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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.

Christy Mirabal, chairperson of The Podcast Academy stated: “This milestone year for the Podcast Academy is a reflection of the incredible growth and creativity within the podcasting community.”

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.

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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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Taboola Brings DeeperDive Answer Engine to Motorola Smartphones

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Motorola Becomes First Smartphone Manufacturer to Integrate DeeperDive, with Global Rollout Across moto g Devices

HONG KONG, Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Taboola (NASDAQ: TBLA) today announced an industry-first partnership with Motorola, one of the world’s leading smartphone manufacturers, to bring Taboola’s DeeperDive answer engine directly to select moto g smartphones in the coming months.

Through the partnership, Motorola will become the first smartphone manufacturer to integrate DeeperDive directly into the lockscreen experience, giving consumers a new way to ask questions, explore topics they care about, and discover relevant content from trusted publishers.

DeeperDive uses generative AI and high-quality publisher content to provide relevant answers, related stories, and additional context around a user’s questions. Since 2025, publishers including USA TODAY Co., HuffPost UK, BuzzFeed Asia, and Bangkok Post have integrated DeeperDive into their digital experiences.

On select moto g devices, consumers will be able to access DeeperDive directly from their lockscreen to explore topics ranging from sports and entertainment to finance, travel, politics, and more. Users can ask questions, receive answers informed by trusted publisher content, and easily go deeper by exploring relevant stories and follow-up topics.

The experience is expected to roll out in phases across select moto g devices throughout 2026 and 2027, including markets such as the UK, Germany, Spain, France, Italy, Mexico, and Argentina.

The integration builds on Motorola and Taboola’s long-standing relationship, which already brings personalized content recommendations to select moto g devices and markets.

“Motorola continues to innovate in how consumers interact with their devices and discover the content that matters to them,” said Adam Singolda, CEO of Taboola. “DeeperDive creates a new way for people to explore their interests and get useful answers informed by trusted publisher content. We’re proud to expand our relationship with Motorola and bring this experience directly to consumers on their smartphones.”

By combining intelligent discovery with trusted publisher content, DeeperDive helps consumers move from a question to a deeper understanding of a topic, whether they’re exploring a travel destination, catching up on sports, or learning more about the latest news.

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Guidewire Congratulates 2026 Innovation Award Winners – Beazley, Definity, and RCIS

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Winners applied AI across product development, claims, and software delivery, reducing manual work and speeding results

LAS VEGAS, Oct. 28, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — CONNECTIONS CONFERENCE — Guidewire (NYSE: GWRE) congratulates the winners of its 2026 Innovation Awards: Beazley, Definity, and RCIS. The annual awards honor Guidewire customers for their innovation in addressing evolving business needs, driving better experiences for their customers and agents, and delivering better results across the insurance lifecycle. Winners were announced during Guidewire Connections, the company’s annual customer conference.

The three 2026 Innovation Award winners are:

1. Beazley

Modernization across product development, broker submissions, and billing is helping Beazley improve speed and efficiency while creating a foundation for growth.

Beazley, a leading Lloyd’s syndicate and global specialty insurer, is transforming its policy administration and billing capabilities through a modern, connected Guidewire Cloud platform, creating a consistent global foundation while retaining the flexibility required for local market variations. Working with Capgemini, a Guidewire Consulting Global Strategic partner, Beazley implemented Guidewire PolicyCenter and BillingCenter, with the European solution delivered in approximately eight months.

The program addresses significant complexity across Beazley’s global specialty business, including rationalizing more than 200 marketable products into a condensed, streamlined set of products which reduced complexity and improved speed to market. Capgemini’s AI-enabled delivery model, combined with Guidewire’s Advanced Product Designer (APD), established a repeatable Product Factory approach enabling rapid development.

The transformation also connects Beazley’s digital and broker platforms with its core underwriting operations through Guidewire Integration Gateway, using API and event-driven integration to support broker submissions, customer and account data and policy servicing. Combined with a modernized billing capability, this creates a more connected digital insurance lifecycle and supports Beazley’s evolution towards increasingly AI-enabled underwriting.

These capabilities provide Beazley with a scalable modern core that simplifies the underlying technology landscape while supporting greater automation, product agility and continued growth across global specialty markets.

For additional information, visit the Beazley website.

2. Definity

Definity launched its first production agentic AI solution to manage and triage broker First Notice of Loss (FNOL) intake, replacing manual data re-keying with structured draft claims generated directly in Guidewire for a claims adjuster to review.

Developed in collaboration with Deloitte, a Guidewire Consulting Global Premier partner, the solution leverages a network of AI agents to classify submissions, extract and reason over information, and execute workflows to generate structured draft claims directly in ClaimCenter.  It provides a governed, traceable path from AI processing to claims operations, keeping adjusters firmly in the loop while reducing manual effort and improving speed and consistency.

Beyond modernizing FNOL intake, the initiative establishes a scalable foundation for deploying reusable, governed agentic AI capabilities across Definity’s claims lifecycle, accelerating future innovation.

