Royal Pingdom has released stats that show the free blogging platform WordPress is the most popular platform for blogs and new media.  They ranked the Technorati top 100 blogs, investigated what blog platforms they are using and found that WordPress has more than twice as many blogs in the top 100 as Movable Type, the blog platform […]

\ Podcast hosting service Podango’s site has been wiped off the face of the internet.  Visit their site and you’ll get a message that they are “currently on vacation”. Podcasters hoping to recover anything from Podango’s site appear to be out of luck.  But at least their logo now shows Podango as being out of […]

blubrry has announced that it’s offering a free month of podcast hosting to podcasters left homeless by the Podango failure: We are prepared to assist the Podango podcasters by offering a step by step process and and special tool to automate the transferring of media files from Podango to the Blubrry network. In addition we […]

New media pundit Paul Colligan has some interesting comments for podcasters today, in response to Podango’s shutdown announcement: If you are a Podcaster on Podango (or any other site that has their domain name (not yours)), now is the time to own the very media you’ve worked so hard to create. If you use any […]

Amazon today announced a new service, Amazon CloudFront, that promises to speed up your site.  It’s a simple pay-as-you-go content delivery network that offers to deliver your content to people, with Amazon-scale service, but without big upfront costs.  Amazon has a network of “edge” network locations that it can automatically distribute your content to. These […]

Startup digital advertising and technology firm VoloMedia has launched a new version of podcast advertising tracking plug-in that is compatible with Apple’s iTunes. VoloMedia, formerly PodBridge, has created downloadable software that is designed to measure audience activity, such as how many people listen to a particularly podcast. The program also works as an ad-serving platform, letting […]

Raw Voice CEO Todd Cochrane has introduced the company’s Podcast Advertising Campaign Management System (PACMS), a tool for managing podcast campaigns from proposal to completion. Cochrane explains how it works: “A podcast advertising campaign typically starts with a request for proposal (RFP) from a media buyer or advertiser. With the RawVoice PACMS, we enter the […]

According to Microsoft Zune guru Rob Greenlee, there’s been “a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace Software.” “This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter,” explains Greenlee. “This year is no exception […]

Google today announced updates to YouTube Insight’s analytics, adding a new feature, “Hot Spots”, that shows you the hottest scenes in your videos and also what’s not so hot.  The Hot Spots tab in Insight plays your video alongside a graph that shows the ups-and-downs of viewership at different moments within the video. Google determine […]

Amazon has announced plans for a content deliver network – a network designed to speed up the delivery of content on your Website – that will be easy to use and pay-as-you-go.  A content delivery network is a distributed network of servers that put copies of your content close to end-users. For example, if someone […]