iPod sales figure facts
5.3 million iPods were sold in the first 3 months of 2005″ its manufacturer Apple revealed, an increase of 558 percent.
Apple
Podcast Audience Size Facts
Researchers at the Defusion Group predict that the U.S. podcast audience will climb from 840,000 in 2005 to 56 million by 2010. By that time, three-quarters of all people who own portable digital music players will listen to podcasts, up from less than 15 percent from 2005, the digital entertainment research group said.
Over 6 million Americans have listened to a Podcast.
A report published 04/05 by the Pew Internet and American Life Project
In late June 2005 Apple added 3,000 Podcasts to iTunes. Within two days, customers had subscribed to more than 1 million Podcasts. That number is now more than 5 million said Stan Ng, Apple’s director of iPod marketing worldwide.
The Sunday Times-August 7, 2005
ITProPortal.com - Tech Podcast Testimonial
At the ITproPortal.com our aim is to guide IT professionals quickly and easily through current IT issues. Podcasting seemed like an obvious way to make our existing content even more accessible and user friendly for our busy audience.
We chose to work with Podcast voices, because they demonstrated that they could produce exceptional quality Podcasts at short notice and at a sensible price!
Our audience has already shown great enthusiasm for our recent Podcast articles, so we are continuing to work with Podcast Voices on migrating more content over to this exciting format.
Ben Chai, Editorial Director, ITProPortal.com
Digital Music Player Ownership
The BBC July 2005