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Ad Industry Roundup: Yahoo Kills RSS Ads; Podcast Standards; M&A Survey
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– *Yahoo* shutters RSS ads : More streamlining at Yahoo: In an email sent to participating publishers, the company said it was pulling the… Read more »
Glasgow Herald Staff Must Reapply For Jobs In Multimedia Restructure
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Newsquest’s Herald & Times Group in Glasgow is making 235 journalists redundant and telling them to apply for a reduced number of altered jo… Read more »
Podtech’s Assets Sold Off For Peanuts
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The story of Podtech has changed dramatically over the last year or so: first it lost its CEO, laid off staff and failed to raise venture mo… Read more »
Online Radio Hosting Site BlogTalkRadio Gets $4.6 Million Funding
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BlogTalkRadio, a popular online radio hosting site which allows anyone to webcast a radio/live feed, has received $4.6 million in funding, l… Read more »
Guardian Joins Radio, Podcasting Trade Groups, Positions Against C4
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BBC Launches First Commercial Music Podcasts, Tracks Limited To 30 Seconds
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Broadband Content Bits: Tioti, ilovevideo Launch; Gaydar Podcasts
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GCap Joins UK Podcasters Association Umbrella Body
GCap (LON:GCAP) has become a member of the UK Podcasters Association, an umbrella body advocating podcasters’ rights, in a sign Britain’s la… Read more »
Online Video Shows Firm Revision3 Gets $8 Million Funding
By Rafat Ali
Revision3, the online video shows firm founded by Digg co-founders Jay Adelson (CEO of Revision3) and Kevin Rose, has received $8 million in… Read more »
PodZinger Renamed EveryZing, Closes $10 Million Second Round
By David Kaplan
A cautionary tale on naming a company after an-as-yet non-mainstream “trend”: PodZinger, the Cambridge, MA-based podcast search firm, has re… Read more »
Video Sharing Site Blip.tv Completes Second Round Funding
By David Kaplan
Video blogging service Blip.tv has closed a second round financing that was led by Ambient Sound Investments. The amount was not disclosed.… Read more »
SonicMountain Buys Podcast Aggregator Odeo
By David Kaplan
Digital hosting company SonicMountain has acquired podcast aggregator Odeo. The company had been looking for a buyer since February. Odeo’s… Read more »
PodShow, Sirius Deal Ends: Some Podcasters Caught Off Guard
Lost in the shuffle of recent events … the deal for Adam Curry and Ron Bloom’s PodShow to supply Sirius with a four-hour block of podcast… Read more »
Podbridge Receives $8.5 Million In Second Round Financing
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Podbridge has raised $8.5 million in second round funding, PE Week reports, citing a regulatory filing. The round was led by Sutter Hill Ven… Read more »
Broadband Content Bits: Joost-WMG; Fox-Hearst; Endemol; Cooper’s Podcast; LX.TV-Jaguar
By David Kaplan
– Joost-WMG: Joost has another significant content deal, this time with Warner Music Group. The video service, still in beta, will produce… Read more »
Podcasts Attract Growing Audiences, But Not Ad Revenue
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The number of podcasts continues to grow but actual revenue from podcasting isn’t budging much. BW is the latest to look at the podcast ad… Read more »
Online Video Grabs Headlines, While Online Audio Carves Out Its Niche
By David Kaplan
With everyone’s eyes focused on the online video news of the past few days (Viacom/YouTube, NBC/News Corp. deal), Mark Glaser’s Mediashift d… Read more »
New Yorker Cartoons Available As Animated, Ad-Supported Podcasts
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The New Yorker’s famous cartoons can now be viewed as an animated, ad-supported video podcast on iTunes through RingTales, an online animati… Read more »
With Podcast Ad Revenue Rising, Audience Measurement Catches Up
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While eMarketer projects that podcasts will grab $400 million in ad spending by 2011, BusinessWeek was wondering who’s tracking the audience… Read more »
Podcast Advertising Tech Firm Kiptronic Gets $4 Million First Round Funding
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Kiptronic, a San Francisco-based audio and video podcast advertising technology firm, has received $4 million in its first round of funding.… Read more »
@ CES: PodTech's Bloghaus: To See It Is To Believe It
As I write, I’m at one end of a vast conference table strewn with cables, laptops in every size and make, and enough cameras to set up an eB… Read more »
MediaZone Signs China's State-Run Broadcaster to Social Networking Service
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Video Blog WallStrip Gets $0.5 Million Funding
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WallStrip, the video blog focused on the financial markets, has received about $0.5 million in angel funding, reports NewTeeVee. The angel i… Read more »
Music Podcast License Deal May Be Near For British Commercial Radio
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Commercial radio stations in Britain are close to signing a deal with a major music rights organization to allow portions of music played on… Read more »
Carmakers Driving Music Industry Embrace Toward Podcasting
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The value of podcast as a promotional vehicle may finally be helping music labels and publishers conquer two distinct concerns: fear of pira… Read more »
Seattle Start-up Pluggd Raises $1.65 Million Seed Round From Intel, Angels
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WSJ Reporters In Union Will Stop Podcasts, Webcast Interviews, CNBC Appearances
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Disney Nets Try New Tricks: SoapNet Fantasy League; ESPN Local Podcast Network
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MSNBC.com Moves To Fill Zune Video Void; Video, Audio Will Be Accessible Through Zune.net
Updated to clarify Zune access: Ok, so video podcast of Meet the Press and the NBC Nightly News aren’t going to fill a 30G Zune but it shoul… Read more »
Web 2.0 Deadpool: Odeo Podcast Service Bought Back; Pluck RSS Reader Closing
By Rafat Ali
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UK Round-up: Podcasts; Scotsman; Haymarket; NatMags; Endemol/ITV1
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Washington Times Inflicts Text-To-Speech News On Its Users
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PodShow Raises $15 Million For More, What Else, Podcasting
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Digg Co-founders Launch Video Podcasting Firm Revision3; Get $1 Million Funding
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Podcasting Solutions Firm ClickCaster Gets $0.5 Million Funding
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ClickCaster, a Boulder, CO-based provider of B2B podcasting solutions, has raised $0.5 million in its first round of funding, reports PEWNew… Read more »
UK Round-Up: FT Access; Radio DJ; Sun Online; Telegraph Download; AOP Awards
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Podcast Search Firm PodZinger Gets $5 Million
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PodZinger, which searches podcasts, has received $5 million from its parent company BBN Technologies, after being spun off it earlier this y… Read more »
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