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 advertisements.” According to the compan, their social […]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael W. Geoghegan has a great post today on his site that looks at making money with podcasts. Geoghegan has written several books on podcasting, has been involved since the early days of podcasting, he helped Disney create their podcast and has run a podcasting network. And while many podcasters have […]

Entrepreneur, podcaster and blogger Jeff Pulver has announced that his latest venture, PrimeTimeRewind.tv, is now live. The site is intended to be a sort of TV Guide for Internet television, with a social media twist. “We would like to put you one-click away from watching your show,” according to Pulver. “Prime Time Rewind also allows […]

Based on the latest stats from M:Metrics, the iPhone is delivering on its hype, radically changing what people are doing with the mobile Web. Check out some of these figures: The iPhone is already the most popular device for accessing news and information on the mobile Web, with 85 percent of iPhone users accessing news […]

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 […]

This video, via the always-awesome Seth Godin’s blog, is an awareness test. Can you count how many times the white team passes the ball?

TiVo today introduced version 2.6 of TiVo Desktop for Windows, adding deeper support for Web videos and podcasts. Features include: You can now transfer all your downloaded Web Video from your PC to your TiVo DVR so you can watch them on your TV. Automatic conversions of your TiVoToGo transfers to support portable devices that […]

We’ve noted before that bad advertising is holding back the development of Internet television. Advertisers aren’t sure where to advertise on the Internet, how to advertise in new media or how to measure their success, and they’re spending their money on old media as a result, even though they know traditional advertising is becoming less […]

Podcasting startup PodShow has laid off one-third of its staff, according to a report Valleywag: PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET’s Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much as 30 percent of its staff. “There are no secrets, only information you don’t […]

YouTube has announced that it’s going “higher def”: We’re making these streams available on certain videos, based upon the source file uploaded to us, and over time you’ll find a greater percentage of the library is available to view in higher quality. This feature applies to all eligible videos uploaded from the YouTube community, and […]