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You must be Reliable, able to Meet hard Deadlines, and work without hand holding. You must be able to dedicate 40+ hours  a week to this position! Please send us your resume, references and links to projects that you have developed. Please indicate your participation level on projects you have developed. If you are unable to dedicate 40+ hours to these projects please be very clear about that in your email to us. Send all of the above to ceo@rawvoice.com and cio@rawvoice.com

Get your kitsch on at Blubrry.com’s Vegas After Party! The RawVoice team invites you, yeah, you for a night of flamboyant festivities and delightful decadence 9 p.m.-1 a.m. Friday, Oct. 16, at the Peppermill Lounge, 2985 Las Vegas Boulevard. We’re excited to bring our communities together to mingle and celebrate!

Visit us at the Blubrry booth — No. 316 in the exhibit hall — at BlogWorld/New Media Expo and we’ll get ya hooked up with the required ticket. Oh, and please RSVP to our facebook invite, too, so we know we can plan on seeing you! This is Sin City at it’s best and, hey, it’s Vegas! We promise not to kitsch and tell!

Travel news gathered from all over the Internet and presented at TravelCastNetwork.com includes podcasts, Web radio and Web TV programs. This site is the only one of its kind on the Web and it’s free. It allows seasoned world travelers and weekend wanderers to listen to timely stories on topics including trip planning, economic destinations, exciting sites most people wouldn’t think about, what to take with you, government warnings and much more.

An advanced feature allows the user to listen to the podcast, radio or TV show while still surfing the Internet or continuing work on a computer.

“Whether you’re trying to find a good travel destination, trying to get up the courage to travel independently or just want to know how to better tackle Walt Disney World, the TravelCastNetwork has the resources to help you,” explains Chris Christensen, director of the new site and producer of the Amateur Traveler. “The TravelCastNetwork.com is a free resource that will be helpful to those who are actively traveling or simply dreaming of traveling some day. We hear back from listeners who are buying airplane tickets, taking gap years or planning their next vacation based on what they’re learning.”

The site already reaches about 100,000 travel types a month nationwide. Potential advertisers can contact Christensen @ travelcast@rawvoice.com.

For more information or to sign up for a free account, visit www.TravelCastNetwork.com.

These video testimonials will reach advertisers, podcasters and corporate clients so keep that in mind when you’re putting them together. Duh, videos that are simply promotions for your show won’t make the cut.

Topics for the testimonials include:

• Podcast Advertising: tell the world what it has done for your show and how your listeners have reacted to the spots.
• Podcast Statistics: tell our audience – and yours – what you like best about the stats and any insights the service has given you about your audience.
• Podcast Hosting: reveal your innermost feelings about our hosting and the tools available to each client.
• PowerPress: so, what you like about it? Let the masses know how it has improved your show production.
• Portal Clients: the viewers anxiously await your insights on how the portal has helped your company and how you are using it.

Guidelines:

• 2-3 minutes max
• We’d like to be able to download the raw footage to edit in-house so we can put in titles and make sure it’s in the proper format. If you want to do all that yourself that’s fine, but please provide us a high quality master to work from.

Questions can be directed to creative@rawoice.com

Thanks in advance for doing our work for us. We knew you wouldn’t mind.;)

Team RawVoice

Take a look at the tools that benefit you:

Reporting by States

One of the most requested features,  you can now access state-by-state reporting all across the United States. You can view data by simply hovering over the interactive map.

Trending By Day

Our trending report has been extended to include a 12-month outlook as well as a 30-day report. The new data lets you to see what days of the week draw your largest downloads. Trending data can be accessed simply by hovering over the interactive graph.

Extensive List of Clients

During the summer months we’ve seen a surge in Blackberry and Android download traffic. To reflect this new trend in mobile media downloads, we’re now detecting the BlackBerry podcatching application, PodTrapper, and the Google Android podcatching application, BeyondPod, separately to give you more insight on how your media is being consumed on mobile devices. We also added the new Palm Pre (WebOS) and are now reporting the previous Palm mobile devices as Palm (classic).

Here’s a list of mobile clients and podcatchers currently detected:

• Opera Mini
• Nokia
• iPhone
• Windows Mobile
• BlackBerry
• Android (Google smartphone)
• Palm WebOS (Palm Pre)
• Palm (classic)
• PodTrapper (BlackBerry podcatcher)
• BeyondPod (Android podcatcher)

More Sources

In our February 2009 statistics system update, we added a new Overall Distribution to report total web browser, podcatcher and web bot downloads. After auditing our system, we discovered additional valuable data with reporting Mobile Applications (such asBeyondPod for Google Android and PodTrapper for Blackberry) as well the mobile web browsers themselves.

