Fresh Air Production wins UK production company of the year

Fresh Air Production wins UK production company of the year

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  • The winners have been announced for the UK’s Audio Production Awards. The winners are mainly people (not companies or podcasts); Audible’s Hana Walker-Brown won two Gold awards for podcasting. The winner of Production Company of the Year was Fresh Air Production: Neil Cowling told us:

    As a former broadcast production company that now exclusively produces podcasts, we’re enormously proud to have won this for the whole UK audio industry. It shows that the quality being produced in the podcast space lives up to the standards in radio, and that smaller but fast-growing producers like us are now genuinely challenging the established large production groups. The momentum behind independent brand-funded podcasts is the most exciting trend I’ve ever been involved in. Commercial nous and creative flair can indeed live side by side - same talent, same values, just a different market.

  • Are podcasts a disaster waiting to happen? asks Jack Seale, a UK newspaper columnist, highlighting plagiarism in podcasting. Mostly not featured: the cesspool of failed ethics from the UK’s newspaper industry, like this.

  • Podcasters who wish to look and sound exactly like Joe Rogan now have some technical help to do so, thanks to a new “deepfake” tool that sounds like Rogan and looks like Rogan. Sadly, without Rogan’s talent.

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