MySpace today announced the launch of a new section within MySpace Video featuring premium content from top corporate news and lifestyle brands. MySpace Video will launch ‚Äúbranded channels‚Äù for National Geographic, The New York Times, Reuters, The Daily Reel, Expert Village, Flow, FOX‚Äôs IGN Entertainment, Octane TV, Kush TV, Ripe TV, Studio411, VBS.tv, and Young […]

Amazon.com today officially launched the Amazon Podcasts network, an original podcast offering¬†that features four channels of free content: Amazon BookClips, Music You Should Hear, Significant Seven and Amazon Wire. The company expects to offer several additional channels in the coming months to meet its customers‚Äô increasing demand for rich content related to the products they […]

Podcast aggregation site Odeo today announced that its assets have been acquired by SonicMountain, a New York based company focused in the digital media hosting and search marketplace. Odeo was among the first commercial podcasting sites, launched in July 2005, and is designed to make it easy to listen, download and subscribe to podcasts. The […]

YouTube has announced a new program to expand its revenue sharing program to top YouTube video bloggers, including LisaNova, renetto, HappySlip, smosh, and valsartdiary. Participating user-partners will be treated as other content partners and will have the ability to control the monetization of the videos they create. Once they‚Äôve selected a video to be monetized, […]

PodShow and Sirius are parting ways. PodShow podcasts will lose their satellite audience as of May 1st, according to reports from affected podcasters. The split is a setback for PodShow podcasters, which include Soccergirl, Dawn & Drew and Scott Sigler. The split is likely to be little more than a speedbump, though, for podcasting as […]

Magazine publisher Marie Claire’s podcast series, The Masthead With Marie Claire, is getting the magazine attention….but for the wrong reasons. The podcast is raising questions about the blurring of advertising and editorial content in podcasts. The video podcasts, which are produced in collaboration with Podshow.com, are sponsored by Unilever and Diesel. The video podcasts feature […]

Nearly 30 years after it aired on television, episodes of WKRP, a television show about the antics of a Cincinatti radio station, are being made available on DVD. Unfortunately for fans, the series, which prominently featured Dr. Johnny Fever (played by Howard Hesseman) playing popular music of the day, has been “butchered”, removing the music […]

PEHub, a public forum for private equity, reports that PodBridge has raised around $8.5 million in its second round of venture capital financing. Podbridge offers measurement and ad services for advertisers and publishers; provides advertisers with significant control over the insertion of ads within specific content; and enables targeting to specific demographics. Sutter Hill Ventures […]

Podcasting network Wizzard Media announced today that they have hired Jim Else, a 30-year advertising sales veteran previously with Time, Inc., as Vice President of Sales. Mr. Else will lead the advertising sales team with the goal of monetizing podcasts and creating new opportunities for content creators and advertisers. Else spent 20-years as an advertising […]

EPOIA Interactive Studios today launched its PodshowCreator ContentPay service in association with Amazon.com’s Associates program. PodshowCreator is a web-based podcast software and hosting service offered by EPOIA. ContentPay is a new PodshowCreator service that lets podcasters earn revenue with a customizable storefront that showcases Amazon.com products relevant to the content of the podcast. Each time […]