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Last night, the winners of the third annual International Women’s Podcast Awards were announced at a ceremony in London. Created by Naomi Mellor, the IWPAs are now presented by Naomi’s company Everybody Media, but continue to champion the work of women and diverse genders in podcasting. This year was a real testament to the ‘international’ aspect of the awards: entries...

Monday 30th October saw the Independent Podcast Awards 2023 take place at Kings Place in London. Rosie Wilby was there as a nominee, and tells us about the evening and the winners on the night… “An incredible testament to the power of podcasts; the power of persistence; and the power, creativity and passion of the independent podcast community in the...

It’s been a week since The Podcast Show 2023 took place in London, and we think we’re finally rested after trying to see all that was on offer! We asked one of our freelance writers, Takudzwa Mudiwa, to give us her honest thoughts on her own visit… The Podcast Show 2023 took place at The Business Design Centre, London from...

The Podcast Show 2023 is taking place this week at the Business Centre in London. I attended The Podcast Show last year and was so blown away by the amount of content on offer that I regretted not having forensically scoured the schedule to create an advance action plan days beforehand. Once again, I am likely to spend much of...

The first ever Birmingham Podcast Festival took place on 22nd April at the University of Birmingham’s Curzon Building. With workshops on such aspects as community building and sound equipment, panels and talks from key podcasters, it was a great mixture of different aspects of the podcast industry. Festival organiser Nina Robinson sent us over a few words on her own...

A few weeks ago, we mentioned in our newsletter that Kate Thornton has joined production company Stak with her much-loved podcast, White Wine Question Time. Here, the Stak team gives us some more insight to the show’s new makeover… Kate Thornton has returned to ask guests three provoking questions over three glasses of wine. White Wine Question Time with Kate...

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...