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This just in!  We just tabulated your Top 25 podcasts on Podcast.com for the month of May. The Top 25 is representative of the podcasts you are listening to and watching on the Podcast.com website. We have nine new entrants for this month’s list vs. the five new entrants for the month before.  Change is good, so if your favorite podcast is missing from this list, all you have to do is listen to it or watch it on the Podcast.com site for it to make the top 25 podcast list for the month of June.  For now, here’s the Top 25 for May with the new entries into the Top 25 in bold letters:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast
2. CNN News Update
3. Dictionary.com Word Explorer
4. Open Source Sex
5. Voices from the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
6. Geek News Central Podcast
7. NOVA (PBS)
8. 60 Minutes Podcast
9. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast
10. Oroscopo di Leonardo.it
11. Midwest Teen Sex Show
    
12. SuicideGirls Radio
13. Disney Channel Shorty McShorts’ Podcast (Video)
14. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast
15. Filmspotting
16. Sex is Fun
17. Scott Mills Daily
18. Best of Chris Moyles
19. CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast
20. Fetish Flame
21. BBC Global News
22. ABC World News (Enhanced Video)
23. BBC World Service Documentary Archive
24. AP NewsPulse
25. Comedy 365

These podcasts dropped out of the Top 25 this month (but are still swell):

• Business Top Stories from The Associated Press (AP)
• Boinkology
• Technology Top Stories from The Associated Press (AP)
• Flipping Channels
• CNN Marketplace Update
• Il Ruggito del Coniglio
• New York Times Music Popcast
• BBC NewsPod
• NPR Hourly News Summary

We’ve had quite a few emails lately asking how to get Podcast.com podcasts onto iTunes and your iPod.  You can do this if you use Podcast.com to make a playlist of your fave podcast episodes.  You only need to follow these instructions once and it will be set up: as you add more podcasts to your Podcast.com playlist, they will automatically appear in iTunes.  (Before you start, you need to have iTunes installed on your computer.)

1. Log in to your account to get to your home page.
2. 
   Click the ‘load’ button in the middle of the page, below ‘my playlist’.
3. 
   Click ’show advanced options’, again in the middle of the page.
4. 
   Locate the ‘Add to iTunes’ button.  This will launch iTunes.

Watch as your favorite episodes show up in iTunes (click the thumbnail below to see how it looks)!  Send an email to info at podcast.com if you have further questions about this.

We just launched a website, Videocast.com, that will give you easy access to free episodes from many new online video shows.  We would love you forever if you would take a few minutes to let us know what you think of the site.  We’re most interested in what you think when you first come to the Videocast.com home page, but feel free to browse and watch our collection of videos and let us know if something is not working the way you think it should.  Just send an email with your thoughts to beta[@]videocast.com (take the brackets out of the email address).  THANKS!

It’s that time of month again — we just finished tallying the Top 25 podcasts on Podcast.com for the month of April. Our Top 25 is representative of the podcasts you are listening to and watching on the Podcast.com website. We must say you have been fairly consistent with your listening and watching habits: the top 17 podcasts of April were also in the list of the top 25 podcasts for March.  Like we’ve said, if your favorite podcast is missing from this list, all you have to do is listen to it or watch it on the Podcast.com site (many many times) for it to make the top 25 podcast list for the month of May.  For now, here’s the Top 25 for April with the new entries into the Top 25 in bold letters:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast
2. CNN News Update
3. Dictionary.com Word Explorer
4. Midwest Teen Sex Show
5. Open Source Sex
6. Sex is Fun
7. 60 Minutes Podcast
8. Oroscopo di Leonardo.it
9. BBC Global News
10. NOVA (PBS)
11. New York Times Music Popcast
12. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast
13. Voices from the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
14. CNN Marketplace Update
15. ABC World News (Enhanced Video)
16. Geek News Central Podcast
17. BBC NewsPod
18. NPR Hourly News Summary
19. Il Ruggito del Coniglio
20. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast
21. Flipping Channels: a feature program from Podcast.com
22. Business Top Stories from The Associated Press (AP)
23. Boinkology
24. Comedy 365
25. Technology Top Stories from The Associated Press (AP)

These podcasts dropped out of the Top 25 this month: NPR: Books Podcast, Filmspotting, Bob Edwards Weekend, Sex with Devon, and Lonely Planet Travelcasts.

