Web Tutorials for Schools, Can This be Useful for Business Too?

The power of using web video for teaching has been realised by Brightstorm a video site that brings the most talented tutors into contact with students that need a little more help. Although based in the US it’s clear that this is a model that could work across the world. Brightstorm launched yesterday after gaining a six million dollar investment from Korean company KTB Ventures. Read the rest of this post »

Posted by DJ Wayne on October 22nd, 2008|Categories: Chit Chat, FAQ, News Comment

MPH featuring Top Gear Live Launches Podcast Series to Engage Fans and Push Ticket Sales in Run Up to Annual Motor Show

The annual Prestige & Performance Motor show, ‘MPH featuring Top Gear Live’ is launching an eight-part audio podcast series to give fans a teaser of show content and push ticket sales.
The campaign, which will run from August to November, follows hugely successful results from a similar podcast series last year.

Podcast production company Podcast Voices has produced the series and will release a new episode every two weeks in the run up to the show, which starts on 30 October at Earls Court in London. Content includes interviews with stunt drivers and exhibitors from the show. Read the rest of this post »

Posted by DJ Wayne on July 30th, 2008|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment, Samples, Testimonials

Podcast Voices Creates New Baby and Toddler Audio Series for Parenting Website Bounty.com and Sponsor Huggies.

Parenting website Bounty appointed commercial audio and video podcast specialist Podcast Voices to create a second and third ‘evergreen’ series, providing a thirty-two part parenting guide.

The series, sponsored by Huggies, aims to educate new parents with answers to common baby and toddler questions. These new releases, Your Growing Baby and Your Toddler, complement the original Your Pregnancy podcast series – also created by Podcast Voices - launched successfully last year on Bounty.com. 
The ultimate aim is to provide a consecutive series of podcasts designed to appeal to millions of new parents for years to come. They will encourage regular return visits from growing families and couples who are planning to have children. Read the rest of this post »

Posted by DJ Wayne on June 24th, 2008|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment, Testimonials

Podcast Voices at the Podcast and New Media Expo 2007

Four days to go!

The Podcast Voices team will once again be heading to the 3rd Annual Podcast and New Media Expo in Ontario, California. The event is the worlds premiere summit for podcasters / online content producers to come together to discuss the latest developments in audio and video online.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on September 24th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Revolutions in Audio and Video Advertising Online

Along with Google’s recent movements into audio and video versions of their adwords, Kiptronic have also announced their new product poised to make the inclusion of ads on video podcasts easier.

Google recently announced that its audio and radio ads system will now be avialable as a soft test on most of its users adwords accounts. It allows Google advertisers to pay for radio advertising on a CPM basis with the adverts appearing on radio stations recorded by professional voice actors.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on June 29th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Social Networking and Podcasting Grow Closer Together

One of the most useful tools in Podcasting, Feedburner (recently purchased by Google) has introduced a new Headline Animator system to enable the latest updates from Feedburner users to appear as animated headlines to the millions of Facebook Users worldwide. The headlines will include feed update and additions from blogs, podcasts, vodcasts and any other feed that is registered through Feedburner.

Similar to MySpace, Facebook is a social utility network, extremely popular with University and College students that allows users to keep in touch with their friends and new people that they choose to “add”.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on June 7th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Pocket Events, A Brand New Service from Podcast Voices

Its not often that I allow myself some shameless plugging on this blog, but with our new service that we call “Pocket Events”, I just couldn’t help it and there’s a good reason:

Organising a conference, seminar exhibition or any kind of event can take a lot of effort, whether it’s a full blown Expo or a round table discussion over drinks with experts in a chosen field.  Going to the trouble of getting speakers together and making the most of the content can be quite a challenge!

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Posted by DJ Wayne on May 18th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment, Samples

Youth Market Leads the Way for New Ways of Watching Television

The youth market is leading the way in the use of devices other than TV for watching videos. Not of great surprise, too many of us Im sure, we’ve all seen the teenagers glued to their iPods, mobile phones and laptops on trains and buses. What is interesting is the percentage of this age range of 13 – 34 year olds that are using this technology to change their viewing habits.According to the soon to be released study by E-Poll entitled  “Multi-Platform Viewing of Video Content,” 26% of young people prefer to watch video content on their portable devices over standard television.The sheer availability of choice when it comes to online and portable video, coupled with the popularity of user generated content is seen to be driving this growth:

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Posted by DJ Wayne on May 17th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, News Comment

Apple Sells the 100 Millionth iPod

This month it was announced that Apple sold its 100 millionth iPod, worldwide. This makes the device THE fastest selling music player EVER in history.

It has been instrumental in making the Apple brand one of the most loved and recgonised around the world and has been the driving force behind Apples impact on   fashion and lifestyle in recent years.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on April 16th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Facts, News Comment

Atlantic 06 Welcome Home Parties

To welcome home Stu and Ed from their amazing voyage and to celebrate their achievements two parties were held in Manchester and London. Podcast Voices of course were there in force to show their support for the events organised by WAYN and I took the opportunity to entertain the attendees with a mix of music and highlights from the Podcasts.

Stuart Turnbull and Edward Bayliss succesfully rowed unsupported across the 3000 miles of the Atlantic Ocean in the Memory of Zayed, their 20 foot long plywood boat. They did all this in 63 days and encountered some truly horrendous weather conditions and extreme hunger along the way with only the strength of their own bodies to drive them on. Stu and Eds title charity was Cancer Research and they managed to raise over £200,000 for the charity during the challenge. Podcast Voices followed their progress and created the first podcast of its kind by bringing updates directly from the boat via satellite phone.
The podcasts were enjoyed by tens of thousands of listeners and subscribers through WAYN, iTunes and various podcast directories.

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Posted by DJ Wayne on April 5th, 2007|Categories: Chit Chat, Pictures, Samples, Testimonials