Nominees for 2025 Ambies, Introduced through the Podcast Academy

The Podcast Academy, the pro podcast group, has introduced the nominees for its 5th annual Awards for Excellence in Audio (The Ambies). Hosted through comic Tig Notaro, the Ambies will happen on Monday, March 31 on the McCormick Conference Heart in Chicago. The rite shall be livestreamed through Twitch from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CT.

The rite will spotlight 199 nominees throughout 28 classes with winners to be decided on through balloting participants of The Podcast Academy — along with a Governors Award. Eligible new participants will be capable to vote to decide this yr’s winners if programs are submitted through Feb. 20. Cross to: www.thepodcastacademy.com/join-the-community.

Jon Stewart, Rainn Wilson and Pulitzer Prize-winning critic Wesley Morris are a few of the nominees for best possible podcast host or hosts. Bowen Yang, Jane Lynch and Tisha Campbell are a few of the nominees for best possible efficiency in audio fiction.

“As we have fun the 5th Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio, we’re excited to announce this yr’s nominees, whose paintings continues to push the limits of storytelling and innovation within the audio area,” Christy Mirabal, chairperson of The Podcast Academy, mentioned in a commentary. “This milestone yr for the Podcast Academy is a mirrored image of the unbelievable enlargement and creativity throughout the podcasting network.”

“I’m so excited to host The Podcast Academy’s 5th Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio,” exclaimed Notaro. “It’s like being on the Oscars, handiest it’s celebrating the ones folks who’re excellent at speaking right into a microphone whilst dressed in sweatpants in our closets with pillows on our home windows. Take that Meryl. And Meryl, whilst I’ve your consideration, would you be a visitor on my podcast?”

Listed here are the nominees for The 2025 Ambies in classes maximum related to the song and leisure trade.

Podcast of the yr

99% Invisible: No longer Constructed for This

Past All Restore

Cement Town

Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance

Empire Town: The Untold Foundation Tale of the NYPD

Far off

Hearth Break out

Scorching White Heist 2

Hysterical

Throughline

Absolute best podcast host or hosts

Diallo Riddle and Blake ‘LUXXURY’ Robin – One Tune

Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle – We Can Do Exhausting Issues

Jon Stewart – The Weekly Display with Jon Stewart

Rainn Wilson – Radio Condo

Ronald Younger Jr. – Weight for It

Sam Sanders – The Sam Sanders Display

Wesley Morris – The Marvel of Stevie

Absolute best authentic rating and song supervision

Dan Leone – Ripple

Daniel Lloyd-Evans, Louis Nanke-Mannell and Toby Matimong – Extrasensory

Deron Johnson – Dungeon Masters

Jonathan Pfarr, Carson Graham and Bobby Mota – Superstar Pets

Peter Nashel, Ross Hopman, Gio Lobato, Dana Hom, Brad Fischer, Jordan Lieb, Lucas Villemur and Lindsay Dievert – Hammerless: A True Crime Podcast in a Fable International

Skyler Gerdeman, Martin Lynabel, Nicholas Alexander, Max O’Brien and Caroline Thornham – Kill Checklist

Stro Elliot and Eric Gersen – Ancient Information

Absolute best manufacturing and sound design

Casandra Tinajero and Andrés Bahena – Nocturno: Stories From the Shadows

Jeremy S. Bloom – Scorching White Heist 2

Kenny Kusiak and George Drabing Hicks – The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi

Michelle Macklem – Lady v. Horse

Realm – Narcosis

Sagafilm and Skybound Leisure – Have an effect on Iciness Season 3

Ted Bonnitt – Hindsight: The Day Ahead of

Absolute best leisure podcast

Notorious

Lemme Say This

Rattled & Shook

Scamfluencers

Break up Display: Child Country

The Street to Joni

The Marvel of Stevie

Absolute best society and tradition podcast

Hysterical

In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett

Inheriting

Thoughts Your Personal with Lupita Nyong’o

My Divo

16th Minute (of Status)

Weight For It

Absolute best podcast for children

Tradition Children

Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest

Ancient Information

Mysteries About True Histories

PJ Library Items: Past the Bookcase

Skylar & Bones – Humorous Tales for Children!

Wow within the International

Absolute best Spanish language narrative podcast

¡No Vengan!

Greal: El Secreto de las Ocho Llaves

Hechos Reales

HUMO: Homicide and Silence in El Salvador

No quieren que sepas

Pantallas & Mentiras [Screens & Lies]

Pétrea

Absolute best sports activities podcast

30 for 30 Podcasts

Broomgate

Excellent Recreation with Sarah Spain

Pablo Torre Reveals Out

Shadowball: The Upward thrust of the Black Athlete

The Raven

The Wealthy Eisen Display

Absolute best comedy podcast

Conan O’Brien Wishes a Pal

Scorching White Heist 2

Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang

Rip-off Goddess

SmartLess

We’re Right here to Lend a hand

Who Changed Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates

Absolute best indie podcast

Sightings

The Insurgence: Sheriffs

The Guy Who Calculated Demise

The Nightingale of Iran

The Other folks’s Recorder

The TMI Venture Tale Hour

What Took place in Skinner

Absolute best indie podcast host or hosts

Dallas Taylor – Twenty Thousand Hertz

Deja Perkins and Purbita Saha – Convey Birds Again

Jill Jonassen – The Value of Extremism

Kate McCoy and Kevin Corbett – Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown

Lisa Phillips – From Now On

Lisa Woolfork – STITCH PLEASE

Susan Lambert Hatem and Sharon Johnson – 80s TV Girls

Absolute best interview podcast

American Masters: Inventive Spark

Apple Information in Dialog

Lost sight of: Ladies’s Well being Can’t Wait

Thank you Dad with Ego Nwodim

The Project with Audie Cornish

The Built-in Colleges Podcast

Day after today’s Remedy

Absolute best efficiency in audio fiction

Bowen Yang, Cynthia Nixon, Shannon Woodward, Jane Lynch, Jesse James Keitel, Sarah Steele, Ian McKellen, Raul Esparza, Sara Ramírez, Joel Kim Booster, Bianca Del Rio, Cheyenne Jackson, Abbi Jacobson, Stephanie Beatriz, Katya Zamolodchikova, Trixie Mattel, Yvie Oddly, Jane Krakowski, Sandra Oh, and Tony Kushner – Scorching White Heist 2

Caitlin Stasey, Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts, David Yow, Caroline Morahan, Guinevere Turner, Elizabeth Halpern, Travis Harmon, Brad Griffith, James Viscount St. Albans, Jameson Cush, Jonathan Shockley and Ayla Glass – The Skies Are Observing

Fredi Bernstein, Cody Wilkins and Dana Domenick – The Field

Mikki Hernandez, Toby Meuli, Geri-Nikol Love, Rachel Kylian – Ominous Thrill

Ruth Righi – Winnie Taylor’s 4th & Inches

Sanaa Lathan – The Justice

Tisha Campbell – Snoriezzz