Susanne Noatsch, a researcher at Leipzig University in Germany, is looking for input from podcasters for a survey about podcasting. The survey is anonymous – participants do not have to tell their names. The survey will be available online through the end of August. Survey links: US Podcasters | German Podcasters

MarketWatch’s Frank Barnako takes a look at podcasters that make no money with a successful podcast. “Ara Derderian and Braden Russell are the producers of HDTV Podcast,” writes Barnako. “They should be making money with it. They’re not.” Barnako suggests that “The lesson may be that the independent podcaster will have to be satisfied with […]

Tourism Ireland and Aer Lingus has announced that it plans to send three winners to Ireland to podcast.”Tell us why you would like to travel to Ireland and learn to be a good podcaster for Tourism Ireland‚Äôs Your Very Own Ireland contest and you could be one of three winners of a one-week tour to […]

Oneupweb, an online marketing firm, has announced a new podcast analytics service, PodTractor.According to the company, their service offers a way for podcasters to get the metrics that appeal to advertisers, but without being tied to a specific podcast ad service. “Marketers can‚Äôt afford to spend time and money on a tactic, just in case […]

Melodeo, a podcast community for PC and mobile phones, and Alltel Wireless, the largest US mobile network, announced a partnership earlier this week that will give millions of users the ability to listen to podcasts on their wireless phones. In an interview with Podcasting News Publisher Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, Bill Valenti, Executive Vice President at […]

A new podcast directory, Music Only Podcasts, is – you guessed it – a directory that features only music podcasts. It’s currently a fairly small directory, but it is focused and also makes it easy to preview the shows by providing a featured show link for each podcast.

Vacations By Rail, a Chicago-based specialty travel company focusing on train travel, has launched an audio podcast, The Rail Insider, intended to give listeners a unique prospective on travel by train around the world. Each episode focuses on a specific rail itinerary, train tour, train route or experience.‚ÄúMany people have never taken a rail vacation […]

Podcasting is increasingly a threat to the survival of satellite radio providers Sirius and XM. Both companies have faced increasing losses, even as their subscriber bases have grown.Sirius lost $237.8 million for the period compared with a loss of $177.6 million during second quarter of 2005. XM Satellite Radio on July 27 reported a second-quarter […]

Umundo, a start-up specializing in automatic content distribution technologies, has announced a new free service that lets you take video clips taken with mobile devices and publish them for viewing on Apple’s Video iPod. Umundo is designed to work directly with any mobile phone without additional software. Video clips and pictures are published to and […]

Alltel Wireless, America’s largest mobile network, and Melodeo, a podcast community for PC and mobile phones, today launched Axcess Mobilcast service. The service lets Alltel Wireless customers search and listen to thousands of podcasts on their wireless phones for a monthly subscription of $3.99. Alltel Wireless is the first company in the United States to […]