We are now reporting “Plays in Page” for users who use flash-based players on their web sites for in-page media playback. For users using our Blubrry PowerPress WordPress podcasting plugin, this feature has been enhanced to track all in-page plays on your web site.

Performance Improvements

We’ve improved the performance of the statistics system: Users can now update statistics at any time. We have removed the five-plus download minimum requirement for displaying downloads for media files. You’ll now see the media appearing in the reports with one download.

This is great new stuff! And, as I said, we’re pretty excited. Try it out, then take a sec and let us know what you think!

• Sign your show up at Blubrry.com
• Fill out the advertising survey to tell us about your show

Doing this gets your show into the Podcast Advertising Management System, which is where we build all podcast advertising campaigns.

As an added bonus you can start using our statistics service immediately. That way, as we are putting together a buy, we know exactly what your show is capable of delivering. While we never share your show data with advertisers without your permission, your show and others will be promoted during an advertising campaign.

The advertising survey data provides us the info we need to help you find a sponsor. Podcasters should update the advertising survey every 90 days to keep us up to date on what your show is doing.

Pretty simple isn’t it? We look forward to working with your show!

List your show at Blubrry.com then send an e-mail to ceo with the link to Blubrry listing. I’ll subscribe and give your show a listen, provide some pointers and, with your permission, talk about your show on my podcast and on some of the network podcasts.@rawvoice.com

The advice will be honest and sincere. If I need to be critical I will politely do so.

By September, I want to find 100 shows that blow me away, give them the attention they deserve and showcase them to media buyers and the journalists we talk to.

The PowerPress plugin has been a hands-down winner for a lot of podcasters for more than a year now. But we have just upped the odds. For the first time podcasters can have an integrated podcast publishing solution while maintaining their own brand on their own WordPress blog.

The new update brings Blubrry Podcast Statistics to the dashboard, Podcast Publishing Integrated with Blubrry Hosting, allowing a simple 1,2,3 podcast publishing process. Heck, we even write your ID3 tags for you now, not to mention multi-language support!

Podcasters are supposed to focus on the media creation. RawVoice and the Blubrry Podcast Community is where podcasters find free and paid services that allow them to do just that  — not to mention we are putting hundreds of thousands of dollars in podcasters’ pockets each month.

Podcasters, ask yourself: What company is really looking out for you, allowing you to build your own empire?

To see how we have made podcasting easier for new and old podcasters alike check out the blog post at Blubrry.com and, if you’re like me and want to watch the demo videos in a bigger resolution, check out how we have integrated our podcast hosting services.

In first five months of 2009 RawVoice remains profitable and is having a record breaking year in its various business units. We continue to invest heavily in ongoing development of all our podcast and new media platforms.

Our financial outlook 2009 is highly positive and our burn rate continues to be lower than our month to month revenues.

RawVoice has increased it’s staffing by more than 50% since the beginning of the year in order to keep up with growing demand for our services.

Our Podcast Advertising division is delivering millions of CPM- and CPA-based ads each month to millions of listeners across a significant number of podcast properties for our various vendors.  

RawVoice now also provides a number of the major podcast networks the high majority of their advertising revenue. This has further expanded our available advertising inventory that carries no overhead for RawVoice.

We are investing in the future by pressing forward with numerous new projects that we will be bringing to the market over the next 6 months that will further our dominance in not only the podcast advertising space but also in new media.

Todd Cochrane
CEO RawVoice

See our Job listing on Linked in.

If you are a podcaster that has been sitting on the sidelines in thinking about getting in on our advertising deals this is the perfect quarter to consider doing so. Inventory is going to get allocated very quickly so you should not delay in taking action.

You will want to list your podcast at Blubrry.com, fill out the advertising survey in the manage account section and drop me a email to ceo@rawvoice.com immediately tell me your show name in the email and I will pull your data from the advertising survey.

All of our ad deals are run through our podcasting communities. Shows that have been approved for listing at TechPodcasts.com have 100% guarantee of being on the Quarter 2 buy.

Get listed on one of our communities today and start earning revenue for your show.

There are alternatives that don’t lock you, your content, and your earning potential into one company. Here at RawVoice we never require podcasters to sign any form of contract that limits there creativity or where one can go to find sponsorship dollars for ones show.

When you are a member of our community you have the ability to participate in ad deals that you so choose to participate in. You always have the right of refusal. We are also are very generous in that the financial benefits are such that you get 70% of the dollars in every deal.

We have podcasters today that have been in ad deals for the past 4 years earning substantial incomes. These deals range from CPM  Ad deals that have paid as high as $52.00 per 1000 downloads.  We also have CPA buys that outright beat payment rates offered by our competitors in some cases as much as 5X times greater.

