SOUND. WAVES. a brand new two-day summit on the intersection of content material, creativity, and commerce, will make its debut in Adare on November 12-13, 2025. This premier occasion is designed to discover how audience-first content material is created, monetized, and scaled throughout podcasting, sports activities, and music. Early-bird passes are on sale now by way of www.soundwaves.ie.
On the conclusion of the summit, the inaugural All-Eire Podcast Awards may also happen on Thursday, 13 November in Adare. The Awards will acknowledge standout podcasts throughout 32 counties, with Dylan Haskins — Commissioner, Podcasts at BBC Sounds — serving a Head Decide.
The All-Eire Podcast Awards has been established with the first intention of celebrating the colourful Irish podcasting trade and spotlighting the nation’s most proficient creators. The awards will honour the very best podcasts throughout eight broad classes.
Judging might be unbiased with printed standards for every class and a clear course of designed to be strong and honest. The All-Eire Podcast Awards don’t have any affiliation to any earlier podcast awards in Eire.
Entries for the All-Eire Podcast Awards are actually open and to make the inaugural awards as inclusive as attainable, entry is free. The submission interval closes on Tuesday, sixteenth September 2025, at 5p.m. Eligible reveals with a transparent connection to Eire can submit as much as quarter-hour of audio, accompanied by a brief synopsis, by way of the Awards web page; Irish-language entries are additionally welcome. Full guidelines and the submission type are on the web site.
A spokesperson for the organizers stated: “SOUND. WAVES. Is in regards to the craft and the enterprise — how nice concepts journey from studio to viewers and again once more. We’re beginning as we imply to go on: sensible conversations, sensible takeaways, and a celebration that places creators first.”
The podcast trade has grown quickly in Eire over the previous 10 years, with a extremely various mixture of reveals from unbiased creators, business and public service publishers. Whereas awards by their nature contain competitors, the All-Eire Podcast Awards are actually about bringing the trade collectively every year to have a good time and acknowledge the superb work occurring nationally and internationally from Irish-associated producers and hosts,” stated Dylan Haskins, Head Decide.
