Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced the release of Alchemy 2.1. The advertising-insert application “seamlessly” integrates advertisements into podcasts playing on the Wizzard Media Flash player, while also maintaining advanced tracking and interactive capabilities. The updated app eliminates the need for separate systems to run (and track) advertisements in downloaded podcasts versus streaming audio or video […]

Mac software developers Reinvented Software released an updated version of their RSS editor application Feeder on Tuesday. Feeder 2.0 is an RSS editor for creating a variety of news feeds, including podcasts. This latest version adds weblog integration, announcements, editing and preview improvements, live validation, Amazon S3 uploading, iTunes U support, and an improved user […]

Humble Daisy’s ProfCast 2.5.0 – a lecture recording and podcast creation solution – has been updated with new functionality and bug fixes. Among the most significant additions to ProfCast is the ability to export recordings in the .m4v format. “A lot of users have requested the the ability to share their recordings in the .m4v […]

Traditional radio, like newspapers, faces a bleak future, with audiences turning into portable media and radio ad revenues plummetting. National Public Radio, though, is beating the odds, growing while other broadcasters and news sources are collapsing. Fast Company suggests that early adoption of podcasting may be one of the reasons for NPR’s success: “We have […]

Audiofile Engineering has released a new application that turns the iPhone and iPod Touch into a professional field recorder. Called FiRe [iTunes App Store link], short for Field Recorder, the application boasts some serious capabilities for its $5.99 price. According to Audiofile Engineering, FiRe is the first iPhone (iPod Touch) application to display an accurate […]

Amanda Congdon and mobile television company Flo TV have announced a deal to distribute her Sometimes Daily videoblog via Flo TV’s network. The deal will make Congdon’s show available to 150 million cell phones users throughout America. Sometimes Daily is a four-time-a-week light news video podcast, hosted by videoblogging golden girl Amanda Congdon. Congdon’s best […]

In Stories With Alliterative Headlines (see above) this week, podcasting network Blubrry released a new Power Press plugin for their users, which aims to simplify moving podcast content to the Word Press platform from other content management systems: “While the latest version of PowerPress contains a large number of bug fixes we have a new […]

Chris Bulger of web analytics concern Compete has compiled some interesting statistics on most-listened-to stations on Sirius Internet Radio. Compete tracks two million media consumers’ overall Internet behavior; Bulger examined the listening habits of those who listen to the satellite network’s online offerings. With hundreds of different channels to choose from, I would have thought […]

For a gloomy start to the new work-week, digital marketing and media researcher/analysts eMarketer has an article this morning, detailing a bleak outlook for media around the world that rely on advertising revenues to get by. eMarketer looked at planned advertising spending, calling the spends “a barometer of economic confidence.” The company has examined at […]

Wavosaur is a free sound editor, audio editor, wav editor software for editing and recording sounds, wav and mp3 files. Wavosaur supports basic audio editing (cut, copy, paste, etc.), plus has features for creating audio loops, analyzing audio and doing batch processing.Wavosaur supports VST plugins, ASIO driver, multichannel wav files, real time effect processing. The […]