New research shows that podcasting and social media are important technologies at the fastest growing companies in the US.
The University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Center for Marketing Research recently conducted one of the first statistically significant, longitudinal studies on the usage of social media in corporations.
Research Highlights:

Four out of five companies in the Inc 500 rate [...]

New media is dramatically more efficient than old media at creating Internet content and getting page views, if numbers published by Gawker Media are any example.
According to Gawker publisher Nick Denton, July 2008 traffic to Gawker sites set a record for the organization of 254 million monthly pageviews. Denton goes on to note that Gawker [...]

We talk a lot at Podcasting News about how new media gives anyone the potential to publish to people all around the world.
This poses challenges to traditional media, though, especially newspapers, because they are faced with tens of thousands of nimble new competitors. As a result, newspapers are losing advertisers to Web media, losing future [...]

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 LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web.
The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television.
Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not just successful, [...]

Ed Roberts (photo, right), KC Weather Podcast, and music podcast, Looking Out The Window, led a PodCamp Midwest session called “Join the Conversation: (Ed Roberts is not the guy who invented the Altair computer, nor the guy who founded the disability movement and caused wheelchair-accessible parking spaces to be made availalbe)
The New Media Triangle (barriers [...]

If you’re trying to make money with new media, IDC has some good news for you.
U.S. Internet advertising is growing like mad - up by 25% in 2007 to over 25 billion dollars. And the money’s not all going to Google.
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As people spend more time on the Internet, companies are moving their advertising dollars [...]

Wizzard, the podcasting network that recently announced it had served up over a billion podcasts in 2007, announced today that its common shares have been approved for listing on the American Stock Exchange (”AMEX”).
Wizzard is tentatively scheduled to begin trading during the week of February 4th, 2008. The company will be traded under the ticker [...]

The Wall Street Journal’s Walt Mossberg has a provocative review of Dell‚Äôs XPS One desktop today, saying that “has the guts, design to compete with iMac.”
He explains:
“This new Dell is no mere iMac clone. It makes its own style statement, even though it shares the same 20-inch widescreen display and a similar Intel dual-core processor [...]

In this episode of the New Media Update, Podcasting News’ Elisabeth McLaury Lewin talks with Mark Rotblat, one of the founders of TubeMogul.com, a web video distribution and analytics startup.
TubeMogul has developed an interesting tool for video producers. It lets you upload your video once, and TubeMogul distributes the video to whichever popular video sharing [...]

 

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