Longtime podcaster and new media consultant C.C. Chapman made an appearance on cable news channel CNN Tuesday, where he talked about how the coverage of Barack Obama’s inauguration by social media: Embedded video from CNN Video Chapman created an early standout among music podcasts with his Accident Hash series. He also hosts the Managing the [...]

Podcast.com announced at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas its list of the “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” for 2007, in conjunction with media aggregation/distribution company Treedia.com, which created the feed management platform used at Podcast.com. Podcast.com, a podcast directory and feed management site, maintains a list of 43,000 podcast feeds. To [...]

Tonight, CNN will be hosting the first of the CNN-YouTube debates of presidential contenders. Democratic candidates will be answering videotaped questions that were submitted by people via YouTube. Questions were submitted between June 14 and July 22 and then selected by CNN’s political team. Some are heralding the event as a sort of democratic revolution, [...]

CNN and YouTube have announced plans to bring broadcast two presidential debates that will feature video questions submitted via Youtube. The questions will be broadcast and answered by the candidates during the CNN debates. CNN’s Anderson Cooper will moderate the two-hour debates and pose follow-up questions. The Democratic debate, the first Democratic National Committee-sanctioned presidential [...]

Sony Pictures has signed to a deal to sponsor CNN video podcasts, making it the first major studio to do so. Sony’s first campaign, is a promotion for the football drama “Gridiron Gang,” starring Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson. The spots run as brief preroll on CNN video podcasts. CNN began video podcasting in June and [...]

CNN has expanded its podcast offerings into video podcasts, launching six free CNN video podcasts that can be viewed online or downloaded to portable media players.The podcasts join several audio podcasts that CNN offers, including an hourly News Update and a twice-daily Business Update. The new video podcasts include: Now in the News – Commuter [...]