St. Cloud’s “Cloud Cast” podcast has been honored as Florida’s Best Government Podcast by the Florida Municipal Communicators Association at its annual statewide conference earlier this month.
Cloud Cast was launched in the Fall of 2024 as an additional way to provide information to city residents. The program covers topics ranging from special events and activities, to transportation, growth and development, economic development, public safety, and more.
“We are thrilled to be recognized among our peers statewide, especially when Cloud Cast is such a new endeavor for us,” said Communications Director Maryemma Bachelder. “We are finding that the podcast format helps us engage a growing number of listeners and subscribers who otherwise may have been missing some of our messaging. Now they can get city updates while they’re in the car, at the gym, or anywhere they take their phone.”
Cloud Cast is hosted by the Communications team, who chat with guests about topics that matter to city residents.
“Launching the podcast was the brainchild of Jay Bemiller, one of our media services engineers,” Bachelder said. “He came to me with the idea, we talked through how we could make it happen and how it could help us reach a broader audience, and within a few months, thanks to Jay’s technical expertise, we launched our podcast.”
Cloud Cast is available on most of the major music and podcast platforms, and on the city’s YouTube channel.
