Now that the submission for the European Podcast Award is closed we are happy to announce that we do have 750 submission from all over Europe. Well not quite – actually it is 749, but 750 sounds much better. ;) Uptake in voting and submission We where also very excited to see another boost of [...]
Not only the podcasters are european and sound different per language, but also our team has a variety of mother tongues (which they hopefully did not burn on that pizza.) As it is always good to see who is behind an award like this have a look at our video. Plus see that even professionals [...]
Listen to Episode #02 of our EPA podcast, get an impression about the European voices and some more information on how the podcasts are judged. Europe sounds good I mentioned before that one of the most intriguing aspects of the EPA is the variety of languages presented and the impressions you can get from listening [...]
Do you know which Podcasting sites are relevant around Europe? Looking onto it from an outside perspective, it seems simple. Just take the word podcast, slash the country domain endíng to it and you are done, right? Well, not quite. Each country on their own has a specific set of sites, mailinglists and forums where [...]
Short version: If you put up a voting link to your podcast please check that you use the right landing page, or the voters will see a page in that language. See explanation under “How to use the right language landing page?” below. Well known podcasters like John Cleese are the reason why the award [...]
As mentioned before, the European Podcast Award is work in progress in its first year – and that also applies to the design. Thanks to our designer Robert Heydecke for updating the blog design, the look and feel is now much more like the main site: If you are interested, the basic theme [...]
In spirit of the current Olympics I thought it would be fun to have some ‘semi-final results’ of the current submissions per country. Spain: 103 Germany: 96 UK: 94 France: 78 Italy: 67 Netherlands: 42 Norway: 30 Czech: 22 Switzerland: 21 Austria: 16 Latvia: 9 In total that is over 600 submissions, and some are [...]
Giulio from the Cuba Libre asked about the flash player in our comments; is a good opportunity to talk about our flash player and why it is not ‘updating’. Let’s take his player as an example. While it may seem like it we are using your feed to always show the last three episodes, it [...]
One of the most asked questions for the European Podcast Award is “what is with the voting” and “where is my country?”. Ulli Harraß already answered in German the forum of the famous ComputerClub. We did explain it a little bit in our podcast #01 but would like to give a more expanded version in [...]
In this initial podcast for the European Podcast Award you can find some behind the scene information: I talk with initiator Michel Mertens from befm.de and former radio moderator Ulli Harraß of Wayof.net about how this award came about describe how the voting process works why this time you only can submit a podcast from [...]