We just finished tallying the Top 25 podcasts on Podcast.com for the month of March! Our Top 25 is representative of the podcasts you are listening to and watching on the Podcast.com website. We announced our first Top 25 podcasts for the month in February, and wouldn’t you know that over half of the Top 25 podcasts in March weren’t on February’s list. That means you like VARIETY, and there’s plenty of that on Podcast.com. Enough with the suspense: here’s the Top 25 for March, with the new entries into the Top 25 in bold letters:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast
2. CNN News Update
3. Open Source Sex
4. Dictionary.com Word Explorer
5. Midwest Teen Sex Show
6. BBC Global News
7. 60 Minutes Podcast
8. Sex is Fun
9. ABC World News (Enhanced Video)
10. Bob Edwards Weekend
11. NOVA (PBS)
12. BBC NewsPod
13. Lonely Planet Travelcasts
14. Sex with Devon
15. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast
16. New York Times Music Popcast
17. CNN Marketplace Update
18. Voices from the 2006 ACLU Membership Conference
19. Geek News Central Podcast
20. NPR: Books Podcast
21. Comedy 365
22. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast
23. Boinkology
24. Filmspotting
25. Oroscopo di Leonardo.it

Looks like our hard work is paying off: Treedia Labs has been selected as one of the best 100 private companies in the Northeast U.S. by AlwaysOn, a media network that focuses on new business and technology.  We’re definitely proud to be in the Top 100, but that doesn’t mean we’ll stop working to make Podcast.com easier and more useful for you.  As always, if you have any suggestions for how to improve Podcast.com, click the Feedback link on our home page and let us know — and thanks for sticking with us.

With the elections in the United States just a few months away, many citizens of the world are earnestly starting to follow coverage on the candidates to be America’s next president.  Podcasts are an excellent way to absorb such coverage, as you can choose from a variety of opinions from big media companies as well as smaller podcasters that span the political spectrum.  Whether you are conservative or liberal or just interested in the process, you can find audio and video podcasts on the Politics channel of Podcast.com that will fit your needs.

Podcast.com is entering the ‘Awesome Age’ (somewhere between the ‘Internet Age’ and the apocalypse): we’re collecting the top 25 podcasts on a monthly basis and presenting them to YOU and everyone else.  You can find the top 25 podcasts for the current month here, this month and always:

top25.podcast.com

Congrats to the podcasters featured in this top 25.  You can read more about it on our Treedia.com site.

If you look at our blog on our blog page and not on the Podcast.com home page, you’ll notice a ‘widget’ on the right that shows our current top 25 podcasts.  You’ll be hearing or reading ‘widgets’ and ‘Podcast.com’ in the same sentence more often in future days.

A new poll by Zogby suggests the Web, including podcasts, has become the preferred news source (over television, radio, newspapers) for almost half of all Americans.  Go figure.  Some interesting findings and conclusions:

• Nearly half of respondents (48%) said their primary source of news and information is the Internet
• 55% of those age 18 to 29 say they get most of their news and information online
• Web sites are regarded as a more important source of news and information than traditional media outlets (radio, television, newspapers)
• 86% of Americans said Web sites were an important source of news, with more than half (56%) who view these sites as very important

But who provides the news online?  Television and radio stations and newspapers still do, delivering their comprehensive news coverage to the Web.  If you’ve visited our news channel you know we have an abundance of podcasts from many of these big news outlets: New York Times, Associated Press, the BBC — as well as punditry and analysis from some smaller yet still respected local sources such as KPLU in Seattle and shows such as Between the Lines.  Podcasts are produced at numerous intervals: weekly, daily, even on the hour. And podcasting is the perfect medium for individuals to give do their own editorializing on daily events from their home studios.

Spend some time at our news channel and realize just how many news podcasts are out there.  It may change your daily routine, like it has ours.