Podcast community site Blubrry has introduced 4 new features:
Show promos - This will make it easier for listeners to get a quick introduction to a show and allow podcasters in the network to more easily promote each other.
Audio embed - this feature gives members added exposure beyond Blubrry and their own websites.
Surveys - this is [...]
Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that it served over 13,700,000 podcast ad impressions through its Alchemy advertising technology in the quarter ending June 30, 2009. This represents an increase of 251% year-to-year and a 46% increase from the 9.4 million ad impressions served in the first quarter of 2009.
Wizzard Ad Impression History
2008 – Q2 [...]
Earlier in the week, we reported that free podcast hosting site WildVoice.com was abruptly shutting down.
blubrry’s Todd Cochrane has announced a special for former WildVoice users:
The team at Blubrry is sad to see another Podcast Hosting and Podcast Media site going off-line. However, the news of WildVoice shutting down July 1 means podcasters hosted at [...]
Users of free podcast host WildVoice.com have been notified that the service will cease operation next month. The latest (and perhaps last?) post on the company blog states:
“We will no longer be supporting the WildVoice.com site as of July 1, 2009. The site will shutdown sometime on or after that date.
We’re sure you’ve noticed that [...]
If you’re looking for a hosted blog platform, you may want to avoid Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces.
According to figures released today by Royal Pingdom, Microsoft’s Windows Live Spaces is down more than 12 times as much as Wordpress, Blogger and TypePad.
Royal Pingdom checked nine major blogging services over a four month period to see how [...]
Podcast production and hosting site Blubrry.com today announced the addition of Open ID sign-in capabilities. Open ID is an open, decentralized standard for “user authentication and access control.” In other words, it allows users to log onto many sites and services with a single digital identity.
Blurbrry founder Todd Cochrane explains:
“You can now login to Blubrry.com [...]
Erik Rassmussen has released a WordPress plugin that’s designed to make it easy for audio bloggers to use YouTube as a free audio host.
YT-Audio adds an flash audio player to your blog that streams audio from YouTube. It works by trimming the standard YouTube video player to only show the controls. The above image shows what [...]
Late last year, podcast network and hosting provider Podango shut down rather abruptly.
We heard from Podango cofounder Lee Gibbons yesterday, with an update on what is happening with the Utah-based startup:
I hope this message finds you well. This email is to update you on Podango’s situation.
After seeking funding from both traditional and nontraditional sources for [...]
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Podcast hosting service Podango’s site has been wiped off the face of the internet.
Visit their site and you’ll get a message that they are “currently on vacation”. Podcasters hoping to recover anything from Podango’s site appear to be out of luck.
But at least their logo now shows Podango as being out of beta!
On Dec 26th, [...]
blubrry has announced that it’s offering a free month of podcast hosting to podcasters left homeless by the Podango failure:
We are prepared to assist the Podango podcasters by offering a step by step process and and special tool to automate the transferring of media files from Podango to the Blubrry network. In addition we [...]