200 delegates from 22 countries and 25 speakers made up what was a fantastic start to Radiodays Europe Podcast Day. It was a day full of excitement for all things Podcast. The day charted the rise of the Podcast, looked at the various successes in the podcast world, how podcasts are now

From some of the presenters at Radiodays Europe Podcast Day, the best podcasts of today:  Matt Deegan, Organiser of British Podcast Awards, Folder Media UK The Cinemile - http://www.thecinemile.com Hornet Heaven - https://hornetheaven.com A gay and a non gay - https://itunes.apple.com/gb/podcast/a-gay-and-a-nongay/id1048809518?mt=2 Paula Szuchman, WNYC Labs, USA Accused - http://www.cincinnati.com/series/accused/  Making Oprah - https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/making-oprah/id1171160683?mt=2  Heavyweight - https://gimletmedia.com/heavyweight/ Brendan McDonald, WTF Podcast, USA The Sporkful - http://www.sporkful.com  Brains on - http://www.brainson.org Best Show - http://thebestshow.net Rasmus

Claire Tonti, is from Planet Broadcasting and little kids taught her about telling stories. ‘I can’t be dictated, I can’t make content for other people…’ Mr Sunday was born into Australia’s largest Youtube channel. Australia’s largest podcast is two blokes talking about movies at home they have 2m monthly downloads. No one in Australia

What is Upload Radio? Listeners can upload their shows, the hour show is broadcast on DAB, so why do this when you have the internet? Discovery is a challenge, there is a big roadblock to discovery today. This service can build audiences and bypasses discovery issues. There is also a need about being live

What do analytic platforms show? Globally the podcast market is 250m, 25% market growth. However, there is a podcast world outside the US. Podcast discovery was made easy on Apple due to podcasts being available on the home screen. In the rest of the world it isn’t so clear cut as Android

‘Podcast is Dead…this is a silly heading as we all know it is not’ Laurent F showed some video shows in France which don’t work as a podcast. One area of growth is taking video which can be understood without the sound – this is such a success that all stations in Radio

The winner of the first British Podcast Awards presented some of his hard hitting human interest podcasts. Hard hitting stories of everyday life focused on Fathers and sons. How he chose the people being interviewed, how their stories developed, where the stories took the producers and some of the difficulties they encountered

A story about love, a universal story Pablo Fen tells a story of love and how he fell in love. He couldn’t tell the lady he had fallen in love as he had a lack of data. And so he went to talk to her partners and her friends to find out how

The biggest news for the podcasting world is the shift by Apple in measuring audiences almost every aspect of the business and is the biggest shift at the moment. There continues to be sustained audience growth, big splits between the larger and smaller players. There is a belief that the bigger companies need a

‘I might be making different podcasts for different parts of the world…for world audiences our podcasts are not catch up services’. 'Who killed Elsie Frost' and 'Body on the Moor' were taken out of radio programmes, given their own branding and made into a podcast.  There are quite a few World Service podcasts,