Podtrac, a podcasting service provider, today announced it has developed the largest podcasting demographics database worldwide, with over 55,000 detailed demographic profiles, representing more than 22 million U.S. podcast listeners and viewers. Podtrac also announced the findings from its most recent quarterly survey. According to their survey, over half (56%) of the podcast audience is […]

An apartment in Berlin Wilmersdorf will be the meeting point for bloggers, vloggers and podcasters from all over Europe, meeting to cover the 2006 FIFA World Cup, June 9th until July 9th. The weblog WeAllSpeakFootball.com is described as “a once-in-a-lifetime gathering of football fans around the big upcoming event.” “We have a 220 square meter […]

ClickZ marketing guru Pete Lerma has some interesting thoughts on the state of placing podcast sponsorships. “If ever there was a next big thing in online advertising, this is it. We’ve recently helped one of my agency’s clients, Travelocity get in on the podcast sponsorship movement, redirecting online ad dollars to this promising alternative channel,” […]

Verio has introduced a hosted podcasting tool to help small business customers publish podcasts. Verio’s new podcast function lets customers set up and manage RSS (Really Simple Syndication) Feeds, a kind of XML format file that is needed to deliver audio and video podcasting from their site. Customers create and record the podcast audio or […]

The Chrysalis Group, a UK media firm, is vowing to push into podcasting. CEO Richard Huntingford said that he had a team of employees investigating online opportunities in an effort to exploit Chrysalis‚Äôs key radio brands, which also include Galaxy and LBC. The comments came as Chrysalis reported a sharp fall in interim profits to […]

Defeated Singapore Democratic Party candidate Ms Chee Siok Chin has filed a summons in the High Court asking it to declare the results of the 2006 General Election null and void. She also wants the High Court to declare the ban on podcasting during the general election as unconstitutional. “The banning of podcasting and blogging […]

Lynda.com, the multimedia training site of Lynda Weinman, has introduced a new series of tutorials on podcast creation, Podcasting with GarageBand 3.The tutorials, by photographer and digital media guru Scott Bourne, guide students through the process of creating a podcast, including: setting up the software, recording voices, selecting music, adding sound effects, enhancing a podcast […]

Canada‚Äôs first comprehensive podcasting survey is underway, and is looking for input. The study is aimed at discovering what is happening with podcasting in Canada; audience sizes and characteristics, popular podcasts and topics, audience demographics, and more. To participate in the survey and to be entitled to receive a highlighted summary of the results, visit […]

Wired magazine has announced its 2006 Rave Award winners The winner in the Podcast category are the “oddcasters” of The Ricky Gervais Show, a popular UK podcast that is now subscription only.

Dave Winer, programmer, blogging pioneer and one of the fathers of podcasting, has introduced a Top Podcasts list for users of his site Share Your OPML. The list highlights the top 25 podcasts subscribed to by users of the site, which lets users share bookmarks, outlines, feeds and other information in OPML (Outline Processor Markup […]