iTunes Podcasts grow 10 Fold in just over a year. Let’s leverage the power.
When the iTunes Music Store (ITMS) indroduced podcasting last year it quickly provided more than 8,000 podcasters with a place to tell their stories. Today I checked the iTunes Music Store and counted the total number of podcast. The number has grown 10 fold to 82,978. Below are some charts and a short SCREENCAST telling what I saw today.
POSTSCRIPT
I put this data out to point out just how strong we are as a podcasting community (listeners and podcasters). I love Apple but we need to leverage these numbers IFApple looks to take over the term podcasting. There is no evidence (real evidence) that they are at this time. I am a very strong Apple adovacate but I’m even a stronger “Podcasting” advocate.” In case you hadn’t heard here is ZNET’s article on what is going on
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Podcasting Statistics from Edison, Nielsen, iTunes…
By way of Podcasting Scout, I found out about some podcasting statistics that I missed. Here’s a quick summary.
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[...] We don’t have the numbers of how many eyeballs see this podcast page, but we do know that approximately over 70% of podcasts are downloaded from iTunes. and in a little over one small year, the number of podcasts have grown to to more than 82,000. [...]
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Comment by typicalmacuser — March 30, 2008 @ 3:09 pm
I agree that iTune podcasts are growing at a rapid rate. They've grown tremendously since this article was first posted.
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[...] 4.9 was available over 3,000 podcasts were listed. A little over one year later that number had climbed to 82,978 — a 27-fold increase in 15 [...]
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