Next weekend’s Podcast and Portable Media Expo is all set and ready to go, event organizer Tim Bourquin says. “We’ve been planning this event for nearly a year. It’s like a bobsled – you start pushing it downhill, and, after awhile, it picks up momentum and speeds on its own.” In an interview with Podcasting [...]

Libsyn, a popular podcast hosting service, has debuted a new site for heavy-hitting podcast customers, LibsynPRO. Libsyn currently provides many podcasters with hosting, syndication and blogging services. Their new offering provides the same types of services, but aimed towards corporate publishers. Early adopters of LibsynPRO include the National Geographic Society, National Public Radio (NPR), and [...]

Leo Laporte, host and creator of podcast this WEEK in TECH (TWiT), announced the TWiT.tv Podcasting Network, featuring 10 technology podcasts. Each TWiT.tv podcast provides context and analysis of all the significant areas of technology, from the foremost authorities and personalities in the field. TWiT.tv podcasts include: this WEEK in TECH, this WEEK in MEDIA, [...]

PodWorx, a Las Vegas based podcasting company, has announced that it is offering business podcast production services. “With the unmatched rise in podcast listenership, all businesses are faced with a tough question,” says Scott Whitney, president of PodWorx, “at what point will the decision not to produce a podcast for their customers, prospects, business partners [...]

SelliQuest, a provider of sales communications solutions for the Life Sciences industry, announced today that all of its products have been upgraded to include podcast capability. “Our products already provide the kind of subscription-based relationship that podcasts use,” explained Ike Carpenter, SelliQuest’s President and CEO. “We not only believe that this kind of relationship represents [...]

Podcasting and blogging are two of the most effective tools for generating sales leads in the technology industry, according to a survey of technology marketing executives. When asked, “Which offers are ‘very effective’ for generating high-quality leads?” marketers in all three areas studied – technology services firms, and business software and hardware – put Blog [...]

According to a recent survey, podcast usage among B2B technology buyers is significant and growing. 41% of survey respondents claim they have listened to podcasts on more than one occasion, while 13% stated that they “frequently” download or listen to them.The KnowledgeStorm and Universal McCann survey was completed by more than 3,900 business and IT [...]

The Corporate Podcasting Summit, described as Enterprise Podcasting 101, was held June 20 – 21 in San Francisco. The Summit brought together people interested in corporate podcasting from around the world. Above, Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, Publisher of Podcasting News, at the Corporate Podcasting Summit with (l to r) Mark Blevis (podcasters across borders, electric sky [...]