Host opportunity · The podcasting industry
Podcasting has a supplier economy behind it: hosting platforms, studios, editors, gear makers, ad representation and the services around them. Almost none of it ever stands in one room. Partner with Business Expo Center to change that in your market, using the Podcaster Expo brand, this website, our marketing assets, and our always-on virtual expo platform.
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Ask a producer how they found their editor and the answer is almost always the same: somebody recommended them. The same goes for the studio they book, the artwork they commissioned, and the platform they moved their back catalogue to after the last one annoyed them.
That is word of mouth doing the work of a marketplace, and it works until it does not. It favours whoever is already known, it breaks the moment you move city or move genre, and it leaves good suppliers invisible to everyone outside one circle of people who happen to talk to each other.
The buying is not centralised either. A show with a hundred thousand listeners and a show with two hundred are both often run by one person choosing a microphone at eleven at night. There is no procurement department to route a supplier to, so a good supplier gets found by referral, at one conference a year, or not at all.
A live expo puts that supply chain in a room. A directory that keeps running afterwards is what stops the introductions expiring when the hall is packed down.
You bring the market and the standing in it. The parts that normally take a budget and twelve months are already built, tested, and running.
Podcaster Expo says what it is without a tagline, and it narrows cleanly to a city, a region or one slice of the work such as audio drama or independent networks. You get the brand and this site as the front door for your show, instead of a blank page and a domain nobody recognises.
Your expo sits on Business Expo Center, a virtual exhibitor directory with 17 years of search authority and thousands of businesses listed. Exhibitors stay reachable in the months between shows, which is when most of the actual buying happens.
Marketing assets to promote the expo to your territory and your contact list, plus done-for-you video production. Video is now a normal part of this format, and a studio that shows you its live room on film has explained itself before anyone reads a word.
We seed the directory with studios, editors, platforms and services from your region using public information. They claim and complete their listings, and the expo gives them a reason to. Business Expo Center already runs this format for other verticals, with several sites live on the same partner and host model.
Tell us where you sit in the podcast industry, which parts of it the show should cover, and the market you want to hold it in. We look at fit and reach. Your event history does not have to be polished.
You get the Podcaster Expo brand, this website, the marketing assets, and the always-on virtual expo platform. We seed your regional directory and walk you through registering exhibitors and pricing your floor.
You run the live expo in your market. The platform keeps running afterwards, so every supplier who took a stand stays findable long after the hall is packed down.
We can build a brand, a platform and a marketing kit. We cannot manufacture standing in your local audio community. That is the part you bring, and it is the part that decides whether anyone turns up.
Do you sell to podcasters, networks or producers? Get a listing and a filmed video profile on a directory with 17 years of search authority, so a producer finds you when the need comes up rather than only at the event. Networks and producers can list too.
A filmed profile does more work here than in most industries. A studio can show you its live room, an editor can show you the difference between the raw take and the finished one, and a gear maker can put the thing in someone’s hands. None of that fits in a line on a floor plan.
List your business
Are you a network, a studio group, an industry association or an event organiser with a foothold in podcasting? Tell us your market and your vision for the show. Applications are reviewed by the Business Expo Center team.
For the trade. Podcaster Expo is a business-to-business trade event for the companies that make, distribute and supply podcasting. It is not a course on how to start a show, and nothing here is a claim about what hosting or exhibiting might earn anyone.
Networks, studio groups, associations and event organisers all host. What we look for is one market you already work in, standing enough that local studios and suppliers answer your call, and one person who owns the show day to day.
A conference sells you a weekend. Sessions run, people meet in a hallway, and then the site goes quiet until next year. Podcaster Expo is a trade expo built around an exhibitor directory that keeps running: the live show is the moment the industry gathers, and the directory is where a producer finds a studio, an editor or an ad rep in the eleven months when there is no event on. We are also aimed at the businesses that serve podcasting rather than at teaching people how to make a show.
Any business that serves the podcast industry. Hosting and distribution platforms, recording studios and rental space, editing and post-production, microphone and interface makers, retailers, ad sales houses and representation, artwork and branding studios, transcription and accessibility services, analytics tools, live and touring production, and the legal and accounting specialists who work with shows and networks. Networks and producers can list too. We do not rank, rate or endorse any exhibitor.
Audio is the subject here. Video podcasting exists and plenty of shows film every episode, so filmed content is welcome on the floor and in your directory listing, but the exhibitors and the buying decisions this expo is built around are audio ones. If your work is video-first and on camera, the creator conference side of our portfolio is a better fit and it lives at vloggerexpo.com.
No. What matters far more is a real foothold in podcasting in one market, enough standing that local studios, producers and suppliers take your call, and one person who owns the event day to day. We supply the brand, the platform, the marketing assets, and the model.
How big the podcast industry is. Download counts, listener numbers, ad spend and market size are measured differently by everyone who publishes them, and the definitions move. A figure assembled from that would be worth nothing to you when you are sizing a floor, and we are not going to put one in front of you to make the page feel more confident. We also make no claim about what exhibiting or hosting might earn anyone.
Still weighing it up? Send an application and we will talk it through, or look at exhibiting if you would rather take a stand than run the show.
