Wizzard Media did 1.4 billion Podcast downloads in 2009 – up from 1.2 in 2008.
Video Podcast Network pioneers Revison3 did 1.5 billion minutes of video in 2009, up from less than 1 billion in 2008.
And the numbers keep going up.
Yes, there are some who prognosticate the death of Podcasting who say the numbers are going down or have reached their max. But, if you read the real numbers … the facts don’t lie.
But, we need to be honest here.
These new numbers aren’t from people getting that Podcasting religion. These are coming from iPads and televisions, apps and fan pages, streaming video embeds and on demand buttons. Many of our best audience members have never visited the iTunes Podcast Directory.
In short, people have no more of an idea that they’re getting Podcasting content than they are aware of the codec that delivered them. They got the content the wanted they way they wanted the content.
Oh, and it just worked …
It just worked.
I had lunch today with someone who used to spend 5 figures a month to deliver a small percentage of the media content he’s delivering today with S3. His bill last month was a “few hundred bucks.”
YouTube is now doing 2 billion view days as the standard.
I could go on and on – but I won’t.
If you view Podcasting as anything other than a single part of a multiple-part wonder, your future is bleak.
If you understand just how much we have matured and what you can do about it, you are going to do very well.
Thoughts?
