Acast, the world’s largest podcast company is to partner with the Cork Podcast Festival which takes place in the city between Friday October 11th until Sunday October 13th.
Acast currently works with a number of popular podcasts in Ireland including Blindboy, The 2 Johnnies, Irish History Podcast, Niall Breslin’s Where is my Mind?, Des Bishop’s The Shift and Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast. Globally, its roster includes My Dad Wrote a Porno, Griefcast, The HighLow, The Football Ramble, Off Menu, David Tennant Does A Podcast With… and The Adam Buxton Podcast, as well as a host of media companies like The Times, The Economist, Guardian, VICE, and Vogue. Acast operates from a number of offices around the world and employs 160 staff.
According to Jennifer Dollard, Acast Ireland’s content manager: “Supporting such an important new event like Cork Podcast Festival is a no-brainer for us. As the world’s largest podcast company we’ve been working hard over the last year to help really accelerate the podcast market in Ireland – there are so many brilliant established shows, and so much potential to be nurtured. Having Acast podcasts such as Blindboy featuring at the festival is also a real treat for us. We can’t wait!”
Ed O’Leary of The Good Room, organisers of Cork Podcast Festival added: “We are ecstatic to have Acast come on board as our major partner for the festival. It’s such a great fit to have the world’s largest podcast company, who host more Irish podcasts than anyone else, supporting Ireland’s largest podcast festival. Already they have been fantastic to deal with and we’re looking forward to working together on this project and more in the future. Exciting times ahead.”
The Cork Podcast Festival line-up includes a wide range of podcasters broadcasting in areas like fiction, sports, comedy and business, including the likes of Blindboy, Tara Flynn, Bret ‘The Hitman’ Hart, the West Cork Podcast with Sam Bungey and Jennifer Forde and the It Galz.
