International Podcast Day Live Schedule

De acuerdo a las estadísticas sobre podcasting, solo el 40% de los podcast que están publicados en Apple Podcast están activos o superan los 10 episodios. Este dato refleja la necesidad de aprender estrategias y utilizar técnicas para que una vez comiences con tu podcast puedas ser constante y pueda mantenerse en el tiempo. Este es uno de los pilares fundamentales para lograr ser existoso en este medio, es por eso que esta presentación te damos nuestras mejores claves para que puedas lograrlo. Será presentado por Jeymi Febles y Robert Sasuke, pioneros en el podcasting en República Dominicana y conocidos en el podcasting en toda hispanoamérica.

Bruce, a veteran in the podcasting industry, will talk about the circumstances surrounding what he says was his calling to launch, in February 2019, the weekly “Catholic Sports Radio” podcast, despite already doing another weekly podcast and juggling his workload too. Few, if any, podcasters will tell a story that involves being on a riverboat during a business trip to Brazil and feeling called to do their podcast while out on the Amazon River. But this is exactly where Bruce’s story starts, leading him to the show that so far has gotten listeners from 53 countries around the world and some very notable guests.

Bringing a totally new media channel to the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia brings so many challenges and surprises. Here’s what we learned and what we’re looking forward to while podcasting to this super young, super adaptive audience.

The Africa Podcaster 2020 International Podcast Day Spotlight does just that – briefly spotlights podcasters throughout Africa. The presentation is coordinated by Africa Podfest and PodFest Cairo.

As a podcaster, you’re probably focused on growing your audience. But what about engagement, is it at the top of your to-do list too? In this session, Podcast Domination’s Luis Diaz & The Podcaster Lab host Yann Ilunga will share 3 overlooked ways podcast hosts can engage with their listeners. After watching the presentation, you’ll have a better understanding of how to go about engaging your listeners and have them take the actions you’d like them to take – whether that’s joining your community, signing up for your email list, buying a product/service you’re selling or something else.

In this video Karin Tischler explains why the internationally focused podcast Job Sharing and Beyond was created. She shares how listening to it will enable people to learn about best practice examples that they may implement in their own organization instead of having to reinvent the wheel. Karin describes the 4 main aspects the podcast guests address to reach gender equality: increased flexible work, more care work done by fathers, enabling professionals to return to paid work after a long absence and recognition of transferable business skills learned during unpaid care work. Karin then gives a quick overview of the international guests that have already been interviewed to give the viewers more details about global best practice methods.

As part of International Podcast Day 2020, Faith will talk about creating a podcast that’s for everyone and that is deeply rooted in her faith. Her podcast, Enjoy The Sass, is an exploration of ideas, thoughts, and opinions with a dash of sass. But, on top of that, her faith is of the utmost importance in her life and Enjoy the Sass reflects that. She sheds light on how her podcast is a connection within the faith community, how she finds inspiration for episodes and conversations through faith as well as the ways her faith has shaped her podcasting experience.

International Podcast Day will begin with a kickoff broadcast covering the history of the event, event schedule, 14th Annual Podcast Awards announcement, sponsor and speaker spotlights, and highlights of what to expect over the 24-hour live event. Joining the kickoff will be Ever Gonzalez and Arielle Nissenblatt of OutlierHQ to discuss the current state of the podcast community and speak on some industry topics.

Similar to a book tour, being a featured guest on a series of podcasts is a great way to build your audience and promote your products and services. In this session, learn how to organize your own podcast tour and how it can amplify your message and grow your audience. Takeaways – 1) How to find the right podcasts for your message. 2) What to include in a pitch. 3) Productivity tools and resources to save time. 4) Best practices for after the episode airs.

Tendremos un panel de discusión sobre la importancia y beneficios que puede traer para una marca, compañía o instutición tener o auspiciar un pódcast. Discuteremos sobre el proceso de producción y los formatos que se pueden manejar como la entrevista, plática con expertos o el storytelling.

Norman Chella of Podlovers Asia talks about the trends, predictions, and more throughout ASEAN, South Asia, East Asia, and the Asian-American podcasting scene. From the show’s first episode to the Asia Podcast Summit, market specifics for podcasting, and what is needed to grow in each space, Norman provides an insight on how to be part of this rising market.

Saya, Anisa, and Paroma are hosts of Dramas Over Flowers, which is a podcast known for reviewing and dissecting Korean Dramas in the English language. They’ll be discussing their transformation from fans to creators, battling imposter syndrome, and how they found a dedicated and supportive audience.

During this presentation, Adelle Onyango will share her journey of being on traditional radio as a radio presenter for 10 years and making the transition to podcasting. She will share what podcasts can borrow from the traditional radio. She will also speak about how Kenyans have been given agency over their stories and have been able to regain control over the stories they want to tell and issues they want to address. A few Kenyan podcasters will share their thoughts on this during her presentation.

Nowadays, it seems that everyone can be a podcaster and be able to create a show. Some go well, a few go extremely good, but there is also those who can’t pick up the pace. But our routines changes and our friends change a little bit. When we start a podcast, everything changes. The conversations will be not about you but about your episodes. When a conversation pops up, you say that you already spoke about it on your podcast. It’s starts like a hobby, but it turns to be a way of life – the pod way of life.

