Podcast Upfronts 2022

Amber Rose-Gill is best known for winning Love Island in 2019, after which she amassed over 2.5 million Instagram followers and became one of the show’s most famous alumni. This year, Amber released her debut romance novel ‘Until I met you’, and has not been afraid to speak out on social issues including mental health and the “Black Lives Matter” movement. In June, she presented ‘Amazing Start Here’ – a brand new podcast series for The National Lottery, exploring lottery-funded projects around the country and highlighting the everyday superheroes who walk among us.

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Danni Howard hosts the Audioboom Studios show 'Devils in the Dark' with her best friend Helen Anderson. Together, Helen & Danni explore some of the most infamous true crime cases in history. With almost 1 million listens from their first season and a #1 ranking on Apple and Spotify's true crime charts, it's one of the biggest and best new additions to the true crime genre. Danni will talk about the creation of the show, how they bring some much needed lightness to the dark subject matter and why brand safety and listener engagement go hand in hand.

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Charlotte begun her media career as a Media Executive at Global Media and Entertainment which is where her love for audio began. Charlotte was responsible for planning the audio strategies across brands such as ASDA, British Gas, Shop Direct, Lionsgate Films, GOV and Amazon across airtime, DAX and Sponsorship and Promotions. Charlotte joined Podfront UK in 2021 and now manages many key accounts and direct response advertisers such as Beer52, Brilliant.org, Amazon Publishing, The Economist and Betterhelp and Athletic Greens.

Oli has 20 years in advertising working at leading radio groups including Global Radio, Bauer Media and Absolute Radio in London. After a successful career in radio, Oli decided to focus on emerging platforms such as music streaming start up Blinkbox Music, which paved the way for him into Podcasting. Oli successfully led the sales team at Audioboom before stepping in as Head of Sales at Podfront UK which is a joint venture between Wondery and SXM Media. Podfront has quickly become one of the fastest growing podcast advertising networks in the UK representing inventory from Amazon Music, Wondery, Art19, All Things Comedy, NPR and NBC.

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Rich Knight is UK head of podcast content for Wondery/Amazon Music. He was previously BBC Radio 4’s factual commissioning editor, editor of the BBC’s current affairs audio department and a producer and executive producer of documentaries, news programmes and podcasts including Tunnel 29, Fatwa, The Inquiry and many others. He started his career on Today, working in the studio and with reporters on news stories all over the world.

The award-winning and MOBO-nominated Zeze Millz has become the 'go to' name for interviewing your favourite personalities in the world of entertainment. The two-time UK Entertainment Awards' winner has carved out a niche - and social commentary platform - that showcases her fearless ability to cut through the noise with her self-titled YouTube talk show, The Zeze Millz Show - guest interviews have included Ed Sheeran, Wiley, Big Narstie and DJ Cuppy.

Acast was founded in 2014 and is the world’s largest independent podcast company. A pioneer in the open podcast ecosystem, Acast’s strategy is to become the world’s largest marketplace for podcast monetization by connecting podcast creators, advertisers and paying listeners with its technology. Acast hosts 47,000 podcasts, supplying their content directly to hundreds of listening apps, and generating and monetizing more than 400 million listens every month. If you’re listening to an Acast-connected podcast and hear an ad, it’s Acast delivering that ad behind the scenes and sharing the revenue with the podcast creator. Podcasters come to Acast to reach and grow as large an audience as possible, and to monetize those listens to their full potential — including through paid subscriptions using Acast+. Advertisers use our advanced targeting capabilities to reach these hyper-engaged audiences in the most effective ways. "

A global leader in podcasting, Audioboom’s shows have been downloaded more than 126 million times by 34 million unique listeners around the world. Our original production unit 'Audioboom Studios' has recently expanded its scope in the UK; currently producing the official Formula 1 podcasts F1: Beyond The Grid and F1 Nation, plus the recently launched Devils in the Dark - with six original shows in development. Audioboom’s ad-tech and monetisation platform underpins a scalable content business that provides commercial services for a premium network of 250 top tier podcasts, with key partners including ‘Casefile True Crime’, ‘No Such Thing As A Fish’, 'Redhanded' and ‘The Cycling Podcast’.

Fresh Air grew out of years making shows for national radio, with a mission to bring broadcast-quality production values into podcasting. We help brands to create podcasts which people genuinely want to listen to, harnessing the power of audio to achieve measurable success with this exciting medium.

Global’s long-standing audio heritage paves the way to bring the most exciting and engaging podcasts to mainstream audiences. We multiply ideas with infinite media possibilities on-air, on Global Player and outdoor. Through these platforms combined, we entertain and reach 51.7 million individuals across the UK every week.

Podfront UK offers brands and advertisers access to +350 podcasts with 512 million global monthly listens. Backed by Wondery and Stitcher, Podfront UK is the home to premium podcasts in the UK. We enable UK and EMEA brands and agencies to reach UK and global audiences with integrated messaging at ease. Our network exclusively represents premium hit podcasts like Oprah’s SuperSoul Conversations, I Weigh With Jameela Jamil, Freakonomics, On Purpose with Jay Shetty, British Scandal, 99% Invisible, My Favourite Murder, Bill Burr's Monday Morning Podcast from publishers such as Amazon Music Podcast Originals, NBC, NPR, SSPN, Off the Ball and many more!