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 [...]

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 [...]

Last fall, Podtech’s then VP Robert Scoble said “Reports of PodTech’s demise are bull####!”
Now, VentureBeat reports that podcasting startup PodTech has been purchased by ViewPartner, a communications technology company.  PodTech sold for under half a million dollars, a fraction of the $7.5 million invested in the company.
PodTech struggled from the beginning to find a direction, [...]

Podcast network Wizzard Media announced today that they have archived over 118 million words using their proprietary “admatch” technology process. Of those, they have identified more than 10,000 words as keywords with potential significance to prospective advertisers. The database of keywords was populated by processing over 800,000 hours of audio and video programming available on [...]

Internet video startup Revision3, the home of Diggnation, XLR8R TV, Epic Fu and other popular video podcasts, has been making headlines since its founding in 2005.

The most recent headlines, though, have surrounded Revision3’s extended outage over Memorial Day weekend, and the way CEO Jim Louderback’s very publicly pointed the finger at anti-piracy firm MediaDefender as the cause for the outage.

Podcasting News’ Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin caught up with Louderback, who answered questions about Revision3, how they plan to respond to the MediaDefender attack and his vision for the future of Internet media.

The Chicago Daily Herald reports that the the Chicago Area Podcasters Network has been growing since its inception in 2006, and is now an active, vibrant group.
The group started with 10 members and has grown to about 50. 
“Things really changed once iTunes made podcasting available,” said Tom Kim of Libertyville, founder of the podcasting group.
According to [...]

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 [...]

blubrry’s Todd Cochrane announced today that his company was removing more than a hundred podcasts from its service and banning sites because of problems with “podspam”:
This morning I instructed our CIO to have all shows that were using a RSS Feed generation service hosted by trafficgeyser.net and mypodfeeds.com to be terminated here at Blubrry.com
From [...]

EQAL, the studio behind faux-vlog shows LonelyGirl15 & KateModern, has signed a deal with CBS to create online content.
The two companies will work on producing multi-platform content, including online and mobile, around CBS programming. EQAL will work on a non-exclusive basis with CBS at consulting, producing and scripting.
“This partnering signals CBS’s attention to the web [...]

Todd Cochrane is the CEO of Raw Voice, a longtime podcaster at Geek News Central and helps connect podcasters with advertisers via his Blubrry podcast network.
He’s also known for having strong opinions, on topics ranging from the PodShow/Mevio name change to the quality of podcasters’ RSS feeds.
I asked Todd about his perspective on user-generated content [...]