“You all look so gorgeous which is why you excel in a medium where no one can see you,” Trixie Mattel quipped at the start of Tuesday night’s Ambie Awards inside of the Jw Marriott LA Live in Los Angeles. The winner of season three of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars served as the host of The Podcast Academy’s fourth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio sponsored by Wondery, The Hollywood Reporter, Audible, Dolby, Campside Media,The Podcast Show, Tenderfoot TV, Outfront, Castbox, Raedio, Gumball, Headgum, Good Tape, and IMDb.
The top honor of the evening went to Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, which was awarded Podcast of the Year. The show, now in its eighth season, is hosted by Slate staff writer Joel Anderson and tells the story of Clarence Thomas’s rise to power.
Weight For It, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., was the most...
The top honor of the evening went to Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas, which was awarded Podcast of the Year. The show, now in its eighth season, is hosted by Slate staff writer Joel Anderson and tells the story of Clarence Thomas’s rise to power.
Weight For It, hosted by Ronald Young Jr., was the most...
- 3/27/2024
- by Brande Victorian
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Scripted podcast “The Very Worst Thing That Could Possibly Happen,” unscripted series “Dear Alana,” and retrospective looks at the origins of hip hop lead the list of nominees for the fourth annual Ambies podcast kudos administered by The Podcast Academy.
“Very Worst Thing,” a psychological and supernatural drama produced by Wolf at the Door creative studio, earned the most bids of any program with five. Tenderfoot TV’s “Dear Alana,” a searing eight-episode series exploring the journals of a young woman who killed herself after undergoing cruel conversion therapy, was second with four.
Six different titles amassed three nominations, including “Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D” and true crime entry “Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University.” Another 16 titles grabbed two nominations, ranging from “Who Killed JFK?” and “Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas” to “50 Years of Hip Hop” and “The Cat in the Hat Cast.”
The...
“Very Worst Thing,” a psychological and supernatural drama produced by Wolf at the Door creative studio, earned the most bids of any program with five. Tenderfoot TV’s “Dear Alana,” a searing eight-episode series exploring the journals of a young woman who killed herself after undergoing cruel conversion therapy, was second with four.
Six different titles amassed three nominations, including “Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D” and true crime entry “Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University.” Another 16 titles grabbed two nominations, ranging from “Who Killed JFK?” and “Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas” to “50 Years of Hip Hop” and “The Cat in the Hat Cast.”
The...
- 2/16/2024
- by William Earl
- Variety Film + TV
The Very Worst Thing that Could Possibly Happen, a fictional podcast from Wolf at the Door about a man who can write letters to his favorite deceased author, topped the Ambies 2024 nominations list with five nods, including podcast of the year.
Other contenders for the podcast of the year award include 50 Years of Hip-Hop (iHeart Podcasts), Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D (Audible), Embedded: Taking Cover (NPR), Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University (Wondery), Ghost Story (Wondery, Pineapple Street Studios), Next Year In Moscow (The Economist) Questlove Supreme (iHeart Podcasts), Post Reports: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop (Washington Post) and Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas (Slate)
Last year, Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment’s Chameleon: Wild Boys, a podcast uncovering the truth about two young men who fooled a small town and claimed to have been raised in the wilderness in British Columbia,...
Other contenders for the podcast of the year award include 50 Years of Hip-Hop (iHeart Podcasts), Can You Dig It?: A Hip-Hop Origin Story with Chuck D (Audible), Embedded: Taking Cover (NPR), Exposed: Cover-Up at Columbia University (Wondery), Ghost Story (Wondery, Pineapple Street Studios), Next Year In Moscow (The Economist) Questlove Supreme (iHeart Podcasts), Post Reports: The Empty Grave of Comrade Bishop (Washington Post) and Slow Burn: Becoming Justice Thomas (Slate)
Last year, Campside Media and Sony Music Entertainment’s Chameleon: Wild Boys, a podcast uncovering the truth about two young men who fooled a small town and claimed to have been raised in the wilderness in British Columbia,...
- 2/16/2024
- by Caitlin Huston
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Vox Media and South by Southwest today announced that the award-winning Vox Media Podcast Network will be officially partnering with the Conference for 2024. Running from March 8-10th at the Jw Marriott, The Vox Media Podcast Stage at SXSW will bring fan favorite shows from across Vox Media to the stage, including Pivot (hosted by journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Stern Marketing professor Scott Galloway), On with Kara Swisher (hosted by Swisher), Where Should We Begin?, (hosted by acclaimed psychotherapist Esther Perel), Today, Explained (featuring host Noel King), Decoder (hosted by The Verge’s editor-in-chief Nilay Patel), The Vergecast , Point Forward (co-hosted by former NBA stars Andre Iguodala and Evan Turner), Stay Tuned with Preet (hosted by former U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Preet Bharara), Waveform: The Mkbhd Podcast (hosted by tech reviewers Marques Brownlee) and Mma Hour (hosted by sports journalist Ariel Helwani) – with more to be announced soon.
