The Podcast Academy, the preeminent skilled podcast group, introduced that season 3 winner of “RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars” Trixie Mattel LA Reside Los Angeles. TPA additionally unveiled that it’ll bestow upon Malcolm Gladwell the esteemed Governors Award, which acknowledges a podcast or particular person for the compelling affect they’ve had on the trade.
Moreover, TPA will honor pop-culture podcaster, Ira Madison III with the Affect Award, which acknowledges a person or podcast that has made a big, optimistic impact on its listeners.
The present might be live-streamed on The Podcast Academy’s YouTube channel – watch right here from 6:00pm PT.
The Ambies rejoice excellence in podcasting and elevate consciousness and standing of podcasts as a singular and private medium for leisure, info, storytelling and expression. The ceremony will spotlight 192 nominees throughout 27 classes with winners to be chosen by each voting member of The Podcast Academy (TPA). Group Constructing Sponsor Wondery will spotlight TPA’s Mentorship Program on the Ceremony. Full checklist of the 2024 nominees could also be discovered right here.
“On behalf of The Podcast Academy, we’re thrilled to honor Ira Madison III with the Affect Award and Malcolm Gladwell with the coveted Governors Award,” stated Donald Albright, chairperson of TPA. “As a author and a podcaster, Ira is an genuine voice for the trade. He alongside his workforce have created distinctive content material that spans pop-culture to politics whereas amplifying underrepresented voices. Moreover, we’re past privileged to acknowledge Malcolm Gladwell with the Governors Award. He’s been instrumental in shaping the medium with progressive content material that he has, and can proceed to have, a long-lasting impact.”
Trixie Mattel is an American singer, actor, drag queen and acknowledged “Skinny Legend.” She can be a Billboard Heatseekers #1 charting recording artist (One Stone, 2018), a wildly profitable touring act, and one half of a comic book duo with Katya on YouTube (“UNHhhh” & Netflix’s “I Like To Watch”). The New York Occasions best-selling writer is the co-host of the favored podcast with Katya known as The Bald and the Stunning, which acquired the 2021 Queerties Award for Finest Podcast in 2021. She stars in her personal Discovery+ actuality renovation present, “Trixie Motel” and launched her double LP “The Blonde and Pink Albums’ to acclaim from Rolling Stone, Billboard, Individuals, Vogue, NPR and extra, in addition to a efficiency on Jimmy Kimmel Reside!, Stagecoach Pageant, and Austin Metropolis Limits.
Ira Madison III is a cultural critic, TV author, and host of the Crooked Media award-winning podcast Hold It. His work has been featured in GQ, Vulture, The Lower, and MTV Information. As a tv author, he’s written for “Uncoupled,” “Q-Drive”, “Nikki Fre$h”, and “Dawn”. His debut essay assortment Pure Harmless Enjoyable might be printed by Random Home in early 2025.
Malcolm Gladwell is the writer of seven New York Occasions bestsellers, together with The Tipping Level, Blink, Outliers, Speaking to Strangers, and The Bomber Mafia. He’s the co-founder of Pushkin Industries, an audiobook and podcast manufacturing firm that produces the podcasts Revisionist Historical past, In opposition to the Guidelines with Michael Lewis, The Happiness Lab with Dr. Laurie Santos, and Damaged Report.
