AWARDS & RECOGNITION
We don’t do it for the awards… but we’ll take ’em! Thanks to our very talented hosts and partners, plus our incredible in-house team of producers, writers, editors, and musicians, Tenderfoot has been fortunate enough to win several awards for our shows, as well as take home special honors for our company. A lot of hard work is put in by many people, and we are grateful to work with them all.
2024 AWARD WINNERS
Dear Alana is a 4X award winner this year! The #1 podcast has won the Ambie for Best Spirituality and Religion Podcast, two Anthem Awards– Gold for Diversity Equity and Inclusion and Bronze for Education, Art & Culture, and the Silver Signal Award Winner for Best Original Score. What a year for such an important podcast. Thank you Simon, Laurie, the listeners, and of course Alana’s mom Joyce and her family.
The people have spoken and Radio Rental is the Listener’s Choice and Silver Award winner at the Inaugural Signal Awards for Most Innovative Audio Experience. The hybrid series also took home two Silver Signal Awards for Best Sound Design, and Best Trailer. Thanks to our amazing team at Tenderfoot for bringing Radio Rental to life, to all of our listeners, and of course our shopkeeper, Terry Carnation!
Season 2 of Culpable is a Gold Signal Award Winner in Best Editing Limited Series & Specials! Shout out to our production and editing team for crafting an award winning season, and thank you to the fans for listening. A special thank you to the family and friends of Brittany Stykes who participated in the podcast. #JusticeforBrittany
We did it! High Strange has won the Silver Signal Award for Best Writing – Limited Series & Specials at the 2024 Signal Awards! Huge congratulations to our host and writer, Payne Lindsey, for yet another award-winning podcast. We’re honored to have Payne’s masterful storytelling recognized—taking listeners deep into the unknown with every episode. UFOs? UAPs? What do you believe?
Congrats to our team and partners on the incredible true crime series Undetermined which took home the Gold Signal Award for Best Editing Limited Series & Specials. Thanks and congrats to the editing and production team who put together a debut season that was not only a hit amongst the fans, but critics as well.
New description: Somebody took home Best Audio Documentary at the IDA’s, and Best Serialized Story at the Third Coast / Richard H. Driehaus Foundation Competition. Shapearl Wells, Alison Flowers, Topic Studios, The Intercept, the Invisible Institute, and iHeartRadio are to thank here. We were happy to be part of the journey.
Up and Vanished presents Status: Untraced—winner of the Silver Signal Award for True Crime: Limited Series! This hit podcast followed a global search for answers in a puzzling disappearance. Congrats to host Liam Luxon, Executive Producer Alex Vespestad, and thanks to Justin Alexander’s loved ones for sharing his story.
2023 AWARD WINNERS
The Up and Vanished Trial Series has won the Ambie Award for Best True Crime podcast! The trial series marks the end of the six year podcast journey that started with Up and Vanished Season 1. Thanks to the entire Tenderfoot team, our partners and listeners.
The people have spoken and Radio Rental is the Listener’s Choice and Silver Award winner at the inaugural Signal Awards for Most Innovative Audio Experience. Thank you to the team, from the writers, to the music and post production, for creating a great listening experience! And a special thanks to the illustrious Terry Carnation!
The Up and Vanished Season 3 has won the Silver Anthem Award, an award that honors mission driven work. Tackling the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women (MMIW). Season 4 was recognized as a podcast series that aims to raise awareness for Human & Civil Rights Causes. We are honored.
Our first partnership with Sonoro Media has won Best Spanish Language Podcast at the 2023 iHeart Podcast Awards! It was the first Spanish language podcast that Tenderfoot worked on, and another win for our team on the scripted side! Thanks to the amazing cast, writers, and the team at Sonoro for believing in our partnership.
Monster: Freeway Phantom won the 2023 CrimeCon Clue Award for Outstanding Docuseries Podcast. The Clue Awards celebrate outstanding projects that embody a strong commitment to leadership, understanding, and excellence. Congrats to our team, and our partners iHeartRadio and Black Bar Mitzvah, and thank you to the victim’s families and the DC community.
2022 AWARD WINNERS
Congrats again to the Whistleblower team for winning Best Sports Podcast, this time at the inaugural Signal Awards! Whistleblower previously won a 2021 Ambie Award for its work looking into the 2007 NBA betting scandal. Congrats to Tim Livingston and the Whistleblower team!
Season three of Up and Vanished has won the Webby Award for Best Crime & Justice podcast! It’s the first Webby for the hit franchise with over 400 million downloads. Thanks to our partner Cadence 13, Payne Lindsey, producer Mike Rooney, and the entire Tenderfoot team.
Thanks to host Neil Strauss and the team for taking home Best Writing (Limited Series & Special) at the inaugural Signal Awards for their work on To Live and Die in LA, Season 2. A podcast 4 years in the making, season 2 tackled a case that hit close to home for many involved. #JusticeForElainePark
The MLK Tapes not only took home the 2022 Webby Award for Best Limited Series, but at the inaugural Signal Awards, the show also won Best Documentary and Best History! Hosted by Bill Klaber, the podcast revisits the plot to kill Dr. King and was made possible by the amazing investigative work of William Pepper over several decades. Thanks to our partners at iHeartRadio!
Tenderfoot TV, HBO and Issa Rae’s Raedio took home the Webby Award for Best Fiction (Scripted) and the Signal Award for Best Limited Series & Specials, (Scripted) for We Stay Looking. Thanks to the amazing cast led by Terri J. Vaughn, and our talented writers who used comedy to shed light on real issues in the media and criminal justice system.
2021 AWARD WINNERS
Gaining Ground: The New Georgia is the Webby People’s Voice Winner for News and Politics, and winner of Best Politics and Opinion at the inaugural 2021 Ambies! Thanks to our partners at Crooked Media and Cadence 13, hosts Rembert Browne and Jewel Wicker, and the amazing production teams who worked to document a historic election!
Our first scripted project in partnership with HBO, Raedio and Insecure has won two Webby Awards! Looking For Latoya starring Terri Vaughn, Ray J, Porsha Williams, and Kandi Burruss-Tucker took home awards for Best Fiction and Diversity & Inclusion at the 2021 Webby Awards. Such an honor to break into the fiction space with these amazing partners!
2020 AWARD WINNERS
2019 AWARD WINNERS