Do not be swayed into signing a contract that is going to limit the ability of your show to grow and prosper. The immediate money may look enticing but talk to those in the space that are no longer under these exclusive contracts, and you may sit back and re-consider what you are about to sign.

Todd Cochrane CEO RawVoice

What’s new is that a wide variety of companies want to talk about what we can put together for them and I have been working proposals as fast as I can crank them out.

Current Advertisers are telling us that our podcast advertising campaign implementations are resulting in significant ROI an in some cases we are near the top or top of the chart in conversion, new customers and sales!

We may not get all the press other companies do that have more resources than we do, but the bottom line is the bottom line and we continue to be a profitable company. Having walked away from an acquisition offer in 2007 it was the best choice we ever made.

Sitting back and projecting what the rest of 2009 will look like is nearly impossible all we can do is keep moving forward.

With that if you have a connection with a company, make an introduction and we will pay you a finders fee for that introduction when a deal is struck. ceo@rawvoice.com @rawvoice @blubrry @techpodcasts

We realized that in these tough economic times, that while many podcasters want to monetize there podcast, a segment of shows are not ready for advertising, but need the reliable accurate podcast statistics data to continue to build their shows that we provide. This was a large factor in us removing the pre-condition for podcasters to fill out a podcast ad survey to get access to the stats service.

Podcasters that continue want to monetize their shows need to continue to update their ad surveys every 90 days so we have up to date information on their podcasts when promoting shows to media buyers.

With a large majority of our community members using the Basic Podcast Statistics service it only made good business sense to do this.  For those not familiar with our Basic Podcast Statistics here are some of the data sets we provide.

• Summary report of latest 10 episodes
• Overall and Monthly reporting
• Printable and PDF reports
• Details in

• Total downloads
• Unique downloads
• Distribution (Podcatchers and Web browsers)
• Clients (iTunes, Zune Marketplace, Firefox, etc..)
• Platforms (Windows, Mac, Linux, etc…)
• Country Demographics

Consider this a small gift from RawVoice. We continue offer premium podcast statistics via the Blubrry Store for a low monthly fee

Todd, Barry, Angelo, Brian & Jeff

RawVoice is the Parent company for Blubrry.com, TechPodcasts.com, PodcasterNews.com, PodcastPromos.com, PodcastFaq.com and partners with many other podcast verticals in the market space.

This is a unique service, thus we are targeting unique podcast that will reach the targeted demographic.

We are looking for a few additional shows that are business service oriented. If you have a show that reaches individuals and business people that have online customer service division or even general tech support type shows you would be a good fit for this campaign.

I am not limiting the shows to those types I am also looking for shows that reach technology oriented people that may be called on from time to time to perform tech support for a friend or family member.

The product offering is such that it will appeal to the occasional user or those that do customer support on a daily basis.

While I know the scope of this buy is narrow we have already lined up a number of shows that fit the audience demo we are looking for but I have some inventory still available. Contact ceo@rawvoice.com

All shows on the buy will have to be utilizing our media statistics service no other online measurement service is acceptable.

Late in 2004 when another podcaster and I came up with the concept of the Tech Podcast Network little did I realize at the time that the ongoing business generated from that property would lead us to developing a new revenue stream that not only profits RawVoice but also profits new partners.

In late 2008 the RawVoice team decided to start seeking out leaders in the new media space in specific categories, to forge a new business partnerships. The first partnership we forged was with a long time supporter of RawVoice and a leader in the medical podcast space.

That relationship resulted in the development of the Pro Med Network under the management of Jaime Davis,while the details of the partnership are confidential Jaime’s company and RawVoice worked very hard to come up with a framework that benefits each company.

By allowing Jaime to focus on building a network, and RawVoice providing the supporting infrastructure and admin support. Jaime was able to secure a a sponsor that is advertising on the family of shows on the network from it’s launch bringing immediate value to those that are part of the network.

While Jaime’s network has just launched it re-validates a model that we know works.Thus we are seeking a limited number of category leaders to work with in building additional verticals podcast networks.

Are you a category leader? Are you serious about building a vertical contact us today

We are very happy to partner with site Manager / Owner Jaime Davis.  RawVoice’s provides the server infrastructure for the website, access to our new media statistics measurement service, and use of our Podcast Advertising Management System and additional services as part of our close partnership with the Pro Med Team.

The ProMedNetwork has launched with an official sponsor as well which validates our knowledge that vertical markets work well in the new media space.

RawVoice is seeking partnerships with other new media vertical leaders. Contact ceo@rawvoice.com for more information. 

If you have a show on business and reach individuals and companies looking for new ways to handle trouble tickets for either website or software assistance you would fit perfectly as well.

