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Podknows Podcasting is the brainchild of former national radio personality Neal Veglio (JACK fm, Capital Radio, talkSPORT).
When the radio industry went fully corporate and started turning its back on small businesses and communities, Neal recognized a gap in the market for creating platforms for those communities.
Having started his radio career helping out in radio station newsrooms in the mid-90s, Neal discovered a talent for using documentaries to help ordinary people tell compelling stories. Combined with a stellar 25-year career hosting morning shows, chatting with celebrities and taking callers to air, he quickly developed an awareness for the kind of content these people wanted to hear.
Now, Podknows has a clear ‘why’:
Helping brands and individuals talk to their customers and advocates, using podcasting to share compelling and relatable audio content
An October vote to approve content quotas in the European Union has companies like Amazon and Netflix scrambling to produce and license more European content.The new regulations, which take effect on Sept. 19, 2020, require video-streaming companies that operate in the EU to ensure that 30% of their catalog is made up of European works.
However, what “30%” means isn’t yet clear—it could refer to hours of content, number of videos, or something else altogether.
Clarifications will be made by the end of 2019, after which streaming companies will have less than a year to comply with the finalized rules.
Netflix criticized the ruling in October during its quarterly earnings report, noting that the mandate would not please customers.
netflix tv help“We’d prefer to focus on making our service great for our members, which would include producing local content, rather than on satisfying quotas, but we anticipate that a regional content quota which approximates the region’s share of our global membership will only marginally reduce member satisfaction,” Netflix CEO Reed Hastings wrote in the report.
netflix.com/activateNetflix has already invested in European content-creation hubs after opening a new production office in Spain earlier this year.
