Podcast¬†hosting provider¬†Wizzard Software¬†announced today a partnership with Nielsen//NetRatings to offer certified download data. According to Wizzard, certified download numbers will bring “a new level of accountability to podcast ad sales.” “Our adoption of the Nielsen//NetRatings solution….will elevate our participating publishers‚Äô podcasts to an entirely new level of consideration by advertisers and agencies as a viable, […]

Liz Gannes over at NewTeeVee reports that SonicMountain, the company that recently acquired the once-hyped podcasting startup Odeo, has purchased FireAnt, a stagnating Internet video startup. FireAnt is a desktop media player and RSS aggregator for Windows and Mac. With an integrated guide to Internet TV, the FireAnt player lets users subscribe to, download, and […]

SplashCast has announced a new partnership with Columbia Records and three new features designed to make the SplashCast experience more interactive. The new features include: FanCast, a new mobile publishing feature; live chat; and built-in Twitter instant messaging. Here’s the annoucement from SlashCast’s Marshall Kirkpatrick: New York‚Äôs Coheed and Cambria is the first Columbia band […]

SplashCast has updated its embeddable media player. The SplashCast service lets you create streaming media ‚Äòchannels‚Äô that mix together video, music, photos, narration, text, as well as RSS feeds, PowerPoint presentations and PDF documents. “We‚Äôre really excited about all the changes we‚Äôve made,” said SplashCast’s Marshall Kirkpatrick, “We believe that our new player scores super […]

Akamai Technologies, a leading provider of Internet content delivery services, has announced that it is offering services to help customers deliver the HD Web. Akamai’s content delivery network works by distributing requests for files over a worldwide network of servers. That way, when you click on a link to play an Akamai-hosted video, you get […]

Web hosting provider Go Daddy has introduced a new service, Quick Blogcast, that rolls its blogging and podcasting applications into one tool. ¬† “Quick Blogcast allows people to tell their own stories with audio, video, photos and text over the Internet,” said Warren Adelman, President and CEO of Go Daddy. “It‚Äôs a great way to […]

Wizzard Software, a leading podcast hosting network, has announced that it recorded record revenues of $1,428,097 during the second quarter ended June 30, 2007, an 83% increase from the second quarter of 2006 and a 97% increase over revenues in the first quarter of 2007 ($725,926). For the six month period ended June 30 2007, […]

The ongoing outage of the popular voice over IP application Skype highlights the risk of building a utility service like voice communication on a proprietary identity system. By creating a single point of failure, Skype effectively designed into their system an outage that is now affecting hundreds of millions of people. Skype apologizes for the […]

Feedburner is positioning its Headline Animator service as a new type of banner advertising for sites that use news feeds. Here’s how Feedburner explains it: By connecting the simple-to-use Headline Animator service to our world-class feed advertising network we can give content publishers the ability to create their very own dynamic, feed-powered ad units and […]

The New York Times today has some interesting coverage of the recent announcement of the Association for Downloadable Media, an organization that hopes to set standards for audience measurement and advertising for downloadable media. The article takes a look at some of the reasons that some commercial podcasters see a need for the organization: Susan […]