A Reminder: Here Are The First Annual Ear Worthy Independent Podcast Award Winners!

Just in case you missed it, here is the announcement of the first annual Ear Worthy Independent Podcast Awards (EWIP) from early July. I know that I have to work on a snappier award title!. The Ear Lobes? The Earies? I’ll work on it for next year.

Anyway, check out these well-deserving award winners and listen to their podcasts. They are the best of the best.

There are a lot of podcasts. Understatement of the year, right? In podcasting’s brief history, the industry has also found itself awash in awards. The Ambies, iHeart Podcast Awards, People’s Choice Podcast Awards, The Webbys, The Signal Awards, British Podcast Awards, and others. These awards do not yet attract the media attention like the Emmys, Grammys, Oscars, and Tonys (EGOT).

In the future, there could be a podcast award ceremony broadcast on a major TV network (Sorry, TLC) with distinguished achievement award names like the James Cridland Legacy Award, the Bryan Barletta Career Achievement Award, or the Arielle Nissenblatt Podcast Stewardship Award.

Yet, with few exceptions, these awards either don’t recognize independent podcasts or have them do battle against their well-financed, network-supported brethren.

Even the film industry has an award platform for indie filmmakers. The Independent…