European Podcast Award

Summary:

As a podcaster, you can now submit your podcast(s) for the new competition of 2009/2010. If you like, get yourself a user and enter your podcasts through filling out the form. If your podcast has been submitted last time and was connected with your email address, you will see it in the list after login. After the approval of your podcast you can find it in our portal. After a short beta period we will go public and invite everybody to enter their podcast or nominate other podcasters. Don’t forget to test out our new voting player and see what others are saying on Twitter!

Welcome to the EPA 2010!

Our new "vote and play" widget

The goal for the 2009/2010 contest is simple – the same as last time: Find the best audio podcast content from around Europe and show case it for listeners to explore  and help podcasters find new audiences. Nearly 750 podcasts where submitted last time, and we are looking forward to even more submissions this time.

How can you participate?

Easy! Register yourself (see more information below) and fill out all information needed. Once you have submitted the podcast, our local editors will check your podcast and once it is online, you will receive a confirmation mail.

Now you can point your listeners to your voting site and or include our new player on your website. And don’t forget to tell your fellow podcasters – maybe just the ones from other categories ;) – about it!

How to register

Just head over the login page or register a new user with your preferred email address. After a quick registration confirmed email you will be able to enter one or more podcasts of your own. If we had something associated with this mail adress in our database from last year, you will be offered to change the data in this right away. Otherwise, just click on “new podcast”.

Once you click on your new or old podcast, you will get an entry mask per podcast which looks like this:

Adding your podcast is simple

Here you can enter the following information:

• Name of your podcast, as displayed in the player
• Link to your homepage of your podcast
• RSS-Link if available
• Short description (which will appear in the player)
• you podcasts category
• the country you are submitting from
• logo of your Podcast
• Episodes: Choose three episodes which you think reflect best your podcast for a casual listener / voter and later the jury
• you need to confirm that you have the right to represent this podcast
• and you need to accept the Terms and Conditions

After that you just hit submit and in case of an error you will get warning messages and can edit them. If everything works fine, your podcast will be submitted into the backend as “unapproved”. Our local editors then will check the podcast for our criterias and if all is okay approve them so that they can appear in the portal.

You can check any time if your podcast has been approved yet.

Mini FAQ

• I submitted – now what?
  Please have a bit patience, we want to test how this part of the process works. Once we start approving, your entered information will be used right away. And remember – the earlier you start, the more votes you can collect. ;)
• Why do I have to give links to my episodes?
  Part of the answer is that reading feeds is a nightmare. But that set aside, the main reason is that not everybody wants the last three episodes to be on the player but have the chance to really show case what they want. Also not all files are in a mp3 format, which is why we require the links and download the content to be in the player – if they are not mp3 we will convert them on our side.

• You say Europe – then why can’t I submit if I am from country X?
  One of the major complicators in this is that we do encourage submissions from different countries with different languages which requires checking in local languages by our editors in a regular and formalized way. For this we do have paid country editors who speak the local language(s) plus we do need to find jury members who speak the language too. Plus there need to be enough podcasters to justify this amount of work.

  For this we have the support of our Sponsor Olympus and we are working on getting more countries on board. :)Please do not submit podcast under different countries as they will not be approved. We will though collect suggestions again and if you have information about podcasting in your country, feel free to ping us with a blogpost you wrote f.e. in english to showcase your country. :)

• Why audio only?
  Video is great, and there are a lot of awards for videos and more – it is just that we feel that we like audio more and want to promote European audio podcast content.

Also, why not check out other podcasters from Europe?