Gervais Claims New Podcasting Record; Most Hyped Podcast Ever?
Jun 22nd, 2006 | By James Lewin | Category: Audio Podcasting, General, Strange 
Podcasting comedian Ricky Gervais is claiming to have beaten his own his own record for the most downloaded podcast ever. Earlier in the year, his podcast landed him in the Guinness Book of World Records with an average of 261,670 downloads per episode.But people didn’t stop downloading the show once he got the record. So the number got bigger. According to Gervais, the total rose to 541,329 by the time the first series of The Ricky Gervais Show ended in February.
Gervais began charging for his podcast with his second series. He hasn’t released figures for downloads of later episodes.According to the BBC, Gervais’s show “largely consists of Gervais and Merchant teasing Pilkington for his idiotic ideas, including his regular Monkey News bulletin of news stories about apes.”
[…] fan Ernest Lupinacci suggests that Stern produce the show on his own, and, in the business model of Ricky Gervais, sell it to paying subscribers as a premium podcast. “In the new digital age, distribution is […]