Posts Tagged ‘podcast’

April 24, 2008

Podcasting Creates Premium Listeners

There is a pretty cool little study over on EMarketer about Podcast listeners.
Podcasts seem to have a love-em/hate-em relationship with those who write about New Media.  On the one hand they are seen as a great way to distribute content to subscribers but they are also blasted for being hard for newbies to grasp and [...]

April 2, 2008

My Interview with Ben and Steve from GrooveShark

Today I had the pleasure of skyping with Ben and Steve, two of the guys behind GrooveShark, a new (still in beta) site that has some interesting ideas about p2p music sharing, sales and discovery.
In this interview we get a nice overview of the GrooveShark business, a look inside their corporate culture and then chat [...]

April 1, 2008

My Interview with Josh and Zane from AmieStreet

Today I had the great pleasure of chatting with Josh and Zane, two of the guys behind AmieStreet, a really cool music sales and discovery site that was recently in the news thanks to being the only place selling Ashley Alexandra Dupre’s red hot single.
In this interview we discuss the idea behind AmieStreet’s unique pricing [...]

March 19, 2008

Service Journalism - History of Piracy

Once again, TorrentFreak is the place to be for all your torrent info needs.  Today they link to a BBC podcast that traces the history of piracy right up to the present:
“The BBC has published a podcast which takes a look at piracy through the ages, also covering the modern concept of ‘intellectual property’. Of [...]

March 19, 2008

TiVo and Podcasts

I have mentioned before that I think podcasting is a great delivery method, especially for the smaller content distributors.  It is a way for people to subscribe to and receive your content in a consistent and easy to manager manner.
Mashable is all over this podcasting trend.
First, they are reporting that TiVo, in a continued move [...]

February 19, 2008

2008 - The Year of the Podcast?

Emarketer has some new data on Podcast subscribers.  Turns out that not only are the number of subscribers growing but they cover quite a wide demographic.
“They don’t all listen to the same programs, they don’t all use iPods, and they don’t all come from the same background.
They are podcast users, and they defy clear-cut connections [...]

February 14, 2008

An argument for Podcasting

I think I mentioned podcasting in an earlier post.  I believe podcasting will be key to the development and survival of webisodics.  Instead of telling you why, I draw your attention to the thoughts of AskANinja, one of the early web-video success stories (as found on Mashable)
“Note to producers, please, please, please, only use these [...]