The Podcast Academy<\/a>. The ceremony, hosted by comedian Wyatt Cenac, was held at the Arlo Williamsburg venue as part of the On the Air festival celebrating audio storytelling. <\/p>\n\n\tHere is a full list of this year\u2019s The Ambies winners:<\/p>\n
\n\tVanguard Podcaster of the Year<\/strong>
Pablo Torre<\/p>\n\n\tPodcast of The Year<\/strong>
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n\n\tBest Ad Read<\/strong>
Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend
SiriusXM<\/p>\n\n\tBest Branded Podcast<\/strong>
Sesame Street: Cookie Monster Mysteries
Audible Studios,Sesame Workshop<\/p>\n\n\tBest Business Podcast<\/strong>
The Indicator from Planet Money
NPR<\/p>\n\n\tBest Comedy Podcast<\/strong>
Conan O\u2019Brien Needs a Friend
SiriusXM, Team Coco<\/p>\n\n\tBest DIY Podcast<\/strong>
Redacted History
Dr. Andre White, Airwave<\/p>\n\n\tBest Documentary Podcast<\/strong>
The Con: Kaitlyn\u2019s Baby
CBC, BBC World Service<\/p>\n\n\tBest Emerging Podcast<\/strong>
How Is This Better?
COURIER Newsroom<\/p>\n\n\tBest Entertainment Podcast<\/strong>
Twenty Thousand Hertz
Defacto Sound<\/p>\n\n\tBest Fiction Podcast<\/strong>
Red for Revolution
Meta Mana Media<\/p>\n\n\tBest History Podcast<\/strong>
Our Ancestors Were Messy
Coco Hill Productions<\/p>\n\n\tBest Indie Podcast<\/strong>
Our Ancestors Were Messy
Coco Hill Productions<\/p>\n\n\tBest Indie Podcast Host or Hosts<\/strong>
Jamie Feldman and Rachel Webster
Debt Heads
Captain and the Fox<\/p>\n\n\tBest Interview Podcast<\/strong>
Death, Sex & Money
Slate<\/p>\n\n\tBest Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast<\/strong>
Radiolab
New York Public Radio<\/p>\n\n\tBest News & Politics<\/strong>
Reveal
Reveal and PRX<\/p>\n\n\tBest Original Score and Music Supervision<\/strong>
Marcus Bagala and Sam Ewing
DC High Volume: Batman
DC Comics, Realm<\/p>\n\n\tBest Performance in Audio Fiction<\/strong>
Maulik Pancholy, Murray Bartlett, Poorna Jagannathan, Karan Soni, Anna Camp, Adam Pally, Margo Martindale, Richard Kind, Conrad Ricamora, Iqbal Theba, Julian Shapiro-Barnum, Padma Lakshmi, et al.
Murder at the Patel Motel
Broadway Video, Audible<\/p>\n\n\tBest Personal Growth \/ Spirituality Podcast<\/strong>
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR<\/p>\n\n\tBest Podcast for Kids<\/strong>
Terrestrials
WNYC Studios<\/p>\n\n\tBest Podcast Host or Hosts<\/strong>
Rachel Martin
Wild Card with Rachel Martin
NPR<\/p>\n\n\tBest Production and Sound Design<\/strong>
Alex Vespestad, Steven Perez, and Cooper Skinner
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n\n\tBest Reporting<\/strong>
Robyn Semien
Question Everything
Placement Theory<\/p>\n\n\tBest Scriptwriting, Fiction<\/strong>
Jana Naomi Smith
Red for Revolution
Meta Mana Media<\/p>\n\n\tBest Scriptwriting, Non-Fiction<\/strong>
Charles Forbes and Edd Hedges
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n\n\tBest Society and Culture Podcast<\/strong>
Wisecrack
Tenderfoot TV , iHeartPodcasts<\/p>\n\n\tBest Spanish Language Narrative Podcast \u2013 Fiction or Nonfiction<\/strong>
No Me Provoquen
Sonoro<\/p>\n\n\tBest Sports Podcast<\/strong>
Pablo Torre Finds Out
Meadowlark Media<\/p>\n\n\tBest True Crime Podcast<\/strong>
Sea of Lies
Produced by What\u2019s the Story Sounds for CBC<\/p>\n\n\tBest Use of Video in a Podcast<\/strong>
Tales Unrolled
Sonoro<\/p>\n\n\tBest Wellness or Relationships Podcast<\/strong>
Embodied
WUNC<\/p>\n\n\tPodcast Advertiser Innovator Award<\/strong>
Charlie\u2019s Place
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