Sounds like Europe, cross-border podcasting

On this episode of ‘Sounds Like Europe’, Javi Caminero is joined by Milo Tesselaar, co-owner of ‘Oh Wow Podcasts’, one of Austria’s leading podcast producers, to understand the current state of the podcasting industry there. How do they deal with sharing language and audience with a much bigger neighbor like Germany? Does the presence of Germany harm or favour the industry in Austria?  Listen to Milo’s recommendation:   The Journal: https://open.spotify.com/show/0KxdEdeY2Wb3zr28dMlQva   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme.

On March 7 were released the French and Polish versions of ‘A grain of power’, a podcast produced by Europod, WePod's Belgian partner, and Outriders, our Polish partner. Javi Caminero is joined by Futura D’Aprile, the journalist from Europod who has led this investigation about how grain has been used as a weapon by Russia in the war in Ukraine. Listen to the French and Polish versions of ‘A grain of power’:  Grain de pouvoir: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5amPSgQwYaMC9axGgzvj7U?si=6cb69e21c0a045fc Zboze wladzy: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1Y661WxzhFlhovK61cnd10?si=05ee88c67354415e Listen to Futura’s recommendation:   Serial Season 2: https://serialpodcast.org/season-two/1/dustwun   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

In a project as ambitious and big as WePod, producing good podcasts, telling compelling stories and creating tools that improve the podcast industry in Europe is very important. But for all of that to happen, proper project management is essential. In this episode, Javi Caminero is joined by Ana Ribera, executive producer of the WePod project. Listen to Ana’s recommendation:   La Casa Grande: https://open.spotify.com/show/0riO4UZ0sQ80585hh06Dyu?si=67ebc5f31078427c   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

A very important part of the WePod project is its desire to bring our stories to the widest possible audience. And in order to reach more markets and make our stories easily heard and understood around the world, we felt it was necessary to translate our podcasts into English. To get an in-depth look at how the English remakes of the WePod project are done, Javi Caminero is joined by Alex Ricci, Coordinator of all the productions in WePod and Chief Operating Officer of Europod. Listen to Alex’s recommendation:   Question Everything: https://open.spotify.com/show/2sNXpacDEWehQlVUFIyvBJ   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

The Europeans, a podcast that was launched back in 2017, analyzes Europe and the European Union in an entertaining and accesible way. To understand how this podcast has managed to touch on European politics and culture while entertaining a big audience, Javi Caminero is joined by Katy Lee and Dominic Kraemer, hosts and creators of The Europeans. Listen to Katy and Dominic’s recommendations:  Search Engine: https://open.spotify.com/show/76VOmPpOHaTyA1OaRc4BDv?si=1b2ff25ab0074d5e   Transfert: https://open.spotify.com/show/7xsOQzpeP5QggUY2CacpR5?si=50f054ab18f3493d    Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

For several months now, WePod has been organizing workshops in high schools across Europe to teach podcasting to young people. The main objective is for them to learn how to tell stories in audio and to learn as well about all the work involved in making a podcast. In this episode, Javi Caminero is joined by Cathal O’Luanaigh, Program and Communications Manager at News Decoder, WePod’s French Partner, to discuss everything related to these workshops. Listen to Cathal’s recommendation:  Three Castles Burning: https://open.spotify.com/show/4SSvzXXwTHXhbzY4ovlzgf?si=8cce320ff607468a    Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

November 29th saw the premiere of WePod’s second co-production, which is called ‘Camioneros’ in its Spanish version and ‘Vie de routiers’ in French. This documentary analyzes the importance of the job of truck drivers in Europe, one that, until now, had received very little attention. Javi Caminero is joined by the creators of this podcast, journalists Manu Tomillo and Futura D’Aprile, to talk about all the details of their co-production.  Listen to Manu and Futura’s recommendations:  Sweet Bobby: https://open.spotify.com/show/0pxg9zewLAYxhcmbJ4CL0Q  Elon’s Spies: https://open.spotify.com/show/6edrtr63RobTNRuLvU2sfj   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

In this episode, we travel to Ljubljana. One of the most popular podcasts there, in Slovenia, is Lovim ravnotežje. Javi Caminero is joined by Nina Gaspari, host of that podcast, to learn about the current state of the podcast industry in Slovenia.   Listen to Nina’s recommendation:  Pod Save America: https://crooked.com/podcast-series/pod-save-america/   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

From March 17th to 21st 2025, WePod will be holding the first edition of the European Podcast Academy in Milan, and you can sign up now! The European Podcast Academy is the first masterclass on cross-border podcasting, targeting a wide European audience of audio professionals and journalists with a keen interest in audio production. For more info, visit this link: https://www.wepodproject.eu/podcast-academy To understand what the European Podcast Academy is, Javi Caminero is joined by two of the masterminds of this project: Alex Ricci, from Europod and coordinator of the WePod project, and Gloria Beltrami, Project Manager at Chora Media. Listen to Alex and Gloria’s recommendations:  This American Life: https://open.spotify.com/show/41zWZdWCpVQrKj7ykQnXRc?si=270f9ddbf144438a   Kill List: https://open.spotify.com/show/0MKZSB39sSnSYHzey11SPF?si=c27c2df657f645c3   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme. 

At WePod we don't just make podcasts. We are trying to make this project important for the podcast industry in Europe at all levels. Therefore, on our website (wepodproject.eu) you can find different tools and resources that aim to fulfil the main goal of WePod, but from a different perspective: to make the podcast industry in Europe grow even bigger.   Javi Caminero is joined by Luciana del Castillo, Account Manager for PRISA at Hiberus, WePod’s technology partner, to find out more about this other side of the WePod project. Listen to Luciana’s recommendation:  No es el fin del mundo: https://open.spotify.com/show/5dbvpKwtqz3X3hcX1BSEzf?si=d912dacfbf304776   Follow us on all our socials (@wepodproject) and visit the WePod project website: https://www.wepodproject.eu/welcome  Credits:  Hosted and written by Javi Caminero  Sound design by Manu Tomillo  Coordinator: Alexander Damiano Ricci  Executive producer: Ana Ribera  This project has received funding from CROSS-Sectoral of the Creative Europe Programme.