Only 18 hours to go on the first round of G’Day World auctions and so far we’ve got a couple of live bids. The other shows that we’ve put up also have bids, so it’s going well for a first round! Check out all of the auctions here.

Mark Hunter has an interesting blog post on some of the clauses contained in Podshow Plus terms and conditions.
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There’s also this;

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PodShow may at its discretion place advertising before or after the Programming at its discretion.

This is interesting. Is there justification for PS to add adverts to your podcast just because you’ve got it listed on […]

Neilsen/NetRatings has released a report on podcasting which has left a lot of prominent podcasters, myself included, scratching their heads and makes me wonder where they got their sample data from. A company in Cupertino by any chance?
For example, they claim that the primary browser for podcasters (not podcast listeners) is Safari. Now, I know […]

You might remember around the time of Vloggercon Scoble mentioned that Rocketboom  was making “$85,000 a week” from advertising. That had me scurrying to their show to see who was running ads but I couldn’t see anything! And then last week we had Heather Green suggesting Amanda left because they weren’t making any money. Scoble […]

The first podcast in this series is with the CEO of the new podcast directory Pluggd.com, Alexander Castro. Alexander, based in Seattle, tells us a little about his career at Microsoft and Amazon and the vision behind starting Pluggd.com. Then we talk about the state of the podcasting industry, the size of the market today […]

Many people have been criticizing Podshow’s new directory over the last 24 hours, mostly when it was discovered that Podshow had commandeered everyone’s RSS feeds and replaced them with their own, but it looks like Podshow has already begun to fix some of the the problems. Read more on Michael Geoghegan’s blog.

Hard to come up with a funny title for this post. Of course the biggest news in podcasting today is that the pretty blonde goddess of the video podcast is parting ways with Rocketboom. Why? No-one really knows. But I guess it drives home to me a couple of points.

New media brands can come […]

Todd Cochrane has launched Blubrry, which they call a community site for podcasters. According to PodcastingNews:

The site blends elements from a variety of types of podcasting sites; it’s part directory, part network and part community. The site intends to use social networking to help podcast fans find new podcasts while helping podcasters get listeners, and […]