It is hard to believe it is time again. But I am starting planning for the 4th Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards. We will be looking for Independent judges to help with the review process after the nominations.
I will also be looking for sponsors for the 2008 event. If you are interested in participating or being a sponsor drop me a line at podcast@podcastconnect.com
Honolulu Hawaii 8/15/2007 7:43 PM GMT Podcast Connect, Inc., manager of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards at PodcastAwards.com, announces the category winners in the Third Annual People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
Podcast Connect wants to congratulate the lower category winners listed below, and look forward to announcing the top two winners at the Podcast Awards Ceremony to be held at the Podcast and New Media Expo, on September 28th.
Todd Cochrane Founder of the awards says that over the course of the awards process that over 350,000 people initially nominated 4097 shows, of those 220 were selected by the independent review team through a formal review process. Those shows that made up the 2007 slate were voted on over a two week period.
During the two week voting period 1.3 million people voted for the slate of shows. This exceeds last year’s participation 4 times over which shows the audience for podcasting is growing and general awareness of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards is strong. This level of participation truly makes the People's Choice Podcast Awards the People's Choice no other podcasting award allows the audience to decide what shows are the very best.
Each winner will be presented a uniquely crafted award, along with additional prizes as provided by the event sponsors. The Podcast Awards would not be possible with out our sponsors; a special thank you goes out to Platinum Sponsor Wizzard Media, for supporting the event this year. It is anticipated a total of $5000.00 in cash and prizes will be awarded during the awards ceremony.
People’s Choice Podcast Award Category Specific Winners
| Best Video Podcast Ask a Ninja |
Best Mobile Phone Formatted Podcast Praystation Portable |
| Business Manager Tools |
Comedy Nobody Likes Onions |
| Cultural / Arts This American Life |
Education Grammar Girl |
| Entertainment The Lost Podcast |
Food and Drink Coffee Geek |
| Gaming CAGcast |
General ShowGirls |
| GLBT Feast of Fools |
Health / Fitness Sex is Fun |
| Mature Keith and the Girl |
Movies / Films Firefly Talk |
| PodSafe Music Catholic Rockers |
Political Free Talk Live |
| Religion Inspiration Daily Breakfast |
Sports Phedippidations |
| Technology / Science Security Now |
Travel WDW Radio |
The 2007 People’s Choice Podcast Awards response has been nothing less than amazing. We destroyed every benchmark that was set in the previous two years.
Even though listeners could vote once every 24 hours over 1.3 million people voted at least one time. The average number of times a person voted was 3. The most votes that were submitted and later verified in one hour was 22,109.
The investment to move up to a better server served us very well. The MySQL database went from about 1k in size before we started to about 1.5 gig by the time we were finished.
Attempts at cheating were down this year but we did have a significant number of people that voted with more than one email address that had their votes nullified in our validation and cross check process.
I am going to have to pull last years data but I am nearly positive that we had a 4x increase in the number of people that actually voted. We will be reviewing the data now and putting it through the Audit process so we should have an announcement on Wednesday.
Last year we ran a small number of the shows that were nominated for a podcast award through a site review and validation program. This year we processed all shows that were nominated for a podcast award.
I have some initial statistics to reports that should not surprise those of you that followed this information last year. It is sad to see people are still not doing some of the key fundamental things a podcaster should do to insure uninterrupted delivery of his podcast.
The amount of garbage sites out their astounded me. There were at least three services that need to examine what they are doing in their core podcast hosting business. While I am going to be respectful and not slam them publicly, podcasters would do good to really examine where they are hosting their media.
1st 4097 shows were nominated that is up from 3281 shows nominated in 2006
2nd Of the 4097 shows that were nominated only 2911 had a visible RSS feed link on their Page or was auto detectable.
3rd Of the 4097 shows 3761 of them had an iTunes link on their page it was obvious that many podcasters think iTunes is the only way to consume a podcast.
4th Of the 4097 shows nominated only 2012 had a physical link to their podcast show media on their show postings or had a media player of some sort.
5th Of the 2911 sites that had a visible RSS feed, 82% (2387) had feed errors. The 2387 that had errors 61% (1456) of those feeds were completely invalid according to FeedValidator.org.
7th 81% (1933) of those sites that had RSS feed errors, where being hosted on a Wordpress blog.
6th Of the 2387 RSS feeds that had either RSS errors or were invalid 93% of the feeds were being served up by FeedBurner.
7th The biggest RSS feed this year was a whopping 1.1 megs. The podcasters listing had not updated in iTunes in over 1 year. The podcaster received 2 nominations, yet had produced a show each week for the past 16 months. When we e-mailed the podcaster he was astonished to find his listing had not updated in iTunes and had no clue that their was feed size limitations.
