Live webcasting service BlogTalkRadio has raised a $1.9 million second round funding, Techcrunch reported. The company plans to use the proceeds to build out additional verticals across the site, in addition to categories including business, education, legal, science and politics. The Lakewood, NJ-based company, which raised $4.6 million almost two…

—*Yahoo* shutters RSS ads : More streamlining at Yahoo: In an email sent to participating publishers, the company said it was pulling the plug on its RSS ads product, according to SEL. The feed-based ads program launched in late 2005, but obviously failed to gain much traction. Alternatives in the…

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 money, and now its assets have been bought by ViewPartner, a communications technology company, for less than half million dollars, reports VB. The Palo…

BlogTalkRadio, a popular online radio hosting site which allows anyone to webcast a radio/live feed, has received $4.6 million in funding, led by The Kraft Group, the owners of the New England Patriots. In this era of live lifecasting, webcasting an audio feed seems a bit retro, but the service…

Revision3, the online video shows firm founded by Digg co-founders Jay Adelson (CEO of Revision3) and Kevin Rose, has received $8 million in its second round of funding, reports VentureBeat. The round was led by previous backer Greylock, and several of the angel investors. Greylock is also an investor in…

A cautionary tale on naming a company after an-as-yet non-mainstream “trend”: PodZinger, the Cambridge, MA-based podcast search firm, has rechristened itself EveryZing and has raised $10 million in a second round funding. The round was led by Fairhaven Capital, which was joined by return backers Accel Partners and General Catalyst…

Video blogging service Blip.tv has closed a second round financing that was led by Ambient Sound Investments. The amount was not disclosed. Other participants in the round included Lauder Partners; Jeffrey Sechrest, managing director and co-head of the media and entertainment division of Lazard; Andrew Rasiej, founder of the Personal…

Digital hosting company SonicMountain has acquired podcast aggregator Odeo. The company had been looking for a buyer since February. Odeo’s parent Obvious said in an earlier blog post that it was unable to devote enough focus to developing the podcast venture since it was consumed by the takeoff of its…

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 programming is over. Announced with fanfare and expectations two years ago, the contract is expiring days after the block was pulled from the air…

Podbridge has raised $8.5 million in second round funding, PE Week reports, citing a regulatory filing. The round was led by Sutter Hill Ventures, which was joined by return backers Mayfield and Worldview Technology Partners. Mountain View, CA.-based Podbridge markets a system that provides ad placement inside of podcasts. Greg…

—Joost-WMG: Joost has another significant content deal, this time with Warner Music Group. The video service, still in beta, will produce multiple WMG channels, programmed either by genre, label or, potentially, by artist.  The two will share revenue from targeted advertisng on WMG’s Joost channels. Release. —Fox TV-HearstFox TV Studios…

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 landscape, noting the lack of standards for placing ads on podcasts and the absence of solid audience measurement as two major impediments to push spending…

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 decided to take the pulse of audio podcasting and finds it’s doing just fine. While the attempts to find a suitable measurement continue, Glaser shares the anecdotal evidence from…

The New Yorker‘s famous cartoons can now be viewed as an animated, ad-supported video podcast on iTunes through RingTales, an online animation syndicator. As part of the deal with the Conde Nast publication (through its cartoon licensing arm, The Cartoon Bank), Santa Monica-based RingTales has the exclusive license to animate…

While eMarketer projects that podcasts will grab $400 million in ad spending by 2011, BusinessWeek was wondering who’s tracking the audiences for this medium? One answer may come from podcast company Podtrac, which today launched a free online media planner that lets advertisers research audience information for audio and video…

Kiptronic, a San Francisco-based audio and video podcast advertising technology firm, has received $4 million in its first round of funding. The round was led by Blueprint Ventures and Prism VentureWorks with participation from existing angel investors. The company’s technology allows for dynamic and targeted ad insertion for video and…

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 eBay shop. In the room beyond the open glass doors, people are sitting on couches, on beanbags and on the floor, laptops…

China is generally not considered a social networking hotbed, but somehow internet TV provider MediaZone has signed that nation’s state-run broadcasting company to use its peer-to-peer streaming Social TV service, the AP reports. MediaZone’s Social TV combines peer-to-peer streaming with community features like instant messaging. Along with China Central Television,…

WallStrip, the video blog focused on the financial markets, has received about $0.5 million in angel funding, reports NewTeeVee. The angel investment round included venture capitalist Fred Wilson of Union Square Ventures, though it seems he has invested in personal capacity. The video blog started a few months ago, and…