Adweek’s Podcast of the 12 months Awards have rebranded to turn into the Adweek Audio Awards, and this yr’s winners can be chosen by jurors from corporations together with Acast, Spotify, SiriusXM and Stitcher.
Final yr’s winners included creators similar to Conan O’Brien, Jeremiah Zimmerman, Jon Stewart and Yeardly Smith. This yr, the classes have been expanded to think about a wider discipline of entries from the world of audio leisure.
The new classes embrace Finest B-to-B podcast, Finest Political Podcast, Finest Gaming Podcast and Finest Podcast Development/Advertising and marketing Technique.
This yr’s jury will embrace:
- Melissa Chapman, chief govt, Jungle Creations
- Brad Gilmore, creator, actor, radio and podcast host
- Vijay Iyer, North America CEO, Amp
- Victoria Taylor, previously Reddit and LinkedIn
- David Suarez, co-ECD, Goodby Silverstein & Companions NY
- Wealthy Frankel, inventive director, Spotify Promoting
- Iain Hepburn, media advisor
- Natalie Mooallem, vp of podcast programming, SiriusXM
- Rebecca Nunez, CEO and founder, The MRN Company
- Nasheeta Khan, group account director, Duke Promoting
- Megan Davies, worldwide managing director, Acast
- Al Mannarino, senior producer, Adweek Podcast Community
- Luz Corona, neighborhood editor, Adweek
- Lucinda Southern, media editor, Adweek
- Rebecca Stewart, Europe model editor, Adweek
- Stephen Lepitak, Europe bureau chief, Adweek
“We have now a terrific mixture of expertise amongst this yr’s jurors as Adweek goals to rejoice how audio leisure and podcasts are evolving, and the way they’re being produced and promoted too,” mentioned Lepitak, who recruited this yr’s jury.
The winners of the Adweek Audio Awards can be introduced on-line on Oct. 31.
