Posts Tagged ‘ Wizzard ’

New Media Expo Update: Wizzard Adds TubeMogul Video Distribution

Aug 14th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcast Distribution, Video, Video Podcasts

Wizzard Media announced a new feature today that allows publishers to distribute videos through TubeMogul’s online video distribution and analytics service, now integrated into the Wizzard Media publishing platform.
TubeMogul’s service lets you upload a video once and then distribute it automatically to top video sites. TubeMogul says that users of this service have historically experienced [...]



Wizzard Revenues Up, Losses Down

Aug 12th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Networks

Podcast hosting service Wizzard Software has announced its second quarter 2008 financial results. They report that revenues are up, expenses are down and losses are decreasing:

Wizzard reports revenues for the second quarter of 2008 of $1,465,874, a 3% increase over revenues of $1,428,097 in the second quarter of 2007
Operating expenses totaled $2,159,433, which was [...]



Wizzard Explains Why It’s Bullish On Podcasting & RSS

Jul 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, New Media Organizations, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Networks, Podcasting Services

In an unusual letter to its shareholders, podcasting mega service Wizzard Software explains why it’s bullish on the prospects for podcasting:
Wizzard has surprised many people by becoming the largest distributor of digital media via RSS (podcasting). While many other companies took the route of launching online video websites and treating RSS distribution as nothing more [...]



Wizzard To Use Adobe Media Player For Video Podcasts

Apr 9th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Podcast Distribution, Streaming Video, Video, Video Podcasts

Wizzard Media is working together with Adobe to distribute video content from their network through the new Adobe® Media Player. Launched today, the Adobe Media Player is the first application built on Adobe AIR software, a cross operating system application platform that extends rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop.
The first installment of video podcasts [...]



Largest Podcasting Host Announces Record Profits

Mar 18th, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Services

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006.
For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 from [...]



Wizzard CEO: Podcast Downloads Will Jump 50-80% In 2008

Feb 8th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Video Podcasts

There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the world of new media about the future of podcasting - people wondering what the current state of podcasting is and where it’s going.
eMarketer forecasts that the audience for podcast consumption will double in the next two years, but even that relatively rosy forecast is disappointing to [...]



Wizzard Stock Starts Trading on AMEX

Feb 7th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: General, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media announced this morning that its common shares are set to begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange (”AMEX”) under the ticker symbol ‚ÄúWZE.‚Äù Previously, the company traded as ‚ÄúWIZD‚Äù on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board.
Wizzard is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit, and [...]



Taking Stock In Podcasting

Jan 31st, 2008 | By James Lewin | Category: Podcasting Services

Wizzard, the podcasting network that recently announced it had served up over a billion podcasts in 2007, announced today that its common shares have been approved for listing on the American Stock Exchange (”AMEX”).
Wizzard is tentatively scheduled to begin trading during the week of February 4th, 2008. The company will be traded under the ticker [...]



Wizzard VP Talks About What A Billion Downloads Means

Jan 10th, 2008 | By Elisabeth Lewin | Category: Making Money with Podcasts, Podcast Distribution, Podcast Hosting, Podcasting Networks

Today’s big podcasting news is that Wizzard Media announced their download totals for 2007, an amazing one billion podcast files downloaded. To put that large number into some context, we talked with Rob Walch, Wizzard’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations (and creator/host of the popular Podcast411).
First off, congratulations - this is pretty stunning news. What [...]



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 [...]