CBS has found that offering video downloads increases the audiences for their TV shows. A poll taken by CBS found that over half of the users who streamed CBS shows on the Web had never seen the shows before on TV. According to CBS, the new users then became fans of those shows. “We’re looking […]

Podcaster Steve Eley (Escape Pod) has introduced a new site, PodDisc that offers CD duplication and sales services for podcasters wanting to make money off of their podcast archives. Podcasters can supply PodDisc with content, cover art and a description, and PodDisc will create discs and sell them via an online store. You set the […]

Business Capital Edge today announced an upcoming conference for communications professionals, Social Media 2007, to be held January 30-31, 2007 in Atlanta. The conference will focus on presentations and case studies from corporations and organizations that successfully using corporate blogging and podcasting. Social Media 2007 will be held at the InterContinental Buckhead Atlanta and is […]

Amazon.com‚Äôs editors picked Tricks of the Podcasting Masters as one of the Top 10 Reference Books of 2006. This was the only book about podcasting to be included in any of the editors’ picks categories. Tricks of the Podcasting Masters, published by Que Publishing in May 2006, was co-authored by veteran podcasters Mur Lafferty (Geek […]

Zipp Speed Weaponry , a company that specializes in performance cycling gear, has introduced the ZippCast, a podcast aimed at the professional cyclist, triathlete, and cycling enthusiast. The show is an example of a corporate edutainment podcast. The ZippCast features conversations with professional cycling athletes, shares the stories of the triathlon and road race life […]

KCRW, a Santa Monica, CA public radio station, has doubled its audience using podcasting and other Internet audio technologies. KCRW is aggressively pushing live streaming of programs, podcasting and other Internet audio technologies, and in the process, demonstrating the potential the Internet may hold for all radio stations, public or commercial. KCRW online had 760,000 […]

Google Watch reports that Google plans to release Google AdSense for Audio sometime this quarter. “Earlier this year, Google contracted with several podcast engineers to help them develop Google AdSense for Audio. According to one source the product was originally slated for a 3Q release, but apparently it slipped behind a month or so. Scuttlebutt […]

Podcasting‚Äôs hillbilly savant Wichita Rutherford, host of the 5 Minutes With Wichita podcast, has announced that he’s been signed to create his own TV show. Rutherford signed a deal last week with Blue Highways TV. According to Rutherford, he’s the first podcaster to get his own television show. ‚ÄúI‚Äôm so happy I can‚Äôt hardly stand […]

Macworld Expo 2007 will feature Podcasting Day, a day-long series of sessions for podcasters, hosted by Dusty Wright and Richard Burns, the owners and hosts of the” smart culture” audio and video podcasting site Culture Catch. The Podcasting Market Symposium will take place Jan. 12, 2007, in San Francisco at MacWorld. This series of sessions […]

One more sign that YouTube as you know it is dead: the site has quietly purged over 30,000 videos after receiving complaints of copyright infringement. According to a report in the New York Times, nearly 30,000 clips of TV shows, movies and music videos were taken down after the Japanese Society for Rights of Authors, […]