Podcasting guru Todd Cochrane (Geek News Central, Blubrry.com) has announced the nominee slate for the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. Voting for the nominees will be open July 28th to August 11th. Cochrane notes that the overall quality of the RSS feeds for podcasts that were nominated was surprisingly poor. “I have never been so […]

Nielsen//NetRatings announced today that 6.6 percent of the U.S. adult online population, or 9.2 million Web users, have recently downloaded an audio podcast. 4.0 percent, or 5.6 million Web users, have recently downloaded a video podcast. These figures put the podcasting population on a par with those who publish blogs, 4.8 percent, and online daters, […]

Nifty, a leading Japanese Internet provider, announced on June 28 the results of its latest research on podcasting users in Japan. The company surveyed 3,449 people who subscribe to its Japanese podcasting portal, Podcasting Juice. The results show that the majority of users are men in their 30s. Of those, 30% earn 6 million yen […]

Nielsen Media Research has announced ambitious plans to support electronic measurement of media use across all platforms, including MP3 players, cellphones, online video and out-of-home TV viewing. The “Anytime Anywhere Media Measurement” (A2/M2) initiative will be based on tracking via portable electronic measurement tools and its Nielsen/NetRatings software. Nielsen plans to start this summer installing […]

Podtrac, a podcasting service provider, today announced it has developed the largest podcasting demographics database worldwide, with over 55,000 detailed demographic profiles, representing more than 22 million U.S. podcast listeners and viewers. Podtrac also announced the findings from its most recent quarterly survey. According to their survey, over half (56%) of the podcast audience is […]

Canada‚Äôs first comprehensive podcasting survey is underway, and is looking for input. The study is aimed at discovering what is happening with podcasting in Canada; audience sizes and characteristics, popular podcasts and topics, audience demographics, and more. To participate in the survey and to be entitled to receive a highlighted summary of the results, visit […]

Dave Winer, programmer, blogging pioneer and one of the fathers of podcasting, has introduced a Top Podcasts list for users of his site Share Your OPML. The list highlights the top 25 podcasts subscribed to by users of the site, which lets users share bookmarks, outlines, feeds and other information in OPML (Outline Processor Markup […]