On Sunday night in Los Angeles, the growing, ascendant but still-unruly podcast industry will livestream its most serious collective attempt at an awards ceremony. Ratings for the major televised awards shows are down. America loves to hate awards shows, especially when they go wrong, and they seem to go wrong a lot. The simplest explanation is that the podcast industry has finally gotten big enough, prominent enough and prestigious enough to risk the kind of trouble that can come with a big-tent award show. Independent podcast producer, audio editor and voice actor Ned Donovan of New York thought too many of the finalists came from companies who were among the founding financial sponsors of the creation of the Podcast Academy.

Source: Los Angeles Times May 14, 2021 12:02 UTC