Our goal is to discuss, with a panel featuring speakers from Serbia, Italy, Canada, and the USA, what challenges we face and whether the challenges of running a podcast in the world of think tanks are the same in EU countries, in EU candidate countries, and the Americas, and whether we should reach out to more listeners by simplifying our messages or if it is all right for this type of podcast to be listened to by a narrower, more professional audience. We would also cover recent events, focusing on whether the numbers of listeners increased during the COVID-19 pandemic or not, and what affects the listenership of an episode.

Mocaasan, in her first year of podcasting, and Shinichi, in his 15th year of podcasting, will talk about Japan’s podcast situation and the gifts that podcast give to the region. Compared to their Western counterparts, podcasts are still relatively underground in Japan. It’s not widely recognized as a medium, but there are signs that it’s about to take off. Tune in to hear about what’s going on in Japan, what’s in store for the future, and how the community can help you create your own podcast. Let’s make the podcasting experience in Japan more exciting. This session will be in Japanese!

During this session, we will dive deep into understanding the Podcast Discoverability Triangle and how you can create scalable, evergreen marketing campaigns that target the three pillars of that discoverability challenge. Takeaways – 1) Understand the three big reasons that new listeners aren’t discovering your show 2) Design and implement a custom listener acquisition flow that will take casual lurkers through to loyal subscribers 3) Understand the two types of podcast trailer and how to choose, design & produce the best for your show.

From a unique European focus, join Fanny and other French-based podcasters are they dissect how podcasts and podcasting is going in France. What are the trending topics? How can French podcasters monetize their podcasts (or not)? And what are the actual problems at this current time?

In this talk, the CodeCast team introduces concepts around culture and openness in organizations while building products. We explore the tools and platforms that we can use to help us achieve this openness, we look at the behavioural changes that need to happen to stimulate situational leadership within the teams we lead. We tie this back into our work building CodeCast as a product, what is working for us and what isn’t.

Language podcasts are a very popular category in the podworld and while many of these podcasts are teaching languages, there is another growing kind of language podcast that we want to share with you today – language learning podcasts. These are podcasts about the language learning process, often as the guest and/or host is learning a language. Our panelists all have a language learning podcast but with different styles. We want to share these with you and inspire you to start your own language learning podcast.

Join MacKenzie Bennett of the Blubrry team as she leads a discussion about powerful women in podcasting. Blubrry Podcasting will talk with Candy O’Terry, Boston’s beloved radio voice, and Laura Wiese, Co-Founder of Time Traveler Media (a full-service podcast production company) about the unique journeys they took to building successful podcasts and businesses.

Rather than present an hour-long infomercial for our service, we’re yielding our time to indie podcasters who could benefit from a bit of a promo boost! This entire session will feature a variety of really cool and informative three minute videos, telling the world about your independent podcast. Tune in to find out more!

In this presentation, Aykut Balci shares of podcasting from Turkey. Podcasts are becoming the new big thing in entertainment. A few years ago, YouTube was the site everyone watched because it was a convenient, an easy way to get your entertainment. Now people are turning to podcasts because they’re even easier and more convenient. Listening to podcasts in the car has become the norm for many people. Instead of listening to a favorite radio station during the morning commute, many listeners catch up on an episode or two of their favorite podcast. Why have so many people made this change?

In this session you will hear from five Caribbean podcasters from different countries discuss – 1) the impact of podcasting in their country/community, and 2) the challenges and opportunities that podcasting presents. Podcasters will also dive into the future of what podcasting looks like in the region.

In partnership with Focusrite, a Gold Sponsor, and in celebration of International Podcast Day, Harry Duran will do what he does best; interview veteran podcasters. In a roundtable discussion format, Harry will speak with 4-veteran podcasters, all from different genres, global regions, and levels of experience, to learn more about what drives the passion they have for podcasting. Joining Harry in this conversation will be Suzy Buttress of The Casual Birder Podcast, Julian Placino of Pathways to Success, Patrick Keller of the Big Séance Podcast, and Ian Gaines of Immigration Nerds.

Desde Podcaster@s, la comunidad de podcasters de habla hispana, proponemos analizar los desafíos que enfrenta la industria en la región de América Latina.

Blubrry’s CEO Todd Cochrane and Mike Dell will host a discussion with the Podfather of Podcasting, Adam Curry, looking back at the 16 years of podcasting and the Podcast 2.0 initiative.

The People’s Choice Podcast Awards is the longest running premier podcast awards event in the podcasting space open to shows worldwide – designed from the beginning to allow fans to show their appreciation by nominating their favorite podcasts and culminating with a live streamed awards show during the International Podcast Day live event.

The Vietnamese Boat People podcast has organically grown to a listener base from over 10 countries with a community that is emotionally connected to the mission of the show. From one founding member, we have grown to team of 15 dedicated volunteers made up of students to experienced professionals and countless contributors to our social media, blog posts and events. As a community, we share the passion to amplify these stories that have been marginalized as part of world history. In this session, attendees will gain low-cost tips and ideas for connecting with audiences outside of the podcast and ways to engage, interact, and build an international community.

Content, content, content. It is all we see these days and as podcasters it is all we create as well! How can we add more value to our audiences and let the content be a catalyst for their success? Education is constantly changing at a rapid rate and I believe that online learning is becoming more and more valuable. Join this session to learn how to define great content and how to help your audience shape success.

Wrap up the International Podcast Day event with a reflection on the last 24+ hours of amazing content. Join the final session as we conclude with some laughs and getting planned for next year’s event!