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This year more than 250 nominees over 30 categories will be vying to win one of the coveted red trophies. A few indy podcasts have nominated – Lecker: A Food Podcast by Lucy Dearlove has been nominated in two categories,Armchair Adventures is up for Best Family Podcast and Chinese Chippy Girl and Scroobius Pip’s special Distraction Pieces: Where’s Your Head...

Hot on the tail on The Podcast Show, the International Women’s Podcast Festival from Content Is Queen took place in Kings Place last Saturday. Of course, I jumped at the chance to be there! “Festivals like this are great for discovering new shows, and finding people to collaborate with. Audio still has a male bias as an industry – but...

Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast platform, has today entered into a three-year partnership with podcast creator Marc Maron and his podcast WTF with Marc Maron. The podcast will now be hosted, monetized and distributed via Acast, and will also be making use of the platform’s paid memberships offering, Acast+. Maron’s podcast has approximately 55 million listens per year, primarily...

Last night saw the inaugural Sports Podcast Awards! A virtual ceremony streamed on YouTube was hosted by former England rugby player and host of The Good, The Bad, and The Rugby podcast, James Haskell, and Colleen Wolfe from NFL Network. Sports podcasts are one of the most popular genres of audio entertainment, so there were 24 categories covering all areas...

Audible, a world-wide leader of spoken-word entertainment, has greenlit a new Audible Original podcast, Climate of Change with Cate Blanchett and Danny Kennedy. Co-created and co-hosted by multi award-winning actor, producer and environmental advocate, Cate Blanchett (Don’t Look Up, Nightmare Alley, Blue Jasmine); and climate entrepreneur and activist, Danny Kennedy (CEO of New Energy Nexus [NEX] and Managing Director of...

Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast company, today announces the launch of Acast Amplifier — its first ever podcast incubator programme — in the UK. Acast Amplifier has been developed to discover and invest in the next generation of podcasters, and will see three aspiring UK-based creators produce and launch new podcasts, as well as receiving benefits including a £2,500...

Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast platform, has today launched a new campaign looking back at the first words uttered on some of the biggest podcasts from its network of more than 35,000 shows. Acast’s “First Words” campaign features the opening lines of the very first episodes of well-known podcasts from around the world, and aims to inspire creators to...

Podcasters and listeners can now vote for their favourite sports podcasts across 24 categories as the inaugural Sports Podcast Awards will take place in March 2022 JANUARY 2022: A whole host of top names in the sports podcasting world are set to go head-to-head as the shortlists are announced for the inaugural Sports Podcast Awards taking place in March 2022 with a virtual...

HAPPY NEW YEAR PODCAST FANS! We hope you had a wonderful Christmas break and managed to fit in lots of lovely podcast listening. Let’s cut to the chase shall we? It’s time to announce the winners of our third annual Pod Bible Polls! At the start of December we asked listeners to vote for their favourite podcasts of the year...

Pod Bible caught up with the former Speaker of the House of Commons, John Bercow, to talk about the new podcast he’s launching today, John Bercow’s Absolute Power. It’s the latest offering from Deborah France-White’s growing The House of The Guilty Feminist label (Media Storm launched two weeks ago), and is part of the Acast Creator Network. The rules of...

Dysfunctional family drama, Succession, is on the lips of millions of people at the moment. The series, which follows the Roy family as they fight between themselves for control of their global media company, is just in the middle of its third season. And as you might imagine, there’s more than a few Succession companion podcasts following this season of...

From the creators of the daily news podcast Smart 7, the Smarter 7 series are designed to give younger audiences a broad and informative snapshot of complicated cultural moments or events both past and present. To coincide with Black History Month, The Smarter 7 series released its third episode called BLM on Friday 29th October! This episode features activist Imarn...

In the week leading up to World Audio Drama Day, Acast will roll out programming and resources for fiction podcast creators and fans. New York — October 22, 2021 — Acast, the world’s leading independent podcast company, is launching Acast Audio Fiction Week from October 25-30 to celebrate the vibrant world of fiction podcasts. With roots in radio dramas, fiction podcasts...

In celebration of International Podcast day, Spotify introduced two new interactive features. The Swedish behemoth announced yesterday that both Q&A and Polls have been built into the platform and will be available to creators enabling them to engage more freely with their listeners. Previously, podcasts have been one way traffic with listeners not being able to give feedback directly however...

Last night saw the inaugural International Women’s Podcast Awards from Skylark Collective, and the evening was full of celebration, bubbling drinks, and sparkles. The evening kicked off with a performance from Poetess Jess, before host Vick Hope took us through the winners and runner-ups of the of the night. Both big productions and solo podcasters took home the prizes. Without...