The launch of this campaign is in the middle of February and we will be looking to add a few more shows to this campaign. You should drop ceo@rawvoice.com a line if you think your show fits.

All shows on the buy will have to be utilizing our media statistics service no other online measurement service is acceptable.

The team here has been anticipating this arrival and we could not be more happy that the RawVoice family in a extended way has grown. Angelo can be found on twitter at @angelomandato or you can give him a shout out at cio@rawvoice.com

Angelo will be taking some well deserved time off so the rest of the team will be taking care of all of the trouble tickets that we can in his absence.

Congrats again to Angelo and Heather.

The RawVoice Family

RawVoice is looking for a person or persons to handle tech support issues for all three of our podcast communities, individual must have knowledge of podcast publishing, media creation, and RSS. Individual must also have knowledge on how to use Twitter, Facebook, FriendFeed and a variety of other social media platforms.  Compensation is through a independently negotiated contract.

RawVoice is looking for a independent advertising sales person, individual should understand the new media space. This position may require periodic travel to meet with media buyers. Compensation for this position is partially tied to performance.

RawVoice is seeking PHP developers that are capable of working independently. Candidate should have 2–3 years of experience. We are willing to waive experience if candidate is able to pass internal evaluation. Non US based developers are free to apply but developer must have a high level of English skills.

If you are interested in any of these positions please contact ceo@rawvoice.com

Podango President Douglas Smith has encouraged podcasters to immediately seek new hosting services to ensure they are not negatively impacted by the loss of Podango. We at RawVoice respect that immensely and have tools in place to automate the transfer process should you choose to try out our online video and audio network, Blubrry.

Actually, we’ve made it not only easy, but free. In addition to offering Podango podcasters an automated process to transfer files from Podango to the Blubrry network, the RawVoice team is giving Podango podcasters 30 days of free hosting. This will give you time to continue your show while you consider you hosting options. You are under no obligation to continue hosting with Blubrry: during the 30 day period you can move your shows to another provider at any time. Sure, we hope you’ll continue hosting with Blubrry, but the immediate need is to keep your podcasts online, uninterrupted.

Here are the instructions to move your show and your files to the Blubrry network

Updated: 12–30–08 1800 EST

Update: Podango RSS feeds have become unstable we are now not recommending people move to feedburner in lieu. YOU need to save your RSS feed to your Hard Drive if you can get it to load as your time is running out!

^1st Create an account on blubrry, if you have not done so yet.

2^nd Add your podcast to Blubrry by submitting your feed on our addpodcast page: www.blubrry.com/addpodcast.php Note: You are not purchasing hosting yet, please ignore the message at the top of the screen.

3^rd Once your podcast is submitted and all of your posts have been imported, go to the manage account page by clicking the ‘manage account’ link found at the top right corner. Navigate to the ‘Content’ page and then click the link titled “Free Hosting for 30 days”. Fill out the form, select the plan you would like after your 30 day trial is over, and then click ‘Sign Up’.

4^th From there on out the migration takes place give us a couple of hours to move the media.

5^th (Optional) You can even (recommended) setup a personal domain that will point to your custom home page. This will allow your show to reside at yourdomain.com

Podango Podcasters, while we are sad to have to see Podango in trouble we have tried to make this switch as painless as possible! Circumstances require you do the minimum of Steps 1–3 immediately to ensure no mater where you host your media that those firs three steps will help salvage your audiences numbers.

About RawVoice: RawVoice is the parent company behind Blubrry.com and we offer a wide variety of tools to help you grow your show. We are a financially profitable company not under any financial stress. As a hosting and publishing customer our service will grow with you and our world class podcast statistics paints a clear picture on where your show is headed.

The RawVoice team is made up of Podcasters and we understand the challenges you are facing in this stressful time. You are under no obligation to host with us beyond the 30 days we are offering free but we wanted to give all of you an immediate option to getting your shows moved. We look forward to your feedback

Tips:

1. Provide a contact email for fans to email you on what is happening.
2. Explain in great detail in Step 2 what is happening. It is critical that you do Steps 1–2 today to get the most exposure to your audience that may be checking up on you before Podango closes shop.
3. If Podango does not have all of your past episodes in the RSS feed ask them to unlock the limitation they have set on the feed.

RawVoice has partnered up with the team to provide basic infrastructure for their website running on the RawVoice Generator. While the site is independently managed by the team at ProMed Network we are happy to see our technology being used in a way that will help people.

We will have more info on the ProMed Network in the coming weeks but check out their website as I expect it to grow pretty quickly.

If you have an idea for a unique media network drop us a line we are always open to new ideas.

