PBS has introduced a new podcast, the Take One Step podcast, as part of a new health campaign launched to raise awareness of heart disease. The campaign features a wide variety of resources to help inform people about the number one killer in the US. To accompany the premiere of The Hidden Epidemic: Heart Disease […]

Irreverent director Kevin Smith (Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma) is podcasting. The Smodcast is described as “the meandering palaver of a pair of dudes whose voices are so dull, they don’t deserve to be on the radio (and, hence, aren’). Kevin Smith and Scott Mosier are SModcast.” SModcast features harsh language and even harsher notions of propriety. […]

Corporate podcast production/promotion company PodGarden has announced an enterprise-level tracking service. The PodTractor service verifies audiences for large podcasting organizations similar to print magazine circulation audits. PodTractor executives say this tool lets podcasters accurately describe their audience size to potential advertisers and sponsors, or present an accurate accounting of returns to investors and management. On […]

The Art Institute of Chicago has introduced a new podcast, the Musecast. The Chicago museum plans to offer interviews, conversations, features, and music. The podcast has grown out of the museum‚Äôs online lectures and gallery talks, which have been available for download for several months. The most recent podcast (link below) features an interview with […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron hopes that his new video podcasting studio will be less about advertising and more about creating interesting shows: Abby Corps is about enabling content creators by building community. When the emphasis is shifted towards supporting great quality content and the options for monetizing that content remain open to outside partnerships and […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has announced that he is partnering with Jeff Pulver to create a new video podcasting network, Abbey Corps. According to Baron, the new network will be a competitive alternative to Podshow and Podtech, two podcasting startups. “Jeff Pulver and I have co-founded a new studio network,” writes Baron at his blog […]

What do you get when you mix Amanda Condgon, body oil and video chat? Starring Amanda Congdon, a new video blog, featuring the video blogger and former Rocketboom host scheduled, to debut today on Blip.tv. The show is one of the first video blogs to debut with the support of major sponsors, Dove Cream Oil […]

PlayNetwork, a provider of branded audio and video media services for businesses, today announced it has launched a promotional music podcasting service. The company plans to offer “branded podcasts” that use music to create a “brand-building entertainment relationship”.”Branded Podcasts take branded entertainment experiences outside of the store environment and put them directly into the listening […]

Land’s End has invited Santa Claus to blog on their catalogue website. In addition to a scavenger hunt activity, photo contest, downloadable gift tags and story workshop, visitors can subscribe to the jolly old elf’s podcast. There is also a catchy holiday folk song, “Hi Santa,” that you can listen to here (MP3). Caveat listener, […]

Rocketboom founder Andrew Baron has a few choice words about ABC’s new video blog featuring former Rocketboom host Amanda Congdon. He’s also got some interesting points to make about mainstream media’s attempts to clone the success of indie vlogs: “I’m going to set aside all of the technical problems everyone has already mentioned with the […]