The Kraft Group, which owns, among other things, the New England Patriots, has led a group of investors in providing $4.6m SeriesA financing to Blog Talk Radio.
Founded in 2006 by former telecom executive Alan Levy, Blog Talk Radio provides a platform for businesses and individuals to create their own live call-in talk show without the [...]

Podcast network blubrry has introduced a new service for podcasters, Premium Podcast Statistics:
Many of you using our Podcast Statistic service have asked for a wide variety of additional reports.
While our basic stats package will remain free, we want to bring you a much richer data set in the plus package which will be priced at [...]

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006.
For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 from [...]

There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the world of new media about the future of podcasting - people wondering what the current state of podcasting is and where it’s going.
eMarketer forecasts that the audience for podcast consumption will double in the next two years, but even that relatively rosy forecast is disappointing to [...]

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media announced this morning that its common shares are set to begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange (”AMEX”) under the ticker symbol ‚ÄúWZE.‚Äù Previously, the company traded as ‚ÄúWIZD‚Äù on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board.
Wizzard is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit, and [...]

Wordpress creator Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes:
Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make [...]

Today’s big podcasting news is that Wizzard Media announced their download totals for 2007, an amazing one billion podcast files downloaded. To put that large number into some context, we talked with Rob Walch, Wizzard’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations (and creator/host of the popular Podcast411).
First off, congratulations - this is pretty stunning news. What [...]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007.
It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting.
It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. Here are [...]

When we talked with Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron recently, he cited the idea of creating a spectacle as one of the ways to create great viral video.
“Videos of spectacle translate on the net,” notes Baron, “An idea that is very original and unique, while extreme, can be videotaped and put up on YouTube to get a [...]

Mega podcast host Wizzard Media has introduced a new iPhone podcast directory & receiver, iphone.wizzard.tv.
The Wizzard Media Receiver for iPhone, above, offers a podcast directory, formatted for iPhone, that lets you browse, listen to or view podcasts.
Here’s a walk-through of the new Web app from Wizzard’s Dave Mansueto: