Daisy Whitney’s latest New Media Minute video podcast takes a look at comic books – a $1 billion business that hasn’t really been hit by digital media yet. Yet the industry is already looking ahead to see how it can adapt to the iPad and other tablet ereaders. Is it time to add comic books […]

Tablet computers are going to be a $20 billion industry by 2014, and the Apple iPad is well-positioned to dominate it, predicts research firm In-Stat. According to In-Stat: The Total Available Market for tablets will be about 50 million in 2014. Mainstream tablets should be in the $400-$500 range. Apple is the only company that […]

Retrevo has announced results of a study done after the Apple iPad introduction, looking at consumer interest in buying the new iPad. According to Retrevo, “Not only did Apple fail to convince new buyers, it may have lost many potential buyers who now say they don’t think they need an Apple tablet computer” After the […]

Video distribution and analytics company Tubemogul reports that as many as 25% abandon online videos if the videos begin with an advertisement: Overall, 15.89% of viewers click away from a video rather than sit through a pre-roll ad. The trend is far more pronounced with top magazines and newspapers, where 24.85% of viewers click away. […]

There’s been a lot of discussion in the last week about Apple’s decision to not support Flash on the upcoming iPad. Early iPad users are going to see a lot of blue boxes, right, where their audio and video file would otherwise be. And publishers are going to have to decide if it’s worth the […]

There’s been a lot of debate about the merits of the new Apple iPad since it was announced. While tech analysts and first adopters are debating the iPad’s strengths and weaknesses, though, it looks like Steve Jobs may have Google, Microsoft, Nintendo, Adobe & Hulu scared that the device could end up being a another […]

Podcast fans are an ideal audience for advertisers to reach, according to a new report from Edison Research and the Association for Downloadable Media (ADM).

Podcast fans are well off financially, they pay attention to the ads in podcasts, they’re hard to reach with traditional advertising and they are 6 times as likely to “enjoy” the ads in podcasts as consumers of traditional media.

Apple CEO Steve Jobs today introduced the Apple iPad – a new multimedia pad that promises to carve out a new category for mobile computing. “This is best gadget ever made,” says early user Jason Calacanis,  “and NOT overhyped.” * It’s conceptually a large iPod touch – but it’s really a new operating system, optimized […]

Podcasting pioneer Dave Winer posted some interesting thoughts last week on reinventing journalism: I have the same feeling about journalism today that I had about computer science in the 1970s. Sure, we had textbooks and teachers, and projects and grades, but there was also an opportunity to invent it as we were going along. Computer […]

Wizzard today announced that it recorded 1.4 billion podcast download requests in 2009 through its podcast-hosting service Libsyn, or about 16% more than it delivered in 2008. Libsyn received an average of 3.77 million requests for podcast episodes per day in 2009. On average, 23 minutes per episode equates to almost 1.5 million hours of […]