Google Podcasts creator program
Accelerator trainings that advance the business and creative strategies of independent podcast creators worldwide
Launched in 2018, the Google Podcasts creator program provides independent audio makers from around the world with the resources, skills, and creative communities that make podcast production more productive and innovative – and a little less lonely. Using the PRX Training Teams’ signature application of design thinking principles, this intensive, multi-week accelerator helps creators refine their ideas to create meaningful projects that serve their audiences. Our teams create novel solutions and workflows that inform and support their long-term sustainability goals.
This rigorous program fosters collaboration among peer creators resulting in vibrant global cohorts that learn to challenge each other, give constructive feedback, and grow together.
While our first accelerators were open to podcasters of all stages, GPcp 2022 seeks to help mid-career podcasters “level up” with a renewed focus on business development, audience growth, optionality, video strategies, and long-term sustainability.
The application period for our 2022 accelerator is now closed.
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Tant Que Je Serai Noire is an inclusive podcast that questions and explores the desire and non-desire for children of black women, through intimate stories, personal reflections, and the enlightened view of experts.
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At Moneda Moves, we cover the intersection of money and culture. Hear stories about Latinos and our POC peers in business, our relationship with money, and role in the American economy.
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A Spanish-language interview podcast that unearths Mother Nature's voice by focusing on the diffusion of Latin American indigenous knowledge and cosmogonies that are urgent, relevant, useful, and effective for countering the climate crisis we are currently facing.
A Datuk is discovered dead with his head chopped off. An eccentric investigator and an obstinate detective are comically paired to investigate the case and uncover disturbing truths in a tangled web of deception that put their lives in danger
She Tells True Crime is one of the first Mandarin-speaking true crime podcasts in Taiwan. This show is about spreading awareness around social issues and voicing for the minorities.
Literacy Kings breaks down popular financial books in a culturally relevant way for people of color who have been marginalized. Host Corey Paul (Rapper, Creative, Entrepreneur) and JaMorcus Trayham, MBA (Investor and Teacher) grew up in a neighborhood with a 30% dropout rate and didn’t start reading books until they were adults.
The Literacy Kings podcast is a mix of education and entertainment. They educate by summarizing and contextualizing the valuable information from each book and entertain by sharing our life experiences, examples, and current events that help build connections.
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Almost two million Vietnamese risked their lives to flee oppression and hardship after the Vietnam War, in one of the largest mass exoduses in modern history. Escaping by boat, many were captured and brutally punished, many were denied asylum in neighboring countries and hundreds of thousands died along the journey. This population of people are known as the ‘Vietnamese Boat People' and these are their stories.
Valle de Cielo Gris is an audio drama about love, revenge, prejudice and the things we fear most, a cosmic horror fantasy that satirizes the absurdities of the human condition and everyday monsters.
Tres Cuentos is a bilingual seasonal podcast dedicated to Latin America's literary, historical, and traditional narratives. Each episode is in Spanish and English. The podcast narrates all forms of literature and later reflects on the text's different cultural and historical aspects. Our goal is to bring attention and appreciation of Latin America's diverse history and works of literature.
A special series from The Food Griot & Market Road Films delving into American food and drink history, The Food Griot Chronicles delivers history from the perspective of those responsible for our foodways more than any other: Black culinary architects whose legacies carry through today.
Tales Of The Text Podcast Is Scripted Short Fiction Stories Marinated In Black Teen Culture.
Self Evident is an audio show where Asian American stories reveal and reshape the social and political narratives that shape our past, present, and future. Each episode presents an in-depth story or conversation from specific communities within the Asian diaspora in America. On air and on the ground, we strive to bring Asian American voices into the national conversation like they’ve never been heard before — across generations, across cultures, and across class.
Prato Cheio is a podcast about all-things food politics with a systemic approach to the topic. Based on rigorous research and investigation, we promote a democratic debate on a fundamental issue of the 21st century: food.
On every trip, we go to visit fantastic imaginary places that stimulate your senses, emotions, and creativity. Going from adventures in beautiful natural landscapes to stays in extraordinary places, taking the power of imagination to the limit.
On Spec is an independently produced podcast based in Istanbul, Turkey. We’re a team of freelance journalists from diverse backgrounds living across the globe. On Spec provides unpredictable deep dives in international news through storytelling from places like Brazil to Hong Kong to Malawi. Reporters on the ground will transport you with an intimate, personal look at what’s going on in their communities. Each season has a distinct theme. By listening to these stories, you’ll get a nuanced perspective beyond your own borders and learn how we are connected globally.
Letters to Boys is a podcast that explores issues and concerns around the male gender; helping them unlearn wrong behavioral patterns, values, and the general mode of living.
