Posts Tagged ‘ Wizzard ’

Wizzard Announces New Ways For Podcasters To Make Money

Feb 10th, 2010 | By James Lewin | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Software

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media today announced the availability of In App Purchasing for its Podcast Apps in the iTunes App store.
Wizzard’s iPhone App is designed to be quickly customized for each podcast. It lets podcast publishers offer their own iPhone App.
With In App Purchasing capabilities, podcast publishers will be able to offer their paid [...]



Wizzard Delivers 1.4 Billion Podcasts In 2009

Jan 12th, 2010 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Networks

Wizzard today announced that it recorded 1.4 billion podcast download requests in 2009 through its podcast-hosting service Libsyn, or about 16% more than it delivered in 2008.
Libsyn received an average of 3.77 million requests for podcast episodes per day in 2009. On average, 23 minutes per episode equates to almost 1.5 million hours of programming [...]



Podcast Network Wizzard Intros Usher’s Top 100 iPhone App

Sep 12th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Networks, iPods & Portable Media Players

Podcasting network Wizzard Media has announced Usher’s Top 100 (App Store link), an iPhone app featuring 100 of the pop superstar’s favorite songs in a streaming playlist.
The App will sell for $2.99 and the deal calls for a revenue share between the parties.
Usher is a Wizzard Network podcaster.
“iPhone apps are exploding, including for musical [...]



Wizzard Betting On Yo Mama

Aug 17th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting

Podcasting network Wizzard Media has announced that it will be promoting and distributing three more iPHone apps – Word Party, Dietician and Yo Mama.
Wizzard hopes to leverage its podcast distribution network to market the apps in an effort to generate revenue. Wizzard believes this step will put it closer to its goal of profitability. The [...]



Wizzard Media Launches LibsynPro 3.0, Custom iPhone Podcasting Apps

Aug 14th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services, Podcasting Software, iPhone

Wizzard Media announced today the availability of LibsynPRO 3.0, a new digital media publishing platform designed to give media producers the ability to pick and choose, in an a la carte fashion, media syndication packages to suit their needs.
The LibsynPRO 3.0 digital media publishing system is based around a redesigned publishing engine that is capable [...]



Wizzard Media Expands iPhone App Promotion In Podcasts

Jul 24th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting Networks

Podcasting network Wizzard Media is expanding it program to promote iPhone apps in podcasts with the acquisition of distribution rights to three new iPhone apps: Word Party, Dietician and Yo Mama.
Wizzard plans to continue to acquire the rights for up to 100 already launched and approved iPhone Apps to provide podcast producers with a continuous [...]



Wizzard: Podcast Downloads Up 45%

Jul 7th, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Featured Story, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Research

Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced that podcast downloads from their network were up by 45% in Q2, compared to 2008.



Wizzard Media Podcast Advertising Up 46% In One Quarter

Jul 1st, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Statistics

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 [...]



Podcast Network Plans To Promote, Distribute iPhone Applications

Jun 3rd, 2009 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Podcasting

Podcasting network Wizzard Media today announced plans to distribute iPhone applications, starting with six apps: Blue Attack, OmNomNom, Sudoku Unlimited, TouchScan, Blue Defense and Sudoku Classic.
The move seems like a strange one, at first glance. But Wizzard plans to use its podcast network as an advertising platform to promote the iPhone applications:
Based on current sales [...]



Another Quarter, Another Million: Wizzard Posts Q1 Loss

May 18th, 2009 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting, Podcasting Networks

Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced its first-quarter figures on Friday. The bad news: the company reported a $1.3 million loss for the first quarter of 2009.
Revenue is down 29 percent from the same period in 2008. The company attributed the decline to the recession and “specifically mentioned a decrease in staffing revenue within its health [...]