This is a listing of the major and some minor ad networks currently in play.

The ADM includes thought leaders, companies, publishers, and producers with a vested interest in the commercial success of downloadable media.

The Blog World Expo and New media Expo 2009 is different than most events you've probably attended. Here, you won't find any boring panels with boring speakers pitching their own companies and pontificating about the business-side of the business. The Expo is a hands-on, exciting, "how-to" event with practical conference sessions about how to produce high-quality online audio and video content, grow a loyal audience, and market or monetize that content in creative ways.

Core magazine about blogging and podcasting.

This check sheet is from SearchEngineGuide.com, Jennifer Laycock, author, provided during seminar session at Podcamp Ohio in Columbus, Ohio, June 27, 2008.

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Ever since podcasting was introduced, the question has been the same: Will anyone listen? The answer is definitely “Yes.” eMarketer estimates that the total US podcast audience reached 18.5 million in 2007.

Details in report.

International Blogging and New Media Association Website

The Infinite Dial 2008: Radio's Digital Platforms,The latest study by Edison Media Research and Arbitron, is the third in a series of annual Infinite Dial studies exploring the digital audio platforms (online radio, satellite radio, HD Radio, and podcasting among others) that expand the radio market, their impact on AM/FM radio, and implications for advertisers and media planners.

Christopher S. Penn and John Wall roll along about marketing in the new media world. Also checkout their related shows, The Financial Aid Podcast by Penn, and Ronin Marketeer by Wall.

Resource for marketing.

From Pew Internet & American Life Project: "As gadgets with digital audio capability proliferate, podcast downloading continues to increase. Currently, 19% of all internet users say they have downloaded a podcast so they could listen to it or view it later. This most recent percentage is up from 12% of internet users who reported downloading podcasts in our August 2006 survey and 7% in our February-April 2006 survey. Still, podcasting has yet to become a fixture in the everyday lives of internet users, as very few internet users download podcasts on a typical day."

A PodCamp is a usually free BarCamp-style community UnConference for new media enthusiasts and professionals including bloggers, podcasters, YouTubers, social networkers, and anyone curious about new media. The first PodCamp was held September 8-10, 2006 in Boston, Massachusetts. PodCamps are now being held worldwide.

A monthly PDF magazine covering many different aspects of podcasting with articles for podcasters, listeners, musicians and even business people.

Web site of all news about Podcasting.

A great survey just released that has some great information points for the media communications professional.

Social Networking Beats Email, from a Nielsen Online press release

The Podcast Brothers, Tim and Emile Bourquin, host a weekly show on the business side of audio and video new media.

The Podcast Consumer Revealed 2008 is the third study in this annual series on podcast consumption, and contains data derived from the 2008 Arbitron/Edison Media Research Internet and Multimedia study. Highlights of this study were originally presented on April 16th at ad:tech SF, as a part of the Association for Downloadable Media's "Get The Download" event.

Today there are nearly 1 billion hungry people around the globe. yet in only 50 years, our growing global population will require an esti- mated 100 percent more food than we produce today.