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Winners announced for the 2023 Audio Production Awards
The Audio Production Awards, sponsored by Audible, were held at a gala event on Wednesday 22 November at the BFI on London’s South Bank. Nish Kumar & Coco Khan, presenters of weekly British political comedy podcast, Pod Save the UK, were this year’s hosts. The...
Audio creatives highlight competition concerns as plans confirmed to move BBC speech audio production to BBC Studios
AudioUK, the trade body for independent audio production companies, has responded to the BBC confirming that it will be moving a significant part of its speech audio production to BBC Studios by April 2024. This will mean the BBC will be competing against the...
The Audio Production Awards announces Amazon Music & Wondery as Pay What You Can scheme sponsors
AudioUK is delighted to be joining forces with Amazon Music & Wondery for a third year on the Pay What You Can scheme to help the Audio Production Awards to grow and to reach even more audio creators across the UK. The scheme is key to ensuring inclusive and equal...
Two new Board Directors appointed at AudioUK
AudioUK this week appointed two new Directors to the Board. At its Annual General meeting on Tuesday, the independent audio producers’ trade body announced that Geoff Jein, Head of Audio at TBI Media, and Viv Parry, Head of Operations at Reduced Listening, would be...
UK audio producers call for more competition for BBC audio content as the BBC moves into wider market
AudioUK, the trade body for independent audio production companies, is calling for more of BBC’s radio and audio non-news speech content to be open to competition for external producers. The BBC has announced its internal radio and audio speech production review, the...
AudioUK and Radiocentre welcome ‘highly positive’ Audio Content Fund evaluation
AudioUK, the trade body for independent audio production companies and Radiocentre, the trade organisation for commercial radio, today welcomed the publication of the formal evaluation of the Audio Content Fund. The ACF is a pilot scheme which was given three years’...
A look back on 2022 for AudioUK, from our Managing Director
As 2022 draws to a close, I wanted to look back on the year for AudioUK. The support from our members and partners enables us to do an enormous amount of work on behalf of the independent audio sector, and to help support the growth of the audio industry as a whole. ...
Winners announced for 2022 Audio Production Awards
The Audio Production Awards, sponsored by Audible, were held at a gala event on Wednesday 23 November at the BFI on London’s South Bank. Poppy Jay & Rubina Pubani, stars of BBC Sound’s Podcast, Brown Girls Do It Too, were the hosts. The APAs, organised by AudioUK,...
AudioUK calls for more government action for audio sector
AudioUK has set out a raft of measures needed to put audio production on to the same footing as other creative media content production, such as TV, film, games and animation. Speaking at this week’s Westminster Media Forum event on the future of the radio and audio...