- 12/6/2023
- Podnews.net
Vox Media today debuted on leading industry ranker, Podtrac, as a top 10 podcast publisher. The Vox Media Podcast Network ranked #10 on Podtrac’s April 2023 "Top Podcast Publishers" ranking, with a unique monthly audience of nearly 6 million listeners in the US. With over a dozen shows consistently ranked in the top 10 in their respective categories on Apple Podcasts, Vox Media’s slate of chart-topping shows and influential hosts includes Pivot (hosted by journalist Kara Swisher and NYU Stern Marketing professor Scott Galloway), On with Kara Swisher (hosted by Swisher), Where Should We Begin? (hosted by bestselling author and psychotherapist Esther Perel), Stay Tuned with Preet (hosted by former Manhattan U.S. attorney Preet Bharara), Criminal (hosted by journalist Phoebe Judge), Today, Explained (hosted by public radio alums Sean Rameswaram and Noel King), The Mma Hour (hosted by sports journalist Ariel Helwani), Into It (hosted by public radio alum Sam Sanders), Decoder...
- 5/5/2023
- Podnews.net
As top podcast executives and creators gathered at the Wythe Hotel in Brooklyn for the Hot Pod Summit on Feb. 23, a question seemed to underlie each conversation: As the industry seeks an injection of new energy amid an advertising market correction and creators experiment with formats like video, what really is a podcast these days — and how will people make money?
In various conversations with studio executives and creators, a common refrain were the difficulties of turning a profit on podcasting alone. Even Spotify, which recently revised its podcast leadership (again) and had layoffs and show cancelations in its podcast division, is reevaluating its spending after pouring more than $1 billion into licensing deals and acquisitions in the past few years.
As such, repackaging audio content and seeking out derivatives like film and TV adaptations could be the key to actually making good money in podcasting, especially now that the megadeals...
In various conversations with studio executives and creators, a common refrain were the difficulties of turning a profit on podcasting alone. Even Spotify, which recently revised its podcast leadership (again) and had layoffs and show cancelations in its podcast division, is reevaluating its spending after pouring more than $1 billion into licensing deals and acquisitions in the past few years.
As such, repackaging audio content and seeking out derivatives like film and TV adaptations could be the key to actually making good money in podcasting, especially now that the megadeals...
- 3/1/2023
- by J. Clara Chan
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Netflix has ordered a docuseries from Shawn Levy’s 21 Laps, Vox Media Studios and The Verge about how technology will affect the basic aspects of our lives in the future, Variety has learned exclusively.
Titled “The Future Of…,” the show asks: “What if we could look into the future to see how every aspect of our daily lives — from raising pets and house plants to what we eat and how we date — will be impacted by technology?” Per Netflix, “We can, and should, expect more from the future than the dystopia promised in current science fiction. ‘The Future Of…’ will reveal surprising and personal predictions about the rest of our lives — and the lives of generations to come.”
The series will be released globally in two batches, with the first six episodes premiering Tuesday, June 21, and the remaining six episodes on Tuesday, June 28.
“The first episode of ‘The Future Of...
Titled “The Future Of…,” the show asks: “What if we could look into the future to see how every aspect of our daily lives — from raising pets and house plants to what we eat and how we date — will be impacted by technology?” Per Netflix, “We can, and should, expect more from the future than the dystopia promised in current science fiction. ‘The Future Of…’ will reveal surprising and personal predictions about the rest of our lives — and the lives of generations to come.”
The series will be released globally in two batches, with the first six episodes premiering Tuesday, June 21, and the remaining six episodes on Tuesday, June 28.
“The first episode of ‘The Future Of...
- 5/4/2022
- by Jennifer Maas
- Variety Film + TV
Vox Media is acquiring Hot Pod, the independent news outlet focused on the podcasting industry, as part of a bid to expand offerings from its technology site, The Verge.
Under part of a deal being announced Tuesday, Hot Pod will become the first paid-subscription product offered by The Verge, where executives are interested in seeing if they can offer a broader portfolio of similar editorial concepts in months to come, says Nilay Patel, editor of The Verge in an interview. Ashley Carman, a senior Verge reporter, will replace Nicholas Quah, who launched Hot Pod in 2014, and who will become a podcast critic for Vox Media’s Vulture. Vox also owns sites like Sb Nation, Recode and The Cut.
The Verge has “in ten years amassed a huge audience, and we have never made anybody pay for anything. We are interested and excited about what that looks like,” says Patel. “We...
Under part of a deal being announced Tuesday, Hot Pod will become the first paid-subscription product offered by The Verge, where executives are interested in seeing if they can offer a broader portfolio of similar editorial concepts in months to come, says Nilay Patel, editor of The Verge in an interview. Ashley Carman, a senior Verge reporter, will replace Nicholas Quah, who launched Hot Pod in 2014, and who will become a podcast critic for Vox Media’s Vulture. Vox also owns sites like Sb Nation, Recode and The Cut.
The Verge has “in ten years amassed a huge audience, and we have never made anybody pay for anything. We are interested and excited about what that looks like,” says Patel. “We...
- 9/7/2021
- by Brian Steinberg
- Variety Film + TV
Don’t go looking for a slick website to find Vox Media’s newest publication, a gadget-news source called Circuit Breaker: Vox is taking it to your Facebook news feed. Although Circuit Breaker content will show up Vox’s flagship tech publication The Verge, and it will be tweeted out with links from a new Twitter account, the company is guiding Circuit Breaker’s editorial strategies on what plays best with Facebook, the world’s biggest social network by users. Why? That is where readers have already moved, and the new publication is giving up some control over its own fate to reach them.
- 4/25/2016
- by Joan E. Solsman
- The Wrap
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