Richard Freudenstein – call me
Welcome back to Australia, Richard. I agree with your statement:
"People want to consume media however they want, whenever they want and a media company that doesn’t adapt to that is going to fail …"
Call me when you’ve settled in. We should chat. I can help with your mission. My number is 0400455334.
WHY?
A couple of months ago I turned up to a stencil art event in Melbourne with my video camera and shot some interviews for a video podcast. I interviewed a range of people attending the event, including artists, musicians, and guests.
I interviewed one interesting and charming young exhibiting artist from country Victoria who went by the tag of WHY?. If you live in Melbourne, you’ll see his paste-ups around the city.
I just found out today that WHY? tragically passed away in an automobile accident a couple of weeks ago. He was 21. More here.
He explained to me the motivation for his art as the desire to get people to stop for a moment, in the hustle-bustle of daily life, and ask themselves why things are the way they are.
If you see his art up around the city, stop for a moment and allow yourself the question. For Dan. WHY?
GDAY WORLD!!! #142 – Interview with Driverchange founder, Clarke Scott
UPDATE: if you only got half a podcast, sorry folks, please try again. Looks like my ftp upload failed first time around.
Clarke Scott is a Melbourne guy who has just launched a series of sites (for the Australian, US and UK markets) to help people sell their used car. His hook? The listings are free. He talks about his inspiration for the site and his business model. Oh, he’s also a new TPN sponsor, so make sure you give him lots of link love. 🙂
Australia site: driverchange.com.au
US site: driverchange.com
UK site: driverchange.co.uk
Don’t forget to pop over to our G’DAY WORLD FORUM to chat about all this stuff in more detail.
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Stuff about this podcast you should know:
Opening Theme Song: “Save Me” by The Napoleon Blown Aparts, America’s baddest rock n’ roll band!
Neilsen’s podcasting report doesn’t stack up
Neilsen/NetRatings has released a report on podcasting which has left a lot of prominent podcasters, myself included, scratching their heads and makes me wonder where they got their sample data from. A company in Cupertino by any chance?
For example, they claim that the primary browser for podcasters (not podcast listeners) is Safari. Now, I know that if I take TPN’s hosts as a sample, about 10% of them are Mac users. And if I look at our server logs for June 2006, I know that 83.7% of our audience are Windows users, compared to 9.1% using a Mac. So, although I admit my sample is also pretty small, it doesn’t correlate with Neilsen’s.
Frank Barnako spoke to the analyst behind the report and has picked up some other issues with it as well. But, as Frank says,
When firms like Nielsen/NetRatings and Forrester Research pay attention to podcasts, that’s good. By studying podcasting they’re saying, "There’s interest here. People willing to pay for our reports want to know what’s going on."