spodradio, a radio and podcast hub for mobiles, today announced $10 million of Series B funding from Benchmark Capital Europe and Baytech Venture Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate spodradio‚Äôs expansion into international markets and help develop new services. spodradio enables the mobile phone to be used as a music device with “a […]

American Public Media, the nation’s second largest producer and distributor of public radio programs, has announded that it is expanding its podcast offerings. Beginning October 17, American Public Media is making the following full programs available as podcasts: Marketplace, Marketplace Money, Word for Word and American RadioWorks documentaries. The Splendid Table will be offered as […]

Over 40 podcasting seminars are scheduled for the International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22. Anyone with an Internet connection can attend, and participants may download all event recordings. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Lewin of Podcasting News, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. Other speakers include Eric Olson of Feedburner, […]

Podcast Pickle is looking for podcasters to compete in its Pickle Tales: Battle of the Podcast Stars contest. The contest challenges podcasters to write and produce 5-minute stories, skits or essays on an assigned theme. Listeners will be able to vote for their favorites in each round of the contest, and each round will narrow […]

BlogAmp, a service that offers audio hosting and a customizable Flash interface for podcasts and other audio files, is offering a free trial for the next 500 users to try the service through November 10th. The fine print: 50MB Total Storage limit with Unlimited plays/downloads 25 MB limit per uploaded MP3

Added to the podcast directory page: The Aloha Podcast Network, a site that offers a variety of Hawaiian podcasts. Description: Interested in life in Hawaii? Want to find out more about visiting the beautiful “Islands of Aloha”? Now you can sample a wide variety of Hawaii and Hawaiian themed podcast and vodcast via the Aloha […]

A recent study by Edison Media Research shows sharp declines in the amount of time teenagers listen to radio, and even sharper declines among people 12-to-24. The company’s research shows sharp declines in Time Spent Listening (TSL), Persons Using Radio (PUR) and attitudes about radio among the 12-to-24-age group, the listeners who represent both terrestrial […]

Avaricum has release a freeward podcast client, Audiopod, for IPAQ hw6515 and PPC2003/WM5 PDA phones. The software is designed to let users download audio podcasts and listen to them offline. Audiopod helps fill the gap Microsoft has left by not providing podcasting support.

AEC Daily has introduced a series of educational podcasts, the AEC Daily Education podcast, aimed at the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The first episode looks at The Greening of White Goods (MP3). The podcast is an example of a sponsored corporate podcast. The podcast is part of the Whirlpool course, The Greening of ‘White […]

Podcast Ready and mobiBLU today announced the launch of the Cube2, mobiBLU‚Äôs latest MP3 player, which comes pre-installed with Podcast Ready‚Äôs myPodder podcast management software and enhanced audio performance.Users can plug mobiBLU MP3 devices into any Internet-connected computer and access myPodder to update, subscribe to and manage their favorite RSS-delivered media feeds. According to mobiBlu, […]