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The Podcast Academy Announces Nominees for Fifth Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio
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GRAMMY Nominated Comedian and Podcaster Tig Notaro to Host The Ambies on March 31 in Chicago
NEW YORK, Feb. 14, 2025 /PRNewswire-PRWeb/ — The Podcast Academy (TPA), the preeminent professional podcast organization, has announced the nominees for its fifth annual Awards for Excellence in Audio (The Ambies). Hosted by multi-hyphenate comedian Tig Notaro, the Ambies will take place on Monday, March 31 at the McCormick Convention Center in Chicago. The ceremony will be LIVE streamed by Twitch from 6:00 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. CST.
The Ambies celebrate excellence in podcasting and elevate awareness and status of podcasts as a unique and personal medium for entertainment, information, storytelling and expression. The ceremony will highlight 199 nominees across 28 categories with winners to be selected by every voting member of The Podcast Academy (TPA) — in addition to a Governors Award. Community Building Sponsor Wondery will highlight TPA’s Mentorship Program at the Ceremony. Eligible new members will be able to vote to determine this year’s winners if applications are submitted by February 20. More information may be found at http://www.thepodcastacademy.com/join-the-community.
“As we celebrate the 5th Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio, we are excited to announce this year’s nominees, whose work continues to push the boundaries of storytelling and innovation in the audio space,” said Christy Mirabal, chairperson of The Podcast Academy. “This milestone year for the Podcast Academy is a reflection of the incredible growth and creativity within the podcasting community. Additionally, we are beyond thrilled to have Tig Notaro as our host of The Ambies—her wit, charm, and comedic brilliance will bring a fresh energy to this special night. Together, we honor the diverse voices that make audio such a powerful medium and look forward to an inspiring night of celebration!”
“I’m so excited to host The Podcast Academy’s 5th Annual Awards for Excellence in Audio,” exclaimed Notaro. “It’s like being at the Oscars, only it’s celebrating those of us who are good at talking into a microphone while wearing sweatpants in our closets with pillows on our windows. Take that Meryl. And Meryl, while I have your attention, would you be a guest on my podcast?”
THE AMBIES 2025 FULL LIST OF NOMINEES:
Podcast of The Year (Sponsored by Outfront Media):
● 99% Invisible: Not Built For This
● Beyond All Repair
● Cement City
● Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
● Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
● Faraway
● Fire Escape
● Hot White Heist 2
● Hysterical
● Throughline
Best Business Podcast:
● Good Bad Billionaire
● How I Built This Podcast with Guy Raz
● Lever Time with David Sirota
● Money Stuff
● NerdWallet’s Smart Money Podcast
● Rapid Response
● The Best Idea Yet
Best Comedy Podcast:
● Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend
● Hot White Heist 2
● Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang
● Scam Goddess
● SmartLess
● We’re Here to Help
● Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates
Best DIY Podcast:
● abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast
● Black Is America
● Books & Boba
● Everyday Trans Activism
● Mind the Force
● The B* Word
● The Integrated Schools Podcast
Best Documentary Podcast:
● Extrasensory
● Lost Patients
● Silence in Sikeston
● Snap Judgment
● Tested
● The Final War
● Uganda’s Hidden Rainbow
Best Entertainment Podcast (Sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter):
● Infamous
● Lemme Say This
● Rattled & Shook
● Scamfluencers
● Split Screen: Kid Nation
● The Road to Joni
● The Wonder of Stevie
Best Fiction Podcast
● Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance
● Tales of Fists & Fireballs
● The Coldest Case The Past Has a Long Memory
● The Justice
● The Last City
● The Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story
● Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter
Best History Podcast:
● American Experience Presents: Joseph McCarthy
● Don’t Drink the Milk – The Curious History of Things
● Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
● Hollywood Exiles
● Into America: Uncounted Millions
● Tested
● Throughline
Best Indie Podcast:
● Sightings
● The Insurgence: Sheriffs
● The Man Who Calculated Death
● The Nightingale of Iran
