The Art Institute of Chicago has introduced a new podcast, the Musecast. The Chicago museum plans to offer interviews, conversations, features, and music. The podcast has grown out of the museum‚Äôs online lectures and gallery talks, which have been available for download for several months. The most recent podcast (link below) features an interview with […]

PlayNetwork, a provider of branded audio and video media services for businesses, today announced it has launched a promotional music podcasting service. The company plans to offer “branded podcasts” that use music to create a “brand-building entertainment relationship”.”Branded Podcasts take branded entertainment experiences outside of the store environment and put them directly into the listening […]

Eclectic local podcast New Orleans Podcasting calls itself “an uplifting smorgasbord of short audio interviews featuring an array of vital and interesting individuals”. It is the brainchild of Craig Kraemer of Kraemer Advertising, a New Orleans advertising agency. Although each guest has a different perspective on post-Katrina New Orleans, all share an unshakable faith in […]

The music podcasting portal Divvycast has announced a content partnership agreement with digital music distribution company IRIS Distribution. The arrangement lets Divvycast tap into IRIS’s current roster of independent record labels to supply music content for the Divvycast Label Group. The Divvycast Label Group is a collective of independent record labels that can deliver advertising […]

Six new podcast series about six major Scottish cities — from the young adult perspective – are set to debut throughout this week. The “MPsix” project was created by about three dozen youngsters from six Scottish cities, working together in scripting, performing and editing short audio guides to their home cities. Adults who usually work […]

At the UBS and Credit Suisse media meetings in New York this week, with only two players in the fledgling satellite radio market, merger speculation follows rivals XM and Sirius. XM Satellite Radio Chairman Gary Parsons said that he considers the satellite radio market to still be new enough that two major players can coexist […]

The Podcast & Portable Media Expo is history. Show organizers are expanding its reach to encompass the increased number of content creators and exhibitors in the areas of video for the web, blogging, and user-generated content and have renamed it the Podcast and New Media Expo. The conference and tradeshow is scheduled for September 28, […]

Nielsen Media Research recently announced that it has begun gathering information on usage of Apple‚Äôs iPod, and has found that most iPod owners spend far more time using them to listen to music or audio podcasts than they do using them to watch TV or movies. This report, which is of qualified significance because its […]

British-Russian online audiobook publisher AudioBooksForFree says that “Podcasting is Dead,” predicting that in the next five years downloading, podcasting, P2P and other forms of on-demand delivery will be superseded gigantic compilations of thousands hours of digital entertainment in one single and relatively cheap boxset. The company specialises in massive compilations, which they describe as GigaBulk […]

Nielsen Media Research has begun gathering information on usage of Apple‚Äôs iPod, and has found that most iPod owners spend far more time on it listening to music or audio podcasts than they do using it to watch TV or movies. Nielsen monitored a panel of 400 iPod users in the U.S. from Oct. 1-27 […]