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Wizzard Media Congratulates Winning Podcasts; Brings More Podcasts onto Booming Advertising Network
Business Wire, Oct 11, 2007
PITTSBURGH -- Wizzard Media, the industry's largest podcast hosting network and a division of Wizzard Software (OTCBB:WIZD), is happy to congratulate Keith and The Girl, one of Wizzard's premier partners and winner of the People's Choice Podcast Award at the 2007 Podcast Awards. Wizzard would also like to congratulate Firefly Talk, winner of Best Produced Podcast. The awards were handed out at the 3rd Annual Podcast Expo on September 29.
An astounding 15 of the 22 winners at the 2007 Podcast Awards use a Wizzard Media hosting solution (Libsyn, Switchpod or Blast Podcast). Out of the 220 podcast nominations spanning the 22 different categories, an amazing 42% of the nominees use a Wizzard service. For a full list of winners who are part of Wizzard's hosting network, please visit the Wizzard Media blog at http://www.wizzard.tv/blog/.> Wizzard also announced today that several more leading podcasts have joined their ever-growing advertising network. Each of these podcasts have agreed to allow Wizzard Media's national ad sales team to represent them to agencies and media buyers to secure lucrative advertising opportunities as well as provide promotional assistance to help grow their audiences.
Some of the top programs recently added to the Wizzard Media Network include:
* Six Months Later, an original video podcast comedy series that follows the struggles of life, love and relationships in L.A. The show was created by festival veterans and Hollywood up-and-comers David Frigerio and Ryan Alosio, who also stars as the main character. Ian Ziering of Beverly Hills 90210 and Dancing with the Stars, and Kristy Swanson, the original Buffy in the cult classic, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, are co-stars.
* Hot For Words, a video podcast that brings some heat into the origins of words. Hosted by a beautiful philologist named Marina, each 3-4 minute episode is created based on a word suggested by the viewers. Launched on YouTube in February of this year, Hot For Words is the first YouTube video series recruited by Wizzard Media to be made available as a podcast.
* Jack Palms II: This is Life, the world's first crime noir podcast novel and the second in the Jack Palms crime noir audiobook series. Hosted by author Seth Harwood, the series was originally only available as an audiobook, but will be released in print format on March 16, 2008 (Palm Sunday) by Breakneck Books. Harwood's next project, a collection of short stories called A Long Way from Disney, will also be distributed by Wizzard.
* PediaCast, a pediatric podcast for parents. Host Dr. Mike answers questions from moms and dads around the world with easy-to-understand answers as well as a healthy dose of medical news and useful tips. Often a Featured podcast in iTunes, PediaCast ranks in the top 50 Kids and Family podcasts.
"We are thrilled to add each of these shows, who represent a great sample of the high quality podcasts we are adding to the Wizzard Media Network," said Rob Walch, VP, Podcaster Relations, Wizzard Media. "Libsyn has long been considered one of the premier podcast hosting solutions, and paired with the rewarding advertising and promotional opportunities Wizzard Media offers, it is easy to understand why we are able to consistently attract and retain the best shows in podcasting."
About Wizzard Media
Wizzard Media, which includes Libsyn.com, Switchpod.com and Blast Podcast, is the industry's leading podcast hosting network. Podcasts are a means for independent and professional content creators to publish audio and video shows for the world to enjoy over the Internet or on mp3 players, such as the Apple iPod. Podcasting is a relatively new phenomenon, but Wizzard Media collectively broadcasts 85 million podcast downloads per month through media aggregators like Apple's iTunes and other podcast directories. For more information, please visit www.wizzard.tv. Wizzard Media is a division of Wizzard Software, a leader in speech technology development.
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