“Crowdsourced” songwriting podcast Rise and Shine TV has released a special 3-track EP this week, all remixes of their popular song “Water On The Moon.” The album is being published by the dPulse label, home to such artists as Adrian Belew and Digital. The three tracks on the mini-album include two deep remixes, titled “Drop […]

Tom Webster of Edison Research has a thought-provoking piece on the future of podcasting. At his blog, The Infinite Dial, Webster qualifies the cup-is-half-empty findings of the Zenith Optimedia report (as detailed by eMarketer). To review, Zenith sees the future of podcasting as rosy and profitable only for the lucky few, and podcasting ad revenue […]

Audio gear manufacturer Behringer is giving away a PodcaStudio gear kit in a Twitter-based contest: To help you on your way to new media domination, Behringer is doing another Twitter giveaway.  This time, we are giving away an amazing PODCASTUDIO Firewire Kit that includes a professional 8-input 2-bus mixer, a professional large-diaphragm studio condenser microphone, […]

Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced its first-quarter figures on Friday. The bad news: the company reported a $1.3 million loss for the first quarter of 2009. Revenue is down 29 percent from the same period in 2008. The company attributed the decline to the recession and “specifically mentioned a decrease in staffing revenue within its […]

Video hosting service DailyMotion has selected a new science fiction web series, The Cabonauts, as its first-ever US video commision. “The Cabonauts” is set in the year 2183, when “humans have finally conquered the stars,” but still need a cab to get from one spot to another. Cabonauts, Inc., is that intergalactic cab company. An […]

UK comedy blog Chortle reports that Ricky Gervais’ world-record breaking podcast is getting turned into an animated series for HBO: The 13 half-hour episodes, due to air next year, could make an unlikely star of sidekick Karl Pilkington, whose strange opinions they mercilessly mock. ‘Karl is a man who believes that a sea lion is […]

VTech has introduced a new $200 WiFi radio that promises to make traditional radio irrelevant. The horribly named VTech IS9181 is a Wi-Fi music streaming device, designed to make accessing the near-infinte variety of Internet radio as easy as traditional radio. The IS9181 connects to any wireless network (802.11 b & g) and lets you […]

Calabarock (App Store link) is a free internet-enabled multi-track audio recorder for the iPhone. When you create a track in Calabarock, it’s available almost instantly in MP3 format on calabarock.com for others to hear. The new track is also available instantly for other musicians to play on top of, just as if you were in […]

Podcast advertising revenue is growing, but not as fast as the podcast audience, according to the latest research from ZenithOptimedia.

By 2011, podcast ad spending is expected to grow to $43 million — but that amount comes to less than 0.2% of projected revenue for the total online advertising space.

Will podcast advertising ever catch up with podcast adoption?

The Association for Downloadable Media and Edison Research are pairing up to present a free online Webcast covering the latest reasearch on the audience for podcasts. Tom Webster from Edison Research will present The Podcast Consumer Revealed – 2009, on May 21, 2009, at 1:00 EST. In the Webcast, Webster will discuss the fourth iteration […]