● The People’s Recorder
● The TMI Project Story Hour
● What Happened in Skinner
Best Indie Podcast Host or Hosts:
● Dallas Taylor – Twenty Thousand Hertz
● Deja Perkins and Purbita Saha – Bring Birds Back
● Jill Jonassen – The Cost 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 Ladies
Best Interview Podcast:
● American Masters: Creative Spark
● Apple News In Conversation
● Overlooked: Women’s Health Can’t Wait
● Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim
● The Assignment with Audie Cornish
● The Integrated Schools Podcast
● Tomorrow’s Cure
Best Knowledge, Science or Tech Podcast:
● 99% Invisible
● Click Here
● Climate Rising
● Merging Into Life
● Short Wave
● The Wild with Chris Morgan
● Unexplainable
Best News Podcast:
● The Journal
● The Take
● The Ten News
● Today, Explained
● Trump’s Trials
● What Next
● World Report
Best Original Score and Music 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 – Celebrity 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 Fantasy World
● Skyler Gerdeman, Martin Lynabel, Nicholas Alexander, Max O’Brien and Caroline Thornham – Kill List
● Stro Elliot and Eric Gersen – Historical Records
Best Performance in Audio Fiction (Sponsored by Audible):
● 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 – Hot White Heist 2
● Caitlin Stasey, Jake ‘The Snake’ Roberts, David Yow, Caroline Morahan, Guinevere Turner, Elizabeth Halpern, Travis Harmon, Brad Griffith, James Bacon, Jameson Cush, Jonathan Shockley and Ayla Glass – The Skies Are Watching
● Fredi Bernstein, Cody Wilkins and Dana Domenick – The Box
● 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
Best Personal Growth / Spirituality Podcast:
● 10% Happier with Dan Harris
● A Fine Mess
● A Quiet Life in 7 Steps
● A Slight Change of Plans
● Anomalie
● How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality
● The TMI Project Story Hour
Best Podcast for Kids:
● Culture Kids
● Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest
● Historical Records
● Mysteries About True Histories
● PJ Library Presents: Beyond the Bookcase
● Skylar & Bones – Funny Stories For Kids!
● Wow in the World
Best Podcast Host or Hosts:
● Diallo Riddle and Blake ‘LUXXURY’ Robin – One Song
● Glennon Doyle, Abby Wambach and Amanda Doyle – We Can Do Hard Things
● Jon Stewart – The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart
● Rainn Wilson – Radio Rental
● Ronald Young Jr. – Weight For It
● Sam Sanders – The Sam Sanders Show
● Wesley Morris – The Wonder of Stevie
Best Politics or Opinion Podcast:
● Autocracy in America
● Citizen Elon (by the Elon, Inc podcast)
● Master Plan
● The NPR Politics Podcast
● Vibe Check
● Vibes Only
● What Could Go Right?
Best Production and Sound Design (Sponsored by Dolby):
● Casandra Tinajero and Andrés Bahena – Nocturno: Tales From The Shadows
● Jeremy S. Bloom – Hot White Heist 2
● Kenny Kusiak and George Drabing Hicks – The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi
● Michelle Macklem – Girl v. Horse
● Realm – Narcosis
● Sagafilm and Skybound Entertainment – Impact Winter Season 3
● Ted Bonnitt – Hindsight: The Day Before
Best Reporting:
● Chenjerai Kumanyika – Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD
● Dan Taberski – Hysterical
● Ken Bensinger and Jessica Garrison – Chameleon: The Michigan Plot
● Leon Neyfakh and Arielle Pardes – Backfired: Attention Deficit
● Madeleine Baran, Samara Freemark, Parker Yesko, Natalie Jablonski, Rehman Tungekar, and Namak Khoshnaw – In the Dark Season 3: The Killings in Haditha
● Nicky Woolf – Fur & Loathing
● Sarah Holder, Caleb Melby and Polly Mosendz – Big Take
Best Scriptwriting, Fiction:
● Anderson Cook and Sydney Butler – Academy
● Anthony Del Col – Don’t Listen To This
● Matthew Castellanos and Brett Melnick – Faraway
● Mac Rogers – Give Me Away
● David Singer and CK Pahlow – Incoming
● Ed Sellek – Money Gone
● Matthew Starr – The Best Man’s Ghostwriter
Best Scriptwriting, Nonfiction:
● Erin Anderson, Jeanne Marie Laskas, and Michael Benoist – Cement City
● Anna Sussman – Fire Escape
● Mary Celenza, Jayda Williams, Julie Berke, Ann Lew, Lisa Ammerman and Candice DeLong – Killer Psyche
● Johnny Kaufman and Shaun Raviv – Noble
● Ethan Brooks – Radio Atlantic: Scripts
● Ashley Cleek and Al Letson – Reveal
● Liz Mak and James Boo – Track Change
Best Society and Culture Podcast:
● Hysterical
● In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett
● Inheriting
● Mind Your Own with Lupita Nyong‘o
● My Divo
● Sixteenth Minute (of Fame)
● Weight For It
Best Spanish Language Narrative Podcast:
● ¡No Vengan!
