Podcast community site Blubrry has introduced 4 new features:
Show promos - This will make it easier for listeners to get a quick introduction to a show and allow podcasters in the network to more easily promote each other.
Audio embed - this feature gives members added exposure beyond Blubrry and their own websites.
Surveys - this is [...]
Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that it served over 13,700,000 podcast ad impressions through its Alchemy advertising technology in the quarter ending June 30, 2009. This represents an increase of 251% year-to-year and a 46% increase from the 9.4 million ad impressions served in the first quarter of 2009.
Wizzard Ad Impression History
2008 – Q2 [...]
The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for Wordpress version 0.7.1 is now available.
The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes.
New Features:
Simple/Advanced Modes
Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out
Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features.
Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more)
Create Unlimited Custom Podcast Feeds
Each Feed includes the same [...]
Startup company doubleTwist today launched a public beta of a new universal media application for the Mac that’s like iTunes for everything.
doubleTwist’s goal for the product is to be ”a single, streamlined interface that connects to any device, media source or network.” In other words, they want to make moving your media around, from your computer, [...]
Erik Rassmussen has released a WordPress plugin that’s designed to make it easy for audio bloggers to use YouTube as a free audio host.
YT-Audio adds an flash audio player to your blog that streams audio from YouTube. It works by trimming the standard YouTube video player to only show the controls. The above image shows what [...]
YouTube comedian and video guru Kevin Nalts has posted his take on the importance of topicality and timing for the success of Internet media:
Want lots of views on your video? Timing and topicality is important. The reason sxephil and whatthebuck are two of the most-subscribed YouTube amateurs is partially because they vlog about what’s hot. [...]
Earlier in the year, we reported on Apple’s banning of the Podcaster iPhone app from the App Store.
At the time, Apple explained its decision like this:
Since Podcaster assists in the distribution of podcasts, it duplicates the functionality of the Podcast section of iTunes.
We called this a bad decision on Apple’s part, because it “sends the [...]
Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced today that it fielded an unprecedented 1.2 billion podcast download requests, averaging of 3.04 million requests for podcast episodes per day, in 2008. Wizzard is comprised of podcast-hosting services Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast.
The total monthly unique audience size grew by over 100% across the Wizzard Network, from 7 million [...]
If you still have any doubt about whether podcasting is becoming a mainstream phenomenon, Oprah and Apple have announced that her series of podcasts is available through iTunes.
Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s free podcast of all of the Beatles’ music played Hello, Goodbye as it was introduced and then quickly yanked because of licensing agreements.