Lifestyle podcast publisher Personal Life Media have added ten new shows to their network, bringing the total to 35 weekly audio programs and one daily vidcast, along with their companion blogs.

The focus of the new shows ranges widely: from hobby-related digital photography, literature and genealogy, to conversations about lifestyle design and holistic health, to indie music discovery. There is also a motivational show for sales professionals in the “business empowerment” category.

New PLM shows include:

• Digital Photography Life – Make Every Shot Count: Digital Camera Reviews and Tutorials
• Camera Dojo: Digital Photography Enthusiasts
• TheDivaCast: Encouragement, Work Life Balance, Girl Talk, Women’s Issues
• Music For Midnight: Downtempo, TripHop, Ambient, Lounge, Chill and Independent Electronica
• Family History: Genealogy Made Easy
• Life Zero: Adventures in Zen and Lifestyle Design
• Sales Magic: Motivations, Meditations and Visualizations to Kick Your Assets Into Action!
• Words to Mouth: Women’s Novels & Non-Fiction, Author Interviews and Book Reviews
• Dear Zanny: Relationship Advice from a Family Therapist
• Modern Immortal: Unleash Your Vitality, Alternative Medicine, Holistic Health, Wellness and Longevity

New Media Links For 11/12/2008:

• The U.S. military is taking on YouTube. It’s launched TroopTube – a site for troops, their families and supporters – a year and a half after restricting access to YouTube and other video sites. It’s like YouTube, but without the audience.
• blinkx is claiming to have 32 million hours of video indexed in its search engine, which uses speech recognition to identify words spoken within the video.
• Fast Company thinks Hulu, not YouTube, will dominate the future of video. This echoes what we were saying in July: Hulu has built a library of long tail content with advertisers lined up to sponsor it; YouTube has built up a library of long tail user-generated content that’s very difficult or, in some cases, impossible to get sponsors for. You can’t count YouTube out, though, because it’s moving fast to copy Hulu’s model.

Tay Zonday speaks with YouTube’s head of marketing, the head of brand management at Virgin America and Internet celeb LisaNova about YouTube’s upcoming streaming event, YouTube Live.

Tay also explains his new money-making opportunity.

via Mahalodaily.com

The maker of the Flip Video today introduced its latest pocket video camera: the Flip MinoHD, described as the world’s smallest high definition camcorder. Pure Digital Technologies’ Flip MinoHD, priced at $229.99 (MSRP), records up to 60 minutes of HD video. .

With its introduction, MinoHD also becomes the first and only “designable” HD camcorder. Using Flip Video’s personalization platform, launched last month on TheFlip.com, you can choose from thousands of designs or custom-design your own Flip Mino or MinoHD, at no extra cost.

Here are the specs.

Popular children’s program “Sesame Street” is celebrating its 39th year on the air with a move into Internet media, a Reuters article reports.

The public television show, which debuted in 1969, is broadcast in 140 countries, and now will also be available on Hulu, YouTube, and via the iTunes Music Store, according to Sesame Workshop (fka the Children’s Television Workshop).

Clips are free on YouTube and Hulu. At Apple’s iTunes store, people can download full episodes from the past four seasons for $1.99 apiece. iTunes already features some Sesame Street programing, such as “Happy Healthy Ready for School” featuring (my least favorite Muppet) Elmo. You can read more about Sesame Street’s free video podcast here.

Sesame Workshop will get 70 percent of the revenue in the iTunes deal, but the number of viewers is not likely to be a big one at first, said Terry Fitzpatrick, Sesame’s vice president of distribution. (“at first”, or ever, I wonder? People are growing finicky about when and whether they will pay directly for video content, a la iTunes, or if they’ll “pay” indirectly, by watching ads on Hulu content. That’s another discussion for another day.)

YouTube’s Sesame Street channel already has more than 100 clips from the show, including favorites like Grover the waiter. Hulu will feature 100 Sesame Street segments and 30 other segments featuring celebrity guests such as Norah Jones, Johnny Cash and Patrick “Melancholy Dane” Stewart.

P.S.  Sesame Street must be in the zeitgeist this week. This week, I’ve been listening to a wicked mash-up of Muppet Show / Sesame Street songs on an older episode of DJ Deedle’s Deedlecast. Very catchy.

Pittsburgh-based Wizzard Software announced Monday third-quarter revenues of $1,533,339, a 4% increase over revenues of $1,468,476 during Q3 2007. The company also reported revenues of $4,667,690 during the nine month period ended September 30, 2008, a 29% increase over revenues of $3,622,499 for the same period in 2007.

