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Laura A, The Hades Project (United States)

Simon Adler, WNYC's Radiolab (United States)

Donald Albright, Tenderfoot TV (United States)

Veronica Alvarez Tommasi, Tribu de Papel y Radio Tacatún (Argentina)

Klaudia Amenabar, Bloody FM (United States)

Devin Andrade, Tink Media (Canada)

Kalli Anerson, CUNY Graduate School of Journalism (United States, Canada)

Mark Angly, Square Wave Sound (Canada)

Sebastian Arciszewski, Find That Pod (Canada)

John Asante, JKB Wash & Dry Productions (United States)

Claire Aubin, Multitude, This Guy Sucked (United States)

Aleena Augustine, Tortoise Media (United Kingdom)

Jody Avirgan, Roulette Productions, This Day, Summer Album - Winter Album (United States)

Anne Baird, Tink Media and Hug House Productions (United States)

Dana Ballout, The Copernic Affair, Last Resort, The Messenger, Kerning Cultures, This American Life (United States)

Juan Baquero, RTVC (Colombia)

Eric Barnett, Supporting Cast (United States)

Janna Barrett, The Happiness Soundtrack (United States)

Christina Barsi, Avant Haus Media (United States)

Julia Barton, Pushkin.fm (United States)

Michael Bergonzi, Audio Drama Reviews (United States)

Jean-Michel Berthiaume, Juste entre toi et moi, Deviens-tu c'que t'as voulu?, Heure de grande écoute (Canada)

Chris Berube, 99% Invisible (Canada)

John Biewen, Scene on Radio / Kenan Institute for Ethics, Duke University (United States)

Josh Bloch, USG AUDIO (Canada)

Alex Blumberg, This American Life, Planet Money, Gimlet Media (United States)

Carola Boehm, Sound Learnings, Dithering on the Edge, CBDB runs (United Kingdom)

Christian Bollert, BEBE Medien GmbH, detektor.fm (Germany)

Jesse Brown, Canadaland (Canada)

Holly Brown, Tink Media (United States)

Hannis Brown, Hysterical, Wild Boys, Blindspot: Tulsa Burning (United States)

Kim Buikema, Ten Percent Happier, More Than A Feeling (United States)

Erin Bump, Century Lives (United States)

Mira Burt-Wintonick, Love Me / Terrestrials / WireTap (Canada)

Caleb Buys, Lead Podcasting (Canada)

Laura C, (United States)

Izzy Cao, Castbox (United States)

Dane Cardiel, (United States)

Deanna Chapman, Fast Politics with Molly Jong-Fast, The New Abnormal, The Daily Beast Podcast (United States)

Amelia Chappelow, Storytime with Kayla Jade, I Weigh with Jameela Jamil (United States)

Adriana Chica, RTVC Al Oído - Naranja Media (Spain)

Morgan Childs, The Europeans, True Spies) (Czech Republic)

Ian Chillag, Everything is Alive (United States)

Raymond Christian, Roots, Branches and Fruit (United States)

Rob Christopher, Audio Drama Debut (United Kingdom)

Michele Cobb, Stories of Impact, Behind the Mic with AudioFile Magazine, Podcast 360 (United States)

Katie Colaneri, New Hampshire Public Radio (United States)

Mike Comite, This American Life, Serial, The Coldest Case in Laramie, We Were Three, The Trojan Horse Affair, Dead Eyes, Headgum, Burnt Toast, Good One: A Podcast About Jokes, Straw Into Gold (United States)

Nicole Cook, (United States)

Fil Corbitt, The Wind (United States)

Andreea Coscai, Tink Media, EarBuds Podcast Collective, Eurowaves (Romania)

Stuart Coxe, Antica Productions (Canada)

Judi Crenshaw, Virginia Commonwealth University (United States)

James Cridland, Podnews (Australia)

M. Cristina Marras, www.cristinamarras.com (Italy)

Amanda Cupido, Lead Podcasting (Canada)

Aaron Dalton, Takes All Kinds, LLC (United States)

Alexander Damiano Ricci, Europod (Italy)

Leanne Davis, Here Comes the Celebrant Podcast (Canada)

Ann De Schoenmaeker, Podcast Wonderland - Why Do You Podcast? (Belgium)

Joni Deutsch, The Podglomerate (United States)

Stephen Devincenzi, Simple English News Daily (United Kingdom)

