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The daily news podcast The Smart 7 have reached their 1000th episode! To mark this milestone, they created a short survey made up of seven multiple choice questions to find out what people in the UK care about most. The 1000th episode out today is exploring and expanding on the results of the survey, but we wanted to check in...

Birmingham is famous for a wide range of things. As well as being the UK’s second largest city, it is the birthplace of heavy metal (Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and Judas Priest all hail from the region) the setting of Peaky Blinders, and it has one of the best shopping destinations in the UK. But for podcast fans, Birmingham recently...

Pod Live is a new Sport Podcast Festival held at Kings Place in London between 8th and 12th February. Organised by The Sports Podcast Group (who launched the Sports Podcast Awards last year), it features live shows from podcasts such as Fighting Talk, Socially Distant Sports Bar, The Cycling Podcast, Morning Kombat, The Race F1 and more. As the festival draws near,...

WELCOME TO 2023 PODCAST FANS! As is our tradition, we ended our 2022 with the Pod Bible Polls, and now it’s time to start the new year with a celebration of the winners! This was the fourth annual Pod Bible Polls, where we ask listeners to vote for their favourite podcasts of the year. All of the nominees featured in...

Last night I went down to the Audio Production Awards 2022, which took place at the BFI in London. Pod Bible were Media Partners for the event, and I was handing out a few magazines to folks (say ‘hi’ if you have one!). But I was mostly there to experience the night. This was the first time I’ve attended, so...

Yesterday, comedic duo Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe announced they would be taking their chart-topping podcast exclusively to Spotify from 8th November 2022. They announced the news to their fans on today’s episode saying: “Parenting Hell is moving! The absolute mess, chaos and absurdity of being a parent remains the same, we’ll just be discussing it all exclusively on Spotify...

Last night, the winners of the International Women’s Podcast Awards 2022 were announced at a ceremony in London. Created by Naomi Mellor of the Skylark Collective, this year’s event was hosted by Deborah Francis-White of the Guilty Feminist podcast, who brought a mix of personal anecdote, cultural commentary and, of course, podcast cheerleading to the evening. I was there representing...

For International Podcast Day 2022, the Pod Bible team (Scroobius Pip, Adam Richardson, Stu Whiffen and Fran Turauskis) jumped on a video call to discuss the podcasts they used to love but are no longer around! Tell us your favourites in the comments below!

12 September 2022 – Acast – the world’s largest independent podcast company, and the Home of Football Podcasts – today announces the full line-up for Acast United, its grassroots football podcast development programme and new football podcast advertising package. Now the transfer window has slammed shut, Acast is bringing together several brand new podcast signings, alongside some legends in the...

Kings Place have added more incredible guests and events to complete the star-studded line-up for the 2022 London Podcast Festival, which runs from 8-19 September. The festival brings together some of the biggest names in podcasting with listeners and aspiring podcasters alongside an unrivalled line-up of live podcasts, affordable workshops, meet and greets and panel discussions. Taking place in front...

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...