Wizzard provides online publishing tools for podcast media producers, connects advertisers with appropriate media content and distributes the resulting shows to subscribers. Over the past 18 months, the company has also acquired podcast hosting companies Switchpod, Libsyn, and Blast Podcast.

The Wizzard revenue report comes one day after that of Revision3. Rev3 also reported rosy revenues, although that news came in the wake of staff and programming reductions.

In the company’s announcement, Wizzard’s management said they continue to see exceptional network growth: “The potential for monetizing the consumption of media distributed over the Internet and via mobile devices like the iPhone, by connecting advertisers with online media publishers, will significantly surpass the search marketing business in the next 5 to 10 years. We believe Wizzard Media … has the potential to be a significant force in the future of media monetization and distribution over the internet.”

Here are some interesting new media stories for 11/11:

• Idols producers creating a show just for YouTube. FremantleMedia, producer of the “Idols” reality-TV show format and soap opera “Neighbours,” has agreed a deal to produce programs to be shown exclusively on YouTube and to split revenues with the video-sharing site.
• Gizmodo has a Apple TV/Boxee tutorial. We covered BoHow to install Boxee on Apple TV recently, too – it’s a kludge, but it gets Hulu on your Apple TV.
• Video search site Blinkx is still losing money, but at least it’s making more money than it was before.
• There are huge opportunities for people that can help make sense of the Internet – 80% of UK internet users claim ‘information overload’.
• Kent Nichols talks about selling t-shirts to pay for early episodes of your Internet media project.
• Blockbuster really wants to compete with Apple & NetFlix and plans to ship an Internet video box by XMas.

Video podcasting/Internet television startup Revision3 today announced its results for 2008, highlighting revenue tripling from last year, viewership growing to 140 million minutes of engagement monthly and more than 60 advertising partners.

“Despite today’s tumultuous economic climate, Revision3 is making huge strides, dramatically increasing both viewership and revenue,” said Jim Louderback, CEO, Revision3. “Like everyone else, we’re being cautious in how we approach 2009, but we anticipate continued growth over the coming months.”

In October, Revision3 cut staff and eliminated several shows from its lineup.

Revision3’s 2008 highlights include:

• Increased content distribution: Revision3 has signed more than 40 deals with content providers over the past year, including Hulu, YouTube, MySpace and Yahoo.
• Higher audience percentages: With reach doubling in 2008, Revision3 maintains a strong connection with the male, age 18-34 audience. 
• Strong programming lineup: The network continues to produce hit shows, including Diggnation, The Totally Rad Show, Tekzilla and more—with more than six million show views and 140 million minutes of engagement each month.
• Key advertising partnerships: Revision3 has developed strategic partnerships with Air Force, EA, Sony, Anheuser-Busch, Dolby, Virgin America, Go Daddy, Zune, Dr. Pepper, Carmex, Adobe, Microsoft and Axe.

Back in 2006, we said that YouTube As You Know It Is Dead, arguing that Google’s desire to make YouTube “legitimate” would kill off the site’s user-generated focus:

Google’s announcement places emphasis on the legal distribution of professionally produced content. “The combined companies will offer new opportunities for professional content owners to distribute their work to reach a vast new audience,” notes Google in its announcement.

With a $1.65 billion valuation, YouTube will have to regulate the use of traditionally copyrighted music and video in videos posted to the site. It’s also likely that mainstream ad-supported content will be featured prominently at the site, putting video bloggers in the same position that audio podcasters have found themselves in at the iTunes store.

It’s taken longer than we expected, but our prediction is starting to play out.

Google has announced a deal with MGM to feature full-length movies and videos on YouTube – a deal that puts a stake in the heart of YouTube as we know it.

YouTube will now show full-length television shows and films from Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer’s archives. User-generated videos will be competing against full-length movies like Bulletproof Monk, Legally Blonde and The Magnificent Seven. YouTube already has a deal in place to run full-length CBS shows, including Star Trek, Young and the Restless and Beverly Hills 90210.

YouTube’s Most Viewed lists are already dominated by corporate content. This move will only make it harder for interesting user-generated content to get noticed at the site.

Everybody is analyzing Barack Obama’s historic win over John McCain and a lot of smart people have come to the conclusion that Obama’s use of new media was key to his win. 

Here are five of the most interesting looks at the new media angle of Obama’s campaign:

• The New York Times looks at How Obama Tapped Into Social Networks’ Power;
• The Guardian’s Jemima Kiss discusses Why everyone’s a winner with the Obama win;
• Another article at the New York Times talks about How Obama’s Internet Campaign Changed Politics;
• ReadWriteWeb has an interesting look at Obama’s Social Media Advantage;
• Louis Gray takes a look at Obama’s Online Facebook Efforts.