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« Gnomedex 5 Reflections | Main | Podcast Legal Music: Creative Collective Issues Call to Podcasters »Apple Extends Dominance in Online Music to PodcastingJune 30, 2005
"iTunes has done what possibly no one else could have accomplished, propelled Podcasting into the mainstream," said Will Lewis, management consultant for public radio station KCRW. "Our servers have been swamped with a stratospheric increase in traffic. In fact, downloads have increased tenfold as a result of the iTunes 4.9 launch." iTunes enables anyone to quickly and easily find and subscribe to their favorite Podcasts so that when there’s a new episode, it’s automatically downloaded to their Mac or PC and Auto-Synced to their iPod. iPods now offer an easy to use Podcast menu, including bookmarking within a Podcast and the ability to display color Podcast artwork. "With the release of iTunes 4.9, listeners are voting with their ears," said Adam Curry, co-founder of the PodShow Podcast Network. “Subscriptions have dramatically increased across our entire PodShow Podcast Network, and I predict over the coming months that iTunes will introduce tens of millions of new listeners to the world of Podcasting.” "Podcasting is like cappuccino," said August Trometer, developer of iPodderX. “"Gourmet coffee was around for a long time, but it took Starbucks to put it on the map. Apple is like the Starbucks of Podcasting and advertisers will take us more seriously now." Trackback PingsTrackBack URL for this entry: CommentsWhat Adam Curry said - Firesign Theatre's podcasting subscribers has jumped to be about 6 times what it was three days ago. Posted by: Brian Westley, Firesign Theatre webmaster at June 30, 2005 11:51 PM Post a comment |
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Apple has announced that, after just two days, iTunes customers have subscribed to more than one million podcasts through the iTunes Podcast Directory.