● Greal: El Secreto de las Ocho Llaves
● Hechos Reales
● HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador
● No quieren que sepas
● Pantallas & Mentiras [Screens & Lies]
● Pétrea
Best Sports Podcast:
● 30 for 30 Podcasts
● Broomgate
● Good Game with Sarah Spain
● Pablo Torre Finds Out
● Shadowball: The Rise of the Black Athlete
● The Raven
● The Rich Eisen Show
Best True Crime Podcast:
● Beyond All Repair
● Fire Escape
● Lords of Death
● The Burden
● The Official Jinx Podcast
● Who Killed Jennifer Judd?
● Wrongful Conviction
Best Wellness or Relationships Podcast:
● An Arm and a Leg
● Overlooked: Women’s Health Can’t Wait
● Silence in Sikeston
● The Midlife Truth Project
● Therapy for Black Girls
● Untold: The Retreat
● Why Won’t You Date Me? with Nicole Byer
NOMINATIONS BREAKDOWN BY PODCAST
● ¡No Vengan! – 1
● 10% Happier with Dan Harris – 1
● 30 for 30 Podcasts – 1
● 80s TV Ladies – 1
● 99% Invisible – 1
● 99% Invisible: Not Built For This – 1
● A Fine Mess – 1
● A Quiet Life in 7 Steps – 1
● A Slight Change of Plans – 1
● abandoned: The All-American Ruins Podcast – 1
● Academy – 1
● American Experience Presents: Joseph McCarthy – 1
● American Masters: Creative Spark – 1
● An Arm and a Leg – 1
● Anomalie – 1
● Apple News In Conversation – 1
● Autocracy in America – 1
● Backfired: Attention Deficit – 1
● Beyond All Repair – 2
● Big Take – 1
● Black Is America – 1
● Books & Boba – 1
● Bring Birds Back – 1
● Broomgate – 1
● Celebrity Pets – 1
● Cement City – 2
● Chameleon: The Michigan Plot – 1
● Citizen Elon (by the Elon, Inc podcast) – 1
● Click Here – 1
● Climate Rising – 1
● Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend – 1
● Culture Kids – 1
● Don’t Drink the Milk – The curious history of things – 1
● Don’t Listen To This – 1
● Dragon Age: Vows & Vengeance – 2
● Dungeon Masters – 1
● Empire City: The Untold Origin Story of the NYPD – 3
● Everyday Trans Activism – 1
● Extrasensory – 2
● Faraway – 2
● Fire Escape – 3
● From Now On – 1
● Fur & Loathing – 1
● Girl v. Horse – 1
● Give Me Away – 1
● Good Bad Billionaire – 1
● Good Game with Sarah Spain – 1
● Greal: El Secreto de las Ocho Llaves – 1
● Grimm, Grimmer, Grimmest – 1
● Hammerless: A True Crime Podcast in a Fantasy World – 1
● Hechos Reales – 1
● Hindsight: The Day Before – 1
● Historical Records – 2
● Hollywood Exiles – 1
● Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown – 1
● Hot White Heist 2 – 4
● How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality – 1
● How I Built This Podcast with Guy Raz – 1
● HUMO: Murder and Silence in El Salvador – 1
● Hysterical – 3
● Impact Winter Season 3 – 1
● In Retrospect with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett – 1
● In the Dark Season 3: The Killings in Haditha – 1
● Incoming – 1
● Infamous – 1
● Inheriting – 1
● Into America: Uncounted Millions – 1
● Kill List – 1
● Killer Psyche – 1
● Las Culturistas with Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang – 1
● Lemme Say This – 1
● Lever Time with David Sirota – 1
● Lords of Death – 1
