http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/02/13/has-podcasting-reached-its-limits/ Digital Podcast focuses on using new and social media to build real businesses. We help publishers build new media businesses that use best practices to market content, build audience and monetize the results. Give us a call at 562-824-5193. Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:29:23 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/02/13/has-podcasting-reached-its-limits/comment-page-1/#comment-43198 Sallie Goetsch (rhymes with "sketch") Tue, 20 Feb 2007 17:16:07 +0000 http://www.digitalpodcast.com/podcastnews/2007/02/13/has-podcasting-reached-its-limits/#comment-43198 You might want to contrast these charts with FeedBurner's statistics on the number of podcast and vidcast feeds, which continues to grow at a steep rate. Podcasting may be losing its status as a hot new trend (not so surprising given that it's a couple of years old now), but as an activity, it doesn't seem to be slowing down. I do believe that every podcaster has a responsibility to spread the word about podcasting within his or her community, but I don't think the fact that "podcast" is not as popular a search term as "blog" implies that podcasting is going away. (It appears from those graphs that "podcast" was *never* as popular a search term as "blog," and I'm pretty sure there will always be more people blogging than podcasting, as it's easier to do. You might want to contrast these charts with FeedBurner’s statistics on the number of podcast and vidcast feeds, which continues to grow at a steep rate. Podcasting may be losing its status as a hot new trend (not so surprising given that it’s a couple of years old now), but as an activity, it doesn’t seem to be slowing down. I do believe that every podcaster has a responsibility to spread the word about podcasting within his or her community, but I don’t think the fact that “podcast” is not as popular a search term as “blog” implies that podcasting is going away. (It appears from those graphs that “podcast” was *never* as popular a search term as “blog,” and I’m pretty sure there will always be more people blogging than podcasting, as it’s easier to do.

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