CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com "Top 10 Podcasts of the Year" Award for 2007. Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 43,000 curated and updated podcasts representing more than 175,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com's unique solution for content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones and other multimedia devices.
Each year, Podcast.com tallies the total number of times a program has been accessed by consumers. In 2007, Podcast.com tracked over one million podcast access connections via the Podcast.com portal. The top 10 Podcasts represent those items that were accessed the most in 2007.
Podcast.com's Top 10 Podcasts of the Year Award recipients are:
- World Soccer Daily Podcast http://podcast.com/show/1375/ - independent
- CNN News Update http://podcast.com/show/759/ - mainstream
- ESPN Radio Daily Podcast http://podcast.com/show/16656/ - mainstream
- Geek News Central Podcast http://podcast.com/show/670/ - independent
- BBC's Best of Today http://podcast.com/show/17776/ - mainstream
- NOVA - PBS http://podcast.com/show/707/ - mainstream
- Slate Magazine Daily Podcast http://podcast.com/show/762/) - mainstream
- 60 Minutes Podcast - The Full Broadcast http://podcast.com/show/3151/ - mainstream
- Face the Nation Podcast http://podcast.com/show/3160/- mainstream
- CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast http://podcast.com/show/1818/ - independent
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This year's winners are enjoying the sizeable and growing audiences of downloadable media consumption. According to Edison Media Research data from 2007, more than 37 million podcasts were accessed by consumers in the US. According to Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), a group dedicated to measuring radio audiences in the UK, podcast listening increased 40-percent, to 2.7 million people throughout the UK in 2007.
"As Internet-connected mobile phones become more pervasive, podcast content represents one of the major formats that consumers are adopting as part of their daily media experience," said Duncan Perry, chief operating officer of Treedia Labs. "Podcast.com's growing audience clearly values the content diversity being offered by both independent and mainstream media producers."
For more information on the 2007 Top 10 Podcasts of the Year, visit www.podcast.com.
About Treedia Labs:
Treedia Labs is the leading developer of media aggregation and distribution platforms that provide feed management and distribution to any Internet connected device. The company's core product, the Treedia Feed Management Platform(TM), powers a variety of downloadable media solutions including Podcast.com. Visit us at http://treedia.com/.
About Podcast.com:
Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 43,000 curated and constantly updated podcast feeds representing more than 175,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com's unique value proposition to content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, multimedia devices and Internet radio. Visit us at http://podcast.com/.