● Lost Patients – 1
● Master Plan – 1
● Merging Into Life – 1
● Mind the Force – 1
● Mind Your Own with Lupita Nyong‘o – 1
● Money Gone – 1
● Money Stuff – 1
● My Divo – 1
● Mysteries About True Histories – 1
● Narcosis – 1
● NerdWallet’s Smart Money Podcast – 1
● No quieren que sepas – 1
● Noble – 1
● Nocturno: Tales From The Shadows – 1
● Ominous Thrill – 1
● One Song – 1
● Overlooked: Women’s Health Can’t Wait – 2
● Pablo Torre Finds Out – 1
● Pantallas & Mentiras [Screens & Lies] – 1
● Pétrea – 1
● PJ Library Presents: Beyond the Bookcase – 1
● Radio Atlantic: Scripts – 1
● Radio Rental – 1
● Rapid Response – 1
● Rattled & Shook – 1
● Reveal – 1
● Ripple – 1
● Scam Goddess – 1
● Scamfluencers – 1
● Shadowball: The Rise of the Black Athlete – 1
● Short Wave – 1
● Sightings – 1
● Silence in Sikeston – 2
● Sixteenth Minute (of Fame) – 1
● Skylar & Bones – Funny Stories For Kids! – 1
● SmartLess – 1
● Snap Judgment – 1
● Snoriezzz – 1
● Split Screen: Kid Nation – 1
● STITCH PLEASE – 1
● Tales of Fists & Fireballs – 1
● Tested – 2
● Thanks Dad with Ego Nwodim – 1
● The Assignment with Audie Cornish – 1
● The B* Word – 1
● The Best Idea Yet – 1
● The Best Man’s Ghostwriter – 1
● The Box – 1
● The Burden – 1
● The Coldest Case The Past Has a Long Memory – 1
● The Confessions of Anthony Raimondi – 1
● The Cost of Extremism – 1
● The Final War – 1
● The Insurgence: Sheriffs – 1
● The Integrated Schools Podcast – 2
● The Journal – 1
● The Justice – 2
● The Last City – 1
● The Man Who Calculated Death – 1
● The Midlife Truth Project – 1
● The Nightingale of Iran – 1
● The NPR Politics Podcast – 1
● The Official Jinx Podcast – 1
● The People’s Recorder – 1
● The Raven – 1
● The Rich Eisen Show – 1
● The Road to Joni – 1
● The Sam Sanders Show – 1
● The Seneschal: A Rebel Moon Story – 1
● The Skies Are Watching – 1
● The Take – 1
● The Ten News – 1
● The TMI Project Story Hour – 2
● The Weekly Show with Jon Stewart – 1
● The Wild with Chris Morgan – 1
● The Wonder of Stevie – 2
● Therapy for Black Girls – 1
● Throughline – 2
● Today, Explained – 1
● Tom Slick: Mystery Hunter – 1
● Tomorrow’s Cure – 1
● Track Change – 1
● Trump’s Trials – 1
● Twenty Thousand Hertz – 1
● Uganda’s Hidden Rainbow – 1
● Unexplainable – 1
● Untold: The Retreat – 1
● Vibe Check – 1
● Vibes Only – 1
● We Can Do Hard Things – 1
● Weight For It – 2
● We’re Here to Help – 1
● What Could Go Right? – 1
● What Happened in Skinner – 1
● What Next – 1
● Who Killed Jennifer Judd? – 1
● Who Replaced Avril Lavigne? Joanne McNally Investigates – 1
● Why Won’t You Date Me? with Nicole Byer – 1
● Winnie Taylor’s 4th & Inches – 1
● World Report – 1
● Wow in the World – 1
● Wrongful Conviction – 1
NOMINATIONS BREAKDOWN BY PRODUCTION/CO-PRODUCTION/STUDIO/NETWORK
● 134 West – 1
● AAA Northeast – 1
● ADHx2 – 1
● Agencia Catalan de Turismo / Normmal / Smart Locuciones / Yes We Cast – 1
● Al Jazeera Digital – 1
● All-American Ruins – 1
● Apple News – 1
● Apple, Futuro Studios – 1
● AT WILL MEDIA – 1
● Atomic Entertainment & Starglow Media – 1
● Audacy Podcasts – 2
