You' re the one who listens to podcast while driving long hours in your
car. If so, you will surely like the story I bring you today
and it is precisely about the creation of the great platform of podcast Evox sixteen
years ago. We welcome you across the microphone. On the other side of
the microphone, a project by Jorge Marín grandson in which you will find your
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My name is Jorge Marín and I want to welcome you to a new delivery
of my daily metapodcast on the other side of the microphone, a space where
in just ten fifteen minutes in a daily format I bring you news, tools,
curiosities, references to the podcast. They have TV series or movies,
recommendations, events, personal experiences and good, in short, everything that crosses
my path that has to do with podcasting as the story of the creation of
the great platform Evox, a platform that was born in two thousand nine,
but let' s say it germinated there by two thousand eight. Today I
want to link in the notes of this chapter a news via Cut companies where
they interviewed the creator of Evox, the very Cree Juan Ignacio Solera, Mr
Evox, and wrote Bernath Bella already a year ago a little more than a
year ago, on the 20th of March last two thousand twenty- three,
and published a little bit a review of the entire trajectory of Evox, which
was almost to be sixteen years old. And it tells us the story in
which a young Juan Ignacio Solera was a trained physicist and worked in the industrial
sector with X radio machines for food control. The fact is that there,
for two thousand seven two thousand eight, Juan Ignacio spent many hours on the
road and thought that he could take advantage of those dead hours to continue learning
through audios about history and important characters. That' s where he came up
with creating a platform that would group together and offer programs of all kinds.
Evox was born there, who sixteen years later and based in San Jugat Forgive
me chan Jugat del Valles excuse me the Catalan speakers, but my Catalan is
quite rusty since I was born has become a leading podcast platform in Spanish and
Catalan, with millions of archives and users. You' re gonna let me
read the second paragraph. This has been the first and I want to read
the second paragraph because it will put us a little bit more in context and
I don' t want to shoot the news that Bernat forgives me either,
but this is for a podcasting lover like me, this is gold. I
already knew the story because Juan Ignacio has told it on more than one occasion
and now he hears I will now reflect on it and, by the way,
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In the description of this chapter Juagnacio said that he wanted to take advantage of
time by listening to things that interest him, interest him or sound. This
expression sounds surely to many of you it is happening to you right now.
It was the two thousand eight and at one point neither he nor John Ignatius
knew the concept of podcast. It was a friend of his who, knowing
his idea, explained to him that the United States, that industry was already
emerging. Juan Ignacio had never been an entrepreneur, but he felt a need
and saw the opportunity. He admits that he became an entrepreneur and also a
visionary. And it' s that already by two thousand eight, two thousand
nine, iTunes was going to start being born yet many of us had those
old Nokia phones, data connections aren' t what they weren' t today.
Downloading an audio file cost a lot, although thanks to the m p
three you could start doing. And that' s where good, because Juan
Ignacio began to germinate the idea of a platform that would group podcast so as
not to have to rely on iPods or iPhones, which were the only devices
where iTunes was, which was what at the time was the only thing,
the only platform. Let' s just say that he exhibited the podcasts in
a grouped and simple way until Evox arrived. I remember the first times and
here comes a little personal confession. I was listening to podcasts through Evox,
but I was downloading my own episodes on the computer and I had to put
them on the phone. I didn' t even have a phone. I
' m starting to look for dates. Not because it would be over there,
because two thousand eight two thousand nine, when I bought my first smartphone,
which was an Android HTC spin, and I didn' t use eBox
on my own phone, what I did was download the audios through the Evox
website. And now yes, pass them first to my knockout and then there
' s HCHTC twist. I mean, I was a user of Evox,
but not a user of the Evox app itself. But for me, Evox
became practically my home page. My home page, I think it' s
been Google for a lifetime, but the second most visited was Evox, because
I was every day downloading programs through this platform. And precisely I think we
owe a lot to this evolution that Evos has had over the years, although
he was born as the YouTube of podcasts, and here Juan Ignacio again points
out in this interview, that he became or was born with the idea of
becoming the YouTube of podcasts. Little by little he has had his own authority
and thanks to the changes they have been making. It is a worldwide reference,
we always say that in Spanish there is no other platform that has as
much weight as Evox and over the years have not only reinforced its own website,
its application for Android, its application for ios. They have been creating
new platforms so that podcasters can monetize their content, so that Evox' s
own platform also has financial solvency and can continue to grow. Now they have,
say, their advertising agency. There is no doubt that the plant faces
platforms like Spotify. Spotify logically worldwide, because it has a lot of weight.
But if we talk about podcast and if we talk about podcast in Spanish
or in all the languages we speak in Spain, Spain and Latin America.
Evox has a huge, huge weight and this is not achieved overnight. There
are sixteen years that Juan Ignacio and the entire Evox team have been battling for
the podcasting of our country and in our language, and I think we have
to make use of it I am not remembering a great applause that we gave
Juan Ignacio in the Jpo of Zaragoza, which was super emotional. And Juan
Ignacio is a regular of all the podcasting days and of any podcast event and
the support of Evox, without looking at that this year, I, for
example, do not count on the sponsorship of Evox in the Sponda and Madrid,
but last year yes and for me it was a real pride that a
platform like IBAX support the event that I perform and I do not mind indicating
this year. I say that they have not wanted to join the event,
but they are more than invited both Juagnacio and Laura, as Alex and Pedro.
I don' t know the whole thing. You can feel me feeling
super close and see that I always say it. I don' t host
my podcast in Evos, I host it in a competition of yours at Spreaker.
But for me Vox' s platform is fundamental to the growth of podcasts
in our country. And it is precisely reading interviews like the one I bring
to you today by company and that I apologize to Bernat if I have shot
any other paragraph. But it' s a pride to me. It is
a pride to see that a Spanish company is a leader in podcasting in its
language. Surely there are many other platforms, but I would like to see
the large number of podcasts and chapters that Evox has hosted in front of other
companies. We can agree that, in front of Apple, podcast, Spotify
or other podcast companies, or YouTube or you and said all those platforms,
Evox will be very small. But the bet and the love that podcasting shows
him over all these years is surely going podcasting in Spain wouldn' t be
what it is today if we hadn' t had a platform like Ivox'
s. There by two thousand eight or two thousand nine when he was born
a lot, but many people associate podcasting with what is Nivox. What'
s not in Evox is not podcasting. What is not published in Evox cannot
be heard. And believe me that' s a very important part for creators
and listeners and podcasting lovers. I' m telling you I' m going
to leave a link to this interview and I don' t know if Juan
Ignacio would ever listen to this episode, but let him know that, at
least for me, it was a fundamental part of the growth of podcasting in
Spain and of my podcasting in particular, because a large number, a large
percentage of the creators that I consume publish on their platform have known podcasting thanks
to their platform and without the support of their platform to podcasting, would be
where it is today. So, from here, thank you very much to
Juan Nacio for having that idea on one of the great roads that he traveled
there for two thousand seven, two thousand eight and that boredom that arose to
him and thanks to that he wanted to supply it with audios of history.
Today we are where we are, so a hug Juan Ignacio, and now
I say goodbye and as every day I return to that place where you are
right now, on the other side of the microphone,