March 12: It‚Äôs 31 Days of Free Music month at Podcasting News. Every day in March, we‚Äôre going to do our best to hook you up a great free music podcast. Today’s podcast is the Jon Hammond Show – a video podcast that focuses on the music of aptly named jazz organist Jon Hammond. The […]

Use of streaming video increased 38.8% in 2006 across all entertainment and media sites, including free (ad-supported) and subscription services. Internet music radio grew by 17.9% in ‚Äò06. The largest streaming video networks include Internet aggregation sites such as Yahoo, MSN, Real Networks. Traditional media brands such as Disney/ABC and CBS also command significant video […]

Universal Music Group and Bolt have announced that they have reached an out-of-court settlement resolving the lawsuit brought by UMG against Bolt. UMG sued Bolt for copyright infringement in connection with the unauthorized use of UMG‚Äôs video and music content on the Bolt website. Universal sought damages of up to $150,000 for each video distributed […]

Edwards Air Force Base has launched a video podcast, Dateline Edwards, the first video podcasts in the Department of Defense, according to the base. “We’re very proud of’Dateline Edwards and have been looking for ways to expand its distribution,” said Dawn Waldman, 95th ABW Public Affairs chief of electronic news. “Soon after we started the […]

After receiving a court order, Turkey’s largest telecommunications provider, Turk Telecom, Wednesday blocked access to YouTube because it featured video clips that were seen as insulting to Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the founder of modern Turkey. The censorship marks the latest battle between Web titans such as YouTube’s corporate parent, Google Inc., and foreign governments over […]

iLuv has introduced a new device, the iLuv i182, that is designed to make capturing video for playing on an iPod easy. Videos can be captured manually or in increments of 30, 60, 120, or 180 minutes with resolution as high as 640 x 480, 2.5 Mbps. The dock connects to any source with an […]

HDTV pioneer and Dallas Maverick owner Mark Cuban thinks it’s time for media companies to start filling YouTube with spam. Cuban highlights the fact that YouTube may have received as much traffic from people viewing Oscar clips as Oscar.com, and asks “Do the Oscars benefit or are they harmed by their video being seen on […]

Winners of a Canadian national video podcast competition have been announced. First place went to students from St. Jospeh Catholic High School in Ottawa (Ontario). Three students from Argyle Alternative High School in Winnipeg (Manitoba)¬† have won second and third place. The contest, organized by the Media Awareness Network, was designed to help young people […]

While most recent coverage of YouTube has focused on the controversy over the site yanking 100,000 Viacom videos, a new report suggest that YouTube users prefer homemade videos over mainstream content. According to research company HitWise, user-generated videos are more popular on the Youtube than commercial videos. ‚ÄúIf you look at the search terms driving […]

RingTales has announced the debut of a new podcast featuring animated New Yorker Cartoons. Subscribers to the podcast will receive three new animations of The New Yorker “RingTales” each week. RingTales has the exclusive license to animate and distribute The New Yorkers library of over 70,000 cartoons. “In making the transition from page to screen, […]