● Audible and At Will Media – 1
● Audible and Broadway Video – 1
● Audible and Fabula Contenidos MX – 1
● Audible and Joy Road Productions – 1
● Audible and Prologue Partners – 1
● Audible, Higher Ground and Pineapple Street Studios – 2
● Audible, James Patterson Entertainment, and Broadway Video – 3
● Audible, Skybound Entertainment, and Anonymous Content – 1
● BBC Studios – 2
● BirdNote – 1
● Blanchard House & Apple – 2
● Bloomberg Podcasts – 3
● Boom and Rádio Novelo – 1
● Broadway Video – 4
● Bucket of Eels – 1
● Bucket of Eels, CBC Podcasts, NPR’s Embedded – 1
● Busboy Productions – 1
● Campside Media and Sony Entertainment – 2
● Campside Media and WAVLAND – 1
● Canadian Broadcasting Corporation – 1
● CBC Podcasts – 1
● CBC Podcasts, BBC World Service, BBC Audio Wales – 1
● Cement City Productions / Audacy Originals – 1
● CNN Audio – 1
● COURIER – 1
● Culture Kids Media and Airwave – 1
● Cumulus Podcast Network – 1
● Danielle Dardashti & Galeet Dardashti – 1
● DAVID The Agency – 1
● Defacto Sound – 1
● Deutsche Welle (DW) – 1
● Discount Sushi – 1
● Earwolf, Team Coco, SiriusXM – 1
● Electronic Arts | Pod People – 2
● ESPN Podcasts, 30 for 30 Podcasts – 2
● Evergreen Creative – 1
● Evoke Media and The Podglomerate – 1
● Fermata Audio – 1
● Financial Times – 1
● GBH – 1
● Gideon Media – 1
● Goldhawk Productions – 1
● GZM Shows – 1
● HappyEcstatic Media – 1
● Hartbeat – 1
● Harvard Business School – 1
● Hatch – 1
● Headgum – 3
● Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown – 1
● ID and Ark Media – 1
● iHeart & The Meteor – 1
● iHeartPodcasts – 2
● iHeartPodcasts, Big Money Players – 1
● iHeartPodcasts, Cool Zone Media – 1
● Integrated Schools – 2
● James Patterson Entertainment / Friendly Heights / Origin Story Entertainment – 1
● Jeff Schmidt Productions, LLC – 1
● KCRW & Sam Sanders Producers – 1
● Kelly&Kelly, CBC Podcasts, USG Audio, Pacific Electric – 1
● KFF Health News and WORLD – 2
● KUOW Public Radio and The Seattle Times – 2
● LA PHILLIPS MEDIA – 1
● LAist Studios – 1
● Lava for Good – 1
● Mazama Entertainment – 1
● Meadowlark Media – 1
● Mind the Force LLC – 1
● MSNBC – 1
● Naked Productions Ltd – 1
● Narratively & VPM – 1
● NerdWallet and Airwave – 1
● NPR – 5
● ohitsBigRon studios LLC – 2
● Orbit Media – 1
● Owls Education Company – 2
● Parents of Trans Youth – 1
● Past Tense Future Perfect/Next Missiun – 1
● Pinna – 1
● PJ Library – 1
● Political Research Associates & Cuentero Productions – 1
● Posta & Amnistía Internacional – 1
● Posta & SKY Airline – 1
● Project Brazen – 1
● PRX – 2
● Public Road Productions, KFF Health News, Scripps News, and the Baltimore Banner – 1
● Pushkin Industries – 1
● QCODE – 1
● Radio Pictures and MHP – 1
● Radio Workshop – 1
● RadioGold Productions – 2
● Rainbow Creative – 1
● Realm – 1
● Recorded Future News – 1
● Red Wine & Blue Studios – 1
● Reveal, PRX – 1
● Reverb – 1
● School of Humans and iHeartPodcasts – 1
● SiriusXM – 2
● Slate – 1
● Small But Mighty Media and Next Chapter Podcasts – 1
● SmartLess Media / SiriusXM – 1
● Snap Studios – 1
