Posts Tagged ‘ SplashCast ’

Splashcast Gets $4 Million More Funding

Mar 21st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Streaming Video, Video

SplashCast, a startup that lets you create your own broadcasting channel, has announced that it has successfully secured $4M in Series A funding.
While the company once hyped the idea of injecting social networking into podcasting, now its focus is “a new form of online marketing called social [...]



SplashCast Announces New Partnership, New Features

Sep 14th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting Services

SplashCast has announced a new partnership with Columbia Records and three new features designed to make the SplashCast experience more interactive. The new features include: FanCast, a new mobile publishing feature; live chat; and built-in Twitter instant messaging.
Here’s the annoucement from SlashCast’s Marshall Kirkpatrick:
New York’s Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia band to have [...]



SplashCast Upgrades Media Player

Aug 30th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Internet TV, Podcasting Services

SplashCast has updated its embeddable media player. The SplashCast service lets you create streaming media ‘channels’ that mix together video, music, photos, [...]



SplashCast Service Introduction Turns Into Podcast Hijacking Controversy

May 3rd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Commentary, General, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services

SplashCast, a startup site that lets users create channels of media content, has found itself in hot water over its new MyPodcastNetwork service, a social networking service for podcasts introduced earlier this week. Instead of generating excitement in the podcasting community, the introduction has generated a furor of anger from podcasters that feel that SplashCast [...]



New SplashCast Feature Ignites RSS Hijacking Controversy

May 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Commentary, General, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services

MyPodcastNetwork, a new social networking service for podcasting introduced yesterday by SplashCast, has ignited a controversy over podcasters’ concerns that the service is hijacking their content.
MyPodcastingNetwork lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, [...]



SplashCast Intros MyPodcastNetwork

Apr 30th, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Internet TV, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Statistics

SplashCast today introduced a new service, MyPodcastNetwork, that lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, is that it’s not static audio or video that gets embedded, but a customized channel of podcast content [...]