Next Wednesday, May 24, the Gala of the first Edition of the Ondas Globales Podcast Awards will be held, organized by PRISA Audio and Cadena SER, in collaboration with Spotify, with the support of the Diputación and the Ayuntamiento de Málaga, Spain.
Carolina Iglesias and Victoria Martín, creators of the successful podcast “Stretching gum” will be in charge of hosting the event at the Soho Caixabank Theater in Malaga.
It will also feature live music by Víctor Elías, with the singer María Peláe and a performance by the well-known beatboxer Pablo Mora.
Previously, David Andújar and David Insua, presenters of the popular podcast What a picture! They will direct the preshow of the gala.
The Ondas Globales Podcast Awards seek to give visibility to the podcast industry in Spanish and recognize the work of all its professionals.
The best projects were selected among 888 applications from 15 countries.
The jury is made up of a recognized group of experts from the world of audio, communication and advertising creativity from Spain and Latin America.
The event will be attended by people from the world of podcasting, journalism and entertainment, such as Andreu Buenafuente, Quique Peinado, Manuel Burque, Lucía Lijtmaer, Isabel Calderón, Henar Álvarez, Molo Cebrián, Lalachus, Javier Aznar, Marion Reimers, Luis Zahera, Nuria Pérez or Antonio Rubio.
Representatives of the different platforms will also attend, such as the general director and head of the podcast for Southern and Eastern Europe at Spotify, Federica Tremolada and Eduardo Alonso, respectively; the person in charge for Spain of Podimo, Juan Galiardo; or the CEO of Twitter in Spain, Javier Pagán, among others.
Attending on behalf of PRISA will be the Vice President of the Group, Rosauro Varo; the president of PRISA Media, Carlos Núñez; the general director of PRISA Audio, María Jesús Espinosa de los Monteros; the CEO of Cadena SER, Ignacio Soto; the Director of Content, Montserrat Domínguez; the representatives of the Chain in Andalusia and Malaga, Antonio Yélamo and José Manuel Atencia.
The Ondas Globales Awards can be enjoyed live through the pages of EL PAÍS, Cadena SER and the main PRISA Group radio stations in Latin America, such as Caracol Radio, ADN Chile, W Radio México, as well as on the YouTube channel of the Waves.
Beforehand, there will be a preshow with some of the winners that can be followed live through the Twitter account of the Ondas awards (@Premios_Ondas) and on Twitter Spain (@TwitterEspana); and Cadena SER’s ‘Hora 25’ moves to the Theater to do a special live program hosted by Aimar Bretos.
Here we show you the categories and the winners:
Best non-fiction podcast (ex aequo):
Carrier and GAL: The triangle.
The first is a Mexican journalistic production that deals “in a different way with the so-called war on drugs at the international level.” A cell phone from prison serves as a link between the transporter and the journalist Meño Larios, in a production of Detective and Exile Content and for iHeart Media.
GAL: El trigono is the foray into the world of the podcast by veteran journalist Antonio Rubio. Produced by El Cañonazo and The Facto for Podimo, it brings together for the first time the victims and executioners of the dirty war against ETA 40 years after the first GAL attack. The jury recognized that “it goes through the entrails of one of the darkest episodes in history.
Best Fiction Podcast:
Case 63. The Chilean audio series is the most listened to fiction on Spotify in Latin America and has been adapted to international markets such as the United States and Brazil. The podcast is original from Spotify and is produced by Emisor Podcasting.
Best Conversational Podcast:
La crude, from Argentina, produced by Spotify. The popular host and comedian Migue Granados is presented in this work as a person who “was always interested in disturbing, fighting and investigating” and interviews different personalities with unique lives.
Best Branded Podcast:
Hotel Jorge Juan, presented by Javier Aznar. The slow-talking podcast offers each episode “something to chew, think, believe and grow” in an intimate setting.
Best Experimental Podcast:
Solaris. The writer and thinker Jorge Carrión helps to understand the new algorithmic, quantum, accelerated times, of artificial intelligence, with his own logic and madness. For the jury, “a disruptive project, which has become a benchmark as an innovative narrative format on issues related to technojournalism, digital life and experimentation”. It is produced by Podium Podcast and has sound design by Andreu Quesada.
