RawVoice Support

Aloha Everyone:

I wanted to do a quick update tonight, as it has been a week since we have given a shout out to everyone, for those of you that are new to the community welcome to the Blubrry Announcement list where we update you, on what is happening in the Blubrry Community. I want to remind everyone that they can find all of the previous announcements at faq.blubrry.com, as well as the Google mail list archive. For those of you that have subscribed to the blubrry discussion list it’s nice to see everyone give great suggestions and keeping the volume low.

Ok what has been happening; well the programming team is back at work adding core functions, we have a list of priority enhancements, and many of them have come directly from all of you. You will likely see an expansion of the comment capability of the site that is going to allow us to communicate directly with you via the website interface. As soon as Matt has his final testing done we will be implementing the new commenting features. Angelo has had to take care of a few personal things this week so we are a little behind on some of our other key updates but hey sometime life is like that.

I have gotten some e-mails from podcasters wanting to do a dedicated podcast review shows on all podcast listed on blubrry, can you drop me an e-mail again as I would like to get started on that project.

For those that have been informed of the first podcasting advertising deal those negotiations continue, and I hope to have final word by the end of the week, the hold up at this point has been the scripts for the ads and making sure we have in place language that will give you some flexibility in your podcast. This is a pretty big ad buy on the scheme of things, and could result in a long term advertising promotion with reasonable CPM if we can deliver the goods once the campaign starts.

I have also been approached by a couple of companies I already do business with wanting to some campaigns, so I will be sending out invitations in the next couple of days to essentially everyone on this network that has a advertising profile filled out. I have too put the numbers together for the vendor and will be working that tomorrow, as well as putting in place some standing orders so that all of you have the option to participate if you so desire. I will get those details out shortly.

I want you to know we are working very hard for you behind the scenes and we hope that all of you are mentioning blubrry.com in your shows as part of the user agreement that you are part of the Blubrry community, Some of you have asked for actual audio spots and we have those in work at this time so we hope to have some very brief pre-produced spots for you shortly.

Important: As I look thru the show listings I am seeing a lot of shows that have not uploaded there own branded header images, and I see many of you have not provided the links in your podcast profiles for your iTunes, Odeo and Yahoo podcast listings. Remember our goal is to help get you more listeners, if you do not complete your profiles it short changes you in taking advantage of all the sites features to get people to subscribe and listen to your shows. The response has been tremendous to our new onsite video/audio player, and we are seeing that people are loading the player for extended periods and listening to shows online to the tune of 3 or 4 thousand a day. So please make sure your profiles look the best that they can this will help you gain audience share.

Where else can you promote your podcast, don’t forget to submit your promos to podcastpromos.com, as we want to remind everyone of the free exposure you can get on that site, with hit levels at a steady 10k a day those that are submitting show updates and promos to that website are getting major exposure.

Pre Contest Announcement: Were going to be announcing a contest here in the next couple of days that will allow you the chance to win a iPod and other prizes on our march to have a 1000 shows listed on the website. You can help us get to a thousand by sharing your thoughts on Blubrry.com on your blogs and podcasts. I watch the technorati.com references to blubrry everyday, and I will be highlighting those shows on my own personal podcast and the BrryCast at www.brrycast.com this week, I want to personally give back to those of you that are helping building the viral marketing for the community. If you mention blubrry.com on your blog and it does not get indexed by technorati.com make sure you drop me a note via e-mail and I will be happy to give your site and show a shout out on my podcast.

This community will only grow if we work together. We did not list 20,000 podcast on the site on purpose, and we know that you all want to be here as you have all agreed to help promote the site while we try and find you acceptable sponsors.

BrandBuilders we have about 50 of you that have asked for help via our BrandBuilders program, Brian will be contacting you shortly to work with each of you on your home sites. That’s all I have for now what was going to be a short note turned into a letter, sorry about that but hey it’s been a week. We will also be having a community meeting next week announcements to follow but we hope that as many of you as possible can attend this will be your chance to ask the questions you have been afraid to ask. It will be on Skypecast.

Todd Cochrane
808-741-4923 (HST)
ceo@rawvoice.com