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Podcasting Resources
by John Kremer

Audio Acrobat: http://www.audioacrobat.com. Allows you to put audio and video podcasts and other recordings onto your website. Free 30-day trial. $19.95 per month after that.

Blog Talk Radio: http://www.blogtalkradio.com. Host your own free radio show. They provide a phone line for you to host and a phone line for guests and audience members to call in. They make money on the advertising. Check out their report on How to Promote an Internet Radio Show: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/promoguide.pdf.

Blubrry: http://www.blubrry.com. A social podcasting community connecting podcast producers, advertisers, and anyone looking for great podcast content. Also allows you to measure your podcast audience.

Cast Grabber: http://www.castgrabber.net. An automatic podcast downloader.

Gabcast: http://www.gabcast.com. Offers a free service for recording audio files using just a telephone and a computer.

Gcast: http://www.gcast.com. A podcast service run by the same people who run GarageBand.com. You can record by phone. They offer free hosting.

Genesis Podcasting Studios: http://www.genesispodcasting.com. Brad Leggett, President, 8490 S. Power Road, Gilbert AZ 85297; 800-823-6097. Email: brad@genesispodcasting.com. Offers audio book narration as well as author audio interviews. Also the Chapter a Day podcast service.

Global Talk Radio: http://www.globaltalkradio.com/hostashow.htm (to host a show). It is “one of the largest and fastest-growing internet talk radio stations, with a wide variety of programming, including everything from business to internet, health, publishing, entertainment and paranormal subjects.”

Home Start Runner: http://www.homestartrunner.com.

IDictate.com: http://www.idictate.com. Allows you to create a PDF text of any audio recording, teleseminar, or other audio file for pennies per word.

Itunes: http://www.itunes.com. The key podcast directory.

Internet Voices Radio: http://www.internetvoicesradio.com.

Libsyn: http://www.libsyn.com. Podcast hosting service. A subsidiary of Wizzard Media. Wizzard offers a podcast advertising network with pre-roll, post-roll, and mid-roll options for both audio and video.

Odeo: http://www.odeo.com. Offers podcasting tools and a desktop media player with aggregated video blog feeds. Its embedded browser helps people find, play, and store media content.

Phonecasting: http://www.phonecasting.com. Dial one of their numbers and you can hear complete podcast programs via a cellphone. You can also forward podcasts to other phones.

Podango: http://www.podango.com. Free hosting, distribution, and monetization. You can use the Podango audio and video player on your site and make money as well. In addition, you can create a station (collection of podcasts with a related theme) and earn 10% of ad revenue generated by your station as well as 50% on any podcasts you produce yourself.

Podcast 411: http://www.podcast411.com/howto_1.html.

Podcast Pickle: http://www.podcastpickle.com. A directory of 7,000 podcasts.

Podcasting News: http://www.podcastingnews.com. Lots of resources and links to other podcast directories. Probably the best resource for podcast directories list.

Podiobook: http://www.podiobook.com. Features audio podcast books.

Podnova: http://www.podnova.com. Podcast directory.

Podtech.net: http://www.podtech.net. A video-podcast startup.

Podtrac: http://www.podtrac.com. Offers podvertising services connecting podcasters and advertisers.

Radio Userland: http://radio.userland.com. Lots of resources for podcasting.

Rapid Feeds: http://www.rapidsfeeds.com. Offers an easy way to create free feeds for blogs, podcasts, and more.

Serious Magic: http://www.seriousmagic.com.

Sonic Distribution: http://www.sonic-distribution.com.

Switchpod: http://www.switchpod.com. Podcast hosting service. A subsidiary of Wizzard Media.

Talk Shoe: http://www.talkshoe.com/podcast. Record or upload live interactive podcasts with free hosting. Up to 250 people can talk and chat while thousands listen in. You can earn money hosting a podcast and referring new hosts.

Ubercaster: http://www.ubercaster.com. A podcast recording and production software tool for the Mac.

Utterz: http://www.utterz.com. An audio blogging platform that also allows you to share podcasts via Twitter, Blogger, TypePad, WordPress, etc.

Yaktivate: http://www.yaktivate.com. Bonnie Dillabough, Founder, 2103 Harrison Avenue NW #2-124, Olympia WA 98502; 877-298-7650. Email: bonnie@yaktivate.com. One-time $150 set-up fee allows you to host your podcast on their server, allows people to subscribe to your podcast, features a podcast directory, send out monthly press releases about your podcast, register your podcast with more than 30 directories, free advertising on other podcasts in the network, etc.

Zune Marketplace: http://www.zune.net. To add your podcast to the Zune Marketplace, you have to download the Zune Software (currently only for Windows machines), sign up for a Zune account, then open the Zune software and click on Marketplace. Search to see if your podcast is already listed. If not, you can suggest that your podcast be listed (scroll down to Suggest A Podcast link, click on it, enter your podcast feed, and click Submit). You can also add your show to your Zune collection by entering the RSS feed address for your podcast. Once your podcast is listed in the Zune directory, then you can add a direct URL to the Zune Marketplace on your own website.

Zune Podcast Subscription: http://www.zunepodcastsubscription.com. The new interface for subscribing to podcasts on Zunes.

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BlogWorld & New Media Expo: http://www.blogworldexpo.com. Also known as BlogWorld '08. September 20 to 21, 2008, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada.

New Media Expo: http://www.newmediaexpo.com. August 14 to 16, 2008, at the Las Vegas Convention Center, Las Vegas, Nevada. For audio, video, and independent new media content.

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