The Worldwide Girls’s Podcast Competition (IWPF), a extremely anticipated occasion celebrating ladies’s voices and storytelling in audio and podcasting, sadly, proclaims that it’s going to not be happening this yr. The choice comes from inadequate business assist and funding, which has regrettably hindered our means to arrange and execute the competition on the scale and high quality that we imagine the worldwide group of ladies in podcasting and audio deserves.
At Content material is Queen, we firmly imagine within the energy of supporting, platforming, and empowering ladies’s voices within the audio business. Our missions has all the time been to create an area that encourages and fosters participation for girls in podcasting, in an business that continues to snowball. It’s disheartening to come across such challenges in rallying the mandatory monetary assist to understand this imaginative and prescient.
Whereas we’re upset by the dearth of backing we acquired, we aren’t stunned. Now we have witnessed different occasions organized by various founders and leaders dealing with related problems with being postponed or cancelled altogether. This prevailing pattern solely additional highlights the systemic obstacles underrepresented teams face inside the business. The choice to postpone was not taken frivolously, however it’s our duty to priorities the standard and influence of the occasion.
Nevertheless, the absence of the IWPF this yr doesn’t diminish our dedication to amplifying ladies’s voices and selling inclusivity. We firmly imagine that occasions like IWPF are important to supply a platform for various views, foster collaboration, and drive constructive change. We’ll proceed to advocate for girls’s storytelling, empowering feminine creators and striving for a extra equitable podcasting panorama.
As we mirror on the state of affairs, we stay resolute in our willpower to deliver again the Worldwide Girls’s Podcast Competition in 2024. We’ll use this time to regroup, interact with potential companions, and discover avenues to safe the mandatory assist and sources to ship the excellent competition experiences that our world group deserves.
Within the meantime, we encourage all people, organizations, and business leaders to mirror upon the significance of supporting underrepresented voices and illustration inside podcasting. Allow us to work collectively to dismantle the limitations that stop various expertise from flourishing on this dynamic area. By doing so, we will create a extra inclusive and vibrant podcasting business for everybody.
For additional updates and knowledge relating to the Worldwide Girls’s Podcast Competition, please go to our web site http://competition.contentisqueen.org and comply with us on social media @contentisqueenhq.
