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The winners of the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards have been announced.
On Monday night, March 10, the annual awards show went down at The Moody Theater during the peak of SXSW in Austin, Texas. During the show, podcast hosts Miles Gray and Jack O'Brien served as the emcees of the night while celebrities like Ed Helms, Kyle MacLachlan, Sophia Bush and Dennis Quaid presented awards throughout the night. The nominees include podcasts and creators across all genres including comedy, crime, news, pop culture, sports, food, business and more. Podcast fans from around the country helped decide the winner of the coveted Podcast of the Year award by voting online.
The 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards also presented three Icon Awards. Emmy and Peabody award-winning journalist and host of "Good Game" Sarah Spain was honored with the Social Impact Award for her incredible sports coverage, stories about equal pay for female athletes and more. Dan Taberski accepted the Audible Audio Pioneer Award following his work on his critically-acclaimed podcasts "Hysterical," "Missing Richard Simmons" and "Surviving Y2K." Peruvian-American journalist and novelist Daniel Alarcón also accepted the Innovator Award for his on "The Good Whale."
See all the winners from the 2025 iHeartPodcast Awards below.
2025 iHeartPodcast Award Nominees
Podcast of the Year:
Normal Gossip
Three
Giggly Squad
Call Her Daddy
Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang - WINNER
Hysterical
The Telepathy Tapes
Who Killed JFK?
Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
The Good Whale
Best Business & Finance:
Planet Money - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Normal Gossip
The Joe Rogan Experience
Call Her Daddy
Best Crime:
Three
Betrayal - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Still Processing
Keep It!
Pop Culture Happy Hour
Best Food:
Gastropod
Christopher Kimball’s Milk Street Radio
Be My Guest with Ina Garten - WINNER
The Recipe with Kenji and Deb
The Sporkful
Best Wellness & Fitness:
Huberman Lab - WINNER
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 - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Wow in the World
Best Music:
Song Exploder - WINNER
Questlove Supreme
Popcast
The Wonder of Stevie
The Joe Budden Podcast
Best News:
The Journal.
The Daily
Up First from NPR
Pivot - WINNER
Today, Explained
Best Fiction:
Hello From The Magic Tavern - WINNER
Welcome to Night Vale
Impact Winter
The Magnus Archives
Midnight Burger
Best Sports:
New Heights with Jason & Travis Kelce - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Science Vs
Best Technology presented by Lenovo:
All-In with Chamath, Jason, Sacks & Friedberg
Hard Fork - WINNER
Better Offline
Darknet Diaries
Ted Radio Hour
Best Ad Read:
Conan O'Brien Needs a Friend - WINNER
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) - WINNER
Dan Taberski (Hysterical)
Best Overall Ensemble:
We Can Do Hard Things
My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark - WINNER
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 - WINNER
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? - WINNER
The Rewatchables
Blank Check with Griffin & David
Best Spanish Language:
Radio Ambulante - WINNER
Duolingo Spanish Podcast
Leyenda Legendarias
Mija Podcast
Escuela Secreta
Best Advice/Inspirational:
Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus - WINNER
On Purpose with Jay Shetty
The Mel Robbins Podcast
Life Kit
Savage Lovecast
Best Beauty & Fashion:
Naked Beauty - WINNER
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 - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Best Spirituality & Religion:
Elevation with Steven Furtick
Oprah's Super Soul - WINNER
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) - WINNER
Mind The Business: Small Business Success Stories (Intuit Quickbooks)
Best Emerging:
Not Gonna Lie with Kylie Kelce - WINNER
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 - WINNER
Las Alucines - Mexico