PODCAST DAY Programme

PODCAST DAY Online is very excited to be welcoming all the speakers to this first virtual event! There are some inspiring stories to be told, analysis of trends and research, hints and tips for podcasters and much more...Join us for the full day or dip in an out out the day and watch any sessions you miss on catch up later! And now for the start of something special...

Having originated inside a prison, Ear Hustle has always faced more constraints than most podcasts. And yet, as surviving in prison itself often demands, they’ve found strength and opportunity in perseverance, creative problem solving, and continuous evolution across six seasons (and counting!)

In this session Cass Denton and Hana Walker-Brown will be in conversation about Broccoli Content's series ANTHEMS, touching on the creative thinking behind, and the process of making, the series and how ANTHEMS aims to improve access to the podcast landscape, amplify a kaleidoscope of voices and still be rich in content.

Radio Sodom is a fictional radio station in hell, and a popular podcast by actor and writer Antti Holma. Its two seasons of depraved radio parody reflect Finnish society in a dark queer fantasy. Ultimately Radio Sodom is a place where everyone is accepted while our world burns above. 

Despite its rough exterior Radio Sodom a high production podcast with quality sound design and dramaturgy. How can public radio best support controversial content? Is social critique simply better with dick jokes? 

Elina Ylä-Mononen is a producer for Yle Audio Drama, and featuring Antti Holma she presents insights from making the podcast.

Kids the world over have been stuck doing school from home in 2020. Never before have so many children (and their time-poor parents) been keen to find entertaining and educational audio content that provides a screen-free and guilt-free way to occupy the mind. But what type of content do kids want? How long do they listen? What’s the best way to engage a teenager and what formats work for younger kids? Two of the world’s leading producers of podcast content for children will share some data on who’s listening and why. Kellie Riordan and Amy Kraft will also give you a taste of the innovative audio formats that are working to grab little earbuds: from quizzes and game shows, to audio memes, to serialised scripted podcasts.

Sound designer Tim Hinmann in conversation with Karen Albertsen about how to keep the spirit free and create captivating stories with a strong narrative and make it grow with sound.

What's the biggest news in podcasting? What has happened over the past six months, and what does it mean to podcasters? Join the Editor of the daily podcasting newsletter Podnews.net to learn the newest industry trends from across the world, and what to do about them.

The Newscast team have been making a daily news podcast every day since the pandemic started, trying to keep listeners up to date with what will probably be the biggest story of their lives. It’s involved new technology, new processes and new ways of thinking. In this session, the BBC’s Adam Fleming, Dino Sofos and co go behind the scenes to show what a day in the life of making this daily news podcast is like.

Josh Rivers is the creator and host of Busy Being Black, the podcast exploring how we live in the fullness of our queer Black lives. The show centres conversations with those who have learned – and are learning – to thrive at the intersection of their identities, and is a growing compendium of queer Black voices in a podcast landscape with far too few. He is also the head of communications for UK Black Pride, Europe's largest pride celebration for LGBTQ people of colour, and a communications consultant specialising in amplifying the work of people and organisations serving the LGBTQ community.

Traditionally audio has always focused on national audiences hemmed in by an inability to broadcast any further than several hundred miles. In the age of Podcasting, engaging stories are travelling internationally and finding new audiences, enabling podcasters to become global stars, media owners to adapt IP to their market and commercial partners to reach global audiences. This panel looks at the innovations and challenges of global podcasting.

A podcasters is not an island (well some are) most invovle a level of collaboration to make the podcast. This is the story of such a collaboration to make a successful podcast. 

In this thought-provoking 10-minute session,  Triton Digital's Daryl Battaglia, SVP, Market Development & Strategy and Benjamin Masse, Managing Director, Market Development & Strategy, will discuss the unique opportunities that podcasting as an advertising vehicle provides, given its growing and engaged audience.  This session will dive into how the combination of reliable, third-party measurement data with enhanced tools can streamline the connection of buyers and sellers and make advertising in podcasts more efficient. 

As a creator, you want to find the right audience for your podcast, but which platforms might be right for you and how can you reach out to them? What are the advantages of putting your content behind a paywall? In this session, you'll hear from the heads of content for Podimo and Sybel on what genres and formats they're looking for from creators and what creators can expect in return for an exclusive partnership.

Presenter Kim Chakanetsa and producer Mary Goodhart will be discussing this exciting time for podcasting in Africa. They will talk about how The Comb is reaching its audience and trying to bring new listeners to podcasting. The Comb, from the BBC World Service and BBC Africa was launched in July 2020.

Corporate Podcasts are the bread and butter of any commercial business in Podcasting. The hard part is not necessarily the idea or the production, although obviously there are many traps here, too. The key thing though is to get through to the the client, and have him or her actually sign the deal with you. Steve Pratt from Pacific Content has produced for many big companies, incl. facebook. In this session, he tells us how he got their business, and how you can do it, too.

Brown Girls Do It Too won big a this year’s British Podcast Awards, not only did they scoop the Gold for Best Sex and Relationships Podcast they also won the overall Podcast of the Year. The show’s idea came from BBC Asian Network producer Rayhan Rahman who brought together Poppy Jay and Rubina Pabani to create a show where no sex topics were off limits. All three of them will join the British Podcast Awards’ Matt Deegan to talk about the show and how to win an award for your own podcast.

There are so many interview podcasts out there, how do you stand out with yours? “Deutschland3000” is an interview podcast hosted by Eva Schulz, a new generation journalist that’s digitally savvy, well-known and highly authentic. In this session, her producer Isabella Schreier shares the recipe and the numbers around the podcast that won the national award for best interview in 2020.

This session features a behind-the-scenes take on next week's presidential elections from reporters on the ground. Launched in 2019, the podcast "Washington d'Ici" unites five French-language public radios for refreshingly thoughtful coverage on the breakneck political newscycle in the US.

What does it take to make a chart-topping podcast in France, Spain and China? Lory Martinez is the founder of Studio Ochenta, one of the first podcast companies to focus on multilingual productions. In this short session she will explain the top five things to do when adapting a podcast to another language.