The Skylark Collective have introduced Amazon Music and Wondery as sponsors of this yr’s worldwide Girls’s Podcast Awards.
The sponsorship sees Amazon Music and Wondery showcase a shared dedication to the Skylark Collective’s ambition of amplifying the voices of ladies in podcasting, and offering recognition to these – each behind the mic and behind-the-scenes – who’ve created unimaginable audio moments and intimate listening experiences.
Each Amazon Music and Wondery are additionally launching a brand new initiative to encourage range and inclusion in podcasting.
The Amazon Music and Wondery Awards Fund will assist to offer complementary tickets for the in-person occasion at The Conduit, and the worldwide livestream on-line for many who discover the prices prohibitive, and wouldn’t be capable to attend.
This fund will present the means for folks worldwide to attend the awards freed from cost, and is an enormous step ahead within the endeavour of each The Skylark Collective and Amazon Music to repeatedly enhance accessibility in podcasting.
Finishing of a brief type is all that’s required to use. The fund launched on 1 August to coincide with the discharge of tickets for the occasion.
This yr’s Worldwide Girls’s Podcast Awards shall be hosted by podcaster, author, and comic Deborah Frances-White of The Responsible Feminist at The Conduit in London on Thursday 29 September. The ceremony shall be attended by a reside viewers in London, with a worldwide livestream obtainable for friends around the globe. The class shortlists shall be introduced in early September.
Naomi Mellor, founding father of Worldwide Girls’s Podcast Awards, stated: “Final yr’s occasion had an exquisite energetic, supportive ambiance stuffed with pleasure, laughter and help, and we’re delighted that with the help of Amazon Music, we are able to open the door to much more podcasters becoming a member of us both in London or on-line to attend this yr’s awards.
“We’re continually striving at The Skylark Collective to help as many podcasters as we are able to, and to create a very degree taking part in discipline on this thrilling and rising business.
“The worldwide podcasting household is an excellent place the place everybody ought to really feel they belong. This partnership offers us with one other wonderful manner of offering a method of facilitating that, and we are able to’t anticipate this yr’s occasion.”
Yow will discover out extra in regards to the fund and the awards on the Skylark Collective web site.
