Ze Frank has wrapped up The Show, his weekday video blog conversation with viewers. He posted the final episode (below) on Saturday. Frank’s Show has been amazing for many reasons, but what’s impressed us the most is Frank’s honed sense of how to use video podcasting and the Internet to build a community. Fans of […]

Popular video blogger Ze Frank is planning to end his show this week. Frank’s final episode will air on March 17, 2007.Launched in March 2006 as a one-year project, The Show with Ze Frank takes the form of a conversation between the host, Ze Frank, and the show’s audience of “sports racers.” Together they discuss […]

Have you ever dreamed of being on public radio? Think you might be the next Ira Glass or Terry Gross? If so, you’ll want to check out the Public Radio Talent Quest. The Public Radio Exchange is giving away over $70,000 and a chance to create a new show for public radio. In other words […]

A top Microsoft executive said Thursday that in three years, the bulk of its nearly $1 billion in U.S. ad spending will be in the digital sphere. “We’re actually pretty confident that by 2010, the majority of our media mix will shift to digital,” said Mich Mathews, senior vice president of the company’s central marketing […]

Wizzard Software has announced that it has signed the final merger agreement for the acquisition of podcasting company Webmayhem, Inc., dba Liberated Syndication, which the company says creates the largest podcasting distribution network in the world. Liberated Syndication‚Äôs customer base consists of nearly 6,000 independent and commercial producers of radio and television style internet shows. […]

Podtrac today announced the Podtrac Media Planner, a new online service designed to demistify advertising in podcasts and serial video clips by helping advertisers learn about audio and video podcasts, view demographics and reach, and sample more than 4000 audio and video podcasts. According to Podtrac, the serial nature of audio and video podcasts provide […]

Odeo, a podcasting community that was one of the darlings of early podcasting coverage in the mainstream media, is looking for a buyer: In the last few months, we here at Obvious have been increasingly focused on Twitter. As a result, our original product, Odeo, has not gotten the attention it deserves. It does not […]

Blubrry has announced that it now has 1,000 podcasters partcipating in its podcasting community. Blubrry combines standard podcast directory features with community-building and podcasting advertising options. “In creating Blubrry, we all thought about our previous bad experiences with directories and podcast listing sites,” said Blubrry founder Todd Cochrane. “So Blubrry’s monetization options, the lack of […]

Business Week is hyping the advertising potential of podcasts, calling them The Next Big Ad Medium. According to their analysis, podcasts are poised to grab a larger slice of the multibillion-dollar online advertising pie. They highlight research from eMarketer expects that advertisers will spend more than $400 million on podcasting by 2011, up from $80 […]

Blip.tv has announced a new way for content creators to make money with online videos. The model, “do-it-yourself targeted advertising,” allows shows to promote products, services and causes that are directly relevant to their content. The do-it- yourself (DIY) ads can be used by shows to sell t-shirts, DVDs or other promotional products in addition […]