AudioUK
AudioUK is the trade association for audio production companies. We exist to help grow and promote the UK audio production sector, both at home and abroad.
Website: www.audiouk.org.uk
About AudioUK
AudioUK is the trade association for professional audio production companies, creative businesses around the UK making high-quality content for radio, podcasting, and audiobooks, as well as much more.
Our main aim is to help our member companies, and by extension the UK audio production industry as a whole, to operate successfully and to grow their businesses.
Latest news
- Jul 8: In the UK, AudioUK has launched a campaign for formal recognition of podcasting and audio as a core UK creative industry. It follows similar action in Canada and France. Recognition could mean tax relief and a place in policy-making committees. The release includes action that UK-based audio companies or individuals can take.
- Jun 30: France’s podcast industry has called for official government recognition for podcasting. “If we want podcasting to remain a diverse, creator-driven medium, it must be recognized as a cultural industry in its own right”, the organisation said, in a statement following its AGM. This follows AudioUK asking for the same in the UK; and podcasters asking for similar recognition in Canada.
- Jun 26: The UK Government released its Creative Industries Sector Plan, part of an aim to ensure long-term economic growth. Podcasts gets just one mention, acknowledging that they’re “now mainstream”; but not mainstream enough to be formally recognised as part of the Creative industries, though; and so the sector will miss out on investment, focus and tax support - a decision that AudioUK describe as “baffling”.
- Jun 24: The APAs from AudioUK are open for entry, as the audio production awards return for the fifteenth year. The awards celebrate audio from podcasts to radio, audiobooks to sound design, production to presenting. Audible returns as sponsor; you’ve until mid September to enter.
- Apr 11: Speakers have been announced for an event in the UK run by AudioUK. The Power of Podcasting is an invite-only event on Apr 23 for agencies and brands.
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