Todd Cochrane CEO RawVoice

We are excited to move forward formally with this initiative. The team here at RawVoice have all come from within the podcasting and new media space and as we start to expand we want to give our strongest advocates a chance to become advocates and as we grow become integral members of our team.

With Tech Podcasts having been formed in late 2004 and 2005 and acquired by RawVoice in 2007 the network continues to have high standards and is the premier Tech Show Network on the Internet. Big thanks to the team of the The DV Show.

I want to talk a few minutes about our Podsafe Music Relationship with Ariel Publicity, while this is not an exclusive relationship we do want to make our family of podcasters aware of the offerings they have.

Today there just a few outlets to acquire Podsafe music. What is unique about Ariel Publicity is that they get podcasters access to a lot more than podsafe music and permission to play it on your shows.

Through Ariel Publicity you can get access to…

• Concert Tickets
• Artist Interviews
• Special Event Notices

This is a great podsafe music resource, and I hope all of our members look at the artist they represent, and give them some play on your podcast.

Team member Brian Yuhnke will be in attendance to meet with community members, new podcasters, media creators to share information about the RawVoice Communities and our host of services.

If you have not yet registered there is still time for you to get signed up. The event is November 1st and 2^nd at the University of Advancing Technology in Tempe Arizona. See you at Podcamp Arizona

RawVoice and the Blubrry Podcast Community and Directory are proud to be sponsors of the Thin Air Summit.

The Thin Air Summit, is a new media conference in Denver, Colorado. The two day event, held on Saturday 11/8 and Sunday 11/9 will bring Colorado’s new media professionals and out-of-town guests in the same venue for intense learning and collaborating. Seating is limited so register now before it’s too late.

We are offering anyone that registers for the conference, one free month of podcast hosting on Blubrry.com. Simply enter the code “RawVoice” when registering.

Brian Yuhnke, our creative director will be at the event helping the organizers and answering any questions. Please don’t hesitate to stop him and say “Hi”

Instead he told Brian to pack his bags and head to Podcamp Arizona in a couple of weeks.

Anyway the team here at RawVoice are proud to be sponsors of Podcamp Hawaii. Since Todd lives in Hawaii he will be our representative at the event.

But he promised us he would stay busy. He will be holding three sessions. Podcast 101, Podcast Gear and Podcast Monetization. All three session will sure to be information filled. The event itself is going to be amazing!

Here’s how it works:

• Typically a podcast advertising campaign starts with a request for proposal (RFP) from a media buyer or advertiser. With the RawVoice PACMS, we enter the requirements of the buy into the new system.
• Using data sets we have internally, including media statistics, survey sampling, demographic information, show content and other info, we are able to determine instantly what shows are best suited for a specific advertiser. This allows RawVoice to submit a concrete, detailed, unique proposal.
• Once the actual insertion order comes in from the media buyer, we post the campaign requirements to the selected podcasters through the campaign account management system; the content creators then review the requirements and sign off on the campaign.
• From that point the podcasters can access all of the campaign deliverables, aka banners, scripts, etc., via their campaign management account.  This allows podcasters to review campaign requirements as needed and allows us to issue updates throughout the campaign.
• In a few weeks, we will make available the ad reporting system, which will be tied directly to each podcaster’s statistics account. This allows instant auditing and, more importantly, allows for quick billing to the vendor and fast payment to podcasters.

The PACMS allows RawVoice to meet the administrative needs of the podcasters while enabling the team to modify and closely monitor campaigns in progress, ultimately allowing detailed reporting upstream.

“In beta testing in September we were able to execute a media buyer’s quarterly ad over the phone. Total time to execute the campaign from when the call came in to campaign launch was less than an hour,” explains RawVoice CEO Todd Cochrane. “In the past this would have been a full day of work.”

This automation allows the RawVoice team to accurately produce large advertising campaigns with a few clicks of a mouse; a highly efficient process that enables the team to focus on other aspects of the business. The PACMS provides RawVoice a huge competitive edge that no other company has in the new media space.

“This meets a long term goal — to have processes in place that allow RawVoice to execute highly complex podcast advertising campaigns in a matter of hours,” Cochrane says. “We have invested heavily in technology that gives us the data sets needed to reach the exact demographics media buyers and advertisers are wanting to reach.

“In this time of economic downturn advertisers need to be able to spend their advertising dollars wisely,” Cochrane stresses. “We have a highly optimized system to reach just those consumers they want to reach.”

RawVoice remains a true innovator in the podcast and new media space. Along with our other integrated services, the PACMS allows us to have a full picture of our family of 3,200+ shows, setting us apart from any other new media company in the space today.