Will Di Novi, Hot Docs Podcast Festival (Canada)

Kira Dineen, Gene Pool Media, DNA Today (United States)

Julia Duffy, Things Unsaid, Hit Singles (United States)

Gary Duong, NPR (United States)

N'Jeri Eaton, Wondery (United States)

Robyn Edgar, Sequel Media (Canada)

iru ekpunobi, Marketplace PM (United States)

Jeremy Enns, Podcast Marketing Academy, Podcast Marketing Trends Explained, Roast My Podcast (Spain)

Paulette Erato, La Vida Más Chévere de Childfree Latinas (United States)

Kate Evans, CBC Podcasts (Canada)

Dominique Ferraton, Freelance (Canada)

Russell Finch, Wondery (United Kingdom)

Kim Fox, The American University in Cairo (Egypt)

Dan Franks, Podcast Movement (United States)

Erick Galindo, Sin Miedo Productions (United States)

Mary Garner McGehe, WTJU 91.1 FM (United States)

John Gibbons, (United States)

Fabian Gieske, Schønlein Media (Germany)

Andrew Gill, Sound Opinions, Rock That Doesn't Roll, PRX, WBEZ (United States)

Caroline Gillet, France Inter (France)

Dominic Girard, Handover Media Secret Sunshine, Working Smarter, TED AI Show, Wireframe (Canada)

Michael Gluckstadt, HBO Max (United States)

Jennifer Goggin, You'll Never Believe Productions (Australia)

Kathleen Goldhar, Crime Story, Do You Know Mordechai (Canada)

Lina Gomez, Access Speakers; The Morning Formation, Wise Traditions, Women Leaders on the Move - HerCsuite Radio; The Streets of Our Lives (Mexico)

Heather Gordon, Acast (Canada)

Jay Green, QCODE (United States)

Justin Gregory, RNZ (New Zealand)

Tobi Griebenow, Acast (Germany)

Marion Gruner, Lower Street (Canada)

Scott Gurian, Far From Home, Wild Interest (United States)

Ashley Hamer, Taboo Science (United States)

Marina Hanna, Pacific Content, JAR Audio (Canada)

Sam Hansen, Relatively Prime, Carry the Two (United States)

Jordan Heath Rawlings, Elbows Up, The Big Story, Gravy Train (Canada)

Grace Heerman, The Clear Arc Studio (United States)

Matt Hill, Podcast Discovery (United Kingdom)

Nichole Hill, C.H. Productions (United States)

Matt Hird, Signal Hill Insights (Canada)

Hrishikesh Hirway, Song Exploder, The West Wing Weekly, Home Cooking, Partners (United States)

Samantha Hodder, Bingeworthy (Canada)

Dirk Hoffmann-Becking, History of the Germans Podcast (United Kingdom)

Kalila Holt, Heavyweight (Pushkin Industries) (United States)

Benjamin Hosley, Blank Check with Griffin & David (United States)

Chioke Ianson, RESONATE Podcast Festival (United States)

Gracie Imo, Association of African Podcasters and Voice Artists (Nigeria)

Sofie Isenberg, How God Works: The Science Behind Spirituality, Pack One Bag, Kind World (Chile)

Francisco Izuzquiza, Yes We Cast (Spain)

Justin Jackson, Transistor.fm (Canada)

Cathrin Jacob, ARD (Germany)

Guang Jin Yeo, 1UpMedia (Singapore)

Makaila Johnson, Simplecast, Discoverpods, Podern Times (United States)

Eric Johnson, LightningPod (United States)

Pippa Johnstone, Lower Street, Expectant, Word Bomb, Pacific Content (Canada)

Sherley Joseph, The Chonilla Network (Canada)

Mitra Kaboli, Selects, Welcome to Provincetown (United States)

Eleanor Kagan, Welcome To Your Fantasy, Julie: The Unwinding of the Miracle, Immaterial, This Is Dating, Another Round, Thirst Aid Kit, See Something Say Something, Ask Me Another (United States)

Bob Kane, Libsyn (Canada)

Matt Katz, City Cast Philly/Inconceivable Truth (United States)

Diana Keay, Rogers Sports & Media, Frequency Podcast Network (Canada)

Tim Kehl, Wondery (Germany)

Chris Kelly, Kelly&Kelly Inc. (Canada)

James Kim, Overtones Media (United States)

