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Vote For #PodcastWednesdays In The 8th Annual Podcast Awards Starting Today

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Nominations for the 8th annual Podcast Awards open Oct. 1

The People’s Choice Podcast Awards, better known as the Podcast Awards, is an annual set of awards given to the best Podcasts as voted by the people. The annual Podcast Awards is a chance for your show to be recognized so be sure to inform your audience of the event.

The 8th annual Podcast Awards Ceremony will be Held at New Media Expo in Las Vegas January 2013 with financial incentives to attend for “every” show that receives a nomination.

The Podcast Awards is still seeking sponsors for this years event and, we encourages podcasters to support the awards as it is our single way to promote an award shows in the space.

The Process:

Nominations are open Oct. 1-15. Podcast Listeners nominate up to 22 shows. Each category will have an entry form that asks for the name of the podcast, the podcast url, feed, your name, your email address, and nomination comments. The email address must be valid to receive verification on the nomination.

Word of warning for your audiences. They can only submit the nomination form once see rules.

Once nominations close 44 volunteer listeners will review the nominations, and grade the podcasts that are nominated. The reviewers grade shows on the following.

  • Nominated in an appropriate category.
  • Show established prior to Jan. 1, 2012.
  • Produced more than 10 Episodes.
  • RSS feed icon with enclosures visible on their website.

A grading sheet is used in the review

  • 40 percent: Total number of nominations a podcast receives
  • 15 percent: Quality of the website’s design
  • 15 percent: Quality of sound
  • 10 percent: Delivery quality and show format
  • 20 percent: Content relevance

The top 10 nominees in each category will be announced for the final voting slate which will start in November.

Categories include:

  • People’s Choice
  • Best Produced
  • Best Video Podcast
  • Business
  • Comedy
  • Culture-Art
  • Education
  • Entertainment
  • Food and Drink
  • Gaming
  • General
  • GLBT
  • Health and Fitness
  • Mature
  • Movies/Films
  • Podsafe Music
  • Politics/News
  • Religious Inspiration
  • Science
  • Sports
  • Technology
  • Travel

Visit the PodcastAwards.com website for all the details and latest announcements. Follow the PodcastAwards Twitter account as well.

Monday, October 1st, 2012 at 11:11 AM
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More Than 100 Million Americans Now Listen to Online Radio By #PodcastWednesdays

This is a format exploding in front of our very eyes. It’s bigger than Pandora, and in fact, it’s the reason why Pandora has so many jabbing competitors!  According to just-released survey data from Edison Research and Arbitron, 103 million Americans are now accessing online radio in some form, in any month.

It’s a growth curve that looks like this:

 

That’s nearly 40 percent of the US population 12 or over, and a massive chunk of breathing Americans.  Which all sounds high-growth and rah-rah, but can the online radio sector afford its own growth?  Pandora is struggling to reach profitability, and serious questions now surround its financial model.  After all, the more listeners Pandora and the broader space attracts, the more money in licensing it has to pay – and so far, streams aren’t covering costs.

And they aren’t necessarily replacing traditional radio: 9 out of 10 Americans who listen to online radio still dial into a traditional, over-the-air AM or FM station.  In fact, on any given week, 87 percent of Americans who access platforms like Pandora have also listened to some form of ‘traditional,’ ‘terrestrial,’ or ‘from a tower’ radio station.

That smashes the notion that one format must replace another.  Indeed, we could be witnessing the development of the most overlapping and redundant media landscape in history.

Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 9:00 AM
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