A new year, a new edition of the DS Podcastfestival! Here are some of the first names: Michael Safi from Black Box (The Guardian), Ney Alvarez, Halla Mohieddeen en Anna Staufenberg from True Crime Reports (Al Jazeera), Ngofeen Mputubwele: a creative reframing of podcasting (The New Yorker), Helena De Groot (Creation Myth for CBC)…

Building an engaged community, sprouted through your podcast is one of the goals many shows try to achieve. It takes a lot of time, consistency and effort to create the right added value and right vibes to make something like this bloom. In this session we'll dive into the core elements of that with Guest Thomas Smolders.

De Standaard has a brand new show: Loopje met de wetenschap (Dutch/Flemish). In this four episode series Dries Desmet and Maxie Eckert dive into the science behind running. What’s the true impact on our health? How do we train efficiently? Should we get very expensive shoes or will regular shoes do? And how do we get our lazy butts out of the sofa? WAJOO did the sound design and mix for this show.

Level up your interview skills in our interactive online workshop! You’ll learn a bunch of tips and tricks on preparing an interview, hosting, editing and comforting your potentially nervous guests. Up to 5 people, including an analysis from WAJOO on growth potential for your show! All info on wajoo.studio/workshops.

Shows that stand out are different. They find the creative angles, surprising approaches, seemingly conflicting elements that work together to create a tickle in your brain or a weird feeling in your gut. There’s limits on how much AI can be trained. The bottleneck is emotion.

Niels, where does your fascination with New York City come from? You seem to be going back as if you’ve got some serious business to run over there or at least got hooked to some local drug that requires you to come back frequently for a revitalising dose. Thereis a strong and vibrant podcast community in NYC. And I think I got a touch of that during my last two visits.

Last weekend, another exciting edition of the DS Podcast festival took place in Oostende, Belgium. The festival is organized and curated by De Standaard, one of the biggest newspaper in the country that’s been pioneering in podcasts in our country of chocolate and fries.