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 […]

Wizzard Software, the parent company of Liberated Syndication and several podcast hosting services, announced today that revenues for the fourth quarter of 2007 were $1,540,992, a 108% increase over revenues of $739,551 in the fourth quarter of 2006. For the full year of 2007, the Company recorded revenues of $5,163,491, a 75% increase of $2,195,967 […]

We’ve noted before that bad advertising is holding back the development of Internet television. Advertisers aren’t sure where to advertise on the Internet, how to advertise in new media or how to measure their success, and they’re spending their money on old media as a result, even though they know traditional advertising is becoming less […]

Podcasting startup PodShow has laid off one-third of its staff, according to a report Valleywag: PodShow, the San Francisco-based online-video network best known for launching the career of CNET’s Natali Del Conte, is laying off about 20 employees, or as much as 30 percent of its staff. “There are no secrets, only information you don’t […]

One-third of all Internet videos watched in the US were on YouTube, according to the latest research from comScore. January 2008 data shows that YouTube.com accounted for one-third of the 9.8 billion videos viewed online in the U.S. during the month. The total number of videos viewed in January was down slightly from the more […]

New research from comScore confirms one of the more important new media trends – that young people are abandoning newspapers for Internet media. As a result, newspaper readership is getting smaller and older. ‚ÄúThat current generations are growing up getting their news online for free is an indicator that print circulations are likely to continue […]

If you ever doubted that there was a future in podcasting, then doubt no more. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Douglas Sarine (L) and Kent Nichols (R), the creators of the hit video podcast Ask a Ninja, are making the jump to the big screen. The two are writing an adaptation of the 1978 cult […]

The LA Times has published an article by thirtysomething creator Marshall Herskovitz that responds to criticism of his show quarterlife, which was hyped beforehand as the first television-quality production for the Web. The show bombed on YouTube and went on to bomb on network television. Despite the show’s poor performance, Herskovitz thinks quarterlife is not […]

There have been a lot of headlines over the last few days about iCrime – the idea that the popularity of iPods is leading to a surge in violent crime. The source for these stories is actually a nearly six-month old paper (pdf) by the Urban Institute research group. The paper argues that the recent […]

Tech publisher Ziff Davis Media filed for bankruptcy on Wednesday, citing a decrease in revenue from print advertising and subscriptions as contributing to its decline. The company, which publishes PC Magazine, Electronic Gaming Monthly and a variety of web sites, has half a billion dollars in debt, but only $313 million in assets. The company’s […]