Celebrate World Podcast Day with our recommended podcasts and top tips for creating your own!
What is International Podcast Day?
International Podcast Day is a global day of celebration of ‘the power of podcasts’ taking place on 30th September. It was first celebrated (as National Podcast Day) in 2014 making this its 10th anniversary!
Over the years International Podcast Day has…
- Streamed over 200 hours
- Shared content from 100 nations
- Featured 360 podcasters 1
It’s an opportunity to celebrate your favourite podcast and connect with podcast creators and listeners.
How can you get involved?
- Listen to and share your favourite podcasts
- Start discussions with others about their favourite podcasts
- Check out or subscribe to a new show
- Leave a review or kind shout out for one of your favourite podcasters
- If you’re a podcaster, share your expertise with others and join conversations with fellow podcasters
- Start your own podcast
- Try the International Podcast Day quiz
Recommended podcasts
NetSupport podcasts
Here are a couple of our company podcasts that we think you might enjoy!
Insights with NetSupport with Mark Anderson
Short interviews featuring special guests sharing their tips and insights to help you in a wide variety of areas related to education. Find a topic you’ve been wanting to learn more about and get practical tips to put into your professional practice.
Her Tech Life with Kat Cauchi
This podcast interviews women in the industry to showcase their achievements and opens a platform to discuss the challenges for women in tech as well as benefits and career advice. One to share with pupils to give them female role models in tech, showing them different opportunities and careers within the space.
R.I.S.E. author podcasts
Some of our wonderful R.I.S.E. authors have their own podcasts – we think these are all great so have a look and see what tickles your fancy!
The Mindful Wellbeing Podcast with Nicola Harvey
Interviews with inspirational thought leaders sharing lived experiences and expert guidance to support your mental health. Along with an exploration of ways to bring mindfulness into your every day life.
Wellbeing Wins with Jez Belas
A podcast webinar series talking to experts across the mental health and education spheres to help teachers and senior leaders build a foundation of positive emotional health approaches.
SEND in the experts with Georgina Durrant
A podcast all about teaching and supporting children and young people with special needs and disabilities featuring insights from experts.
Navigating the Digital Jungle with Sue Atkins
A blend of expertise and perspective to help families thrive in the digital age by exploring how to harness the power or technology while maintaining a healthy balance.
The Sweary Teacher Wellbeing Podcast with Lynn How
A series of 20 minute podcasts exploring teacher wellbeing in UK schools – providing empathy, solidarity and practical tips for teachers to navigate work-life balance.
Starting your own podcast
Have you been thinking about creating your own podcast? Well now might be the perfect time!
Audio is a popular medium as it can fit in so easily into daily life, listeners can enjoy your podcast during numerous activities such as while driving, on a run, doing some gardening, walking their dog or cleaning their house.
6 Top tips for podcasting
- Choose a topic you are passionate about – There really are podcasts on each and every topic from true crime to cats, so there is something for everyone. The important thing is to choose something you will be motivated to share on regularly!
- Share regularly – whether it’s weekly, fortnightly or monthly create a set date/time when you will share episodes so listeners know when to expect the next episode drop. If there will be an irregular gap, where possible, let your listeners know so they don’t unsubscribe assuming that you’ve stopped the podcast. For example, in the episode before the gap, “Hey all, just giving you a heads up the next episode won’t be out until X because I’ll be abroad for a few weeks. But I can’t wait to share a bit about my adventures, when I’m back.’
- Research and credit – Depending on your content you may need to do some research from time to time to ensure you are giving your audience accurate information. It’s important where you use research or inspiration/ideas from others that you credit appropriately. If these references are too long winded in the episode you can put them in your show notes/episode description and say in the episode ‘sources for this episode are in the episode description’.
- Engage with your audience – This is where social media comes in handy! Using the platform of your choice, share what content you have coming up and ask your followers what they think about different episodes and respond to their feedback. You could also ask them for ideas for new episodes and even talk about some of their comments on the podcast too to let them know you value their voices. This may seem a bit daunting but it can be really valuable for growing your audience and maintaining subscribers. Do keep an eye on these channels though and moderate as needed!
- Connect with podcasters – Talk to other podcasters on social media and don’t be afraid to ask for advice. Remember to be kind, it’s a two way street, – show their podcast some love by sharing it with your followers or giving some nice feedback, and they might just do the same for you.
- Keep it simple – You don’t need tons of expensive equipment or to rent out a studio to get started. Really you just need a few basics: a microphone- it doesn’t need to be pricey and you could even use your phone/laptop mic; headphones – these will make listening to and editing your episodes much easier; a recording tool – Anchor.fm will let you record and share your podcast on Spotify or you can also use tools like Audacity (for Windows) and Garageband (for Mac) to record and edit your audio files.; podcast platform – Anchor.fm, Podbean, Buzzsprout and many more are out there for you to choose from.
Mark Anderson has hosted many podcasts, and in R.I.S.E. Issue 4 he shared the article, ‘Getting started with your own podcast’ where he gave his advice on various aspects of podcasting from equipment to platforms. We definitely recommend reading this if you are thinking about creating your own podcast!
Whether you’re listening to your favourite podcasts or creating your own we hope you enjoy International Podcast Day! Please get in touch with us on social media, to let us know what your favourite podcasts are or to tell us about your own podcast.
References
- International Podcast Day (2024) ‘International Podcast Day September 30th #InternationalPodcastDay’. Available at: https://internationalpodcastday.com/ (Accessed: 17 September 2024)
