Podcast hosting service Wizzard Software has announced its second quarter 2008 financial results. They report that revenues are up, expenses are down and losses are decreasing: Wizzard reports revenues for the second quarter of 2008 of $1,465,874, a 3% increase over revenues of $1,428,097 in the second quarter of 2007 Operating expenses totaled $2,159,433, which […]

MediaWeek reports that podcasters Gretchen Vogelzang and Paige Heninger, hosts of the successful MommyCast podcast, have made a deal with Media Rights Capital to produce at least 120 original video segment. Paul Vogelzang, the executive producer of MommyCast, says that they hope to reach a larger audience with the videos. “Video is more of a […]

Blog Maverick Mark Cuban argues that the best way to increase your audience for Internet video is to allow downloads: Many of the major video sites have added this option, but its amazing that newspaper, TV and other sites that have recently added video, for the most part do not. With online video, maybe adding […]

Blubrry’s Angelo Mandato has introduced a new option for publishing podcasts with WordPress, the Blubrry Powerpress Podcast Plugin. WordPress podcast publishers frustrated by the current state of the PodPress plugin may want to give Powerpress a try. The Blubrry Powerpress interface lets you add/modify/remove podcast episodes from blog posts and includes a basic media player […]

TASCAM has announced three recording bundles designed to offer everything you need, besides your computer, to record high-quality audio. TASCAM’s hitting several different price points, to appeal to different budgets and meet different requirements: The Track Pack T1 combines the US-122L audio interface with a dynamic microphone, headphones and Cubase LE4 recording software. Track Pack […]

Internet video producers are making money and averaging more than $12 per 1,000 views, according to a Web Video Study (pdf) by video distribution platform TubeMogul. Here are some of the highlights of the survey: More than half (51.1%) of those surveyed are making money with their videos. Of those that are monetizing their videos, […]

RawVoice‘s Angelo Mandato has released a new free WordPress plug-in designed to help you promote your blog and podcast. Subscribe Sidebar displays subscription icons with links in the WordPress sidebar. The plugin detects the presence of the Podpress podcasting plug-in and can display the Podpress podcast feed, if configured. Subscribe Sidebar options: RSS 2 Feed […]

Rocketboom has announced a big distribution and advertising deal with Sony Pictures, giving the daily video blog exposure and promotion across all of Sony’s IP universe: via PS/3, Bravia TV and Crackle.

We talked with Rocketboom creator Andrew Michael Baron about the deal, the future of Rocketboom and more.

Kaltura, a company that creates open source Internet video software, has released an Interactive Video Plugin for WordPress. Features: Embed videos, photos, sounds and remixes to any blog post. Edit and remix videos using an online full-featured video editor. Easily import video, photos, audio etc from across the web with upload/import tool. Allow readers and […]

At the Digital Watch blog, Steven Lin has posted an interesting article looking at Why Podcasting Never Killed the Radio Star in China: Three years ago, an article from Time magazine changed my life. “Will Podcasting Kill the Radio Star?”The idea of a automatically-downloaded multi-media feed changing the new media landscape blew my mind. In […]