Deadset Studios
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Deadset Studios helps people tell stories via the most intimate and human medium ever — audio.
Website: www.deadsetstudios.com
About Deadset Studios
Deadset Studios is an award-winning production company specialising in podcast production, audio strategy, narrative development, and story editing. Deadset Studios creates podcasts such as Culture Compass (ABC), Hooked, Hitched, and Hung Up (ARN/iHeartRadio), One Small Act (PinnaFM), Head Above Water (SBS) and Grand Gestures (SBS). They provide strategy and production services for clients including Dementia Australia, The University of Sydney, VicHealth, and Australian Sports Commission. Deadset Studios is led by Kellie Riordan, the creative force behind many of Australia’s biggest podcast hits including Ladies we need to talk, Unravel true crime, Judith Lucy Overwhelmed and Dying, The Pineapple Project, and Australian Broadcasting Corporation’s (ABC) most successful podcast Conversations.
Latest news
- Mar 4: Deadset Studios has signed a three-series deal with the Sportish podcast, producing a podcast and video show. The first episode in the newason was released today, with Wimbledon winner Ash Barty … Excellence, Actually has joined Backyard Ventures for ad representation - the first time the three-year podcast has made advertising available … and Evergreen Podcasts has today launched The Plotpoint, an author-interview book podcast. Its first guest is the queen of crime fiction Patricia Cornwell, who once did a book-signing - which nobody turned up to, apart from one woman who wanted her to throw away her dirty tissue.
- Aug 4, 2025: Rachel Fountain has been made Head of Podcasts for Australia’s Nine. She comes from News Corp Australia and Deadset Studios.
- May 9, 2025: Australian podcast production house Deadset Studios has appointed Sarah Dabro as Head of Development and Executive Producer. Dabro has held senior creative roles at Foxtel, ABC, BSkyB, Mamamia, Endemol Shine Australia, and ITV Studios.
- Feb 4, 2025: Other Australian data includes the Deadset Studios PodPoll 2024, released in September.
- Sep 24, 2024: Exclusive: Two million Australians listen to podcasts daily, according to a new survey: PodPoll 24, which will be fully revealed tomorrow. The data, from Deadset Studios and Insightfully, contains a lot of useful data about the types of show people want to hear, and also reveals:
Data credits: Podnews newsletter