8th Their were approximately 230 feeds whose size was over 250K
9th Of the 4097 Shows nominated only 41% had a means to contact the host where it be through a voice mail hot-line or a email contact.
I still have more data to compile but I have been getting queries to post these results. I have a pile of data here and will pull some more data that we collected. I am going to do a double validation on the above numbers but I am real close.
Todd Cochrane
The nominees for the 2007 People's Choice Podcast Awards have been announced at www.podcastawards.com with voting to commence on July 28th.
Over 335,000 people placed 6 million plus nominations during the nomination period. A team of over 40 listeners reviewed and graded those nominations and from the feedback I received the work was quite significant. I am very impressed with the slate of shows, while no awards process is perfect we are confident those nominated have audience members who are highly engaged.
Audience engagement is a trait that makes podcasting different, and while the space is still maturing the audiences of these podcasts are definitely heavily involved with the programs.
Todd Cochrane
Founder People's Choice Podcast Awards
I have the final list of 220 Podcast that will be on the slate. I am now awaiting verification from the folks that do the auditing. I will be posting the complete list here and on the PodcastAwards.com site as soon as I get the thumbs up.
We had a lot of shows that did not make the cut some did not meet the minimum show requirement or had started podcasting after the cut off. I was fairly impressed this year as we only disqualified 7 sites for not having RSS feeds on their websites.
One thing that is still beyond shameful is that of everyone that was nominated nearly 70% had RSS feeds that either had errors or were completely invalid. I will have some more info on that later. PodcastaAwards.com
Well now the truly grueling work begins. I have a team of 40 volunteers that have to review the 6 million plus nominations that were submitted by 335,194 listeners.
The task is made easier through some tools we have but it is still a huge job each team of 2 will spend about 8–12 hours on each category to make sure that the candidate shows are all eligible.
I am estimating we will have a slate of shows in 7–10 days. Hopefully sooner but we will be ready for round 2 shortly.
Podcast Connect would like to personally thanking Bob Heil and Heil Sound for his support of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards 2 years in a Row. This will be the third year that we have given the Top two Winners Heil PR-40 Microphones.
I personally absolutely love the PR-40. Past Winners Adam Curry, Leo Laporte use the PR-40, it is a rich sounding dynamic microphone. The perfect microphone for every podcaster. We hope that you will support Heil Sound and pick up one their microphones today.
Todd Cochrane
Founder People’s Choice Podcast Awards
We have six days left before nominations close for the 2007 People’s Choice Podcast Awards to date this is how the 2007 event is shaping up.
We have received over 2.1 million nominations with over 110,000 people having nominated their favorite shows so far!
Make sure you send your audience members to nominate your show today, as 200 of the top shows in podcasting will be competing later this month for the 22 award categories.
Well it begins, we wish we had a couple more gold sponsors but I have always said it will be what it will be. This is where podcasting companies get a chance to pay back to the podcasting community.
I want to take a moment and give a big thank you to the folks over at Wizzard.TV for coming on board to be our Platinum Sponsors this year. Their participation is greatly appreciated.
Thus far we have raised $4000.00 in cash and have about $1600.00 in prizes and trophy sponsors.
These other fine sponsors have made it possible for us to do this again this year. This is a non profit event for us as all money and prizes go back to the podcasters
This event has grown and Podcaster query me all year on this event so we are glad to finally be under way.
The Third Annual Podcast Awards kick off on July 1st with the first 15 days dedicated to having your users nominate your podcast at http://www.podcastawards.com
We have changed things up considerably this year.
In January 2007 I recruited 36 people with 3 people assigned to each category to review nominations. Podcasters that are nominated will have their websites inspected and graded by the reviewer. Some of the things on the grading sheet that the reviewer will be looking for. Site Branding, RSS Feed Prominence, RSS Feed Validation, Visible Link to Media in Show Notes, Show Notes Quality, Consistency of Production, Content Quality, Ease of finding Podcast on Websiye. Combining the graded worksheet information with the number of nominations each show gets will determine the break out of the 10 shows in each category.
After the nomination review process and posting of the slate of shows to be voted on a two week voting period will commence.
Top Winners will be announced at the Podcast and New Media Expo Awards Ceremony.
Last year we gave away over $8000.00 in cash and prizes, sponsors and podcasters nominated received over 8 million site impressions in 2006-2007.
This year we will be running the same promotion we were last year where you put a link code on your website and every time someone clicks on the banner your site will be in the running for free advertising on the website three 120x120 banner spots will be awarded. To get a graphic for your site visit http://tinyurl.com/2a4dev
Todd..
Help drive traffic to the PodcastAwards.com website and you could become the recipent of banner impressions of over 8 Million. All you have to do is put a little piece of code on your website. See the PodcastAwards.com website for Details. Win 8 Million Impressions
Honolulu, Hawaii May 24, 2007 -- The Third Annual People's Choice Podcast Awards Platinum Sponsor was announced today by Podcast Connect, Inc., the podcast marketing firm that manages the awards. Wizzard Media, the world's largest podcast hosting network and part of Wizzard Software, has signed on as the Platinum Sponsor for this year's event.
