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Podcasting Growth “Massive” - Universal McCann
New research from leading ad agency Universal McCann shows that “new media” is now actually mainstream media.
The comparative study looks at social media trends through three “waves”:
Wave 1 - September 2006
Wave 2 - June 2007
Wave 3 - March 2008
Research highlights:
Social media is a global phenomenon happening in all markets regardless of wider economic, social and [...]
Audio Podcast Listening Jumps Significantly
Tom Webster at ADM reports on the continuing rise of podcasting in the United States:
This year, our third annual Podcast Consumer Revealed report (derived from the 2008 Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet and Multimedia study) details significant gains in both audio and video podcast consumption. The audience for downloadable media is not only growing, but also [...]
Changes at Talking Voices
We’re pleased to be able to make several announcements at once regarding the future of the company.
Brian Greene and Sinéad Murnane from doop in Dublin, have been making a great success of Talking Voices Ireland. Both join the board of Directors.
Michael Franklin, formerly of TalkSPORT and The Wireless Group joins the board as Financial Director [...]
The Guardian Uses Seesmic In US Election Coverage
UK newspaper The Guardian has been using the Seesmic “video conversation” website (still in “pre-alpha” mode, and not yet public) to canvas opinion and guage reaction to the US Elections, with some very interesting use of online video via this brand new service.
Click to read / watch / listen.
Talking Voices Australia
We’re very pleased to report that Talking Voices now has a presence in Melbourne, Australia.
This photo of the Talking Voices man on the beach was sent via Kosso, the CTO of Podcast.com
PodCamp Boston 2007
Talking Voices’ producer Dean Whitbread travelled to Boston at the end of October to take part in PodCamp, a new media grassroots conference. The conference was attended by over 1000 people and lasted three days.
This interview was conducted by new media arts consultant evangelist Len Edgerly.
Mark Hunter: Podcast Producer
Talking Voices senior podcast producer Mark Hunter is a keen photographer. He has been using popular photo-sharing site Flickr to document his work for the AICR podcast, using their notes function to go into some detail about how he works.
Interesting and informative, his Tartan Stories blog has a comprehensive account of his methodology. Mark also [...]
John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network
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September 28th 2007
John Cleese to release new video series in conjunction with The Podcast Network.
British actor, writer and comedian John Cleese is to release Headcast, a series of online videos, which he describes as “some humorous, some more thoughtful, giving me a chance to sound off in my old [...]
Facebook Videos Outside The Walled Garden
One of the many issues surrounding the fast-growing social networks is that some of them operate as a “walled gardens”, that is, the content published within the networks supposedly requires you to be logged in to access messages, notes, personal details, and posted items such as video. But how secure are these free-to-join networks?
Here at [...]
Edinburgh Fringe Podcast
Ewan Spence’s extremely well-received Edinburgh Fringe podcast is up and running once more - his third year on the job, and how many podcasters can say that? This episode has a great interview with comedian Stephen K. Amos and some amazing human beatboxing from The Tom Tom Club. Oh, and there’s a Talking Voices advert [...]
