Podcasters' Lounge: The Podcast Academy "Golden Mics"

On Valentine’s day I was fortunate enough to spend some time with the absolute LEGEND Chris Curran on Podcasters’ Lounge for about an hour. If you don’t know who Chris Curran is, he’s the host of The Podcast Engineering Show, and he runs The Podcast Engineering School!

On this lounge, I hung out with Chris while we waited for some attendees from Podcast Movement Evolutions to come by and share some updates. Two folks were able to stop by and share some updates; Dan Hughley from The Johnny Podcast Podcast and Focusrite, and Todd Cochrane from The New Media Show and Blubrry.

The main announcement was that there is a new awards ceremony titled “Golden Mics”, run by The Podcast Academy. The Academy is made up of publishers and producers such as Spotify, NPR, PRX, Sony Music Entertainment and Wondery. The general consensus is that this can be good, as long as they are open to feedback from the podcast community, and it’s used to advocate for the medium as a whole. We’ll have to wait and see. Regardless, I had a lot of fun chatting with Chris, Dan, and Todd. Thanks for having me!