EQAL, the studio behind faux-vlog shows LonelyGirl15 & KateModern, has signed a deal with CBS to create online content. The two companies will work on producing multi-platform content, including online and mobile, around CBS programming. EQAL will work on a non-exclusive basis with CBS at consulting, producing and scripting. “This partnering signals CBS’s attention to […]

The Guardian reports that BT PodShow, an online TV portal, is getting its full consumer launch: The service is a joint venture with US-based Podshow (now Mevio), in which the backers of Google and YouTube have invested, and which has been running for several months. It has over 1m hours of content. The two companies […]

PodShow has officially announced that it has changed its name to Mevio. Along with this announcement, the company announced updates to its site. The name change has been greeted with skepticism by many podcasters, and there’s already a “Mevio” entry in the Urban Dictionary.: The act of renaming a company / business, thinking that the […]

Edison Research’s Tom Webster, who has been researching and reporting on podcasting for years now, has some interesting thoughts on promoting your podcast through social networking sites like MySpace and Twitter: Change occurs at the margin, and it would be unwise to ignore the increasing popularity and utility of the various social networking sites. However, […]

PodShow, the heavily-hyped podcasting startup from podfather Adam Curry, is dead; it’s changing its name to Mevio. NewTeeVee attributes the name change to a so-called “curse of the ‘Pod”” – the idea that any company with “pod” in the name is cursed. They note that PodZinger has changed its name to EveryZing & PodBridge has […]

Wizzard Media is working together with Adobe to distribute video content from their network through the new Adobe® Media Player. Launched today, the Adobe Media Player is the first application built on Adobe AIR software, a cross operating system application platform that extends rich Internet applications (RIAs) to the desktop. The first installment of video […]

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006. For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 […]

Akamai Technologies, which provides technology for the distribution of digital media like podcasts, announced that a jury returned a verdict today in its lawsuit against Limelight Networks. The judgement found that Limelight was infringing on Akamai’s content delivery patent. As a result, the jury awarded Akamai a staggering $45,526,946 in damages, plus interest. The verdict, […]

There’s been a lot of discussion lately in the world of new media about the future of podcasting – people wondering what the current state of podcasting is and where it’s going. eMarketer forecasts that the audience for podcast consumption will double in the next two years, but even that relatively rosy forecast is disappointing […]

Podcast hosting network Wizzard Media announced this morning that its common shares are set to begin trading today on the American Stock Exchange (“AMEX”) under the ticker symbol ‚ÄúWZE.‚Äù Previously, the company traded as ‚ÄúWIZD‚Äù on the Over-the-Counter Bulletin Board. Wizzard is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with offices in New York, Los Angeles, and Detroit, […]