Common Craft put together this fun and simple intro to podcasting. The video is licensed with a Creative Commons license, so you can copy, distribute, display, and perform the work for non-commercial purposes.

The Association for Downloadable Media, a recently-formed industry association “focused on creating standards and guidelines to support the continued and increasing monetization of downloadable media,” last week unveiled proposed guidelines for audience measurement at the ad:tech conference in San Francisco. The draft proposal is open for public discussion and comment for the coming thirty days […]

According to the most recent Tech Poll from radio research firm Jacobs Media, the audience for podcasts is up 87% year to year among rock radio listeners. Here are some of the highlights of their research: New technology continues to rapidly move into radio listeners’ lives. This year, the “big gainers” in terms of occupying […]

Techspansion has introduced AudialHub — an inexpensive Mac app designed to convert dozens of different audio formats (and the audio tracks from video files) to AAC, MP3, WMA, WAV and Apple Lossless formats, with the standard metadata tags in most formats converted and passed on to the finished file. Nearly every aspect of the decoding […]

The ADM, an industry group focusing on commercial downloadable media, is looking for feedback on its proposed Advertising Unit Standards (pdf) and Download Measurement Guidelines (pdf), which were released this week at ad:tech San Francisco. The purpose of the Advertisement Unit Standards is to provide baseline recommendations for advertisement units in order to better facilitate […]

Odeo, an early podcasting startup that has long struggled with its direction, is back, in beta and looking for feedback. While the original site focused on podcast creation, the focus of Odeo’s latest incarnation focuses on viewing and listening to Internet media. Give it a look and let me know what you think of the […]

The Association for Downloadable Media, an industry group focusing on podcasting and new media, today unveiled proposed advertising standards for use with downloadable media. The proposed ad units are offered with an eye toward making negotiations smoother between content creators and advertisers. The proposed standards were presented Wednesday morning in an ADM forum at the […]

EQAL, the faux reality show startup of LonelyGirl15 creators Miles Beckett and Greg Goodfried, has raised $5 million in capital to help it produce new shows and international versions of its show: Per Becket & Goodfried: We’ve spent the last year and a half working hard at producing lonelygirl15, launching KateModern, and figuring out a […]

Today through Thursday, I’m in San Francisco to attend ad:tech, one of a series of conventions focused on advertising and digital marketing. I will be covering the event for Podcasting News, trying to get a sense of what’s happening in downloadable media from the sponsor and advertiser’s point of view. I’m also here to make […]

eMusic, the world’s second-largest digital music service after iTunes, today announced that it has sold more than 200 million downloads since establishing its current subscription model in November 2003. The total comprises music downloads sold in the U.S. and the E.U., where eMusic has been available in all 27 E.U. nations since September 2006. The […]