Starlee Kine, Mystery Show (United States)

Ti King, Longterm: A Podcast In Recovery, Smart Justice, ARKAST Podcast (United States)

Miracle Kingsley, Miracle Kingsley (Nigeria)

Manon Elisa Klotz, ACAST (Germany)

Tom Koenig, Fresh Tracks Creative (France)

Kat Kourbeti, Strange Horizons (United Kingdom)

Aditya Kuber, www.bingepods.com (India)

Kattie Laur, Pod the North, Canardian, Bumper (Canada)

Jenn Leask, Elevator Podcast Growth (Canada)

Suzie Lechtenberg, Good Wait Productions, Radiolab, More Perfect, The Other Latif, Freakonomics Radio (United States)

Kristi Lee, Canadian True Crime (Canada)

Yih Lee, Spotify (United States)

Nicole Lemberg, Amazon Music (Germany)

Maik Lenze, ACAST (Germany)

Sophia LePage, ACAST (Canada)

Jenna Levin, Higher Ground (United States)

Shia Levitt, News Ambassadors (United States)

Alex Lewis, Rowhome Productions, The Dig (United States)

Anastasia Lipske, Access Speakers (United States)

Yooree Losordo, Radiotopia from PRX (United States)

Alison MacAdam, In the Dark, The 13th Step, 544 Days, Embedded, Believed (United States)

Emily Malterre, Question Everything (United States)

Audrey Mardavich, Radiotopia from PRX (United States)

Joshua Margulies, Fart FM® (United States)

Michelle Margulis, ABC News (United States)

Sara McCrea, Random House Publishing Group, Voices in the RIver, McCartney: A Life In Lyrics, How To!, A Slight Change of Plans (United States)

Brendan McDonald, WTF with Marc Maron (United States)

Eleanor McDowall, Radio Atlas (United Kingdom)

Clare McGinn, Good Bad Billionaire, Stalked, Unreal: A Critical History of Reality TV, Bloodlines, Evil Genius with Russel Kane (United Kingdom)

Siobhan McHugh, The Greatest Menace, The Last Voyage of the Pong Su, Phoebe's Fall, Heart of Artness, Wrong Skin (Australia)

Akiya McKnight, Shondaland Audio (United States)

Adam McNeil, ADOPTER Media (Canada)

Jeremiah McVay, Biscuits & Jam, Lost Cultures: Living Legacies, The Better Buy, When We See Each Other, Kind of a Lot with Matt Ruby, Stereoactive Presents, Stereoactive Movie Club (United States)

Pedro Mendes, Sequel (Canada)

Jonathan Menjivar, Pineapple Street Studios (Classy with Jonathan Menjivar, Project Unabom, The Clearing, This American Life, Fresh Air) (United States)

Lindsay Michael, Amazon Music (Canada)

Carly Migliori, Realm (United States)

Lulu Miller, Radiolab (United States)

Max Miller, Freakonomics, Sporkful, The Dispatch, Choosing Sides:F1, Building One, The Lost Kids, House of Prayer (United States)

Callista Milligan, Glassbox Media (United States)

Jonathan Mitchell, (United States)

Mike Mitchell, Scholastic (United States)

George Mocharko, The Podcast Editor, DC Entrepreneur, Second Home, Office Hours with Spencer Rascoff, NY Launch Pod, Code Story (United States)

Leital Molad, WaitWhat (United States)

Henry Molofsky, Pineapple Street Studios (United States)

Michael Mongiardi, The Sonar Podcast Network (Canada)

Jason Moon, New Hampshire Public Radio / Bear Brook, The 13th Step (United States)

Avery Moore Kloss, Folktale Studio (Canada)

Andrea Morán, Ferrándiz. Alrededor de un asesino en serie, Los expulsados del paraíso, Sobrevivir a los Testigos de Jehová (Spain)

Imriel Morgan, Content is Queen (United Kingdom)

Jennifer Moroz, Front Burner, Party Lines, Don't Call Me Resilient, Furball Confidential (Canada)

Harry Morton, Lower Street (United Kingdom)

Moritz Mueller, seven.one audio (Germany)

Sam Mullins, Sam Mullins Media / CBC / Raw (Canada)

Rekha Murthy, Overstory (United States)

Princess Musa, APVA (Nigeria)

John Myers, Rowhome Productions (United States)

Roger Nairn, JAR Audio (Canada)

