Podcasting News Archives

EVENTS: PodCamp Boston Coming in September!

Looking to fill your calendar in September, but not sure what to do yet? Going to be in Boston? Then head on over to Podcamp Boston! September 25 & 26, 2010 will host the 5th annual un-conference for the Boston area podcasters, so make sure you get your calendars in order now. About PodCamp Boston: Podcamp Boston was co-founded by Christopher Penn and Chris Brogan in 2006. These two guys wanted to learn more and share what they knew about podcasting without traveling over to the west coast to do it, so they came up with the idea to host

PodCamp Nashville This Weekend!

Looking for something awesome to do this weekend? Live in or near Nashville… or just love going to Nashville? Head over our way this weekend, March 6, and hang out at PodCamp Nashville! Details About PodCamp Nash: If digital content is truly king, then PodCamp Nashville is a royal playpen for digital enthusiasts all unto its own. It’s Nashville’s top event for sharing expertise about new media creation, distribution and promotion—an opportunity to find your digital voice. There are TONS of sessions going on from a lot of smart people, check out the session list here like: WordPress SEO Strategies,

Encoding.com Scores $1.25 Million to Enhance Video Platform

Encoding.com is a pretty cool company for the pro video podcaster. If you are into the whole “do it yourself” thing and don’t want to rely on hosts such as Blubrry, YouTube or Libsyn (to name a few), AND you don’t want to mess with all of the video encoding settings, you may be interested in Encoding.com who just raised some serious cash to enhance their offering. What Do They Do? Encoding.com has a cloud-based encoding infrastructure that will convert your video to and from many, many formats. They have tons of features including stuff like: thumbnail generation, watermarking, real

The Power of Podcast Advertising

If you follow us on Twitter (@podcastnews) you are probably aware from all of our tweeting yesterday that the Association for Downloadable Media along with Edison Research released their annual study for 2010. One of the most important things I gained from this was the following: Nearly 80% of podcast consumers will buy products the producer mentions because they believe it helps the producer. Additionally, they HATE ads that are pre-recorded from the advertiser…they relate much better to a sponsorship where the host themselves does the endorsement. There is a great opportunity for advertising in podcasting where you can reach an

A New Wave of Video Analytics

So you have your own popular web site or blog and need a way to get video running on it. Maybe you have a super popular “all about beef jerky” podcast and you know the way to get it in to the minds of hungry carnivores around the globe is to have a video on your site displaying your product in all it’s deliciousness. Welcome Brightcove.com. Brightcove is a top notch video player that not only offers to play crisp video but give you the option to make money through several different options they offer from pre-roll sponsorships and banners

Make $$$ With Your Podcast Without Trying

Make money with your podcast without trying… too good to be true is what you are already thinking, but somehow you keep reading. What many people have tried, failed, and then cursed to the darkest corners of oblivion is a little phrase called Affiliate Marketing. What is Affiliate Marketing? Affiliate Marketing is just a fancy phrase for someone who promotes discount codes or offers and receives a commission if someone uses your offer. Codes are ridiculously easy to get for just about any genre of product from skin care products to specialty sexy time products that you feel ashamed for

Edit Video on Your Mobile Phone?

Steven Spielberg has nothing on me…well except years of training and talent. One thing that you can get away with that he can’t though is editing video on your mobile phone. You may have heard about this fun online app that can easily edit movies, pics, and music together called JayCut. It is definitely not a professional editing suite like Final Cut Pro or Adobe Premiere, but if you want to easily cut together some videos of you pieced together with a video of a fat guy belly flopping off the high dive that you found on you tube, this

Top Rated Podcast Keith and the Girl to Release Relationship Book

Top voted Podcast Alley show, and long time podcast producers Keith and the Girl are in the process of releasing their new paperback book titled What Do We Do Now?: Keith and The Girl’s Smart Answers to Your Stupid Relationship Questions! If you have ever listened to their show, you know that this book is guaranteed to be sick and wrong on many levels. You will also know that it will make you laugh while they provide a non-biased, non-censored opinion about relationships around the world. About Keith and the Girl Not held back by the FCC or anyone else,

Do You Squidoo?

These days podcasters of the world all are still struggling for the same thing — audience. By now everyone has their own special sauce to find people and keep people, but there are some easy ways to tell Google that you need to be noticed. Of course we all just want to be found and famous, but anyone in the game for more than one episode knows it just isn’t that easy. One easy way to get higher rankings in search engines is to link to and get linked from a well known high ranked site. What is Squidoo? One

Auto-Sync and Flash Player Embed Plugin for WordPress

If you are a Mevio producer, you are in luck! There is finally a stable release of the plugin that fully syncs podcasts from your Mevio profile to your personal blog! It automatically embeds the Mevio flash player, show notes and a link to download the episode into your WordPress powered blog. Setup is easy, just drop the plugin in your /wp-admin/ folder, activate it, type in the name of your show sub-domain and you are off to the races! I have tested it with great success syncing full show notes, episodes and embedded player too. What about you, have you tested