Fanlore:Featured Article Archives/2022: Week 8

Amplificathon was an iconic annual multifandom podfic challenge which ran from 2008 to 2016, in the Spring months. It aimed at increasing the diversity of available podfic. Podficcers competed over six weeks to two months to earn points by posting podfics, with an advantage given to stories in rare or previously-unpodficced fandoms and/or featuring rare or previously-unpodficced pairings.

All entries were archived at the Audiofic podfic archive.

A LiveJournal community, also called Amplificathon, was created to host the challenge. The community then became a general podfic community, active even when the challenge wasn't running. A Dreamwidth mirror community eventually became the main home of the challenge.

As a result of the Audiofic Archive's ongoing technical difficulties, no challenge was held in 2017, or indeed since. However, the challenge left an impression on early podfic fandom participants, and lives on in spirit through other podfic events.