● Snap Studios, Wondery – 3
● Sonoro – 3
● Sonoro, iHeart Media / My Cultura Network – 1
● Spark Media – 1
● Spotify and the Wall Street Journal – 1
● Stitcher Studios, SiriusXM – 1
● Story Mill Media – 1
● Story Pirates/Two One Five Entertainment/Jon Glickman/iHeart Podcasts – 1
● Talkhouse / SHEROES – 1
● Team Coco, SiriusXM – 1
● Tenderfoot TV – 4
● Tetra Stories – 1
● The Atlantic – 2
● The Kids Podcast Channel – 1
● The Lever – 2
● The New Yorker and Condé Nast Audio – 1
● The Progress Network and The Podglomerate – 1
● The WNET Group – 1
● TMI Project – 2
● Treefort Media, Wondery – 1
● TrueStory – 1
● truth.media – 1
● Vox & Vox Media – 2
● WaitWhat – 1
● Warner Bros. Discovery – 1
● WBUR & ZSP Media – 2
● Western Sound & APM Studios – 1
● What’s The Story Sounds – for BBC Sounds and CBC – 1
● Wolf At The Door Studios – 1
● Wondery – 4
● Wondery & Crooked Media – 3
● Wondery & Novel – 1
● Wondery & Pineapple Street Studios – 3
● Wondery, Built It Productions, NPR – 1
● Wondery, Nick & Jack Studios – 1
● Wondery, Tinkercast – 1
● Working Women Productions – 1
ABOUT TIG NOTARO
Tig Notaro is an Emmy, Grammy, WGA and SAG Award-nominated comedian, actor, writer, director, producer and podcast host originally from Mississippi, and named by Rolling Stone one of the 50 best stand-up comics of all time. She appears in Season 3 of THE MORNING SHOW on Apple TV+ alongside Jennifer Aniston and Jon Hamm, and STAR TREK: DISCOVERY on Paramount Plus with Michelle Yeoh. Tig recently starred in the Netflix films YOUR PLACE OR MINE with Reese Witherspoon, WE HAVE A GHOST with Anthony Mackie, as well as Zack Snyder’s ARMY OF THE DEAD. Prior to that, she starred in the heartwarming Paramount film INSTANT FAMILY alongside Mark Wahlberg and Octavia Spencer. Tig wrote, produced and starred in the semi-autobiographical Amazon Prime Video series ONE MISSISSIPPI, also directing the premiere episode of Season 2. The show yielded critical acclaim and several award nominations, including WGA, GLAAD and The Critics’ Choice Awards. Tig hosts HANDSOME, a critically acclaimed comedy podcast, alongside fellow comedians and co-hosts Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin.
ABOUT THE PODCAST ACADEMY
Founded in February 2020, The Podcast Academy is a not-for-profit professional membership organization that celebrates excellence in podcasting and elevates awareness of podcasts as an indispensable medium for entertainment, information, and creative expression. It values individual and organizational creators alike, of all backgrounds and means, and defines achievement through the values of quality, creativity, innovation, inclusion, and impact. The Podcast Academy provides community, professional development, and industry connections through inclusive, dynamic programming. For more information about The Podcast Academy, please visit http://www.thepodcastacademy.com and follow/like/subscribe on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube and Linkedin. Visit our donation page to support our mission.
