Wizzard Software, a company that specializes in speech recognition applications, announced today that it has entered into a definitive agreement for a $1,750,000 private placement with institutional investors. Earlier in the week, the company announced that it was acquiring podcast hosting service Libsyn. “The capital infusion allows us to continue funding our recently announced podcasting […]

Wizzard Software announced today that it has agreed to acquire Libsyn, the world‚Äôs largest podcasting network. Wizzard is on a spending spree; recently it announced several other podcast-related acquisitions. ‚ÄúLibsyn is on a mission to empower the content creator in this new age of independent media by creating unique opportunities to share advertising revenues with […]

A dialog about podcast statistics between vlogging gurus Ze Frank and Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron appears to have quickly descended into a bragging match about size and penetration. “Ze Frank has laid into me because he doesn’t believe how he could only have a fraction of the audience size of Rocketboom,” writes Rocketboom’s Andrew Baron. Baron’s […]

Podcast Solutions, by Michael Geoghegan and Dan Klass, is a comprehensive introduction to podcasting. The book is bylined “The Complete Guide to Podcasting,” and does a good job of delivering on this promise. A powerhouse of podcasting talent is behind the book. The authors, Geoghegan and Klass, are podcasters that pioneered the production of podcasts […]

The International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22, kicked off today with a keynote from Podcasting News’ own Elisabeth McLaury Lewin, shown below. Other Keynote speakers include Matt Mullenweg of WordPress and Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. The Expo is an online expo, accessible using a Web browser. Anyone with an Internet connection […]

spodradio, a radio and podcast hub for mobiles, today announced $10 million of Series B funding from Benchmark Capital Europe and Baytech Venture Capital. The funds will be used to accelerate spodradio‚Äôs expansion into international markets and help develop new services. spodradio enables the mobile phone to be used as a music device with “a […]

Over 40 podcasting seminars are scheduled for the International Podcasting Expo, an online expo being held October 20-22. Anyone with an Internet connection can attend, and participants may download all event recordings. Keynote speakers include Elisabeth Lewin of Podcasting News, Matt Mullenweg of WordPress, Andy Wibbels of BlogWild. Other speakers include Eric Olson of Feedburner, […]

AEC Daily has introduced a series of educational podcasts, the AEC Daily Education podcast, aimed at the architecture, engineering and construction industry. The first episode looks at The Greening of White Goods (MP3). The podcast is an example of a sponsored corporate podcast. The podcast is part of the Whirlpool course, The Greening of ‘White […]

Kiptronic, an ad marketplace for the podcasting industry, and IODA, the Independent Online Distribution Alliance, have announced a partnership to help promote artists and record labels via podcasts. Kiptronic will provide a customized version of the Kiptronic Podcast Marketplace for use by IODA and its alliance of more than 2,700 independent record labels, covering over […]

On Monday, Chicago Public Radio will introduce a This American Life podcast. Starting Monday, October 16, each show will be available to podcast subscribers on the Monday following its national broadcast. After seven days, the shows wil migrate to the program’s online archives. The price for downloads of these archived shows is $0.95 cents per […]