While we are watching the marketplace very closely, and will adjust as needed we remain positive that the the current economic issues will have minimal effect on our bottom line. We have operated in a lean and mean mode for a long time so while other companies will suffer significantly we are in great shape.

We also understand that companies will be spending advertising dollars wisely and we know we are in a great position to be able to reach their targeted audiences with our 3000+ podcasters and millions of listeners they reach each month.

Todd Cochrane
CEO RawVoice

What started out in 2005 with 13 family safe tech shows with some members earning 2-3 thousand dollars a month has grown to the point today that 100% of network members who wants a sponsor can have one with many earning full time wages on a part time basis.

Today we continue to be proud that TechPodcasts.com is the only Podcast Network that has significant sponsorship opportunities available to 100% of the network members.

Those opportunities have resulted in podcasters at TechPodcasts.com earning 100’s of thousands of dollars since that first deal with the original 13 in 2005.

The team here at RawVoice encourages you to visit TechPodcasts.com and check out the high caliber family safe Tech Podcasts.

RawVoice

Show producers on the network will now have a easier way to manage their shows through the updated account management system. Listeners will also see site usability improve through the new enhanced show listings pages.

In conjunction with this update we are introducing a incubator project where members of the community can use the TechPodcasts.com platform as a test ground for new shows.

Membership at TechPodcasts.com has it’s privileges and we look forward to introducing some new tech shows to the podcasting community.

This weekend will be a working the weekend to push these ad buys to the podcasters that we have lined up to be on the buy. We will be using our new state of the art Podcast Advertising Campaign Management System for the first time which will help the process.

There may be a downturn in the US Economy, but in the digital podcast advertising space we are seeing record amounts being spent. We will be moving some of this inventory into third party companies that we have been working with that have their own networks. So overall our employed inventory is reaching levels that we are very excited about.

There has never been a better time to be looking to earn revenue from one’s podcast than at this very juncture. Shows not on one of our family of sites should reach out to us to find out how you can get on an ad buy with us. ceo@rawvoice.com

For Podcamp Pittsburgh we would like to put out a little challenge. One of RawVoice competitors has it’s Head Quartered in Pittsburgh, and we would hope that they would step up to the plate and throw their support in for Podcamp Pittsburgh after all it is happening in their back yard.

RawVoice is proud to have our family of podcasting communities and directories be sponsors of a number of Podcamps around the country. We understand the value of these events and want to help support the education and growth of the new media space.

This year RawVoice has sponsored the following Podcamp events, all of which we have had members from the RawVoice team in attendance.

• Podcamp Philly
• Podcamp Montreal
• Podcamp Boson
• Podcamp Ohio
• Podcamp NYC
• Podcamp Toronto

Another Podcamp yet this year that will be sponsoring is Podcamp Hawaii which is shaping up to be a world class event. It is a combined WordCamp event that will have some of the top personalities in both spaces speaking.

Few Podcasters understand the true cost of bandwidth, and those shows with large audiences need to thank the shows with the small audiences! Because without those smaller shows their is no way that the podcast with large audiences would be getting the unlimited bandwidth options being offered by several podcast hosting providers today.

While many would argue that a show with 100k listeners should be paying more than a show with 1000 listeners, in the current marketplace of podcast hosting both are often paying the same exact price for service. Thus Podcast Hosting providers are all hoping they have more smaller shows than big shows to stay profitable. It is a delicate balancing act.

Well hope may be in site to allow companies to get CDN download performance with competitive bandwidth pricing. Amazon has announced that they will be introducing a CDN (Content Delivery Network) before the end of the year, and it will be pay as you play.

The current CDN marketplace dictates multiple year contracts, and the per gig charge is dependent on how much media you can guarantee to move. If Amazon does as promised then the extortionist like Limelight and Akamai who penalize smaller companies that do not move as much data, may have to change the way they do business..

Our CDN management was smart, they worked with us and we were able to secure great pricing, they knew over time we would grow traffic and we have. While I am not about to move away from my current CDN as they have been a true partner.  If Amazon comes out with highly competitive pricing I may have to step back and take a look at what they offer and go back to them a see if we can get a better rate.

Kudos to Amazon for shaking up the CDN Market it’s about time!

• Fixed itunes:subtitle displaying ‘…’
• Display itunes:summary in items option
• Add trailing slash to media url if not present
• Enhance ability to copy Podpress settings

If you would like to have the <itunes:summary> included in the <item> portion of your RSS feeds, please add the following line to your wp-config.php file:

define(‘POWERPRESS_ITEM_SUMMARY’, true);

Note: The <itunes:summary> is optional, iTunes will use the <description> when this value is not present.

Let us know what you think. Please leave a comment below or contact us with your thoughts, comments or suggestions.