Our show is a historical narrative of "hidden" accounts and stories of women leaders in Zambia that held prominent positions of power before colonialism was introduced in Africa but are hardly known. The show challenges the ideas around women and leadership roles in a time when it largely believed that women played no part or contributed to Africa's development long before colonialism.
K'nın Sesi (Voice of K) is about raising voices of women and queer people living in Turkey. The letter K has multiple meanings and refers to concepts like Kadın (woman), Kuir (queer), Korona (corona), Karantina (quarantine), Kavga (struggle), Keşif (discovery). You will hear audio-drama plays and conversations based on experiences of women and LGBTQ+s with diverse backgrounds pertaining to class, ethnicity, age, sexuality, ability. We suggest you to listen if you are a woman/LGBTQI+ who feel isolated, underrepresented, need support or need to hear narratives based on gender and empowerment.
Indomables is a narrative Spanish language podcast produced by two female journalists from Panama, Melissa Pinel, and Leila Nilipour. With intimate stories about the human experience, Indomables reveals the intricacies of cultural, historical, and social issues bringing us closer through the power of empathy.
FAXINA is a podcast about immigrant stories that got swept under the rug.
FAXINA is about the ignored, forgotten, sometimes deliberately not heard stories of Brazilians and other Portuguese-speaking immigrants who are domestic workers in the USA. And on it, you will hear Portuguese-speaking immigrants share their stories, often told for the first time, in their own voice, and infused with original music composed by Brazilian musicians.
A sound-rich narrative podcast in Spanish that catches the common time of ordinary people contrasted with the clock of power.
So you're so woke... that you can't sleep? Listen to Contes et légendes du Queeristan: Jo Güstin's challenge to write and tell, every Sunday starting May 17th, 2020, a new non-erotic queer philosophical tale that helps woke people fall asleep, with a smile on their faces. You are not ready.
For the hearing impaired, all the tales are available on Youtube with French subtitles.
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We are Black men, learning about ourselves, working to break the stigmas and misconceptions that have culturally defined us, and addressing all the shared pain points we’ve experienced and/or cause(d) in our own special and some most times inappropriate manner.
Crystal and Renata walked into a newsroom and immediately wanted to paint it! Now, we don't have to. We're living the dream and out on our own. We're bringing you inspiring conversations devoted to disruptors redefining how journalism is done. We're talking to people who are running their own bureaus, launching their own shows, and establishing their own journalism models. We're talking to people dreaming up the future of the news industry.
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“A3deh - قعدة” Arabic word for “Gathering” based on a monthly support group where we share personal experiences and stories of non-binary/ queer people from the MENA (Middle East and North Africa) region, A3deh is focused on creating Arabic content from the region for the region. We talk about our bodies, our community, gender, and sexuality and provide a safe space to express ourselves freely and tell our stories.
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A humorous interview podcast about how we get around told through the stories of drivers, walkers, riders, and bikers and their habits on the road.
This audio fiction series tells the story of twelve-year-old twins, Alexa and Beni Ventura, who travel through time to uncover hidden moments in the history of Puerto Rican culture.
Timestorm is produced by Cocotazo Media and is a proud member of TRAX from PRX.
Explores black women’s concepts of beauty then and now using Emma Azalia Hackley’s 1916 book The Colored Girl Beautiful as a framework.
Paola Mardo
Host, Producer, and Creator
Patrick Epino
Producer
This reported, narrative podcast uncovers unknown histories and present-day realities about life in the Filipino diaspora.
This Spanish-language non-fiction podcast tells stories of “The Weird Ones,” the people who live on the margins of society because of their background or life choices, and how these stories challenge social norms.
A reported, narrative-driven podcast about queer Africans living, loving, surviving and thriving on the African continent and the diaspora.
A Spanish-language, narrative-driven podcast, “Yesterday’s News” is about the personal toll of history and how public issues can shape our most private moments.
Discover the underground life of Beirut as this Arabic-language narrated documentary uncovers a hidden world where differences are celebrated, activism is brewing, and the feminine is being set free.
This Spanish-language show, whose title translates to “We Don’t Talk About That,” maps stories deliberately omitted from everyday discourse–because they hurt too much, because they endanger the status quo, or because we don’t even have words to talk about them.
This immersive mix of social and cultural commentary and storytelling shares the journey of two best friends after a breast cancer diagnosis to inspire and empower Black women to have real conversations about cancer.
Discover how Bangalore’s women navigate their working lives and the city through hyper-local tours of their workplaces, neighborhoods, communities, and favorite places to go to for fun–because every woman draws her map differently.