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You' re the one who listens
to podcast while driving long hours in your

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car. If so, you will
surely like the story I bring you today

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and it is precisely about the creation
of the great platform of podcast Evox sixteen

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years ago. We welcome you across
the microphone. On the other side of

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the microphone, a project by Jorge
Marín grandson in which you will find your

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daily ration of metapodcastings with news,
events, tools or episodes of opinion in

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just ten minutes. Ten minutes,
ten minutes, very good to all.

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My name is Jorge Marín and I
want to welcome you to a new delivery

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of my daily metapodcast on the other
side of the microphone, a space where

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in just ten fifteen minutes in a
daily format I bring you news, tools,

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curiosities, references to the podcast.
They have TV series or movies,

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recommendations, events, personal experiences and
good, in short, everything that crosses

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my path that has to do with
podcasting as the story of the creation of

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the great platform Evox, a platform
that was born in two thousand nine,

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but let' s say it germinated
there by two thousand eight. Today I

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want to link in the notes of
this chapter a news via Cut companies where

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they interviewed the creator of Evox,
the very Cree Juan Ignacio Solera, Mr

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Evox, and wrote Bernath Bella already
a year ago a little more than a

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year ago, on the 20th of
March last two thousand twenty- three,

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and published a little bit a review
of the entire trajectory of Evox, which

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was almost to be sixteen years old. And it tells us the story in

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which a young Juan Ignacio Solera was
a trained physicist and worked in the industrial

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sector with X radio machines for food
control. The fact is that there,

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for two thousand seven two thousand eight, Juan Ignacio spent many hours on the

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road and thought that he could take
advantage of those dead hours to continue learning

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through audios about history and important characters. That' s where he came up

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with creating a platform that would group
together and offer programs of all kinds.

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Evox was born there, who sixteen
years later and based in San Jugat Forgive

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me chan Jugat del Valles excuse me
the Catalan speakers, but my Catalan is

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quite rusty since I was born has
become a leading podcast platform in Spanish and

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Catalan, with millions of archives and
users. You' re gonna let me

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read the second paragraph. This has
been the first and I want to read

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the second paragraph because it will put
us a little bit more in context and

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I don' t want to shoot
the news that Bernat forgives me either,

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but this is for a podcasting lover
like me, this is gold. I

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already knew the story because Juan Ignacio
has told it on more than one occasion

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and now he hears I will now
reflect on it and, by the way,

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speaking of ivos, you know that
recently released podcast. You can find

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on this platform, because stories at
the foot of micro the new project of

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podcast format and sponsor of this delivery
from the other side of the microphone,

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a creation of Luis Blanco and Chema
Martínez on which table you can enjoy more

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self- conclusive stories that will trap
and surprise you apart alike, as sure

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will the first of them, five
hundred years ago, that is already available

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on all platforms of podcast like Evox, and that you will tell linked.

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In the description of this chapter Juagnacio
said that he wanted to take advantage of

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time by listening to things that interest
him, interest him or sound. This

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expression sounds surely to many of you
it is happening to you right now.

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It was the two thousand eight and
at one point neither he nor John Ignatius

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knew the concept of podcast. It
was a friend of his who, knowing

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his idea, explained to him that
the United States, that industry was already

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emerging. Juan Ignacio had never been
an entrepreneur, but he felt a need

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and saw the opportunity. He admits
that he became an entrepreneur and also a

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visionary. And it' s that
already by two thousand eight, two thousand

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nine, iTunes was going to start
being born yet many of us had those

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old Nokia phones, data connections aren' t what they weren' t today.