For additional information, visit the Definity website.

3. RCIS

RCIS Tech Transformation in Crop Insurance, one of the insurance industry’s most complex and highly regulated lines of business, is modernizing operations with Guidewire InsuranceSuite, Jutro Digital Platform, data, and AI-first innovation

As part of its Passion for the Possible™ initiative, RCIS enlisted PwC, a Guidewire Consulting Global Strategic partner, to transform its legacy environment into a modern, unified platform powered by Guidewire Cloud Platform, delivering enhanced digital experiences for agents, underwriters, adjusters and customers.

Led by its vision to evolve in technology, ease and modern customer experience, RCIS and PwC leveraged Guidewire Advanced Product Designer (APD), Digital and AI-first engineering to accelerate delivery of a highly customized crop insurance solution. The transformation includes complex legacy data migration, integrated geospatial Farm Maps, automated Risk Management Agency (RMA) regulatory reporting, and streamlined core insurance operations all while maintaining business continuity through critical seasonal agricultural cycles. RCIS is among the top providers of crop insurance in the U.S. and one of only 12 Approved Insurance Providers (AIPs) of the Federal Crop Insurance Program. It is the only AIP to offer coverage in all 50 U.S. states through a national network of more than 3,700 agents.

It is anticipated the RCIS Guidewire transformation will set a new benchmark – in the agriculture industry and across the insurance industry as a whole – for modernizing complex insurance platforms, combining Guidewire Cloud innovation, deep industry expertise, and AI-first engineering to accelerate transformation and deliver measurable business value.

For additional information, visit the RCIS website.

“We congratulate this year’s Innovation Award winners and thank all participants and our consulting partners for their contributions,” said Brian Desmond, CMO, Guidewire. “These insurers applied AI to the work that runs their business and have measurable results to show for it. Agentic insurance is where the industry is heading: AI agents that execute work within the controls the insurer sets. These winners are showing how to get there, on Guidewire.”

About Guidewire

Guidewire is the platform P&C insurers trust to engage, innovate, and grow efficiently. More than 570 insurers in 44 countries, from new ventures to the largest and most complex in the world, rely on Guidewire products. With core systems leveraging data and analytics, digital, and artificial intelligence, Guidewire defines cloud platform excellence for P&C insurers.

We are proud of our unparalleled implementation record, with 1,700+ successful projects supported by the industry’s largest R&D team and consulting partner ecosystem. Our marketplace represents the largest partner community in P&C, where customers can access hundreds of applications to accelerate integration, localization, and innovation.

For more information, please visit www.guidewire.com and follow us on X and LinkedIn.

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Coremail Strengthens Digital Ecosystem Ties at WPS Indonesia Roundtable 2026

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JAKARTA, Indonesia, Oct. 29, 2026 /PRNewswire/ — Coremail participated in the WPS Indonesia Digital Ecosystem Roundtable 2026 in Jakarta, joining technology companies, local service providers and enterprise representatives to discuss Indonesia’s digital transformation and ecosystem collaboration. The company also served as title sponsor of the evening networking reception.

As Indonesia’s digital economy evolves, businesses increasingly need solutions combining cloud infrastructure, AI, enterprise software and local services. Connecting these complementary capabilities can help providers and partners better address customer needs.

The event featured partner matching, collaborative solution discussions and executive roundtables, offering opportunities to explore technology integration, joint solutions, channel development and local service delivery.

Coremail exchanged perspectives with participants on enterprise communications, data security and digitalisation in Indonesia, exploring opportunities to address evolving business requirements with local partners.

Regan Deng, Vice President of Coremail, emphasised the importance of understanding local markets and customer needs. He noted that combining complementary strengths in technology, products, infrastructure and local services can help businesses develop solutions suited to their operational requirements.

Top, Coremail’s Thailand Project Manager, introduced the company’s product portfolio, global footprint and partnership opportunities, highlighting its enterprise email communications and security expertise.

Founded in 1999, Coremail’s portfolio includes the Coremail AI-Native Secure Email System, CACTER AI-Native Secure Email Gateway, Email Archive System, Email Delivery System and Secure Email Relay. Flexible deployment and integration capabilities help organisations address differing data security, IT infrastructure and business requirements, supporting secure and reliable enterprise communications.

Coremail has established cooperation with Indonesian cloud service provider CBN Cloud to jointly develop a cloud email service platform, combining Coremail’s email technology with local service capabilities to support Indonesian businesses.

The roundtable offered opportunities to strengthen local connections and explore further collaboration in enterprise email, email security and integrated digital solutions. Coremail will seek to deepen its Southeast Asian presence and work with local partners to address evolving customer needs through secure enterprise email, email security and AI-enabled solutions.

For more information, please visit: www.coremail.co.th

About Coremail

Coremail provides enterprise email and collaboration solutions, with over 27 years of innovation in secure communication technologies. It serves over 20,000 enterprise customers and supports over 1 billion end users, with solutions widely adopted across government, finance, education, healthcare and energy.

 

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