The LA Times, of all places, says that broadcasting is dead: Broadcasting, simply put, isn’t casting broadly anymore. As the sweep suggests, the TV networks are losing not just their viewers but also their sense of specialness. They’re becoming just the lowest numbers on the multichannel dial, rather than the last outposts of mass culture. […]

The audience for Internet video will hit one billion viewers by 2013, driven by increasing broadband penetration and the rising connection speeds available to a growing percentage of the world’s population, according to ABI Research. That’s 1 in 6 people in the world that could be the potential audience for your Internet video! “The rapid […]

It looks like mainstream broadcasters will have to come to terms with YouTube, video podcasts and other Internet media or they’ll face the same fate as newspapers. TVWeek reports that this year’s May television ratings sweeps are a debacle: Low ratings during the February sweeps may have been a fluke due to the writers strike, […]

We’ve reported previously that newspapers are losing advertisers to Internet media, that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media and that newspaper revenue is tanking. The result of these trends is that the value of traditional newspapers is in a freefall: Avista, the PE-fund that bought the Minneapolis Star-Tribune for $530 million in late […]

We’re fans of Twitter (podcastmama & podcasting_news), but have been surprised by the site’s frequent downtime. Turns out there’s legitimate reason for concern: Twitter has the worst uptime of all the major social networks. Availability monitoring company Pingdom.com released availability stats for the major social networks today, and Twitter comes out in last place: Social […]

Digital music sales will represent 40% of all music purchased worldwide by 2012, according to the research firm In-Stat. Digital music downloads represented 10% of the total worldwide music market in 2007, up from 6% in 2006. Factors contributing to this growth include the global expansion of broadband, continued demand for single-track downloads, and expanding […]

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 […]

Apple’s iTunes has passed Wal-Mart to become the #1 source for music in the US, according to an Apple email obtained by Ars Technica. If this turns out to be accurate, it is a milestone for the digital distribution of music. The news was announced in an e-mail sent this afternoon to some Apple employees, […]

Earlier this month we reported on how the newspaper industry has lost its future audience to the Internet. It gets worse. In the last year, the newspaper industry has experienced the worst ad revenue decline in its history, according to the Newspaper Association of America. Total print advertising revenue in 2007 plunged 9.4% to $42 […]

Based on the latest stats from M:Metrics, the iPhone is delivering on its hype, radically changing what people are doing with the mobile Web. Check out some of these figures: The iPhone is already the most popular device for accessing news and information on the mobile Web, with 85 percent of iPhone users accessing news […]