His podcast has been downloaded over 2 million times, and is currently downloaded 85,00 a month. His key is his credibility. Who is he? Bob Cartwright the man behind theoutdoorsation.co.uk Bob has found podcasting success by following a passion for ultra lightweight hiking gear. They didn’t sell it in the UK, so he set up…
A recent article about Wizzard media states that more people are starting podcasts, and that it is going more “mainstream.” I again point to the phone for this reason. I also point to the TV. Podcasts are cutting the syncronization cord of iTunes and following a much more direct path to listeners/viewers. Networks such as blubrry.com have…
I was reading an article about a nurse whose mother (due to having MS) was forced to become a consultant for nurses. This service has been turned into a podcast by her son Jim DeMaria who is a RN, BSN, vice president of Renal Care Registered Nursing Services in Nanuet, N.Y Here are some things…
Apple could score major points if they moved Podcasting “to the cloud” so people could “cut the cord” of synchronization to their iPods. They haven’t so people keep coming up with great “podcastching” apps for phone and iPad. A recent article was singing the praises of the Downcast app. In use, Downcast has almost every…
In a recent article by Mark Ramsey, he explain how an ESPN station has decide to remove their podcast for 24 hours. The problem? Nobody is listening live anymore, so to “fix” this they are going to “punish”the people who listen later (this is my opinion). The problem according to program director: In order to…
You’re probably sick of me mentioning Marc Maron and his WTF podcast, but the guy is in the New York Times, and Rolling Stone, and his momentum does not seem to be slowing down. We now see where he is getting hundreds of thousands of downloads per episode. Here are some nuggets from another interview….
Guinness World Records has confirmed that The Adam Carolla Show has officially broken the record for the Most Downloaded Podcast, receiving 59,574,843 unique downloads from March 2009 to March 16, 2011. Carolla made the announcement on the Jimmy Kimmel show. This breaks the previous record held by The Ricky Gervais Show, set in February 2006. The Ricky Gervais Show…
Research in Motion has released an updated version of its BlackBerry Podcasts app. Version 1.5 comes with a new web podcast search feature based on Google search. this lets you search for podcasts that aren’t already in the BlackBerry Podcast catalog. You can also copy and paste the URL of any podcast from another app…
I’ve released my book More Podcast Money as an ebook. Here is a quick video I create for YouTube to help explain affiliate marketing, and show you that you don’t have to wait for a sponsor.
In a recent episode of the School of Podcasting I mentioned a bunch of Podcasts that talk about Podcasting. Here is the list Active Podcasts School of Podcasting’s Morning Announcements – Free Podcasting Tips – David Jackson (Mine) The Audacity to Podcast – Feature tips on Podcasting and Audacity software – Daniel J Lewis The…