Jason Carter
Festival DirectorPreviously Head of Events for BBC Radio. Created Radio 1's Big Weekend, BBC 6Music Festival, and 1Xtra Live. Jason brings decades of experience building some of the UK's most iconic live events to the podcast industry.
20–21 MAY 2026 · LONDON
Where the Global Podcast Industry Meets, Deals, and Celebrates
The biggest international festival for the business of podcasting. Two days of keynotes, deals, and connections that shape the industry.
Our Story
In 2022, The Podcast Show launched with a simple belief: the podcast industry deserved a festival of its own. Not a corporate conference. Not a niche meetup. A proper, full-scale festival that matched the energy and ambition of the medium itself.
Three editions later, that idea has become the global meeting point for the business of podcasting. From a standing start to over 10,000 attendees, 53 countries, 450+ speakers, and 120+ brands — The Podcast Show is where the industry comes to connect, learn, deal, and celebrate.
Held every May at the Business Design Centre in Islington, the festival brings together creators, platforms, advertisers, agencies, and media companies for two packed days and a night programme that extends across London. It's where careers are launched, deals are made, and the future of podcasting is shaped.
10,000+
Attendees
53
Countries
450+
Speakers
120+
Brands
Five Years, One Festival
A community built from scratch.
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2022The Idea That Became an Industry
The podcast industry had never had a festival of its own. Two live events veterans built one from scratch — a proper festival, not a corporate conference. The inaugural show drew professionals from 28 countries, with Spotify, Amazon Music and BBC Sounds as headline partners.
- 5,000 attendees
- 28 countries
- 350+ speakers
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2023The Show Finds Its Stride
Year two proved it wasn't a fluke. The programme deepened, the international contingent grew, and new features like PodHouse showed that the best conversations happened in the margins. The industry started building its calendar around TPS.
- 40%+ international attendees
- Brand Works Theatre doubled
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2024The Year It Went Global
Ten thousand attendees. Fifty-three countries. Forty percent of the audience flew in from overseas. The Creator Village launched, and the conversation shifted from UK podcasting to the global industry — with sessions spanning Africa, the Americas and Europe.
- 10,000 attendees
- 53 countries
- 80+ exhibitors
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2025The Festival Matures
The biggest programme yet: 450+ speakers across 8 stages, with Louis Theroux, Ashley Flowers, GK Barry and senior figures from Spotify, Apple and Amazon Music. The night programme extended across London. TPS was no longer the biggest podcasting event in the UK — it was the most important gathering in the global industry.
- 10,000+ attendees
- 450+ speakers
- 120+ brands
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You are here 2026
The Fifth Edition
The show's most ambitious year yet. A new International Stage. The Creator Mix. TPS Connects. Sixty-plus countries expected. In five years, TPS has brought together 25,000 people and become the fixed point around which the global podcast industry organises its year.
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Guided by the Best in the Business
Our advisory panel brings together the leading voices shaping the global podcast industry.
Megan Bradshaw
Amazon Music
Arif Noorani
CBC Podcasts
Vicky Etchells
Global
Carrie Lieberman
iHeartPodcasts
Bernard Achampong
Audio UK
Shaun Wilson
Audioboom
Arielle Nissenblatt
Pinwheel by Audily
Steve Ackerman
Independent
James Cridland
Podnews
Ruth Fitzsimons
Bauer Media
The Founders
Created by two of the UK's most experienced live event producers.
Tim Etchells
DirectorOver 30 years creating events globally. Winner of the 2017 Lifetime Achievement Award from the UK Association of Event Organisers. Tim's expertise in scaling international events has been instrumental in taking TPS global.
What the Industry Says
“The global industry watering hole for our medium.”
Amazon Music
“The best event in podcasting globally.”
Acast
“More global than any other conference.”
BBC World Service