March 23: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. We’re still on our way back from the Corporate Podcast Summit. We’re spending some unplanned time in Detroit, thanks to Northwest Airlines cancelling our […]

The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is fighting to protect the free speech rights of MoveOn.org Civic Action and Brave New Films after their parody of The Colbert Report was removed from YouTube because of a copyright complaint from media giant Viacom. Viacom recently asked YouTube to remove 100,000 video clips from Viacom-owned properties, including MTV […]

Microsoft is locking down its video-sharing site, Soapbox, limiting membership so it can create better safeguards against pirated content. After Viacom announced its $1 billion lawsuit against YouTube, Microsoft appears to have decided its video sharing site offered too juicy a target. Here’s Microsoft’s statement on the changes: Dear Soapbox users, Thanks for helping us […]

March 22: We‚Äôre on our way back from the Corporate Podcasting Summit, and we’re stuck in Detroit for a couple of days. There’s nothing like travelling 24 hours, to be almost home and then to find out your flight has been cancelled. We’re a little behind as a result, but we expect to get caught […]

According to new research from comScore, primetime for Internet video is 5-8 pm weekdays. In January, nearly 123 million people in the U.S. (70 percent of the total U.S. Internet audience) viewed 7.2 billion videos online. The average video streamer viewed 59 streams during the course of the month — nearly two videos per day […]

Several bloggers have posted about their experiences tearing into Apple TV hardware: Make Magazine shows you how to open your Apple TV and warranty, but not how to upgrade it. Engadget has an article on upgrading the hard drive to 80GB Gizmodo has teaser info on a 120GB hard drive upgrade The hard drive size […]

March 21: We’ve looked at many types of music podcasts this month as part of our 31 Days of Free Music, ranging from free classical music shows to barrages of noise. You can’t look at free music without thinking about the Grateful Dead – one of the early supporters of DIY concert taping. Luckily for […]

macProVideo.com has released GarageBand 103: Podcasting In GarageBand, a new Garageband training tutorial. This tutorial teaches valuable podcasting skills including recording and editing podcasts, using GarageBand‚Äôs built-in DSP effects to compress and EQ your voice to give it that big podcast sound, making enhanced podcasts with images and URL links listeners can click, and publishing […]

According to new research from advertising service provider DoubleClick, viewers click the “Play” button on video ads more than they click on image ads. They also found that video ads are typically played two-thirds of the way through and video ad click rates are far higher than those of image format ads. “Online video ads […]

The audience for podcasts has grown 18% in the last year, according to an upcoming report from Edison Media Research. Awareness of podcasting has grown even more, jumping from 22% in 2006 to 37% in 2007. At the Corporate Podcasting Summit, held March 19-20 in London, Edison Media Research VP Tom Webster gave a preview […]