Hindi podcast platform aawaz launches English edition audio originals

India’s podcast market is getting increasingly competitive with entry of new players as well as expansion plans of the existing ones.

one of the largest podcasting players in the Hindi space, aawaz.com, has now announced the launch of its English edition. aawaz is India’s largest podcast and spoken-word audio on-demand.

Live since January 2019 with over 500 hours of Hindi audio programming, the audio network has now expanded to Original Audio in English, competing with the likes of IVM, which recently expanded beyond its English library to foray into Hindi podcasts.

Last month, Amazon’s audible audiobook platform launched its first podcasting platform targeting only for Indian audience through Audible Suno app. Even Spotify recently launched its first set of podcast originals in India.