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Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

China Wholesale — Thu, 11 Mar 2010 19:35:27 -0000

You want to have them? Then join us soon as possible bar

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Grand Theft CJ — Fri, 16 Feb 2007 04:03:30 -0000

What advertising is available on podcasts anyway? Same as radio?

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Jack Schnorr — Fri, 27 Oct 2006 15:04:50 -0000

Next question of first podcasters. Will Aruntx Publishing Company do venture capital or just go public with all the big money they made with the telephone company deal.

More should be revealed.

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Phillip Molly Malone — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 00:43:00 -0000

Wow, Wonder what Cameron Reilly's "The Podcast Network" would be worth then. At least that site is navigatable!
Molly

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

ron — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 22:11:17 -0000

it's such a messy network...biggest waist of money ever!

i give them a year.

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

pwb — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 19:30:21 -0000

"there is not much to podcasting, itâ€™s just an RSS feed and HTTP download"

I'm not even sure that RSS plays much of a role. Most podcasts are just donwloaded like any old file.

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

BS — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 17:28:07 -0000

What if Apple goes after them on the trademark issue?

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Jason Lefkowitz — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 16:01:47 -0000

Really, what can you do with $15MM that you canâ€™t accomplish with far less risk for $1MM?

Hey buddy, those Aeron chairs don't buy themselves!

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Alexander Muse — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:32:16 -0000

Our own experience in this space with Big in Japan (PodServe and Fancast) perhaps jade my thinking on these things, but I don't get it either. What is the money for? Really, what can you do with $15MM that you can't accomplish with far less risk for $1MM?

Re: PodShow raises $15M more for….podcasting. Yikes!

Brian McConnell — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:39:47 -0000

Podcasting is very similar to Internet radio and businesses in this space should be evaluated as such.

Some companies are making a respectable but not particularly exciting living hosting media streams for content providers.

The other people making money are the content providers themselves.

In terms of technology, there is not much to podcasting, it's just an RSS feed and HTTP download. Thus, no opportunity to build high value technology around it.

Creating content isn't really what VCs should be funding, just as the phone companies failed whenever they tried to get into the entertainment business. My guess is the people who will figure out how to make money from podcasting, or any other Internet media technology, will be in Los Angeles, not Silicon Valley.