Posts Tagged ‘ SwitchPod ’

Wizzard Media Serves Up 1 Billion Podcasts in 2007

Jan 10th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Statistics, Video Podcasts

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007.
It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting.
It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. Here are [...]



Podcast Network Provider Wizzard Nabs $7.5 M Investment

Jul 3rd, 2007 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Networks

The Pittsburgh (PA) Tribune-Review reports that Wizzard Software Inc. “entered into an agreement with four institutional investors for $7.5 million in equity financing.”
Wizzard has, in the past year, acquired three podcast-hosting networks, Switchpod, Blast Podcast and Liberated Syndication (Libsyn). This new batch of financing follows a $1.75 million investment announced last October. That earlier financing [...]



Wizzard Finalizes Acquisition Of Libsyn

Mar 2nd, 2007 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, General, Making Money with Podcasts

Wizzard Software has announced that it has signed the final merger agreement for the acquisition of podcasting company Webmayhem, Inc., dba Liberated Syndication, which the company says creates the largest podcasting distribution network in [...]