Pods Up: Level Up!
Event Information
About this event
Look, it's one thing launching your podcast, but what next?
This special, live two-hour masterclass is all about how you GROW and EVOLVE your podcast.
The folks behind Pods Up North bring together a bunch of top podcasters and audio industry professionals who know a thing or two about making brilliant podcasts.
They'll be talking building your listener base, growing a dedicated community and evolving your podcast.
It's going to be a pretty-jam packed few hour, featuring...
Segments
- How to visualise your Podcast (talk)
- Growing your community & marketing like a pro (panel)
- Taking your voice to the next level (talk)
- Sh*t! We launched a podcast now what? The difficult next season (panel)
- Top tips to grow & evolve your podcast
Speakers
Musician, DJ and podcaster, Clint Boon
Audience growth expert, Janet Murray
Podcaster & activist, Sangeeta Pillai
Award winning podcaster, Sam Walker
International voiceover artist & voice & accent coach, Nic Redman
Award-winning broadcaster, Sam Sethi
Founder & CEO of Rebel Base Media, Mark Asquith
Award-winning presenter, Pilar Nalwimba
Freelance podcast creator, Tom Griffin
Founder of Headliner video, Oliver Wellington
Writer & podcaster, Beccy Stirrup
Founder of Unedited, Bernard Achampong
Pod Bible founder, Stu Whiffen
And much much more...
Streaming details
You'll receive an email via eventbrite nearer the time of the event.
We are currently looking at options to make so that you can 're-play' the masterclass if you can't make the live event.
Getting a ticket
We know times are tricky and we don't want the cost to be a barrier in you being here, so simply pay what you can or feel. Seriously, if all you can afford is a quid that's OK BY US. A fiver AWESOME, a tenner BRILLIANT, if you can afford more AMAZING. It'll all go towards putting on this event for you. We simply want you there!
Sponsors
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Speaker bios
Clint Boon
Clint is the Inspiral Carpets’ keyboard player/vocalist/songwriter who, since 2004, has become a permanent fixture on the airwaves of Manchester. He has worked as a radio presenter for several Manchester based radio stations, 96.2 The Revolution, XFM Manchester, Radio X, BBC Radio Manchester and XS Manchester. He has presented the drive time show on XS for the last 3 years.
Clint has been instrumental in helping some of our most important bands achieve their success. He recorded Elbow’s first ever demo in his loft studio in Rochdale. He helped Gary Mounfield (Mani) become The Stone Roses bass player. He took Noel Gallagher around the world as a roadie for the Inspirals and introduced him to the music industry. In the late 90s he recorded two albums under the name ‘The Clint Boon Experience’ which featured vocals by an unknown opera singer from Fleetwood named Alfie Boe.
In recent years, Clint has hosted 3 successful podcasts. His first ‘Storytime With Boon’ won the bronze award for ‘podcast of the year’ at the ARIA awards in 2016, his first year as a podcaster. Since then, he launched ‘Set2go’ a podcast dedicated to upcoming, unsigned bands and, more recently ‘Humans of XS Manchester’, a podcast which looks at the spirit of the city. Guests have included Liam Gallagher, Dr Helen Pankhurst, Rowetta, Johnny Marr, Maxine Peake and many others.
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Sangeeta Pillai
Activist, writer and speaker Sangeeta Pillai is the founder of the South Asian feminist network Soul Sutras which is all about tackling taboos within the culture.
She’s the creator of Masala Podcast silver winner at the British Podcast awards & also a winner at Spotify SoundUp 2018. This podcast for South Asian woman deals with sex, sexuality, shame, periods and other taboos.
Sangeeta is also the creator of the Masala Monologues series of writing workshops and theatre shows in the UK and the US. She has been featured on BBC Radio London, Evening Standard, Eastern Eye, Huffington Post, BBC Asian Radio, Brown Girl Magazine and has been a writer for over 20 years.
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Sam Walker
Sam Walker is a multi-award-winning broadcaster and podcaster.
On air, she has worked for a number of commercial stations across the UK including Key 103 and Xfm as well as BBC Radio Manchester, London and nearly a decade as a presenter at BBC Radio 5Live.
She has produced and presented a large stable of podcasts including What Goes On here for Audible and Sam Walker’s Desert Diaries. She owns What Goes On Media and develops audio projects for clients ranging from individuals and not-for-profit groups to multi-billion dollar companies, in both the UK and the USA, where she lives.
