Podcasts gain popularity: now 6 million listeners
updated 10:15 am EDT, Tue April 5, 2005
Podcasts gain popularity
The Internet audio broadcasts known as are catching on with owners of iPods and other digital-music players, a new survey finds. Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple's iPod say they have downloaded podcasts from the Internet, according to the study released Sunday. That means more than six million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year, according to the research. Podcasters create radio-like programs of commentary, music or humor, which are saved in MP3 audio format and posted online. Listeners can be automatically notified when a new podcast is available by special software.
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Wanna make big bucks?
It's good to see podcasting start catching fire, although it it relatively easy to get started with your own podcast, there is not a suite of apps or a single solution that will help you get started. Everyone's got their own ways of getting to Rome but no one's created a nice paved path.
So you wanna make big bucks? The gauntlet has been thrown down before you. I've got my cash ready.