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 does not run on voting only – it would be just a popularity contest with no chance for the smaller guys. Which is why a jury will judge on different criteria like overall presentation, website etc etc (see further explanation here).
Some bright spark has entered me for the European Podcast Awards. I don’t need the prize, obviously, but I do want the glory.
That is the spirit! Of course we are happy if podcasters like this throw their head in the game, especially when they are as witty as he is. ;)
Before you ask, no this is not to throw in a mention of John Cleese but about something which is probably my mistake when I tried to fix things for Deek Deekster for the Funkpod: I sent out a link from the German page of the EPA and it went on from there. You see, in the backend, all podcast go into one big bucket and then are judged by country and category.
Meaning that you can submit plus vote for a podcast from the German site for another country without a problem. You just get a notification in German back instead of English like zacksback and kellyblue discovered:
How to use the right language landing page?
Check the link you want to hand out. Links are build with the country in the URL, just check for the version you would like
http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/de/start/vote-and-win/… = german language
http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/uk/start/vote-and-win/… = english
http://www.european-podcast-award.eu/es/start/vote-and-win/… = spanishetc
Now it is build for the use per country, but of course if you would like to provide your international audience with a link, use the UK link. All votings are save through this, nothing is lost when you change that, it is just about the language.
And if somebody like Mr. Cleese would actually allow for easy commenting on his blog I would have posted just there instead of writing here or answering to his Twitter-Account. ;)