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Janet Murray
Janet Murray is one of the UK's leading content marketing experts and specialises in audience growth. She is the creator of the Social Media Diary & Planner - an A4 desk diary that helps coaches, creatives and entrepreneurs plan and create content that helps them grow their audience and generate leads and sales for their business. She is also the founder of the 2021 Sorted and the Build Your Online Audience programme - the only online membership programme exclusively dedicated to audience growth. Janet is also a podcaster, author and speaker, who has spoken all over the world about content marketing and audience growth.
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Mark Asquith
Mark Asquith is a serial entrepreneur who has built globally successful design, marketing, software and digital businesses since he quit his real job in 2005.
Billed as the U.K. podcast expert, Mark is CEO & co-founder of Rebel Base Media, a podcast tech and strategy company that owns Captivate.fm, Poductivity, Podcast Websites, Podcast Success Academy & Rebel Base Studios and is well known as an insightful, thought-provoking and actionable podcast industry keynote speaker.
He's a wildly approachable Brit and Star Wars/DC Comics geek.
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Nic Redman
Nic is an internationally successful voiceover artist and voice & accent coach based in the UK. She trained (twice!) at the prestigious Royal Central School of Speech and Drama, once in performance and again as a voice practitioner. She has taught voice & accents at many of the major drama schools in the UK including RADA, Arts Ed & LIPA. Nic now runs a thriving 1-2-1 practice providing voice, presentation and accent training to all kinds of professional voice users with a client list including actors, comedians, public speakers, business professionals and more. She is the founder of Voice & Accent Hub group on Facebook created to offer tailored voice & accent coaching to specific groups of voice users.
As a voice actor, Nic works internationally voicing commercial, corporate and character scripts with a client list including Tesco, NSPCC & the BBC. She co-runs The Voiceover Social Podcast, the first industry specific podcast in the UK. She also co-runs VO Social North, the first VoiceOver meet-up for voice and audio professionals in the North of England.
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Jay LeBoeuf
Jay LeBoeuf lead's Business Development at Descript - a company creating tools for new media creators. He's best known for his work on Academy-Award winning Avid Pro Tools, as a founder and pioneer of artificial intelligence in music creation and production with Imagine Research, an executive at Emmy-winning iZotope, and founder and CEO of industry-education nonprofit Real Industry. Jay is a lecturer on media technology and business at Stanford University, Carnegie Mellon, and University of Michigan.
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Pilar Nalwimba
Pilar Nalwimba is a host and content producer who recently won a Radia Academy ARIA Award 2020 for co-hosting BBC Radio 1’s The Reality Tea podcast. When she’s not interviewing guests she’s creating content on a freelance basis for an array of Brands and Talent having worked for the likes of ITV, Universal Music, Bartle Bogle Hegarty, Uber and Global Entrepreneurship Week. Most recently she was one of the key Creative’s who helped deliver the social media campaign for ITV2’s most watched show Love Island (2018) which won a Promax UK Award for Best Use Of Content.
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Tom Griffin
Tom Griffin is a freelance podcast creator who has produced work for the Spotify, BBC, Sky, Acast and many others. He's one half of the team behind the award-winning Two Shot Podcast and has recently taken his first foray to the front of the microphone on the Brassic podcast. Tom will talk about the DIY ethos and spinning plates when you're producing a podcast yourself.
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May King Tsang
May King (that's her first name) is the UK’s #1 and the original FOMO Creator. FOMO means the fear of missing out and she helps to bridge the gap between Social Media and PR through creating content live throughout an event.
May King says the crux of her work is to create content: real, raw and right now. Creating the buzz across your socials gets the lurkers excited where they may buy into your product, service, digital challenge or your next event and that is what May King can help you do for your next launch, challenge festival or conference.
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James Mulvany
James Mulvany is a successful entrepreneur and over the past 10 years, has built multiple internet companies (including Podcast.co & Radio.co) plus a property portfolio and has made a range of angel investments in startups! Having actually never had a job in his life, he started his first business when leaving school.
Podcasting is a medium that has grown significantly over the past year and a talk on the subject would be a great addition to your event or conference! James Mulvany is founder of Podcast.co and Radio.co, two companies doing pioneering things in the online audio space.
He’s able to talk enthusiastically about podcasting, radio, marketing and about his entrepreneurial journey.