Latif Nasser, New York Public Radio / Radiolab (United States)

Fariba Nawa, On Spec Podcast (Turkey)

Kristin Nelson, Boston Globe, Spotlight: Snitch City, The Harvard Plan (United States)

Scott Newman, On Air Fest (United States)

Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects / Fiasco / Slow Burn / Think Twice: Michael Jackson / Final Thoughts: Jerry Springer / Backfired (United States)

Arielle Nissenblatt, Pinwheel by Audily (United States)

Arif Noorani, CBC Podcasts (Canada)

Terry O'Reilly, Apostrophe Podcast Network (Canada)

Debbie O'Reilly, Apostrophe Podcast Company (Canada)

Lauren Ober, We Live Here Now, The Loudest Girl In The Room, Fine Gorilla Person, Spectacular Failures (United States)

Lovisa Ohlson, PodX Group (Sweden)

Chris Oke, CBC (Canada)

Remi 'Roy' Osi, The Driven Introvert Podcast (United States)

Tanya Ott, Deloitte's Press Room, Deloitte's Future of Government, Following Harriet, U.S. Civil Rights Trail, Allrecipes Homemade with Martie Duncan (United States)

Michele Ouellette, CAPTIVES (Canada)

Laura Palmer, Island Crime, Elbows Up (Canada)

Amy Pearl, (United States)

Aziliz Peaudecerf, Korn ar brezhoneg, La mer à boire, La clameur podcast social club, Les soignantes (France)

John Perotti, Rococo Punch (United States)

Maude Petel-Légaré, Les enfants nés du viol, Synthèses III (Canada)

Keelin Peterson, Mentally? A Magpie (United States)

Chris Peterson, DWNLOAD Media, Podspace, iHeart Podcast Networks (United States)

Trevor Plant, Suzy & Friends, TreeHut Productions (New Zealand)

David Plotz, City Cast/Slate Political Gabfest/Slate Working/Atlas Obscura/to a lesser extent all Slate podcasts launched before 2014 (United States)

Nigel Poor, (United States)

Steve Pratt, Pacific Content, CBC (Canada)

Carlos Prieto, The Daily (United States)

Karyn Pugliese, Auntie Up (Canada)

Nicholas Quah, Just mine from way back when: Servant of Pod at KPCC/LAist (Canada)

Michelle Ransom-Hughes, Alongside Radio, ABC (Australia)

Sophie Rauch, MDR, ARD, Deutschlandradio, Diagnose: Unangepasst, Dark Agent (Germany)

Lea Redfern, University of Sydney (Australia)

Francois Retief, iono.fm (South Africa)

Louis Rhoden, PGCC (United States)

Félix Riaño, Locutor.Co (Colombia)

Ana Ribera, Prisa Audio (Spain)

Joshua Richmond, Earwolf, Stitcher, Headgum, Lemonada (United States)

Paul Riismandel, Signal Hill Insights (United States)

Irenia Roussel, Livewithireniastories Podcast (Canada)

Acey Rowe, Understood: Who Broke The Internet?, Uncover: Bad Results, The Doc Project, Cited, The Salmon People (Canada)

Ellie Rubinstein, Pocket Casts (United States)

Brady Sadler, Double Elvis (United States)

Marc Sanchez, Brains On Univers (United States)

Jess Schmidt, Rooked: The Cheaters' Gambit, Cities 1.5, Witness to Yesterday (Canada)

Andrea Schwarzbach, Aura Frames (United States)

James Scully, TheWallBreakers (United States)

David Sealey, Health and Self Care Podcast (United Kingdom)

Kevin Sexton, Thunder Bay, It's Political with Althia Raj, The Paul Wells Show, Canadaland, The Worst Podcast, The Atlas Obscura Podcast (Canada)

Jess Shane, Pushkin Industries (United States)

Julie Shapiro, Audio Flux (United States)

Shreya Sharma, Tink Media, Slate Podcasts (Canada)

Levi Sharpe, Global Dispatches, The Big Flop, CodeNewbie, Roommate From Hell, Propaganda!, Hearthbound, DevNews, DevDiscuss, Marketplace Tech (United States)

Yowei Shaw, Proxy with Yowei Shaw (United States)

Lauren Shippen, Atypical Artists (United States)

Sandra Shmueli, Novel (United Kingdom)

Ricker Silva, Sala Faniáticas, Autos y Carreras (Colombia)

