New Heights, hosted by Jason and Travis Kelce, took home the prize of podcast of the year at iHeartMedia’s 2024 iHeartPodcast Awards.
The awards show, held Monday night in Austin, Texas at the Fairmont Hotel, also saw top prizes awarded to Bobbi Althoff’s Really Good Podcast for best emerging podcast, Shannon Sharpe’s Club Shay Shay for best sports podcast, Paul Scheer’s How Did This Get Made? for best TV and film podcast and best comedy podcast to Adam Devine and Blake Anderson’s This Is Important.
The Kelces, whose podcast launched in September 2022 and covers football as well as pop culture and their own lives, accepted the award via video and thanked their fan base – the 92 percenters – as well as Taylor Swift fans, given that Travis is dating the pop star.
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“Listen, this is an incredible honor, especially for two jabronis like us, to receive an award like this is beyond humbling and we would be remiss if we didn’t immediately thank all of the 92 percenters out there — aka Swifties — who voted for us to win this award,” Jason said.
“Thank you guys for everything. We truly do have the best fanbase in the entire world,” Travis said.
In the Icon Awards categories, which honor groundbreaking contributions to the industry, Wrongful Conviction hosts Maggie Freleng and Jason Flom received the Social Impact Icon Award. Jonathan Goldstein, host of the Heavyweight podcast, received the 2024 Pioneer Icon Award.
The podcast Rotten Mango received the Innovator Award presented by YouTube.
Full list of winners:
Podcast of the Year presented by The Hartford:
- New Heights
Best Business & Finance:
- How I Built This
Best Comedy:
- This Is Important
Best Crime:
- Crime Junkie
Best Pop Culture:
- Watch What Crappens
Best Food Podcast Award Presented by Planet Oat:
- Sporkful
Best Wellness & Fitness:
- On Purpose with Jay Shetty
Best History:
- Revisionist History
Best Kids & Family:
- Good Inside with Dr. Becky
Best Music:
- Popcast
Best News:
- Pivot
Best Fiction:
- The Mantawauk Caves
Best Sports:
- Club Shay Shay
Best Science:
- Radio Lab
Best Technology:
- Hard Fork
Best Ad Read:
- SmartLess
Best Overall Host:
- Laci Mosley (Scam Goddess)
Best Overall Ensemble:
- New Heights
Best Political:
- Pod Save America
Best TV & Film:
- How Did This Get Made?
Best Spanish Language:
- Leyendas Legendarias
Best Advice / Inspirational:
- We Can Do Hard Things with Glennon Doyle
Best Beauty & Fashion:
- Lipstick On The Rim
Best Travel:
- Atlas Obscura
Best Green:
- Climate of Change
Best Spirituality & Religion:
- Woman Evolve with Sarah Jakes Roberts
Best Branded Podcast:
- Symptomatic (Novartis)
Best Emerging:
- The Really Good Podcast with Bobbi Althoff
Best International:
- The Imperfects (Australia)