Best international podcast in non-Spanish speaking: L’écho du Bataclan (in Spanish, El echo de Bataclan), which addresses the relationship of sound with the massacre of November 13, 2015 in the Parisian nightclub. A production of Arte Radio (France).
Best podcast in co-official language: Lokatza (in Spanish, Mud). The choral project signed by Basque women explores and understands the current world from a feminist perspective. For the experts, “a firm and determined commitment by EiTB to promote the presence of women in its media with free narratives.” A program created and directed by Ainara Lasa, Amagoia Gurrutxaga, Idurre Eskisabel and Lorea Agirre.
Specific category:
Best Sound Design:
Lasfera, a Podium Podcast production whose specific work is by Teo Rodríguez. Several pilots of the American army publish a letter in which they reveal that they have been seeing unidentified flying objects in their maneuvers for years. The jury highlighted “his mastery in surrounding a story with an unmistakable sound universe, full of nuances that lead the listener to live the sound experience in a totally immersive way”.
Best screenplay:
The Hitman. The Telemundo podcast traces, through the statements of a man who spent three months training to be a hit man, the x-ray of one of the most feared criminal groups in Mexico: the Jalisco New Generation cartel. “For the construction of an impeccable narrative script that arises from an exhaustive journalistic investigation work”, valued the jury.
Best Production:
War 3. The podcast takes the listener deep into North Korea and an international conflict. It has won the award “for the impeccable coordination task carried out during the pandemic to produce a final season with more than fifty different characters and more than thirteen different languages.” A Podium Podcast fiction produced by Jesús Blanquiño, David Tomillo and Ana Alonso.
Best Host:
Marion Reimers for Soccer to the death. The sports journalist presents the most emblematic cases of foul play in this sport in Latin America. The jury has awarded her “for managing to carve out a niche for herself in sports journalism and standing out from her by carrying out investigations that she transforms into stories that reach the general public”. A Spotify original production.
Best actor or actress (ex aequo):
Lolita Flores and Luis Zahera. Flores, for her work on Jodidísimas, a podcast directed by Mona León Siminiani with text by María Dueñas and produced by Formidable Son (La Sonora Podcast) for Audible from Spain. The jury awarded it for “giving a voice to Consuelo, a woman who, at over 50 years of age, is faced for the first time with thinking about how to get ahead.”
Zahera, for her part, wins the prize in Lasfera for “the construction of Mariano, a lone wolf and often misunderstood. A complex character with whom it is impossible not to become attached”. La Esfera is a Podium Podcast production directed by Polo Menárguez.
Best episode: Cabinet of Curiosities and The Rare (ex aequo). Cabinet of Curiosities, by Nuria Pérez, because “Following the white thread, following the black thread”, the first episode of the third season, is part of the murder of George Floyd, an event that shocked public opinion and from there traces a narrative that it shakes the listener”, highlighted the jury.
The episode 59 bullets, of The rare ones, “is full of resources of the potentialities of the non-fiction narrative podcast used to appeal to the audience,” said the jury. Another journalistic work by producers Dennis Maxwell, Catalina May and Martín Cruz, Las Raras Podcast.
Special prizes:
Revelation Award:
Best regards, from Pablo Juanarena, broadcast by Radio Marca. The podcast is a portrait of football and sports journalism in Spain. “He has photographed the history of sports radio during the years that defined it as we know it”, valued the jury. “He has managed to reach an audience that never thought to be interested in that world. A very complete work of script, design and narration”.
Premio trayectors (equally)
Molo Cebrián and the production company El Terrat. The jury valued Cebrián “for having become one of the benchmark podcasters, placing mental health as a topic that connects us and of massive interest.”
El Terrat has been the winner “for being one of the first large audiovisual production companies to find in the podcast an open creative window for entertainment, humor and experimental projects. For becoming one of the reference companies in the creation of content and producing one of the most listened to podcasts in the world in Spanish: Nobody knows anything, on Cadena SER”.
Best Podcast of the Year: Total Ideal Weekly Deforme, by Lucía Lijtmaer and Isabel Calderón and Stretching the gum, by Carolina Iglesias and Victoria Martín. The first, a production by Radio Primavera Sound, “for consolidating a radio show with a provocative and feminist vision of culture and life”, according to the jury.
From Stretching the gum, produced by Podium Podcast, they have highlighted its ability to “turn a groundbreaking podcast into a mass phenomenon with language and approach, from humor and without prejudice.”
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