Wizzard Media today announced the official launch of an integrated, Netflix-style subscription service for podcasts, MyLibsyn. Through the Libsyn platform, audio and video content can be designated as free or paid, letting producers charge for selected ‘premium episodes’. “Producers are embracing the subscription service as a way to offer not only premium content but hundreds of […]

Wizzard Software has announced 2010 financial results, recording a $4.1 million net loss, on revenues of $5,5 million in 2010, a drop from their $6.5 million net loss in 2009.. Wizzard notes that, in terms of net loss, this was Wizzard’s best annual performance in over 8 years. They also note that “We have a […]

Podcasting network Wizzard Media has announced the launch of a web-based “premium podcast” subscription service for publishers using the Libsyn platform. This service allows podcast publishers to sell individual podcast episodes, and create paid subscription packages for their premium content, delivering the content via the web, which the company calls “a natural extension” to the […]

The Sound Of Young America‘s Jesse Thorn explains how to create a podcast with public-radio quality, with relatively inexpensive gear, out of your bedroom: I use Shure SM7 microphones. These are famous for being the mics that Michael Jackson used to record his vocals for Thriller, but they’re really a great all-purpose microphone. They’re also […]

Wizzard Media announced today the availability of LibsynPRO 3.0, a new digital media publishing platform designed to give media producers the ability to pick and choose, in an a la carte fashion, media syndication packages to suit their needs. The LibsynPRO 3.0 digital media publishing system is based around a redesigned publishing engine that is […]

LibSyn‘s stat problems continue to plague users of this popular podcast hosting service.  Here’s their latest update on the issue: Latest episodes not showing up in stats We have temporarily stopped the stats engines- meaning no new updates of any files will occur for the time being. We are working on a plan to recover […]

Libsyn has announced an update to it stats offering will be released on Monday. Addressed in this release: lack of updates for new files low numbers for past 9 months speed to load stats UI accuracy of data user agents list (zune, appleTV, iPhone, miro, etc added) real trending data over time.. per month/week/day downloads […]

Podcast host Libsyn reports that they are updating their stats engine to address some ongoing issues with it and add new features: We know stats accuracy is an ongoing issue and that libsyn users have had to exhibit a lot of patience and swallow a lot of frustration as we’ve worked through the problems over […]

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 […]

Today’s big podcasting news is that Wizzard Media announced their download totals for 2007, an amazing one billion podcast files downloaded. To put that large number into some context, we talked with Rob Walch, Wizzard’s Vice President of Podcaster Relations (and creator/host of the popular Podcast411). First off, congratulations – this is pretty stunning news. […]