Operadic categories from the viewpoint of simplicial homotopy theory Batanin and Markl introduced the general notion of operadic category for the purpose of proving the duoidal Deligne conjecture. The notion and the machinery they develop is powerful, but the definition is not so easy to grasp at first sight, because it involves many subtle conditions. I will explain a new approach to operadic categories, developed with Michael Batanin and Mark Weber. We show how to interpret all the axioms in terms of simplicial identities. One benefit of this approach is that it makes it easy to modify the axioms to get a notion which is invariant under equivalence of categories. Another benefit is that the notion now easily can be ported to the infinity-world.