Anyone who thinks that podcasting is a niche media for geeks should check out what Ira Glass has to say on how podcasts grew This American Life’s audience: Podcast fan: Have you found that podcasting has changed This American Life? Ira Glass: Interestingly, it’s pulled in a much younger audience. The radio audience has stayed […]

Pew Internet has released a new report, looking at The Internet’s Role in Campaign 2008.

Based on their survey of 2,254 adults, Barack Obama won the 2008 election because he understood new media and captured the attention of social media users.

Business Insider published this chart, which compares the growth of Internet advertising, shown in green, to Broadcast and Cable advertising. “The growth of Internet advertising through the medium’s first 14 years obliterates the growth of advertising for cable and broadcast television over their first 14 years,” says BI’s Jay Yarow. We reported earlier in the […]

A report out today from BBM Analytics shows growing adoption of HDTV, portable media players, and podcasting among Canadian consumers over the past year. A highlight of particular interest to PodcastingNews’ readers: Approximately twenty percent of the population listens to a podcast on a monthly basis. This is good news for podcast creators, as well […]

Piper Jaffray reports a rather surprising fact: there’s zero interest among teens for portable media players other than the iPod. “Apple’s dominance in the PMP market remains largely unchecked, and it is clear to us that Apple has captured the ‘cool factor’ among high school students across America,” said Piper Jaffray’s Gene Munster. Credit has […]

A week or so ago, we wrote about reports that changes to curriculum in grade schools in the UK would forsake “studying things like the Second World War and the Victorians in favor of Twitter, Wikipedia and podcasts.” A review of, and updates to, the country’s centrally-proscribed curriculum would have meant requiring student fluency in […]

UK’s Birmingham City University has announced plans to offer a a master’s degree on social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and Bebo. The University’s MA in Social Media will also explain how to set up blogs and publish podcasts. “During the course we will consider what people can do on Facebook and Twitter, and how […]

The Huffington Post has announced that it plans to bankroll a group of investigative journalists, directing them at first to look at stories about the nation’s economy.

Huffington’s move begs the question: Are blogs the new newspapers?

New research from Gartner helps explain why newspapers aren’t just failing in print, but online, too: Newspapers publishers are failing to take advantage of social media and the loyalty of their online readers. Gartner found that newspapers are not helping their readers to use social media to act as influencers. The problem starts with a […]

Forget worrying about how much video the kids are watching these days on the TV and the Internet.

New research shows that Baby Boomers are the biggest couch potatoes/mouse potatoes of all.