Aclass: Kickstart Your Podcast will feature expertise from Acast’s dedicated podcaster team, alongside commercial and podcast producer Emily Owens Burke — whose credits include Mario Rosenstock’s Gift Grub — speaking about what goes into producing a podcast, and Caroline Foran — from Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast — who’ll share her journey to podcasting success.

Central to Acast’s mission is teaching aspiring and established podcasters everywhere how to create, launch, grow and make money from their podcasts. Since launching in 2019, Aclass sessions have been attended by more than one thousand aspiring podcasters around the world.

Susie Warhurst, SVP of Content at Acast said:

“We believe podcasters of all sizes should be able to find their voice and their audience, and to make money from their craft in the ways that suit them best. Acast’s position at the heart of the open creator economy in podcasting means we can help and support creators on every step of their podcasting journey — whether they’re just getting started, or want to take their podcast to its full potential.”

Acast’s hosting platform has everything a podcaster needs to host and grow their show, across every podcast app out there — and to make money from it, too. Visit acast.com/hosting to get started for free.

You can register to attend Aclass: Kickstart Your Podcast here. It’s taking place on Zoom on Thursday, April 29, at 6pm GMT.

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This year’s programme will support Black women and non-binary people in the UK and Ireland, and is adapting to the global coronavirus pandemic. Twenty selected participants will receive computers, podcasting equipment and wifi access, along with other tools to ensure successful completion of the first four-week virtual course this fall. Afterward, participants will take what they’ve learned to create a podcast trailer, which will be submitted for participation in the second phase. From there, ten participants will travel to in-person training in 2021 to further develop their show.

The 2020 Sound Up submission period opens as Spotify releases research conducted among 1,000 Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic women in the UK, the findings of which include that 74% feel that BAME women are underrepresented in podcasting.

Courses like Sound Up continue to be important in elevating underrepresented voices in the podcast world, as the research also found that 50% say there is too much stereotyping of BAME women in podcasting. Spotify looks to combat the belief by 49% of respondents that there is a lack of strong BAME female voices in podcasting to look up to and serve as inspiration by staffing the educators and mentors of this year’s training with podcasters from the Black community.

The UK and Irish programme is open to Black women and non-binary people interested in sharing their stories through podcasting, even if they have no experience with the medium. Twelve of Spotify’s Sound Up participants have since launched their own shows, including Sangeeta Pillai of Masala Podcast.

Applications are open now at spotify.com/SoundUp through 4th August at 11.59 BST.

A previous version of this story erroneously stated the closing of application was 4th September.

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