“SmartLess” - WINNER

Best Business & Finance Podcast:

“Earn Your Leisure”
“How I Built This”
“Odd Lots”
“Planet Money” - WINNER
“The Indicator”

Best Comedy Podcast:

”Distractible”
“Las Culturistas”
“SmartLess”
“The Read”
“Why Won't You Date Me” - WINNER

Best Crime Podcast:

“Believe Her” - WINNER
“Crime Junkie”
“Morbid”
“Scam Goddess”
“Sympathy Pains”

Best Pop Culture Podcast:

“Decoder Ring” - WINNER
“Keep It”
“The Video Archives with Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avery”
“Vibe Check”
“Watch What Crappens”

Best Food Podcast:

“Naked Lunch”
“Proof”
“Recipe Club”
“The Dave Chang Show”
“The Sporkful” - WINNER

Best Wellness & Fitness Podcast:

“Huberman Lab”
“HypochondriActor”
“Maintenance Phase” - WINNER
“Ten Percent Happier”
“Therapy For Black Girls”

Best History Podcast:

“Dan Carlin’s Hardcore History”
“History Daily”
“Noble Blood”
“You Must Remember This”
“You're Wrong About” - WINNER

Best Kids & Family Podcast:

“Brains On!”
“Good Inside with Dr. Becky”
“Greeking Out from National Geographic Kids”
“Story Pirates”
“Wow In The World” - WINNER

Best Music Podcast:

“Broken Record”
“Drink Champs”
“Listening”
“Questlove Supreme” - WINNER
“Song Exploder”

Best News Podcast:

“Morning Wire”
“Pod Save America”
“The Daily” - WINNER
“Today Explained”
“Up First”

Best Fiction Podcast:

“Blood Thirsty Hearts”
“Echo Park”
“Love and Noraebang”
“Princess of South Beach”
“Welcome To Night Vale” - WINNER

Best Sports Podcast:

“All The Smoke”
“The Bill Simmons Podcast”
“The Draymond Green Show” - WINNER
“The Fantasy Footballers”
“The Lowe Post”

Best Science Podcast:

“Huberman Lab”
“Invisibilia”
“Ologies with Alie Ward”
“Radiolab” - WINNER
“Science Vs”

Best Technology Podcast:

“20000 Hertz”
“Darknet Diaries”
“On With Kara Swisher”
“Pivot” - WINNER
“Reply All”

Best Ad Read Podcast:

“Conan O'Brien Needs A Friend” - WINNER
“My Brother, My Brother, and Me”
“Office Ladies”
“Unlocking Us with Brene Brown”
“Why Won't You Date Me with Nicole Byer”

Best Overall Host:

Ashley Flowers
Jay Shetty
Kara Swisher
Nicole Byer - WINNER
Sarah Marshall

Best Political Podcast:

“Here's Where It Gets Interesting”
“NPR Politics Podcast” - WINNER
“Pod Save America”
“The Ben Shapiro Show”
“The Daily Zeitgeist”

Best TV & Film Podcast:

“Fake Doctors, Real Friends”
“Films to be Buried With”- WINNER
“How Did This Get Made?”
“Into It”
“Watch What Crappens”

Best Spanish Language Podcast:

“Ciudad Mágica”- WINNER
“Crónicas Obscuras”
“Escuela Secreta”
“Idolo”
“Leyendas Legendarias”

Best Advice & Inspirational Podcast:

“Beautiful Stories from Anonymous People”- WINNER
“Chiquis and Chill”
“I Weigh with Jameela Jamil”
“On Purpose with Jay Shetty”
“We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle”

Best Beauty & Fashion Podcast:

“Add to Cart”
“Forever35”
“Natch Beaut”- WINNER
“POOG”
“Pretty Basic”

Best Travel Podcast:

“Atlas Obscura”- WINNER
“Behind The Baller Podcast with Ben Baller”
“Not Lost”
“Travel with Rick Steves”
“Women Who Travel”

Best Green Podcast:

“Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy”
“Climate One”
“Hot Take”
“Living on Earth”
“TED Climate”- WINNER

Best Spirituality & Religion Podcast:

“Awakened Underground”
“Heart Wisdom with Jack Kornfield”
“May I Elaborate? Daily Wisdom from JB Smoove”
“On Being”- WINNER
“The Joel Osteen Podcast”

Best Branded Podcast:

“Force Multiplier”
“Hazlo Por La Chela”
“Inside Trader Joes”
“Now What's Next?”
“Smart Talks with IBM”- WINNER

Best Emerging Podcast:

“MrBallen Podcast: Strange, Dark & Mysterious Stories”
“Significant Others”
“Sounds Like A Cult”- WINNER
“The Video Archives Podcast”
“TV, I Say with Ashley Ray”

Best International Podcast:

“British Villains” (UK)
“El Viaje” (Mexico)- WINNER
“Feu de Camp” (France)
“La Mia Smemo” (Italy)
“RedHanded” (UK)

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