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 […]

SplashCast, a startup site that lets users create channels of media content, has found itself in hot water over its new MyPodcastNetwork service, a social networking service for podcasts introduced earlier this week. Instead of generating excitement in the podcasting community, the introduction has generated a furor of anger from podcasters that feel that SplashCast […]

Wizzard Media, the leading podcast hosting network, distributed over 70,000,000 podcast episodes in March to an audience of millions, according to the company. In the first quarter of 2007, Wizzard Media‚Äôs network growth surpassed 50% of the 360,000,000 episodes it distributed in all of 2006 for its 8,000 independent and corporate clients. Daily requests for […]

MyPodcastNetwork, a new social networking service for podcasting introduced yesterday by SplashCast, has ignited a controversy over podcasters’ concerns that the service is hijacking their content. MyPodcastingNetwork lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, […]

SplashCast today introduced a new service, MyPodcastNetwork, that lets users embed a podcast player in Web pages, similar to the way you can embed YouTube videos in Web and blog pages. What makes the player interesting, though, is that it’s not static audio or video that gets embedded, but a customized channel of podcast content […]

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 […]

The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced plans Monday to make 12 more shows available by podcast on a regular basis, starting April 2. CBC Radio’s flagship newscast The World at Six, shorter hourly newscasts and political roundup The House will soon be available by podcast. It also plans to make national network shows As It […]

Here’s one we didn’t see coming…. Self-described Internet biz woman, marketing and sales pro from way back, start-up advisor and self-described “fun, fun gal” Suz Bratton, along with serial entrepreneur, pilot, kite boarder, and surfer Tim Bratton, have announced a new podcast/blog network, Personal Life Media. The network publishes podcasts and blogs targeting 35-65 year […]

What do you get when you mix Amanda Condgon, body oil and video chat? Starring Amanda Congdon, a new video blog, featuring the video blogger and former Rocketboom host scheduled, to debut today on Blip.tv. The show is one of the first video blogs to debut with the support of major sponsors, Dove Cream Oil […]