Spotify Podcast Awards May 13

Spotify held its 2026 Podcast Awards in Mexico on May 13, capping a fan-voted contest that Spotify said ran from April 20 through May 4. The company said winners would be revealed during a live ceremony hosted by Diana Wong and Dani Valle, and Mexican entertainment outlets published category-by-category winner lists as the event unfolded. Spotify said the second edition added new categories and kept the focus on listener voting rather than an academy or internal jury for most awards. ### When and where did the awards happen? Spotify said on April 14 that the 2026 winners would be announced during a live ceremony on May 13. Revista Fama reported before the event that the show would be carried on Spotify México’s official TikTok account, with promotional material pointing to a 7:00 p.m. start in central Mexico time and the main ceremony expected around 8:00 p.m. (newsroom.spotify.com) La Razón reported on May 13 that the ceremony was being transmitted live on TikTok. Spotify’s awards site also showed a “Ganadores” section after voting closed, indicating the event had moved from nominations and voting into the results stage. ### How were the winners chosen? Spotify said nominees were selected using a mix of listener data and cultural impact from 2025, but fans had the final say on who won. (newsroom.spotify.com) The company said listeners around the world could vote directly in the Spotify app from April 20 to May 4. Spotify said free users received one vote per category per day, while Premium users could cast three. (razon.com.mx) La Razón repeated those voting rules in its May 13 report, describing the process as an open public vote. One category worked differently. Spotify said a special category tied to ideas from nominated podcasts would be decided by a jury of marketing experts, while the rest of the awards were presented as fan-driven. (newsroom.spotify.com) ### Who hosted the show and what was new this year? Spotify named Diana Wong and Dani Valle as hosts for the 2026 ceremony. (newsroom.spotify.com) The company described the event as the second edition of the Spotify Podcast Awards in Mexico after launching the format there in 2025. Spotify said the 2026 edition introduced categories including Favorite Business & Tech Podcast, Favorite Spanish-Language Podcast and “From ‘On Air’ to Podcast.” That category expansion matched the broader nominee and winner lists published by Mexican outlets, which included comedy, horror, interviews, gossip, true crime, wellness and radio-to-podcast formats. (newsroom.spotify.com) ### Which podcasts were named as winners? La Razón’s May 13 winners list showed Relatos de la Noche winning the “Top de tops” category, Las Damitas Histeria winning comedy, Relatos Forenses Podcast winning crime, Tengo muchas preguntas al respecto winning interviews, Relatos de la Noche winning horror, La Corneta winning “Del aire al podcast,” and ROCA PROJECT winning the Spanish-language category. (newsroom.spotify.com) La Razón also listed DATE CUENTA PODCAST as the winner in mental health and identified Mis traumas, mis chistes as a winner in the breakthrough category. Revista Fama published a parallel live winners roundup, though its scraped page showed the full list only in partial form. ### How big is Spotify’s podcast push in Mexico? (razon.com.mx) Spotify said in 2025 that more than 27 million people in Mexico listened to podcasts on Spotify in 2024, up 19% from the previous year. The company has used Mexico as an awards market before expanding the format elsewhere, including France in 2026. (razon.com.mx) Spotify’s 2025 recap of the inaugural Mexico awards said nearly 8 million votes were cast by fans for that first edition. Spotify has not yet published, in the sources reviewed here, an equivalent official vote total for the 2026 Mexico event. May 13 coverage from La Razón and Revista Fama remains the clearest public record of the 2026 results, while Spotify’s April 14 announcement and awards site set out the rules, hosts and timing for the ceremony. (newsroom.spotify.com 1) (newsroom.spotify.com 2) (newsroom.spotify.com 3)