New feature on Podcast.com we just announced today - Corporate Channels - the release is below:

Podcast.com Launches Corporate Podcast Channels

PriceWaterhouseCoopers becomes first customer

Cambridge, MA, April 22, 2008 – Podcast.com, the premier podcast portal, announced today that Podcast.com now provides an opportunity for companies to get their own Corporate Podcast ChannelTM to provide businesses a way to aggregate the growing number of corporate podcasts that provide branding, awareness and educational experiences to customers and prospects of corporations. Additionally, the company announced its first Corporate Podcast Channel customer as PriceWaterhouseCoopers. The PWC Corporate Podcast Channel can be found at http://pwc.podcast.com.

A Corporate Channel is a dedicated channel on Podcast.com that allows businesses to leverage the built-in Podcast.com search engine optimization and gain access to the rapidly growing base of podcast consuming visitors to Podcast.com. Podcast.com Corporate Podcast Channels also provide companies with access to distribution of their content to hundreds of millions of Internet-connected devices including cell phones, portable Wifi devices and Internet radios. The combination is an unsurpassed “hyper-distribution” of the company’s content. Corporate Podcast Channels on Podcast.com also provide an opportunity to take many discreet corporate podcasts and provide one central aggregated portal to maximize company branding and educational efforts.

According to a recent study by Edison Media Research , audio podcasting usage continues to increase. Eighteen percent of Americans have listened to an audio podcast; up from 13 percent in 2007. Nine percent have listened to an audio podcast in the past month (an estimated 23 million people).

“The steady growth in the increase of the podcast audience presents a major opportunity for corporations to deliver their brand awareness and product messaging”, said Glenn Gaudet, Chief Marketing Officer of Treedia Labs. “Podcasting represents a growing powerful medium that corporations can leverage as both a communications vehicle and a lead generator.”

For more information on Podcast.com’s Corporate Podcast Channels, visit http://treedia.com/channels or call +1.617.401.2417.

About Podcast.com:
Podcast.com is the premier podcast portal that provides access to a growing list of over 57,000 curated and constantly updated podcasts representing more than a million episodes of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones, Internet radio and other Internet-connected devices. Visit us at http://podcast.com.

About Treedia Labs:
Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company’s core product, the Treedia Feed Management Platform™, powers a variety of downloadable media solutions including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://treedia.com.

We hit a big milestone last week - over 50,000 podcasts have been input into the system by listeners and viewers. The press release is below but since it was put out on the wire almost another 2,000 have been added - social media and podcasting are on a rocketship - HUZZAH!
Cambridge, MA, February 12, 2008 – Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com portal surpassed 50,000 podcast programs. This gives the user of Podcast.com access to over 50,000 of the best podcast programs available today. A podcast is an audio or video program that is delivered on a downloadable file via the Internet.

Podcast.com provides its members with the ability to search, collect, play, create playlists and share audio and video podcasts.. Anyone interested in getting free access to over 50,000 podcast programs can visit http://podcast.com and click the “sign up” button.

Podcast.com provides members with a one-stop shop to sample and collect all of best programs that podcasting has to provide. Visitors can play the podcasts right from the site or choose to download or subscribe to their favorite podcasts to work with their own personal podcast playing device. Podcast.com also supports mobile devices such as cell phones and Sony’s PSP device.

“This goal post marks a tipping point for podcast aggregation,” said Duncan Perry, chief operating officer of Treedia Labs. “Podcast.com’s growing list of programs represents both commercial and independent producers along with a strong list of global flavors including podcasts produced in almost 20 languages.”

For more information visit http://podcast.com.

About Treedia Labs:

Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company’s core product, the Treedia Feed Management PlatformTM, powers a variety of downloadable media solutions including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://treedia.com.

About Podcast.com:
Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 50,000 curated and constantly updated podcast feeds representing more than 200,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, multimedia devices and Internet radio. Visit us at http://podcast.com.

We announced yesterday the top podcasts of 2007 at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas - one curious fact was that only 2 shows were what I would consider ‘indie’ style podcasts - smaller new media companies or individuals taking advantage of the democratization of media and web 2.0 style publishing tools - this surprised me. Another was established media’s willingness to engage with us and ask for help in how they can broaden the footprint of their programs - very refreshing! Below is part of the release and list:

Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com “Top 10 Podcasts of the Year” Award for 2007. Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 43,000 curated and updated podcasts representing more than 175,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com’s unique solution for content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones and other multimedia devices.

Each year, Podcast.com tallies the total number of times a program has been accessed by consumers. In 2007, Podcast.com tracked over one million podcast access connections via the Podcast.com portal. The top 10 Podcasts represent those items that were accessed the most in 2007.

