An afternoon at the Podcast & New Media Expo
Posted on September 29, 2007
Filed Under Podcasting
This morning I woke up while it was still plenty dark and made the drive from Las Vegas, NV to Ontario, CA for the Podcast & New Media Expo. As this was my first foray in to the world of Podcasting, I opted to go check out the (free) exhibit hall only rather than sit in on the (pay) sessions. Had to do over again, I wish I would have paid for the sessions and spent the weekend at the expo rather than just the afternoon. I still feel like I learned a lot after speaking to many of the exhibitors, but also feel I could have learned a whole lot more.
We were able to catch the Keynote speech interview of Jim Louderback who is CEO of Revision3. While the bulk of the interview centered around his company, the way they do things and the content that they produce, he did have some interesting things to say regarding the podcasting industry and where it’s going. I also learned a new word from Jim; “Snackisode”. You can check out the the Expo Podcast page if you’d like to relive some of the content.
Here are some of the cool hardware and software tools I was introduced to at the show (in no specific order):
- WireTap Studio (Ambrosia Software)
Described as an “All-purpose digital recording device”, WireTap Studio allows you to record any audio on your Mac from any running applications, microphone, line-in, headset and even your radio SHARK.
I personally liked the editing functions available after the recordings were captured. Mixing multiple tracks, blending them and then being able to export them to pretty much any format you could want. Quite cool. - NowLive
I think these guys win for coolest product. NowLive offers social broadcasting. You are able to do your own “call-in” style live talk show in a matter of minutes. There were far to many cool features and I’ll likely miss a bunch so instead I’ll send you to their tour page. The page says this is a free service. I’m not sure how or why it’s free, but who am I to argue, right? - Beat9
Beat9 is a service that helps you monetize your podcasts by adding banner advertising above your content that they manage and track for you. This seems to me to be something like Google ads in that I would probably use it initially in order to bring in some level of income, but not sure I would use it as my monetization model long term. I’ll be investigating this one further… - Smidgits
These guys are content providers. After they told me they are working on a show called “Vegas Shmegas”, I had to include them in my list. - Blue Microphones
I have heard from several people that these mics are cool, stylish, and an all around downright good product. I finally got to see one in person. While I have no basis for comparison on how well they work, the Snowball is definitely a cool looking product. - TubeMogul
This free services lets you upload your video content once and it will in turn add your content to several video sites (YouTube, MySpace, Google, Yahoo, Revver, Metacafe, etc…). Best part of all, it will track stats for you across all sites. - TechSmith
I’ve talked about these guys before. They put out one of my favorite tools, Jing Project. It was nice to meet with these guys. Unfortunately I wasn’t able to get any solid information on the direction they are heading with Jing, but they were showing it off and one of their developers told me that it’s not going away any time soon. This makes me happy. - ustream.tv
Offering anybody with a camera and an internet connection the ability to broadcast to a global audience, ustream looks to be a pretty slick services for getting your content to the masses. - TalkShoe
Browse through a directory of chats going on, join in and chat yourself. This takes the typing out of chat rooms and lets you instead just speak your mind. While this struck me as cool at the show, on the drive home I thought it might be one of those ideas that falls short by not having anybody on the site to chat with… Wow, was I wrong. There were dozens of chats going on and a ton of previously recorded material. - Trinity Audio Group
Of course there was plenty of audio equipment on hand. This piece really caught my eye. It’s described as “The world’s first fully featured hand held recording studio.” At about a thousand dollars, it’s a little out of my price range right now, but would definitely consider this product if/when I start developing audio-heavy content. - Podcast Pickle
First off, thanks for the shirt guys! Podcast Pickle is a directory of podcasts and vidcasts. This is one BIG collection of content. I’m not sure I could come up with a topic that isn’t covered here. over 360,000 episodes. It’s going to take a while to get caught up on these.
There were a few dozen other vendors who easily could have been added to this list. These were just some of the ones that stuck out in my head.
If you are looking to start a podcast or vidcast, you should definitely check these guys out.
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Nice overview.
Did you happen to see the guy who looked sortof like a government agent, who was calling people out of the audience during Jim Louderback’s interview? What was that about?
@Julius
Yeah, I saw him, but not until we were in the exhibit hall. He was sitting in the far right row at a table where it looked like a vendor booth SHOULD have been. He just sat there looking straight ahead. I passed by 2 or 3 times and never once saw him move. No clue what he was up to. If it was some marketing scheme by a company, it was lost on me…
Man, if I was speaking and someone was doing that during my presentation, I would be pissed. If I was an organizer at the conference, I’d make sure that company was NOT invited to future events.
I was walking around with John and saw him sitting at his table too. He had 5 or so red envelopes spread out in front of him. I was kind of curious just be cause of the “huh?” factor, but at the same time really didn’t want to be pulled into a marketing ploy.
There were a few other companies there that it was obvious this was their first event as an exhibitor. Some did great, others not so much. The companies listed above all did a pretty good job. Companies that impressed me but aren’t listed above include Podango and Podkive. Both seemed to have decent products.
Thanks for the great mentin about NowLive. I hope you end up running a show on our network and off your site via our widget. Take care.
@Kevin
Thanks for dropping in. I’ve already signed up at NowLive.com and have been sitting in on a few shows. I’m currently developing 2 shows that I’ll probably try out in the next month or so.
If you are a NowLive.com member, add me (VegasGeek) as a friend to get notified of the new show. Or, Sign up for my RSS feed as I’m sure I’ll mention it here when it goes live.