In a recent Industry Standard post, Ian Lamont makes some points about how and why Podcast is “failing.” I can summarize a lot of things in the article with an old cliche: “Failure to plan, is planning to fail.” Michael Geoghegan started Grape Radio with one intent: to make it a business. He planned his success, and the…
According to a press release, “MEVIO today announced that it has secured $15 million in a Series C funding round led by Crosslink Capital and including Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers, Sequoia Capital, Sherpalo Ventures and DAG Ventures. MEVIO will use the investment to continue expansion of its broadband entertainment offering and to launch new…
I just spoke with Todd Cochrane from http://www.blubrry.com/ I was unaware that they have a system that makes it easy to upload, and publish a podcast. It’s been around for months! There is no dynmic aspects of it, it just takes the mp3 file you created and takes it and publishes it for you. Pretty…
At the School of Podcasting roundtable last night I was speakign with J.R. from the Lord Lifted Me Live podcast. He was explaining that he has a website that has Christian related t-shirts four 4 months that received around 70 visitors a day. They would get one order a week. He started his podcast (that features interviews of Christians…
When I logged into Worpdress today I saw where the top plugins were listed and one was for a plugin that fixes the Image Manager problem in 2.51. I installed and now image manager works like a charm. The plugin is at http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/image-upload-http-error-fix/
I’ve known Jason Van Orden for a few years. He is the author of the book "Promoting Your Podcast" and he has now launched an new "Community Magnet" series. Its an in depth 18 minute video. To receive the other videos you need to give Jason your name and e-mail, and you will receive updates…
In today’s Morning Announcements I mentioned that instead of raising the price of the School of Podcasting, I created a package deal designed to increase revenues. I created a "Quick Start" package that includes: A 6 month subscription to the School of Podcasting ($120) 1 Year of Blog Hosting at www.coolerwebsites.com ($24) Wordpress installed and…
The idea of a printed podcast magazine has been "ran up the flag pole" a number of times. Many have tried, and apparently, all have failed. I think one of the first Podcast magazines was www.id3mag.com that shut down publication (if I remember) before it even had a printed version. Another podcasting magazines is Podcast User…
I’ve had this question thrown at me a few times, "I want to blog and I want to podcast. Should I have a separate website for both?" I’m not sure I have an answer, but after thinking about this I went back to "It’s all about the listener." Here are my thoughts, if you’re reading…
When I started the Podcast Promo Show January of 2008, I thought there would be a never ending stream of Podcast Promos to Play. Well apparently there is about 4 months worth of promos to play cause I’m getting low. So if you would like your promo played in front of an audience looking for…