For the third year in a row, Dixie Consumer Products has renewed its sponsorship of the MommyCast podcast, with a new 2008-year agreement. The continuing relationship will allow Dixie to maintain its role as a “preferred online sponsor” and partner of the long-running and popular MommyCast. Gretchen Vogelzang, co-host and co-founder of MommyCast, said, “We […]

The Association for Downloadable Media has invited its members to an ADM committee update meeting/conference call being held during this week’s MacWorld. All ADM members are encouraged to participate on the call. The Association for Downloadable Media is an industry association focused on providing advertising and audience measurement standards for episodic and downloadable media (like […]

It looks like podcasting pioneer Dave Winer took issue with Mashable’s rant about their inability to get advertisers interested in their podcast ideas. Winer also took issue with our response. We said that if you want to podcast professionally, you have to start thinking like a professional podcaster. “Both sides of this argument are full […]

Mark Hopkins at Mashable has penned an new variation on the podcasting doom and gloom story, in response to the recent news that Wizzard Media served up 1 billion podcasts in 2007. Hopkins acknowledges that “people do indeed love to download podcasts, and that it is a sharply growing medium.” But Hopkins goes on to […]

Today’s big podcasting news is that Wizzard Media announced their download totals for 2007, an amazing one billion podcast files downloaded. To put that large number into some context, we talked with Rob Walch, Wizzard’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations (and creator/host of the popular Podcast411). First off, congratulations – this is pretty stunning news. […]

ReadWriteWeb’s Marshall Kirkpatrick reports that Wizzard Media, the owners of the Libsyn, Switchpod and Blast Podcast networks, will announce tomorrow that it passed the 1 billion download mark in 2007. It’s an impressive number, one that’s sure to generate a lot of buzz for both Wizzard and podcasting. It’s been an interesting ride for Wizzard. […]

The controversy over the Richter Scales’ Here Comes Another Bubble appears to be drawing to a close. The video was taken down from YouTube after photographer Lane Hartwell objected to the unauthorized use of one of her photos in the video. This has led to a great deal of debate over the role of copyright […]

Google today announced a new standard for helping search engines index video, Video Sitemaps. Video Sitemaps is an extension of the Sitemap Protocol that helps make your videos more searchable via Google Video Search. By submitting this video-specific Sitemap in addition to your standard Sitemap, you can specify all the video files on your site, […]

Online video behemoth YouTube announced today an initiative in which original content creators will now have an opportunity “to reap rewards from their work” and receive the same promotional benefits afforded to YouTube’s other professional content partners. YouTube is inviting US and Canadian users to join their expanded YouTube Partner Program. Earlier this year, the […]

Paul Colligan, a long-time podcaster and a business podcasting guru, has posted some interesting thoughts on easy ways to make your podcast more valuable, all of which are simple and “bite-sized”: Spend less than ten bucks on a domain name for your new production company. Advertisers don‚Äôt want to deal with directors, they want to […]