Podcast.com’s Top 10 Podcasts of the Year Award recipients are:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast - independent
2. CNN News Update - mainstream
3. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast - mainstream
4. Geek News Central Podcast - independent
5. BBC’s Best of Today - mainstream
6. NOVA - PBS - mainstream
7. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast - mainstream
8. 60 Minutes Podcast - The Full Broadcast - mainstream
9. Face the Nation Podcast - mainstream
10. CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast - independent

The complete list is also located at: http://podcast.com/home.php?subpage=_pages/top10_2007.php

This year’s winners are enjoying the sizeable and growing audiences of downloadable media consumption. According to Edison Media Research data from 2007, more than 37 million podcasts were accessed by consumers in the US. According to Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), a group dedicated to measuring radio audiences in the UK, podcast listening increased 40-percent, to 2.7 million people throughout the UK in 2007.

“As Internet-connected mobile phones become more pervasive, podcast content represents one of the major formats that consumers are adopting as part of their daily media experience,” said Duncan Perry, chief operating officer of Treedia Labs.

“Podcast.com’s growing audience clearly values the content diversity being offered by both independent and mainstream media producers.”

For more information on the 2007 Top 10 Podcasts of the Year, visit www.podcast.com.

Here is the link - people helping people - it’s a beautiful thing.

Find all the details here >> PodCamp Boston 2

Find all the podcasts from the podcampers at Podcamp.Podcast.com

We are opening the doors for just a little while….come on by and take the new system for a spin - http://podcast.com/beta/

We are right in the thick of this - normalizing - optimizing - mobilizing - localizing - globalizing - monetizing the V.I.T.A.L RSS/OPML media (video/image/text/audio/link) for personal consumption via an open platform - the web of data - 3.0 - pretty cool.

Cool promo idea from the folks at PodCampAZ - Here it is…..

This one time at podcamp…

I know, Labor Day is suppost to be a day off, but I got this bug in my butt to get some promotions moving for PodCamp. So based on the suggestions on the Google Group, I busted out a new promotion. I need your help to make it successful. Here’s how it works:

• Make a 10 second (or less) video clip that falls in line with the phrase “This one time at PodCamp…” and can be closed up by the phrase “…it could happen”
• Upload it to the box account at: ThisOneTimeAtPodCamp.com
• Do it by October 1st

I’m so excited about the promo videos. I can’t wait to see them. Feel free to ask any questions if you have any right here.

Thanks!

We are working hard to launch and open the doors for late September at PNME Expo in Ontario California - drop us a line for invites - beta at podcast dot com or register at podcast dot com

The subdomain system for brands to build their own customized social multimedia networking podcast site to amplify podcasts is coming along - check out the progress here - demo.podcast.com - The great thing about generic term domain names is that when the subdomain is a brand name, your brand doesn’t get diluted by our domain name!

Kosso in SL at BlogHer 2007

What about Feedburner?

Online Media God

In New York City Ed Zander and Motorola rolled out their new line of industry defining mobile phones. The MOTO Z8 is truly a ‘media monster’ - we have been using a pre-release handset and demoing the Podcast.com service. The VC crowd here in Boston liked it very much. And I have to say so did we! Kosso now has it in Old Blighty.

Motorola’s press release is here.

In addition to Podcast.com coming pre-loaded our friends at Mote will include, in-box, a full-length film – “The Bourne Identity” from Universal Pictures - and applications from BSkyB and content from CNN. Also games from Electronic Arts’ will soon become available for download. So we are in good company.

The last few days I have been listening to environmental related podcasts and been culling and curating a playlist of the best - This would also help when I launch my own Green program discussing topics with experts in the field - then I thought…..what other firm, brand, program, enitity, university, scientist, or invidual might want to utilize Green.Podcast.com within our Social Media Communications Network?

Things have been moving fast and furious at Podcast.com - The scope, breadth, and focus of the project has evolved from a simple consumer web service to RSS/OPML based feed managment platform and developable data ecosystem….in fact we better rename the company.

Notice the cool set of colors over on the right hand side of this blog - it’s a ‘quilt’ of images. They are the images representing a Podcast rss feed which exists within a Listener Account at podcast.com. It’s random. Click the image and it will take you to the Podcast.com page for that podcast feed.

Kosso whipped up this very customizable widget. The docs and scripts are being written so anyone can do it. Really soon anyone can come to Podcast.com and sign up and create their own podcast directory of subscriptions. We have lots of things cooking here! Very cool ways to use that data to feed all sorts of widgets - embed in your blogs - Myspace page - ebay pages - etc, etc.
Things are really starting to hum……..can you hear it