The industry group formed around the nascent podcast industry, The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), has announced the release of two sets of recommended guidelines: ad unit standards and audience measurement guidelines. The recommendations released today grew from feedback and discussions of proposed standards, which were first unveiled in April at the ad:tech conference in [...]

The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), an industry organization formed to focus on best practices for podcast advertising and metrics, will be introducing its ad standards and guidelines at the upcoming ad:tech San Francisco show April 16 and 17, 2008.
Get the Download focus areas will appear in several formats at ad:tech including:

Four ADM Forum sessions [...]

A new organization, the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM), announced its formation yesterday. The goal of the ADM is to create standards for audience measurement and advertising for downloadable media. The ADM also hopes to accelerate the growth of podcasting into a commercially viable medium.
The ADM plans to focus primarily on the world of podcasting, [...]

UK podcast forum Britcaster will be closing December 15th, according to a post at Blogger News Network. Neil Dixon the man behind it, who now works for Adam Curry and Ron Bloom’s PodShow in the UK, has decided to pull the plug after two years.Dixon cited reasons of having insufficient time available to manage the [...]

Wizzard Software released a shareholder announcement today, highlighting its accomplishments in the first three quarters of 2006.
According to the company, “With the acquisitions of Switchpod and Blast Podcast and the pending acquisition of Liberated [...]

The first national membership organisation for UK podcasters, the UK Podcasters Association (UKPA), has opened its doors for membership.
“We intend UKPA to be run along the lines of a guild or a professional body, existing in order to protect podcasters’ rights and promote their interests nationally and internationally,” according to UKPA Chairman Dean Whitbread. “The [...]