Most have had been in exclusive network agreements for several years and are no longer will be earning the same amount of income that they had before.

Having discussed with those podcasters what they have been getting paid for on comparable advertising buys we feel we are in a position to offer better rates in some programs. When I quote our payment rates, which are been between 4 and 12 times higher than the base rate they have been getting on comparable programs, many feel like they have been sucker punched.

While RawVoice cannot guarantee advertising for all of the shows that are no longer under exclusive contracts, we will work real hard to help them in their transition.

RawVoice is very different in that we do not require any contracts or permanent commitments, and we give 100% of our effort to take care of them while they continue to build their shows on their own.

If you are podcaster looking for a staunch advocate in the space, feel free to join the Blubrry.com community / directory, then fill out the advertising survey in the member management system and we will work real hard in getting you some ad deals.

RawVoice believes in the Podcasting and New Media Space. Our reputation precedes us, and we look forward to working with shows needing some extra help during their transition.

To say he was blown away about the product was the understatement of the year. Needless to say we are very pleased with the clients reaction.

The RawVoice Generator Media Network Platform which drives ours and our customers podcast portals is a very powerful Podcast Publishing and Syndication Platform, especially when it is tied into our new media statistic service, and soon to be implemented “Podcast Advertising Campaign Management System”.

In final design now the PACMS, will be the first product we will not offer as a white label services due to it being an internal tool we will use with our media buyers, podcasters and the staff here at RawVoice to manage our growing Podcast Advertising Business..

We have added so many features to the RVG that the original video I did a couple of months ago on it’s feature set is now out of date. So in the next couple of days I am going to re-record the video spot.

What excites me the most is in August the RawVoice team made some strategic decisions that allows us to grow RawVoice as a company leveraging the RawVoice Generator Platform.

The team has worked very hard and we continue to be profitable and growth in all of our product lines is as expected. We look forward to continuing to push the bar forward.

Todd Cochrane CEO RawVoice

RawVoice continues to sponsor Podcamps that we are in attendance at, these events remain a great way to learn about Podcasting and the New Media Space.

The Montreal event should be another great event. The organizers have worked hard to put together a memorable event.

We still have inventory available this quarter, so I will be reaching out to all of our media buyers to see what available inventory they may have. Media buyers should contact me now as we will fill all of the available inventory in the next two weeks.

RawVoice represents over 3000 new media creators and we have over 1000 podcasters on advertising buys. Get your message heard to the millions of listeners we reach each month. Contact marketing@rawvoice.com for more information.

RawVoice is proud to be one of the corporate sponsors of the 2008 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. This is a great event that allows podcasters to get some exposure and have their show nominated by their audience members.

The 2008 event has changed a little bit in that the awards ceremony is going to be virtual and I know Todd has been planning how to execute that for a couple of months now.

Also their is change to the way the prizes and awards are being sponsored this year in that podcasters can become a sponsor and get some exposure on the main website of PodcastAwards.com

The team here at RawVoice goal is to give back to the podcasting community as much as possible. After all we would not be able to do what we do without the support and alignment of nearly 3200 podcasters that work directly with us.

If you are not part of one of our podcast communities, now is the time to jump on board. We make available new podcast advertising inventory on a regular basis. Shows that are already on the buys get priority, so this is a chance to get in on ad buy that could turn into a permanent renewal.

All you have to do is sign up for Blubrry at Blubrry.com a Podcast Community and Directory, fill out the advertising survey and drop Todd a line letting him know your new to the community and would like to be considered for Podcast Advertising. If your show qualifies you will be included in the plus up.

You only have a short time to act to get in on this buy as the inventory is moving fast.

Note: Advertisers should be aware that RawVoice represents nearly 3000 media creators and have the longest consecutive running ad deals in the podcasting space. Delivering millions of targeted advertisements through innovative campaigns that deliver.

Podcamp Hawaii staff have arranged discount hotel rooms and have a very exciting agenda for those coming to Hawaii.

Podcamp Hawaii is being organize by Roxanne Darling of Beach Walks with Rox and for those that know Roxanne will realize that this will be a first class event Hawaiian style.

Hawaii is a great vacation destination and what not a better way to have a tax deduction for coming to a great event and also mix in a great vacation. The Podcamp Hawaii team are looking for sponsors as well and hope those in the podcast community will step up.

The most exciting this is that not only is it a Podcamp but it is also a Wordcamp! The word is on the street that Matt will be coming out to Hawaii to speak to those Wordpress users that come to the Wordcamp portion of the event.

RawVoice CEO Todd Cochrane will be at Podcamp Hawaii to meet with Hawaii Podcasters and those in the business community looking for new media solutions.

