the 2014 iheartradio music awards was the inaugural music award show presented by iheartmedia's platform iheartradio and nbc. the awards were held on may 1, 2014, at the shrine auditorium in los angeles. the awards show was announced on february 26, 2014. the nominations were compiled by the results of mediabase charts, listener feedback and digital streaming data from the iheartradio platform and announced on march 26, 2014. the awards recognized the biggest artists and songs of the year. the show was directed by hamish hamilton. the voting took place on iheartradio's official webpage except for the "instagram award", where voting took place on social network instagram.