'Caso 63', 'Lasfera', Marion Reimers, Molo Cebrián and El Terrat, among the winners of the 1st Ondas Globales Podcast Awards

The Ondas Globales Podcast Awards already have their first winners.

, Marion Reimers with her production

, the Podium Podcast fiction Lasfera

Molo Cebrián and El Terrat are some of the winners in the first edition of the awards, which seek to give visibility to the podcast industry in Spanish and recognize the work of all its professionals.

The 19 best projects have been selected among 888 applications from 15 countries.

The decision of the jury, made up of experts in the world of audio, communication and advertising creativity, was revealed this Wednesday, February 23, in the program

of Cadena SER.

The awards ceremony, organized by PRISA Audio and Cadena SER, in collaboration with Spotify, will be held on May 24 at a gala at the Teatro del Soho CaixaBank in Malaga and with the support of the Malaga City Council and Provincial Council, as well as with that of the Junta de Andalucía.

The awards for the 15 categories will be awarded at the ceremony (four of them with ex aequo awards), in addition to the four formats that have received special mentions from the jury and recognition for the two programs that already received the Ondas in November for Best Podcast of the Year,

and

.

The Chilean audio series

which has already been crowned the most listened to fiction on Spotify in Latin America of all time,

has been recognized as the best fiction podcast.

It narrates the challenge faced by the psychiatrist Elisa Aldunate with a patient whose story threatens the frontiers of what is possible.

The jury has valued "the impeccable script by Julio Rojas, a masterfully managed narrative tension and the two magnificent performances by Antonia Zegers and Nestor Catillana".

In non-fiction, the prize has been double, for

and

The first is a Mexican journalistic production that addresses "in a different way the so-called war on drugs at the international level," according to the jury of this production for iHeart Media.

The second is the incursion of veteran journalist Antonio Rubio into the world of audio, with the production of El Cañonazo and The Facto for Podimo, which brings together the victims and executioners of the dirty war against ETA 40 years after the first GAL attack.

The jury has valued his ability to contribute "new investigations, new revelations, new voices and visions of a yesterday that is unknown to a large part of the audience".

The award for best

conversational

from Argentina, which is produced by Spotify.

The humorist Migue Granados interviews different personalities with unique lives and, in the words of the jury, receives the award "for managing, with humor, to talk about issues that are uncomfortable but important."

, presented by Javier Aznar, wins the award for best

The jury has valued it “for the perfect symbiosis between content and brand”.

It is produced by Vanity Fair and Yes We Cast along with Seagram's.

In the same category, he has obtained a special mention

the Netflix Spain space presented by Jordi Cruz and Samantha Hudson focused on their own series and movies.

Solaris

, by the writer and thinker Jorge Carrión and which can be heard on Podium Podcast, has been recognized as the best experimental

, "a benchmark as an innovative narrative format on issues related to technojournalism, digital life and experimentation," according to the jury.

gets a special mention.

In the non-Spanish speaking section, the best international program was

(in Spanish, El echo de Bataclan), a production by Arte Radio (France) that addresses the relationship of sound with the massacre of November 13, 2015 in the Parisian nightclub.

The jury has awarded the proposal for its "meticulous sound design work to rethink our relationship with sound".

In the co-official language, the winner is the

Basque

(in Spanish, Barro), from EiTB.

The project, created and directed by Ainara Lasa, Amagoia Gurrutxaga, Idurre Eskisabel and Lorea Agirre, explores today's world from a feminist perspective.

The award for best sound design went to the fiction

, a Podium Podcast production whose specific work is by Teo Rodríguez.

The jury has highlighted "his mastery of 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".

The best script has gone to

from Telemundo, a program that traces, through the statements of a man who spent three months training to be a hitman, the x-ray of one of the most feared criminal groups in Mexico: the cartel Jalisco New Generation.

The jury wanted to make a special mention to

, from Spotify, a work in which the journalist Daniel Coronell unravels how he managed to link the former Colombian president with a crime of witness tampering.

The award for best production goes to

, from Podium Podcast, which takes the listener into North Korea and into an international conflict.

It has won the award "for the impeccable coordination task carried out during the pandemic to carry out the production of one last season."

Its production was in charge of Jesús Blanquiño, David Tomillo and Ana Alonso.

In this section, the

from Sonoro,

will have a special mention from the jury.

The award for best host goes to Marion Reimers and her

(Spotify) in which 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 by carrying out investigations that she transforms into stories that reach the general public".

In the category of best actor or actress, the jury has decided to award two prizes

to Lolita Flores, for her work in

(Audible Spain), and Luis Zahera for his participation in

(Podium Podcast).

The award for the best episode has also been shared, where

and

they have been winners

.

The jury has also awarded several special prizes.

by Pablo Juanarena broadcast by Radio Marca, a portrait of football and sports journalism in Spain, has won the revelation award.

In this category, the jury has made a mention of the Argentine revelation podcast

a documentary about the disappearances of adolescents in the Bajo Flores neighborhood in Buenos Aires.

The prize for the trajectory has also been granted ex aequo and has gone to Molo Cebrián and the production company El Terrat.

The jury has valued Cebrián, who produced and presented the first

in Spanish in the world for Spotify Studios, "for his pioneering work to put mental health on the agenda."

El Terrat has been the winner “for being one of the first large audiovisual production companies that, as was written in its DNA, found

an open creative window in the

and assumed that it would allow it to produce entertainment, humor and even entertainment projects. experimental”.

El Terrat is responsible for one of the

most listened to

, on Cadena SER.

With these awards, PRISA Audio continues to take steps in its development with the aim of becoming the largest transformative agent in the podcast industry in Spanish.

PRISA Audio is the transversal platform that brings together all the non-linear audio content of the Group: EL PAÍS, AS, Cadena SER, Podium Podcast, Cadena DIAL and Los40, and the stations in Latin America W Radio, Caracol Radio and ADN Chile, among others .

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