Podcasting

We are very proud to be teaming up with the incredible organisation, Samaritans Ireland. Their “Still Listening” campaign aims to recruit listening volunteers for their 24-hour telephone support service. We obviously have the ears of loads…

When starting your journey in telling stories and interacting with audiences in a more personal setting, you are likely considering the tools you have to hand, recording, and the best ways to share and market your finished piece. Audiences…

HeadStuff, Ireland’s premiere podcast network, has announced a new competition to find Ireland’s next big podcast, offering a prize worth up to €50k in production costs. Join The Cast is a free and open competition where entrants submit…

The podcast industry is on a meteoric rise which shows no signs of slowing down, it’s up to brands and advertisers to get up to speed. That was the overarching message for the Podcast Show 2023. With 10,000 attendees and…

If you’ve thought about or created a podcast, it’s likely you’ve licensed music or created a custom track for your intro and outro music. Podcasts are an excellent way to build and engage audiences with conversations on relevant…

Deciding how to name your podcast is a difficult obstacle when starting any series. For the most part, the title acts as the listener’s first impression of your podcast when browsing for something new to listen to. Once you have chosen the…

The word “interview” has become a dirty word. Long form interviews became more conversational. Marc Marron once met a Hollywood star and they began by talking about his own sick cat. Surely there was a movie to promote in there…

Is starting a podcast expensive? The simplest answer to this question is: no, but… Like a lot of things, if you really want to spend money making a podcast you can, but it can certainly be done with very few resources. I’ll come to the…

Emma Jane Purcell is the Host of the popular show Fail Harder on the HeadStuff Podcast Network. Fail Harder is a show where she talks to people at the top of their game about failure- from their first memory of failure to how they cope with…

For as long as I can remember I have been an ardent music fan. I remember a quote from Morrissey where he said that as a teenager when he bought a record, he would smell the vinyl on the bus on the way home. Now I would never profess to…