Last March, we enjoyed bringing you Thirty-One Days of Music, featuring a different free music podcast each day. This March, blogger–podcaster–songwriter Dean Whitbread (aka @DeekDeekster) has been taking a different approach to a music-filled month of March. Five mornings a week, he and a group of spectator/collaborators have been writing a fresh song daily on […]

YouTube has introduced a new analytics tool to provide YouTube publishers on how their videos are being viewed. Today we’re releasing YouTube Insight, a free tool that enables anyone with a YouTube account to view detailed statistics about the videos that they upload to the site. For example, uploaders can see how often their videos […]

We have some serious availability problems at Podcasting News over the last five days, for which we apologize. We’ve moved most of the site to a new host, Media Temple, and still have a few loose ends to wrap up. Our previous web host, 1and1, updated our main server last week with a system that […]

The French have always been careful guardians of their long-lived and vibrant culture. But in recent decades, the globalization of communication, commerce, and technology has brought about an influx of unwelcome, widely-used English terms. People look forward to le weekend, and surf le web. Fed up with the creeping anglicization (is that even an English […]

YouTube today announced the winners in its 2007 YouTube Video Awards, which seem to have come and gone again this year with a whimper, not a bang. Winning videos include Laughing Baby, Potter Puppet Pals and Human Tetris. Here’s the complete list. Given its place as the number one Internet video destination, you’d think YouTube […]

Edirol has announced the availability of the R-44, a professional mobile recording workstation. The Edirol R-44 is a 2 lb. portable recorder that offers up to 24-bit and 192kHz recording and uses SDHC cards to store the audio recorded. Features: 4 channels XLR (with phantom power) & balanced/unbalanced TRS combo inputs digital RCA and headphones […]

SplashCast, a startup that lets you create your own broadcasting channel, has announced that it has successfully secured $4M in Series A funding. While the company once hyped the idea of injecting social networking into podcasting, now its focus is “a new form of online marketing called social advertisements.” According to the compan, their social […]

Podcasting pioneer and author Michael W. Geoghegan has a great post today on his site that looks at making money with podcasts. Geoghegan has written several books on podcasting, has been involved since the early days of podcasting, he helped Disney create their podcast and has run a podcasting network. And while many podcasters have […]

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006. For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 […]

This video, via the always-awesome Seth Godin’s blog, is an awareness test. Can you count how many times the white team passes the ball?