Corporate Podcasts

VoloMedia Awarded U.S. Patent On Podcasting

Jul 29th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Featured Story, General, Podcasting, Podcasting Law

VoloMedia, a provider of advertising and reporting solutions for portable media, has announced that it was awarded U.S. Patent 7,568,213, titled Method for Providing Episodic Media. VoloMedia says it expects companies creating products relating to podcasting and media synchronization to enter into partnerships with VoloMedia.

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Hayden Black Snags Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols For Cabonauts Web Series

Jul 7th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, General, Podcasting, Video, Video Podcasts

Pioneering videopodcaster Hayden Black (Goodnight Burbank) has snagged Star Trek’s Nichelle Nichols (Uhura) to star in a web only science fiction comedy musical, TheCabonauts: The news is out and the buzz is pretty damn loud! The wonderful, beautiful, exceptionally talented Nicky Nichols – Star Trek’s Uhura – has come on board the Cabonauts as CJ, […]



Ricky Gervais Podcast To Get Animated For HBO

May 18th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, General, Video

UK comedy blog Chortle reports that Ricky Gervais’ world-record breaking podcast is getting turned into an animated series for HBO: The 13 half-hour episodes, due to air next year, could make an unlikely star of sidekick Karl Pilkington, whose strange opinions they mercilessly mock. ‘Karl is a man who believes that a sea lion is […]



Pricewaterhouse Coopers Podcast: Managing Business During The Downturn

Mar 16th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Podcasting

The Canadian arm of professional services firm Pricewaterhouse Coopers today announced a series of business podcasts which explores “key issues” affecting businesses during an economic downturn. The podcast series, “Strategy Talks,” shares strategies companies can use to address the problems facing companies today. The episodes will feature interviews with PwC “thought leaders” about the recession, […]



Podcasting Goes Mainstream

Mar 4th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, iPods & Portable Media Players, Making Money with Podcasts, Podcasting, Podcasting Research, Podcasting Statistics

Podcasting is going mainstream, at least according to eMarketer: Podcasting has evolved from an odd, funky blogging experiment into a broad medium with mainstream trappings. Today, the vast majority of the top-rated podcasts come from recognizable media entities that are using podcasts to expand their existing radio, TV, cable or satellite audiences. They peg the […]



Will New Media Change The US Government?

Jan 20th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Podcasting Events

The biggest new story of the day may be Barack Obama’s Presidential inauguration, but, at least for people interested in new media, the most interesting story of the day may be the introduction of an official White House blog.  Three years ago, we predicted that the next President would be a podcaster, saying: The next […]



Beer, Blogs and Money

Jan 19th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, General, Making Money with Podcasts

The Times Online has an interesting story today about Scottish beer maker Brewdog, looking at how it used blogging to market their beers. Brewdog’s approach was smart and incredibly cheap – give bloggers free beer. Brewdog was struggling to sell its product until its co-founders hit on the idea of using the internet to market […]



Oprah Podcasts On iTunes

Jan 13th, 2009 | By | Category: Audio Podcasting, Corporate Podcasts, Educational Podcasts, Featured Story, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting, Video, Video Podcasts

If you still have any doubt about whether podcasting is becoming a mainstream phenomenon, Oprah and Apple have announced that her series of podcasts is available through iTunes.



Dealing With Negative Publicity In Real Time

Jan 8th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Internet TV, Video

Wine Library TV’s Gary Vaynerchuk has a great story to tell about getting your site hacked and dealing with bad publicity in real time. Do you think a large corporation can react like this – in “new media time”? via TechCrunch



Free Beatles Podcast Says Hello, Goodbye; The Suits Say “You Can’t Do That!”

Jan 6th, 2009 | By | Category: Corporate Podcasts, Featured Story, Podcast Distribution, Podcasting Law

Norwegian Broadcasting Corporation’s free podcast of all of the Beatles’ music played Hello, Goodbye as it was introduced and then quickly yanked because of licensing agreements.