Sponsor support for The Podcast Academy includes Wondery, The Hollywood Reporter, Audible, Dolby, Airwave, The Podcast Show, Castbox, Outfront Media, Twitch, and IMDb.
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AKRON, Ohio, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Kenda, a global leader in tire and wheel manufacturing, has been selected by Slate Auto as the official original equipment (OE) tire supplier for the company’s new electric pickup, The Blank Slate. Through the partnership, Kenda will provide its KLEVER S/T EV tire, developed specifically to meet the unique performance, efficiency and durability requirements of Slate’s highly anticipated electric vehicle.
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Doppel Named to Fortune Cyber 60 for Second Consecutive Year
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Recognition underscores Doppel’s continued growth and leadership in Social Engineering Defense as AI transforms the threat landscape
SAN FRANCISCO , Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Doppel, the Frontier AI Social Engineering Defense (SED) platform, today announced it has been named to the 2026 – 2027 Fortune Cyber 60 list for the second year in a row. Produced in partnership with Fortune editors, Lightspeed Venture Partners, and AWS, the annual list recognizes 60 of the most important venture-backed startups shaping the future of cybersecurity. Selection is based on financial performance, business operations, growth, and cybersecurity market research.
The recognition comes as AI makes phishing and other social engineering attacks more sophisticated, personalized, and easier to scale across multiple channels, exposing the limitations of legacy cybersecurity defenses. Doppel was founded as an agentic platform built to address this new environment and protect organizations across the entire social engineering attack chain. Powered by agentic AI, the platform unifies Digital Risk Protection, Human Risk Management, and Email Security to detect and connect attacks across channels, disrupt the infrastructure behind attacks, and strengthen employee resilience against evolving tactics.
“Being named to the Fortune Cyber 60 for the second consecutive year is a significant moment for our team and a reflection of the progress we’ve made as a company,” said Kevin Tian, co-founder and CEO of Doppel. “As we’ve seen in recent weeks, phishing techniques are becoming more sophisticated, and attackers are more capable than ever before. We’re at an inflection point in cybersecurity. As an industry, we have a responsibility to equip defenders with the technology and resources they need to stay ahead of these threats. I’m proud of what we’ve accomplished so far, and we’re only getting started.”
The recognition adds to a year of continued growth and expansion for Doppel. In 2026, the company expanded its global presence in Japan and Toronto, introduced new capabilities across its Social Engineering Defense platform, including Email Security, and officially surpassed 300 employees. Doppel was also named to Fast Company’s 2026 Best Workplaces for Innovators list and won a 2026 SiliconANGLE TechForward Award in the AI-Powered Threat Detection category.
Fortune Cyber 60 Methodology: The Fortune Cyber 60™ list, developed in partnership with Lightspeed Venture Partners and AWS, recognizes 60 of the most important venture-backed cybersecurity startups that have not yet undergone an IPO, acquisition, or other significant exit. Companies are grouped into three categories of 20—Early Stage, Early Growth Stage, and Growth Stage—and listed alphabetically within each category. Selection is based on financial performance, growth, business operations, and cybersecurity market research, with the final list reviewed and validated by Fortune. The full methodology can be found here.
To learn more about Doppel and how its Frontier AI Social Engineering Defense platform helps organizations detect and disrupt social engineering attacks across channels, visit doppel.com.
About the Cyber 60
The Fortune Cyber 60 identifies significant venture-backed cybersecurity startups that have not completed an IPO, acquisition, or other major exit. Companies are grouped by stage rather than ranked, reflecting the distinct opportunities and challenges facing businesses at different points in their development.
