About
Matt Deegan is a media entrepreneur, writer and broadcaster who builds businesses around audio, radio and podcasts.
He is a co-founder of Folder Media, where he has helped create and grow a number of media businesses. These include MuxCo, one of the UK’s largest operators of local DAB Digital Radio multiplexes, and Fun Kids, the UK children’s radio station and media brand. He is also involved in MuxNet, which owns, operates and supports small-scale DAB multiplexes around the country.
Alongside Matt Hill, Matt co-founded the British Podcast Awards, later expanding them to Australia and Ireland before selling the business to Haymarket in 2022. They now run Podcast Discovery, a podcast marketing agency working with broadcasters, publishers, producers and brands, and Podcast Rex, which combines human curation, data and AI to help people discover podcasts and the industry understand them better.
Matt also co-founded Podfollow, which provides smart linking and analytics tools for podcasters, and is an investor in personalised audio advertising company A Million Ads.
He writes about media, technology and the changing audio industry at mattdeegan.com, drawing on more than 20 years of writing about the sector. He also presents The Media Club with Matt Deegan, a weekly podcast and video show discussing the biggest stories in television, radio, streaming, podcasts and the wider media business.
Matt has spent much of his career working on the evolution of UK radio. Before Folder Media, he worked at GWR and GCap Media, launching digital radio services and multiplexes. Through MuxCo and MuxNet he remains closely involved in the continuing development of DAB and small-scale DAB across the UK.
He is Chair of the Broadcasting Press Guild and regularly speaks at conferences and industry events about media, audio, technology and building new media businesses. His commentary on the industry has appeared across national newspapers, television and radio.
Contact and speaking
For speaking, writing or media enquiries, email matt [at] mattdeegan.com. You can also find him here: