Old Spice’s latest commercial, The Man Your Man Could Smell Like, is awesome in a dozen different ways – but it’s also a great example of corporate viral video that works.
How many ads get two million views in two weeks on YouTube?
Old Spice doesn’t have to have to put a URL in their ad or [...]

Professional podcast training event company and publisher The Podcast Academy is “opening the vault” for a week, offering for sale a set of audio recordings of all the sessions, panels, and keynote addresses from the 2006, 2007, and 2008 New Media Expo.
“I decided to offer a historical look at podcasting,” said Podcast Academy editor-in-chief Michael [...]

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.
“I made [...]

A number of well-known figures in the podcast production and promotion industry will be featured at the MacWorld Podcasting and Rich Media Symposium, all day next Friday, January 18th, at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco.
The MacWorld Podcasting and Rich Media Symposium promises to cover the whole gamut of podcast issues, from creation, audience-building, monetization, and [...]

Liveblogging the Cult of Blogging session at BlogWorld expo.
We were expecting this panel to be one of the highlights of BlogWorld. Panelists were to include Om Malik of GigaOM; Mike Arrington of TechCrunch; and ubiquitous video podcaster Leo Laporte.
The session got of to an inauspicious start, though. Malik apparently dropped out because of a back [...]

Amid an ever-increasing number of podcast event offerings, the very first Blog World and New Media Expo officially kicks off tomorrow in Las Vegas, Nevada. Business executives were gathering today for a special pre-conference new media workshop, followed by a special sneak preview of the upcoming movie, “The Kite Runner.”
Podcasting News‘ publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin [...]

Forbes has posted their take on the Web Celeb 25, a list of who they consider to be the biggest, brightest and most influential people on the Internet.
Their pick for the No. 1 Web Celeb?
Faux jailbait vlogger Lonelygirl15.
Vloggers and video podcasters are well-represented on the list. Other Internet videographers to make the cut include video [...]