Today we are joined by Ant McGinley, who is a radio presenter at Communicorp UK and producer of several podcasts, including award winning football funny show “On The Left Side”.

Ant started his love affair with audio on a student radio station in 1996. After graduation he went to work for BBC Radio 1, Classic FM and Kerrang Radio. He made his very first podcasts in 2005, only stopping because he took the opportunity to present a morning show on commercial radio. In 2013 he took a leap of faith and decided that podcasting was the future. Since then he’s made about 450 podcast episodes and picked up 3 nominations including 1 Award for his work. (Statistically this means at least one in every hundred episodes he does is quite good.)

He picked up the award for his satirical football show "On The Left Side" which he makes with his long time colleague Jim Salveson. The show has won critical acclaim and led to them both being hired to create new podcast content for the Communicorp radio group.

Ant is based in Manchester, UK, but his passion and experience has led him to being invited to speak on podcasting at events and on radio stations around the world. One of the examples, is the worlds largest podcaster conference Podcast Movement where he was with his keynote presentation “Podcasting from Nothing”. In this talk, Ant guides the room from starting without any idea, or equipment, to releasing a show on all good podcast apps (including Castbox) in just 20 minutes.

In this episode, we are talking about podcast content creation. We discuss what is the difference between radio and podcast content, podcasting as business, and some key things about podcasting in Europe.