World’s first podcast network Established February 2005 Brisbane · Australia Now hosting the shows Cameron co-hosts Books · A film · 21 years of audio World’s first podcast network Established February 2005 Brisbane · Australia Now hosting the shows Cameron co-hosts Books · A film · 21 years of audio

Est. 2005 — the original podcast network

The world’s first
podcast network.

We launched in February 2005 — before the word “podcast” was in the dictionary. At our peak: 100 shows and half a million listeners. Today TPN is leaner and more personal: the home of the shows Cameron Reilly co-hosts, plus the books and the film that came out of twenty-one years of talking into microphones.


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Why this matters

We were doing this before it had a name.

In November 2004 we launched G’Day World, the first Australian podcast. Three months later we launched The Podcast Network — the world’s very first.

By 2007 we had 100 shows in production and over 500,000 listeners. The Global Financial Crisis took the advertisers, the servers went dark in 2012 — and then Life of Caesar brought the whole thing roaring back in 2014.

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2005
Founded
100
Shows at peak
500k+
Listeners
21
Years on air
1st
Podcast network, ever
~60
Eps · Napoleon, the first long-form pod
3
Books
1
Documentary film
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Who’s behind it

One bloke, a lot of microphones.

Founder · Host · Brisbane

Cameron Reilly

Started the world’s first podcast network in 2005, kept going for twenty-one years, wrote three books and made a film along the way. Co-hosts every show on TPN. Still recording from Brisbane, usually at 9pm on a Saturday.

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