CNet has an interesting interview with Nine Inch Nail’s Trent Reznor on his recent experiment with Saul Williams’ debut CD, The Inevitable Rise and Liberation of NiggyTardust. Reznor and Williams made NiggyTardust available as a free download, but also let you purchase a higher-quality version for a nominal fee. In the interview, Reznor talks about […]

Back in August, we took ReadWriteWeb to task for publishing a gloom and doom take on the state of podcasting. RRW’s article suggested that podcasting was stagnating, that podcasting was losing steam and that it was even going out of fashion. At the time, we said that ReadWriteWeb was clueless about podcasting. We called their […]

More than 50 percent of U.S. households now own a digital television (DTV), according to new research released today by the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA). As the nation transitions to digital television, consumers are adding DTV to their homes at a record pace. ‚ÄúWith 50 percent of U.S. homes able to experience the reality of […]

Internet media is moving to the mainstream, according to research from Deloitte & Touche: 38% of Americans are watching TV shows online. 36% use their cell phones for entertainment. 54% of Americans use social networking sites, chat rooms or message boards to socialize. 45 percent have a profile on a social networking site. Online ads […]

Online television just got sexy for advertisers. According to a new report by Experian Research Services, consumers are 44 percent more engaged in advertisements inserted into online television programs than they are with the ads in programs they view on traditional TV. Viewers are paying more attention to what they are watching online and this […]

So-called iPod killers are not just failing to compete with Apple’s popular media players, they’re failing to hold onto what market share thy have. Sales of portable music players, besides the iPod, declined during the first three weeks of the holiday shopping season, according to the NPD Group.¬† Manufacturers face a market in which there […]

Pew Internet released an interesting report earlier this week that looks at Teens and Social Media. According to Pew, more teenagers than ever are creating content online. Here are the highlights: 64% of online teenagers ages 12 to 17 engaging in at least one type of content creation, up from 57% of online teens in […]

Oneupweb, an online marketing firm, has announced a new podcast analytics service, PodTractor.According to the company, their service offers a way for podcasters to get the metrics that appeal to advertisers, but without being tied to a specific podcast ad service. “Marketers can‚Äôt afford to spend time and money on a tactic, just in case […]