Monthly Archive for November, 2005

Way back last November, when we were first hearing about such new and exciting things, I started to get on Dave Hamilton about podcasting. Back then we didn’t know if podcasting was, in the immortal words of Bruno Kirby’s limo driver in This is Spinal Tap “just a fad” or if we were on to something.

Turns out we were. Dave and fellow Mac Observer-ite John F. Braun started the Mac Observer’s Mac Geek Gab Podcast last spring and it quickly moved up into the top tier of podcasts.

So it would seem a natural fit that the BackBeat Media business model – supporting web publishers on the advertising and business side, could be applied to podcasters and podcasting. That Dave and Greg would seek green pastures in the fields of podcasting….

If you guessed ’sure David, that makes sense,’ you’re right.

So today we’re happy, pleased and delighted to announce the launch of BackBeat Media’s Podcast Network. Joining the aforementioned Mac Geek Gab are Brian Ibbott’s Coverville and Dave Slusher’s Evil Genius Chronicles.

Just like with the existing members of the BackBeat Media network, this is not about control, content or creativity. It’s about supporting independent publishers and podcasters with advertising and business support so they can go and do what they really want to do. Dave Slusher expresses this thought more clearly than I could here.

We’ll have more to say on this throughout the day. So stay tuned.

Update: BusinessWeek talks about the rise of podcast networks, mentions us and quotes Brian Ibbott.

Update 2: Dave Hamilton tells all.

Update 3: more coverage.

Update 4: TechCrunch chimes in.

Update 5: a mention from Corante

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