Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios Honored With Three Ambies Awards by The Podcast Academy

Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios took home the top honor at the fifth annual Ambies this week. The prestigious awards, hosted by The Podcast Academy, recognize excellence in audio.

Produced in partnership with Wondery, Dan Taberski’s “Hysterical” nabbed the top award, “Podcast of the Year.” In addition, Taberski was also recognized in the Best Reporting category. The studio also took home Best Entertainment Podcasts for “The Wonder of Stevie,” produced in partnership with Audible and Higher Ground.

“I’m incredibly proud of the Pineapple teams behind ‘Hysterical’ and ‘The Wonder of Stevie,’” said Bari Finkel, SVP, Co-Head, Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios. “The hard work and passion they put into these shows is no small part of what led to these awards. With this year’s recognition at the Ambies, Pineapple continues its legacy of award-winning, industry-shaping podcasts.”

Audacy’s Pineapple Street Studios’ winners include:

Podcast of the Year

Hysterical

Best Reporting

Dan Taberski for Hysterical

Best Entertainment Podcast

The Wonder of Stevie

The ceremony took place in Chicago during the world’s largest Podcast Movement Evolutions.

A full list of winners can be found here. Photos from the night can be found here.

Ambies 2025.

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About Pineapple Street Studios

Founded in Brooklyn in 2016 by Jenna Weiss-Berman and Max Linsky, Pineapple Street Studios, an Audacy company, paved the way for in-depth, diverse storytelling by way of high-quality original and partner podcasts. Pineapple Street Studios creates inventive, award-winning original podcasts: multi-episode narratives, investigative journalism, branded series, and talk shows that routinely debut in the top ten on the Apple Podcasts charts, reach tens of millions of listeners, and have been cited repeatedly on “best-of” lists. Pineapple Street Studios is behind some of the most critically acclaimed shows, including Patrick Radden Keefe’s Wind of Change, Welcome to Your Fantasy, Missing Richard Simmons, Back Issue, The New York Times’ Still Processing, activist Brittany Packnett Cunningham’s Undistracted, and The Catch and Kill Podcast with Ronan Farrow.