Paula Sima, Wrap Shit With P and Talk Shit With P (United States)

Veronica Simmonds, CBC Podcasts (Canada)

Vineeta Singh, AAUP Presents (United States)

Jeremy Sinon, Hubbard Radio, Gamut Podcast Network (United States)

Geoff Siskind, Antica Productions, Pacific Content (Canada)

Catrin Skaperdas, The Podcast Guys, Italian, For Sure, The Human Upgrade (Italy)

DOUG SLAWIN, Campside Media (United States)

Dave Slusher, Evil Genius Chronicles, Mad at Dad, Reality Break, Pull Box Picks (United States)

Jay PdVader Soderberg, Cumulus Podcast Network (United States)

Lauren Spohrer, Criminal / Vox Media (United States)

Laura Standley, Accenture Song, Droga5 (United States)

Leni Steinhardt, CNN Audio (United States)

Timmie Strandberg, PodMe AB (Sweden)

Alex Sujong Laughlin, Defector Media (United States)

Elizabeth Sumner, Unpacking Peanuts (Italy)

Hannah Sung, Media Girlfriends, Globe and Mail, TVO (Canada)

Ilana Susnow, Bloomberg (United States)

Sonja Swanson, City Cast (United States)

Julia Sweeney, ACAST (United States)

Megan Tan, TanLines (United States)

Veronika Taylor, ACAST (United States)

Celine Teo-Blockey, Sink Or Swim, Welcome To Blacktown, Liquid Gold. Under the Radar Podcast, KEXP Sound & Vision, Sounds LA. (Australia)

Ami Thakkar, Tuckered Out with Ami Thakkar (United States)

Gabrielle Thouin, Transistor Média, contre toute attente (Canada)

Eric Thurm, Wondery, Scamfluencers (United States)

Ryan Token, The Golden Hurricast (United States)

Ana Paula Tovar, Vespucci Group, Spotify, Sonoro, Wondery, iHeart Radio and Prisa Audio (México)

Nathan Tower, Lower Street (United States)

Aaron Tracy, Parallax, Summer Breeze, Supreme: The Battle for Roe, The Commuter. 10 Days, The Coldest Case, The Coldest Case: The Past Has A Long Memory, Daniel X; Genesis, Murder in Bermuda (United States)

Benedikt Treuer, Amazon Music (Germany)

Louis Tronquet, arc.studio (Germany)

Tim Truax, PodSummit (Canada)

Kathy Tu, 99% Invisible, SiriusXM (United States)

Julia Turner, Slate, Los Angeles Times (United States)

Apoorva Tyagi, Amazon (United States)

Jeff Ulster, Ulster Media (Canada)

Gabriel Urbina, Wolf 359, Unseen, Zero Hours, Time:Bomnbs, No Bad Ideas, Hit Singles, The Signal (United States)

Fede Vargas, My Most Authentic Life (Canada)

Sisan Victor-Woko, Moments with the Kween Community (Nigeria)

Jeff Vidler, Signal Hill Insights (Canada)

Eugenio Viñas Serrano, PRISA Media (Spain)

Chris Wade, Chapo Trap House (United States)

Miriam Ward, Bumper (Canada)

Jane Watson, Spiked Eggs Podcast (United States)

Ella Watts, Doctor Who: Redacted, Eliza: A Robot Story, Camlann: An Audio Drama, Wooden Overcoats, The Tower, Re: Dracula (United Kingdom)

Tyler Welch, Azusa Pacific University (United States)

Todd Wemmer, Endicott College (United States)

Wil Williams, Tink Media, Hug House Productions (United States)

Jake Williams, Little Red Village, Hanging by a Thread, Out of Print: The Unmaking of American News (United States)

Lisa Woolfork, Black Women Stitch (United States)

Kevin Wortis, Signal Co No1 (United States)

Nina Wuest, ACAST (Germany)

Theresa Wünsch, Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk, Weltgeschichte vor der Haustür, Das war der Bauernkrieg (Germany)

Yi Yang, Yi Yang Media (United Kingdom)

Aaron Yost, Tournament of Blank,The Pod Piper newsletter (United States)

Jessica Young, Great Pacific Media, Curiouscast (Canada)

Michael Zlotnick, NBC News, Dateline, MSNBC (United States)

Alan Zweig, The Worst Podcast, Tubby (Canada)