About Doppel
Doppel is the Frontier AI platform for Social Engineering Defense (SED), protecting people and brands from AI-powered impersonation, phishing, fraud, and deception through three solutions running on the Doppel Superintelligence Layer. Digital Risk Protection (DRP) sees attacks forming, mapping attacker infrastructure across channels and dismantling it before launch. Email Security defends the inbox, judging every message by the infrastructure behind it and taking that infrastructure down so the campaign can’t retarget. Human Risk Management (HRM) hardens the people attackers target, turning live threats into simulations and training and measuring risk by user and team. Every signal flows through a shared Threat Graph, so a threat seen anywhere strengthens defenses everywhere, and self-healing agents patch every missed detection. Together, they break the social engineering attack chain, advancing Doppel’s mission to protect the world from social engineering attacks every day.
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Deloitte is named a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™: Workday Ecosystem Services 2026 for the fourth time in the US and Europe and the second time in APAC
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NEW YORK, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Deloitte has been recognized as a Leader in the ISG Provider Lens™: Workday Ecosystem Services 2026 study across the United States, Europe, and Asia Pacific (APAC). Deloitte was recognized across all four quadrants: Transformation Services, Deployment and Integration Services, Performance and Optimization Services, and Innovation on Workday. This is the fourth time Deloitte has been recognized as a Leader in the US and Europe and the second time in APAC (which was added as a reported region in 2025).
The ISG Provider Lens™ study evaluates Workday ecosystem service providers and helps enterprises assess provider capabilities, market presence, and delivery strengths. The research covers services supporting Workday-enabled transformation, implementation, optimization, and innovation initiatives. According to the assessment, Deloitte strengthened its positioning across multiple quadrants compared to the previous year’s study, with notable progress in Deployment and Integration Services in the US and Performance and Optimization Services in Europe. Across many regions, Innovation on Workday emerged as one of Deloitte’s strongest positions in the 2026 study.
The report highlighted how:
“Deloitte focuses on redesigning work, roles and operating models for AI-enabled human-machine teams. Its consultants build outcome-focused roadmaps that address workforce experience, operational efficiency, governance, and adoption before implementation. Deloitte emphasizes aligning technology decisions to measurable business outcomes rather than treating Workday as a standalone system deployment.”
“We are honored to be recognized as a Leader across every Workday services category and region assessed by ISG. This recognition reflects the strength of our global collaboration with Workday, the trust our clients place in us, and the dedication of our people around the world. As AI continues to reshape the future of work, we remain focused on helping clients achieve continuous transformation and lasting business outcomes through our close collaboration with Workday and ongoing investments in innovation, agentic capabilities, and industry solutions,” says Jannine Zucker, Workday Alliance Chief Commercial Officer, Deloitte Consulting LLP.
To learn more, access the ISG Provider Lens™: Workday Ecosystem Services 2026 report and explore Deloitte’s Workday capabilities.
For more information about Deloitte Analyst Relations, please visit our Analyst Relations page.
About ISG
ISG (Information Services Group) (Nasdaq: III) is a leading global technology research and advisory firm. A trusted business partner to more than 900 clients, including more than 75 of the world’s top 100 enterprises, ISG is committed to helping corporations, public sector organizations, and service and technology providers achieve operational excellence and faster growth. The firm specializes in digital transformation services, including automation, cloud and data analytics; sourcing advisory; managed governance and risk services; network carrier services; strategy and operations design; change management; market intelligence and technology research and analysis. Founded in 2006, and based in Stamford, Conn., ISG employs more than 1,600 digital-ready professionals operating in more than 20 countries—a global team known for its innovative thinking, market influence, deep industry and technology expertise, and world-class research and analytical capabilities based on the industry’s most comprehensive marketplace data. For more information, visit www.isg-one.com.
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Deloitte provides leading professional services to nearly 90% of the Fortune Global 500® and thousands of private companies. Our people deliver measurable and lasting results that help reinforce public trust in capital markets and enable clients to transform and thrive. Building on its 180+-year history, Deloitte spans more than 150 countries and territories. Learn how Deloitte’s nearly 500,000 people worldwide work together every day to make an impact that matters at www.deloitte.com.
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