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Amazon has acquired Audible.com, provider of audio books and other spoken word audio content, for $300 million in cash and short-term investments.
“This deal brings together two pioneering companies that share a long history of ceaseless focus on improving the customer experience,” said Donald Katz, founder and chief executive of Audible.com. “We are very excited to be joining a company as innovative as Amazon.com.”
Originally posted on January 31, 2008 @ 10:00 am
What I Want Podcasting released its website What I Want Real Estate allowing realtors nationwide to sign up and get started with podcasting videos of their property listings.
The website asks realtors to register their contact information, and then supply photos and text descriptions of their properties. From there What I Want Real Estate does the rest of the work for the agent. The website develops the property listings into videos, and then distributes them to a wide range of search engines; it also provides monthly statistics to gauge individual property viewings. All of this is included for the one-time fee of $50 per property.
Originally posted on January 29, 2008 @ 11:05 am
Blogger Robert Scoble will join BlogTalkRadio CEO Alan Levy Friday, January 18, 2008, at 3pm Eastern / 12pm Pacific on The Alan Levy Show to discuss Scoble’s new role as Managing Director of the new video network FastCompany.TV from Mansueto Digital.
The Alan Levy Show is a live, interactive Internet broadcast hosted on BlogTalkRadio. A text chat room and other information can be found on the host page. Archives of the show are made available after the show at the host page or via RSS subscription at the host page or iTunes.
Host Page: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/alanlevy Live Stream & archive: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/AlanLevy/2008/01/18/Robert-Scoble-sits-down-with-Alan-Levy Call-in Number: (347) 677-0649 Archive RSS Feed: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/alanlevy/feed
Originally posted on January 18, 2008 @ 12:00 pm
ICE.com has launched an integrated podcast advertising program to be heard exclusively on the Personal Life Media network. The relationship focuses on leveraging the unique attributes of podcast advertising, including the ability to offer highly-emotive content similar to radio and television, but delivered online. Advertising in downloadable media benefits from the personal nature of “long tail” programming and the deep appreciation listeners have for their show hosts.
In addition to the 30-second audio ads that will run on more than 10 of the network’s most popular shows, each host will provide personal endorsements during their shows. Moreover, a 2-minute advertorial interview at the end of many of the shows will incorporate an interview with CEO Pinny Gniwisch.
“Pinny has distinguished ICE.com as a pioneer in innovative advertising concepts, said Susan Bratton, Personal Life Media co-founder and CEO. “He’s a fearless marketer with the assets and patience to be a leader in any next-generation media opportunity. Plus, promoting his beautiful jewelry to listeners of our relationship, personal transformation, beauty and aging gratefully shows is a lot of fun for everyone.”
To take advantage of the ICE.com and Personal Life Media advertising specials, listeners can go directly to the ICE.com site using the unique promotional discount code mentioned in the podcast. Listeners of Personal Life Media shows will enjoy a 20% discount on their jewelry purchases. Diamonds are not included in the discount as the phenomenal pricing at ICE.com and companion site DIAMOND.com does not allow for a further price reduction.
Originally posted on December 5, 2007 @ 10:36 am
The Association for Downloadable Media (ADM) announced the election results for the 20 inaugural office seat positions including the Executive Board (Chair, Vice Chair, Secretary, Treasurer); eleven (11) Advisory Board seats, Chairs for: Advertising Standards Committee, Education & Outreach Committee, Measurement Committee, Membership Committee and the Terminology Standardization Committee.
Set to provide leadership in measurement standards, research, education and advocacy to all those involved in portable media, the ADM is committed to advancing its charter of creating a landscape that facilitates the commercialization of this growing audience. The ADM’s focus includes revenue generation from advertising and sponsorships of podcasts, vodcasts (aka vidcasts, video podcasts, or vlogs), and other audio/video digital content distributed via RSS, ATOM, peer-to-peer, mobile devices, downloads from Web sites and other platforms to come. The organization has been formed to focus specifically on any content downloaded by consumers, and will work in collaboration with related industry associations.
“The ADM members have spoken, and I’m humbled by the confidence and trust of our group. With that trust comes a duty to serve all members, and I will do my best to fulfill that duty every day as the Chairman. Because we have accomplished considerable groundwork, we are able to enter a fruitful period of productivity. We will continue our membership drive. We will reach out to existing organizations to provide support and assistance. And we will strive to become the preeminent information resource for efficacy and measurable results in the downloadable media space,” Chris MacDonald, EVP Business Development and Operations Libsyn PRO Enterprise Platform, founder of Indiefeed and newly elected Chairman of the ADM said.
“Our leadership team and our 188 members are ready to populate the committees and get to work. Expect great strides in actionable industry guidelines from this experienced group,†Susan Bratton, CEO of Personal Life Media, newly elected Vice Chairman and progenitor of the organization added.
Elected individuals for the 4 Executive Committees (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary and Treasurer), 11 Advisory Board seats and 5 Committee Chair positions are: [Read more…]
Originally posted on December 3, 2007 @ 10:22 am