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Oliver Wellington
Oliver loves building startups from the ground up. He was co-founder at nRelate, a content recommendation engine used by over 100,000 publishers and bloggers. That company exited to IAC in 2012, and he continued to build it until 2015. He co-founded SpareMin in 2015, which was an app to help podcasters and guests connect for interviews. The company rebranded as Headliner, which is now the most popular audio to video creator on the market, currently helping over 100,000 podcasters export over 10,000 videos a day.
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Bernard Achampong
Bernard Achampong is the founder of radio & podcast production company Unedited:
Bernard has over 25 years of music & audio industry experience starting as a university and pirate radio presenter and club DJ and under the guise of DJ Asante heading up the Warner Music Street Team in the Midlands. Bernard went to work at BBC 1Xtra for almost 12 years as there Station Sound Producer and also had stints working for BBC Radio 4's Today programme, Radio 2, BBC News channels and BBC World Service. He has six Sony radio awards and 27 other audio production nominations. Bernard produced the genre-defining podcast, 'Dark Web', which is still a top ten Audible title, three years after its release.
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Steve Jones
Steve is Crowd Network’s content director. He is an award-winning radio producer, documentary maker and podcast director who led BBC 5 Live’s coverage of major sporting events and helped create That Peter Crouch Podcast. He has also been the BBC’s tennis producer and rugby producer.
At Crowd, he works closely with a team of producers to make the best content possible, creating show ideas, developing them into actual things and then finessing them to make them special. He’s also the lead producer on The Joe Marler Show.
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Beccy Stirrup
Beccy is the writer and producer of ‘Diary of a Space Archivist’ and the soon-to-be-launched ‘Story Trails’.
Beccy's two loves are writing and creating things. She worked in Higher Education for over a decade, and actually began podcasting because she wanted to help her students with Audacity (free audio editing software). Beccy soon fell in love with the medium and with the community and, to her surprise, folk all over the world were enjoying the show.
Now Beccy works for herself as a writer, performer and game maker. And, thanks to ‘Diary’s…’ patrons, the show doesn’t just go on, it gets better.
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Stu Whiffen
Stuart has spent the last 25 years in a variety of roles within a multitude of creative fields. He has a proven background in marketing. Specialising in creating branded events for high profile celebrities and media companies. In recent years he has devised and launched two iTunes chart topping podcasts with over 1.7 million downloads. In 2019 he launched Pod Bible Magazine in association with Spotify and Audible. Pod Bible is both a print and digital publication focused on the ever-increasing media of podcasts.
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Jonny Mounsor
Jonny Mounsor is the Creator Partnerships Manager at Spotify, where he helps podcasters to use the platform in order to grow their audiences and make themselves heard.
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John Harris
John Harris is a podcast obsessive and Associate Partner Manager at Acast. In his role at Acast he manages the relationships with My Dad Wrote A Porno, Dane Baptiste Questions Everything, Feel Better, Live More with Dr Rangan Chatterjee and more. He also worked on the launch of shows including Gossipmongers, The Lock In With Jeremy Paxman, Poppy Hillstead Has Entered The Chat and the acquisition of shows including Talk Art, Katherine Ryan: Telling Everybody Everything and The Two Shot Podcast to name a few. He has previously worked for the likes of Create Productions, Bauer Media and Scroobius Pip’s Distraction Pieces Network where he’s worked on Fun Kids Radio, various podcast social campaigns and launched podcasts with Empire and Heat Magazine. He also has written about podcasts and podcasting for Heat Magazine and Pod Bible among others.
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Sam Sethi
Sam Sethi is an award-winning radio presenter and podcaster. On his podcast, Sam Talks Technology, he talks with some of the most amazing entrepreneurs about their startups and career highlights. Sam brings his lifelong passion for all things tech to his shows and asks the key questions you'd ask, all in his fun, relaxed, informative and always entertaining style. Last year, Sam was named as Community Radio’s Best Newcomer Of The Year (2019) at the Community Radio Awards. During Covid he launched the Podcast Festival which had great interviews with ten podcasting experts including Kara Swisher (NY Times), Jason Phipps (BBC Sounds) and George the Poet (The British Podcast Gold Award). At the end of this month Sam will be launching his new podcast with James Cridland called Pod.land
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Dan Page
Dan is the founder and Chief Plugger for Ear Plug - the world's first dedicated podcast promotion company. Their mission is to make podcast promotion easy and affordable for everyone, not just those with deep pockets and big stars. Dan is also an SRA award-winning producer, creating podcasts through his sister company Why did the Chicken?.
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