The Australian IT newspaper had a column on Sept 10 2007 with the results of a survey run recently by Austereo, a large radio network in Australia, which included information on how many of their audience listen to podcasts or “internet streams”. I’m not quite sure that the difference is today between a podcast […]

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.
Excerpt:
There’s also this;

Quote:

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 […]

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 […]

Steve Coulson, the guy behind Podguide.TV, one of the leading directories for video podcasts, sent out an email today announcing he is stopping work on it. From his blog post:

This was a hard decision to make, and I want to thank everyone who supported me over the months. I started writing reviews soon after the […]

From Ben Barren’s blog. I stopped listening to Gervais, Merchant and Pilkington when it went paid. Are any of you listening to it and, if so, can you fill us in? Is it funny? What is it about it that makes you pay when there is so much free stuff? I thought the original free […]