Anderson Cooper, Trixie and Katya, and Questlove lead 2024 Signal Award winners

It’s almost time for awards season to start in earnest, and podcasts are leading the pack. The third annual Signal Awards honors “the podcasts that define culture,” from actual culture pods like Bowen Yang’s and Matt Rogers’ Las Culturistas to news pods, food pods, and anything else you listen to. Signal hands out two primary honors—the Signal Awards, which are voted on by a panel of judges, and the Listener’s Choice Awards, which are voted on by the public. This year, over 170,000 votes were cast in under two weeks, which the company says was its largest voting pool ever.

If you’re looking to dig into something new on your commute or to make deep cleaning that much more bearable, a handful of pods earned the distinction of winning both honors. That esteemed group includes All There Is with Anderson Cooper (which won in the Interview Or Talk Show category), On with Kara Swisher (Best Host, Current Events), Questlove Supreme (Music), Unlocking Us with Brené Brown (Best Conversation Starter), Handsome with Tig Notaro, Fortune Feimster and Mae Martin (Best Co-Host Team), The Sporkful (Food & Drink), Twenty Thousand Hertz (Creativity & Marketing), and more. 

Other winners of the Signal Awards’ Gold distinction (the honors are sorted into gold, silver, and bronze) include a range of podcasts hosted by recognizable figures like RuPaul’s Drag Race alums Trixie and Katya (The Bald and the Beautiful with Trixie and Katya), Oprah (Oprah’s Super Soul), and Katie Couric (Next Question with Katie Couric), as well as fascinating deep dives and investigations like Backfired: The Vaping Wars, Dark History, The Nightingale Of Iran, and Who Killed JFK?.

Matt Rogers and Bowen Yang were also honored with a Special Achievement Award for changing the culture with Las Culturistas. The same went to Esther Perel for Where Should We Begin?

If none of the above strike your fancy, other notable winners include Slate’s Death, Sex, And Money, Netflix is a Daily Joke, Prosecuting Donald Trump, What Now? with Trevor Noah, and Crunchyroll Presents: The Anime Effect. Happy listening!

2024 Winner Highlights

Interview or Talk Show
Slate’s Death, Sex & Money GOLD
Your Mama’s Kitchen GOLD
Apple News In Conversation GOLD
Podcrushed
New Lines Magazine Presents: The Lede
Time Sensitive
All There Is with Anderson Cooper GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
Marc Summers Unwraps
On Being with Krista Tippett

Best Co-Host Team (Shows)
Handsome Podcast GOLD, LISTENER’S CHOICE
The Need to Know Podcast GOLD
Pivot with Kara Swisher and Scott Galloway
A Field Guide To Gay Animals
Pretendians
Dead Writers
Nightcap
Culture Bites
And That’s Why We Drink
Varnamtown