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Downloading an audio file cost a lot, although thanks to the m p

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three you could start doing. And
that' s where good, because Juan

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Ignacio began to germinate the idea of
a platform that would group podcast so as

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not to have to rely on iPods
or iPhones, which were the only devices

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where iTunes was, which was what
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the only platform. Let' s
just say that he exhibited the podcasts in

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a grouped and simple way until Evox
arrived. I remember the first times and

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here comes a little personal confession.
I was listening to podcasts through Evox,

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but I was downloading my own episodes
on the computer and I had to put

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them on the phone. I didn' t even have a phone. I

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' m starting to look for dates. Not because it would be over there,

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because two thousand eight two thousand nine, when I bought my first smartphone,

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which was an Android HTC spin,
and I didn' t use eBox

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on my own phone, what I
did was download the audios through the Evox

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website. And now yes, pass
them first to my knockout and then there

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' s HCHTC twist. I mean, I was a user of Evox,

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but not a user of the Evox
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became practically my home page. My
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been Google for a lifetime, but
the second most visited was Evox, because

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I was every day downloading programs through
this platform. And precisely I think we

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owe a lot to this evolution that
Evos has had over the years, although

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he was born as the YouTube of
podcasts, and here Juan Ignacio again points

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out in this interview, that he
became or was born with the idea of

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becoming the YouTube of podcasts. Little
by little he has had his own authority

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and thanks to the changes they have
been making. It is a worldwide reference,

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we always say that in Spanish there
is no other platform that has as

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much weight as Evox and over the
years have not only reinforced its own website,

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its application for Android, its application
for ios. They have been creating

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new platforms so that podcasters can monetize
their content, so that Evox' s

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own platform also has financial solvency and
can continue to grow. Now they have,

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say, their advertising agency. There
is no doubt that the plant faces

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platforms like Spotify. Spotify logically worldwide, because it has a lot of weight.

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But if we talk about podcast and
if we talk about podcast in Spanish

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or in all the languages we speak
in Spain, Spain and Latin America.

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Evox has a huge, huge weight
and this is not achieved overnight. There

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are sixteen years that Juan Ignacio and
the entire Evox team have been battling for

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the podcasting of our country and in
our language, and I think we have

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to make use of it I am
not remembering a great applause that we gave

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Juan Ignacio in the Jpo of Zaragoza, which was super emotional. And Juan

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Ignacio is a regular of all the
podcasting days and of any podcast event and

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the support of Evox, without looking
at that this year, I, for

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example, do not count on the
sponsorship of Evox in the Sponda and Madrid,

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but last year yes and for me
it was a real pride that a

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platform like IBAX support the event that
I perform and I do not mind indicating

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this year. I say that they
have not wanted to join the event,

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but they are more than invited both
Juagnacio and Laura, as Alex and Pedro.

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I don' t know the whole
thing. You can feel me feeling

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super close and see that I always
say it. I don' t host

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my podcast in Evos, I host
it in a competition of yours at Spreaker.

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But for me Vox' s platform
is fundamental to the growth of podcasts

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in our country. And it is
precisely reading interviews like the one I bring

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to you today by company and that
I apologize to Bernat if I have shot

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any other paragraph. But it'
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a pride to see that a Spanish
company is a leader in podcasting in its

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language. Surely there are many other
platforms, but I would like to see

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the large number of podcasts and chapters
that Evox has hosted in front of other

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companies. We can agree that,
in front of Apple, podcast, Spotify

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or other podcast companies, or YouTube
or you and said all those platforms,

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Evox will be very small. But
the bet and the love that podcasting shows

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him over all these years is surely
going podcasting in Spain wouldn' t be

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what it is today if we hadn' t had a platform like Ivox'

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s. There by two thousand eight
or two thousand nine when he was born

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a lot, but many people associate
podcasting with what is Nivox. What'

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s not in Evox is not podcasting. What is not published in Evox cannot

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be heard. And believe me that' s a very important part for creators

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and listeners and podcasting lovers. I' m telling you I' m going

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to leave a link to this interview
and I don' t know if Juan

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Ignacio would ever listen to this episode, but let him know that, at

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least for me, it was a
fundamental part of the growth of podcasting in

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Spain and of my podcasting in particular, because a large number, a large

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percentage of the creators that I consume
publish on their platform have known podcasting thanks

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to their platform and without the support
of their platform to podcasting, would be

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where it is today. So,
from here, thank you very much to

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Juan Nacio for having that idea on
one of the great roads that he traveled

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there for two thousand seven, two
thousand eight and that boredom that arose to

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him and thanks to that he wanted
to supply it with audios of history.

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Today we are where we are,
so a hug Juan Ignacio, and now

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I say goodbye and as every day
I return to that place where you are

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right now, on the other side
of the microphone,