According to Microsoft Zune guru Rob Greenlee, there’s been “a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace Software.”
“This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter,” explains Greenlee. “This year is no exception and [...]
Lifestyle podcast and blog network Personal Life Media today unveiled a new audio player widget for distributing multiple podcast RSS feeds. The customizable widget, in turn, can be added to a user’s social network profile, blog or personal webpage.
The player is free and can be customized to match any web page or blog as well [...]
Wizzard Media announced a new feature today that allows publishers to distribute videos through TubeMogul’s online video distribution and analytics service, now integrated into the Wizzard Media publishing platform.
TubeMogul’s service lets you upload a video once and then distribute it automatically to top video sites. TubeMogul says that users of this service have historically experienced [...]
Blubbry’s Todd Cochrane has introduced a new feature for podcasters, Custom HomePages for blubbry.:
“The custom homepage looks like a regular weblog, and it has all the standard features you have come to expect from. We have 7 really cool templates designed by Brian our creative director to choose from, and if you don’t like our [...]
Podcast hosting service Wizzard Software has announced its second quarter 2008 financial results. They report that revenues are up, expenses are down and losses are decreasing:
Wizzard reports revenues for the second quarter of 2008 of $1,465,874, a 3% increase over revenues of $1,428,097 in the second quarter of 2007
Operating expenses totaled $2,159,433, which was [...]
Blog Maverick Mark Cuban argues that the best way to increase your audience for Internet video is to allow downloads:
Many of the major video sites have added this option, but its amazing that newspaper, TV and other sites that have recently added video, for the most part do not.
With online video, maybe adding the word [...]
At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China:
Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In the [...]
In an unusual letter to its shareholders, podcasting mega service Wizzard Software explains why it’s bullish on the prospects for podcasting:
Wizzard has surprised many people by becoming the largest distributor of digital media via RSS (podcasting). While many other companies took the route of launching online video websites and treating RSS distribution as nothing more [...]
Podcasting site Odeo has relaunched. Again. We have kind of lost count, but Beta News says that this is Odeo’s sixth launch. Initially launched mid-2005, Odeo debuts (again) with a number of new features.
The biggest addition to the site is video, but other new capabilities allow users to:
– Search & explore over 500,000 channels [...]
RawVoice CEO Todd Cochrane got in touch with us a few days ago to alert us to this week’s launch of a new podcast publishing and hosting system via the Blubrry podcast network.
Blubrry Podcast Publishing with Hosting is an integrated solution that combines podcast statistics, media hosting, and promotional tools to “grow and support your [...]