RawVoice is once again proud to be a sponsor of a Podcamp event!

While I want to save specific thoughts on the show for later. I do want to thank everyone that stopped by the booth and said hello and talked to us about our products and services.

Over the next week we will be following up with everyone and getting to work on the projects, new media portals an host of other cool things you talked to us about.

NME is like a family reunion and this year was no exception and it was great to see the entire family of podcasters and those business people who are exploring the world we have worked very hard to build over the past 4 years.

Good Luck everyone to a profitable and successful year and we look forward to being a partner in those endeavors

Todd..

Today RawVoice is proud to to announce our latest release customizable home pages for our Podcast Publishing and Hosting Customers at Blubrry.com.

This is one of many enhancements we are rolling out for on our platform that makes the RawVoice Generator the back-end that drives our properties and those of our customers the most powerful new media platform in the space

The custom Home Page feature is a real sweet. If you visit www.brrycast.com this is an example of a custom homepage in action. Powered 100% by Blubrry on our Publishing and Hosting service. You will see that the custom homepage looks like a regular weblog, and it has all the standard features you have come to expect from. We have 7 really cool templates designed by Brian our creative director to choose from, and if you don’t like our templates you can build your own just by picking your colors no coding knowledge required.

You can add your own HTML snippets to the sidebar for advertising, blog roll or anything else you would want to put in there. We even allow you to add your Google Analytics code on the site, so not only do you can have a full picture of web traffic with Google Analytics you also track your Podcast Statistics with Premium Statistics that is included in every hosting package.

No other podcast hosting company is offering more cool features than we are, we encourage you to consider moving your shows to our platform. We have three developers working on options that are going to do nothing but help you grow your show. We will be releasing new features almost weekly!

If you don’t have a domain name we will be opening our own domain store after NME but you can go over to GoDaddy.com and pick up a domain today to use on your custom homepage. Until you get your own domain name you can still use the custom homepage we create by default, as an example the Brrycast Home page is also located at brrycast.blubrry.com

If you are not hosting with us, and would like your own custom page on blubrry to promote your show let us know we are weighing the options on this now.

RawVoice is proud to have the most powerful media publishing platform in the new media space.

You will want to stop by the booth we have a special gift for everyone. We are in Booth 211 which is in the second row to the right of the entrance. We will also be giving away some Coverville 500 Concert and Party tickets to our community members.

See you on Thursday! New Media Expo

We built the PowerPress plugin to support our Premium Publishing Service at Blubrry. It’s a wordpress podcast plugin for our customers, and those using our, or other third party stats service.

Most of the members on Blubrry.com  & TechPodcasts.com host their web sites using Wordpress. With MovableType and other Blogging applications have rich podcasting plugins already we focused on the WP community.

With the launch of our latest services (Podcast Publishing Premium and Podcast Publishing Premium with Hosting), we found it necessary to offer a podcast plugin that can support episodes posted from our system.

The task was really simple: develop a Wordpress podcasting plugin that stores podcast episodes the way Wordpress expects them! Now our Publishing Customers can publish their episodes through our system which cross posts their podcast episodes to their Wordpress blog and have fully compliant validated RSS feeds with optimized iTunes / Zune Market place support.

Being we have our own Free and Premium Podcast Statistic Service we did not put in a statistics module in the plugin. After all we spent many months developing our own statistic service that thousands or podcasters are using, along with a number of commercial media networks.

This new Podcast Plugin is very powerful. In that it will give a new or existing podcaster everything they will need to add podcasting support to their website. We look forward to everyones feedback and like other products we have it will mature over time.

We will have a very cool product enhancement to the Premium Podcast Publishing and Hosting service to introduce. We have a couple of top secret projects in work that will fix some issues bloggers are having in the podcasting space as well.

Overall we have 3 programmers working full time on putting the finishing touches on some cool new stuff. Keep your eye on the websites!

RawVoice remains a very small company of 5 people and in my opinion have done some very amazing things that a lot of the funded companies probably could only wish for.

I feel personally the reason for that is that we understand advertisers needs, we understand the audience and being we are podcasters we really understand how to deliver the message and package the ad buys.

While these deals are a lot of work. It makes me the most happy when we cut checks to podcasters. One of our companies tenants is to make sure podcasters have the financial ability to sustain their shows.

Blubrry Podcast Publishing with Hosting is a complete and integrated solution that combines Podcast Statistics Premium, media hosting, advanced promotion tools and avenues to grow and support your show. You focus on the media creation and we will take care of the rest. Let us Power your Podcast Publishing and Hosting today!

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We provide a number of tools that helps you distribute your content in the most efficient manner. Did we also mention that our tools will save you time too? Take a look at some of the Powerful tools we provide.

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