2025 iHeartPodcast Award Nominees

Podcast of the Year:

Normal Gossip
Three
Giggly Squad
Call Her Daddy
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
Hysterical
The Telepathy Tapes
Who Killed JFK?
Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
The Good Whale

Best Business & Finance:

Planet Money
How to Money
Networth and Chill with Your Rich BFF
Money Rehab with Nicole Lapin
The Ramsey Show

Best Comedy:

The Nikki Glaser Podcast
Fly on the Wall with Dana Carvey and David Spade
Normal Gossip
The Joe Rogan Experience
Call Her Daddy

Best Crime:

Three
Betrayal
Up and Vanished
CounterClock
Something Was Wrong

Best Pop Culture:

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
The World's First Podcast with Erin & Sara Foster
Still Processing
Keep It!
Pop Culture Happy Hour

Best Food:

Gastropod
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Be My Guest with Ina Garten
The Recipe with Kenji and Deb
The Sporkful

Best Wellness & Fitness:

Huberman Lab
The Mel Robbins Podcast
10% Happier with Dan Harris
A Slight Change of Plans
We Can Do Hard Things

Best History

The Rest is History
Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
Throughline
American History Tellers
You're Wrong About

Best Kids & Family:

Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Koala Moon - Kids Bedtime Stories & Meditations
Smash Boom Best: A funny, smart debate show for kids and family
Story Pirates
Wow in the World

Best Music:

Song Exploder
Questlove Supreme
Popcast
The Wonder of Stevie
The Joe Budden Podcast

Best News:

The Journal.
The Daily
Up First from NPR
Pivot
Today, Explained

Best Fiction:

Hello From The Magic Tavern
Welcome to Night Vale
Impact Winter
The Magnus Archives
Midnight Burger

Best Sports:

New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce
The Herd with Colin Cowherd
The Dan Le Batard Show with Stugotz
The Bill Simmons Podcast
All The Smoke

Best Science:

Hidden Brain
StarTalk Radio
Stuff To Blow Your Mind
Ologies with Alie Ward
Science Vs

Best Technology:

All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Hard Fork
Better Offline
Darknet Diaries
Ted Radio Hour

Best Ad Read:

Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend
Where Everybody Knows Your Name with Ted Danson and Woody Harrelson (sometimes)
My Brother, My Brother and Me
SmartLess
Office Ladies

Best Overall Host:

Alex Cooper (Call Her Daddy)
Jamie Loftus (Sixteenth Minute (of Fame))
Sabrina Tavernise (The Daily)
Mel Robbins (The Mel Robbins Podcast)
Dan Taberski (Hysterical)

Best Overall Ensemble:

We Can Do Hard Things
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark
Handsome
Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
The Breakfast Club

Best Political:

Native Land Pod
The NPR Politics Podcast
Pod Save America
The Megyn Kelly Show
Breaking Points with Krystal and Saagar

Best TV & Film:

Films To Be Buried With with Brett Goldstein
Two Ts In A Pod with Teddi Mellencamp and Tamra Judge
How Did This Get Made?
The Rewatchables
Blank Check with Griffin & David

Best Spanish Language:

Radio Ambulante
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
Leyenda Legendarias
Mija Podcast
Escuela Secreta

Best Advice/Inspirational:

Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Life Kit
Savage Lovecast

Best Beauty & Fashion:

Naked Beauty
The goop Podcast
Glowing Up
Breaking Beauty Podcast
Lipstick on the Rim

Best Travel:

Travel with Rick Steves
The Atlas Obscura Podcast
Zero To Travel Podcast
Women Who Travel
JUMP with Traveling Jackie

Best Green:

Unf*cking the Future
Environmental Insights: Conversations on policy and practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program
Green Dreamer: Seeding change towards collective healing, sustainability, regeneration
Threshold
TED Climate

Best Spirituality & Religion:

Elevation with Steven Furtick
Oprah's Super Soul
WHOA That's Good Podcast
Bible in a Year with Jack Graham
Transformation Church

Best Branded Podcast:

Nerdwallet's Smart Money Podcast
Into the Mix (Ben and Jerry's)
Symptomatic: A Medical Mystery Podcast (Nova Nordisk)
You Can't Make This Up (Netflix)
Mind The Business: Small Business Success Stories (Intuit Quickbooks)

Best Emerging:

Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce
So True with Caleb Hearon
Hysterical
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
Shell Game

Best International:

The Business of Doing Business with Dwayne Kerrigan - Canada
Mamamia Out Loud - Australia
Between Two Beers Podcast - New Zealand
The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett - United Kingdom
Las Alucines - Mexico