The Sydney Morning Herald took a look at the Cult of Podcast Celebrity and profiled pioneering podcaster Cameron Reilly: One Australian who is using podcasting to give himself – and his fellow podcasters – a voice is Cameron Reilly, who founded the Podcast Network – a stable of podcasts ranging from religion to martial arts. [...]

The Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review reports that Wizzard Software Inc. “entered into an agreement with four institutional investors for $7.5 million in equity financing.” Wizzard has, in the past year, acquired three podcast-hosting networks, Switchpod, Blast Podcast and Liberated Syndication (Libsyn). This new batch of financing follows a $1.75 million investment announced last October. That earlier [...]

Podcasting network PodShow appears to be getting some unwanted attention from hackers. Some PodShow members have reported getting emails like this: —–Original Message—– From: hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com [mailto:hacked.by.xxxxxxx@podshow.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 05, 2007 10:18 AM To: xxxxx@xxxxxx.com Subject: HACKED! podshow.com got HACKED by yeknom! PodShow has contained the issue and released this statement: At approximately 10am PST [...]

Wizzard Media, the leading podcast hosting network, distributed over 70,000,000 podcast episodes in March to an audience of millions, according to the company. In the first quarter of 2007, Wizzard Media’s network growth surpassed 50% of the 360,000,000 episodes it distributed in all of 2006 for its 8,000 independent and corporate clients. Daily requests for [...]

Podango this week announced a partnership with podcaster Scott Bourne, who will be working with Podango as executive strategic advisor. “Scott is a recognized leader in the podcasting space and brings additional strength to the Podango team,” said Lee Gibbons, Podango CEO. “Scott has been in podcasting from the early days. His expertise will add [...]

Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts. Description: Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha [...]

PodShow has officially announced that the company has raised a second round of venture funding from new and original investors, totaling $15M. The Company has been working to provide broader and more reliable distribution on the Internet while initiating plans to move its content into the home and across all mobile devices. “This new investment [...]

PodShow, a startup podcasting network co-founded by former MTV VJ Adam Curry, reportedly is getting an additional $15 million venture capital investment. According to Thomson Financial: PodShow inc., which recently raised $15 million in Series B funding. This follows up on an $8.85 million Series A deal from last summer, from Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, [...]

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, [...]

Robert Scoble is going to have to change his tagline. The “Microsoft Geek Blogger” is leaving Microsoft to join the podcasting startup PodTech.Scoble’s site, which focuses on tech issues relating to Microsoft, has been one of the most popular blogs for several years. Of over 3,000 bloggers active at Microsoft, Scoble has been the most [...]