The Peoples Choice Podcast Awards Nominations open on July 1st at PodcastAwards.com, followed by the voting process, and will culminate with an awards ceremony on September 28th in Ontario, California during the Podcast and New Media Expo (newmediaexpo.com). The awards will be presented by Platinum Sponsor Wizzard Media.
"I am very excited about this year's event," said Todd Cochrane, CEO of Podcast Connect, and founder of the Podcast Awards. "Last year, through award sponsorships, we were able to award podcasters almost $8,000 in cash and prizes, with additional website exposure through 2006-2007 of eight million plus hits."
Because Podcast listeners nominate their favorite shows directly at the Podcast Awards website, and with the entire community voting on the final slate of nominated shows, every podcaster and their respective shows have a chance of winning the "People's Choice" Podcast Award.
"We're honored to take part in these awards for the podcasting community," said Chris Spencer, CEO of Wizzard Media. "Podcasters are some of the hardest working people out there and many of the great shows are still under the radar. These awards are a welcome reward for all their hard work, while at the same time providing the podcasting audience the opportunity to vote for who they love the most."
Over 350,000 people voted on the nominated podcasts last year, and over 250 people attended the awards ceremony. In the last year, the number of Internet users who reported downloading podcasts increased 79% to 17 million, according to a report from the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Reflecting that growth, Awards will be given in over 20 categories. Additionally, the podcastawards.com website will feature new nomination procedures and additional sponsorship options.
About Podcast Connect, Inc.
Podcast Connect Inc. is an innovative marketing firm which has developed into a powerhouse marketing arm for the podcasting community. Its mission statement is simple: "Podcasters do the work; podcasters get paid." Its model is based on trust and respect.
About Wizzard Media
Wizzard Media is the world's leading podcasting distribution company. 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 serves millions of 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.
Media contacts:
Todd Cochrane
Podcast Connect, Inc.
808-741-4923
For Wizzard Media
Amy Bonetti
Big Mouth Communications
415-384-0900
Susie Marino
415-613-9138
An official announcement will come next week but we are starting to close the gap on sponsors for the 2007 People’s Choice Podcast Awards. We have a couple of Gold Sponsorships available yet so if you want to get massive exposure during the event you will want to snap up a sponsorship now before they are gone.
We will announce in a few days who the 2007 Platinum Sponsor is for the People’s Choice Podcast Awards. We are now looking to fill the 4 Gold Sponsorship spots. Details at the PodcastAwards.com website. Or email me at podcastawards@gmail.com
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We are ramping up for the 2007 People’s Choice Podcast Awards and we are in need of Sponsors. If you company would like to be a Sponsor of the 2007 events lets us know. This is a great event for your company to give back to the podcasting community. Contact podcastawards@gmail.com
The Podcast Connect team will be honoring the 2006 People's choice Podcast Award winners this coming Friday night starting at 5pm at the Ontario Airport Marriott in conjunction with Podcast Expo. We will be recording the event in High Def and will have DVD's available shortly after the event along with a Video Podcast. See PodcastAwards.com for details
The Podcast from PRWEB is online this is a interview I did on the announcement of the award winners. [PRWEB Podcast Page] [Press Release that Accompanies the Podcast] [Download the Podcast Here]
Best Podcast Directory – Apple iTunes
Best Mobile Podcast – Catholic Insider
Business - Manager Tools
Comedy - Distorted View
Cultural / Arts - Anime Pulse
Education - Tips from the Top Floor
Entertainment – Pottercast
Food and Drink - The Good Beer Show
Gaming - Podtacular
General - Rosary Army
GLBT - Feast of Fools
Health / Fitness - Sex is Fun!
Mature - The Dawn and Drew Show
Movies / Films - The Signal
PodSafe Music - Accident Hash
Political - Free Talk Live
Religion Inspiration - Daily Breakfast
Sports - Fantoo Girls - Where The Girls Talk Sports
Technology / Science - DiggNation
Travel - Mouse Tunes
Podcast Connect would like to thank our Platinum Sponsor StreetIQ and out Gold Sponsors Melodeo, Podcast Ready, IpSwitch WS_FTP and Podango along with all of our Trophy Sponsors along with those Contributing Prizes.
We also want to thank the 20 plus volunteers that helped out during the review process. Congratulations again to all of our Awardees.
Honolulu, Hawaii – July 31, 2006 - /PR Newswire/ -- Podcast Connect, Inc., a leading podcast marketing firm and manager of the People’s Choice Podcast Awards at PodcastAwards.com, today announces an update on the progress of the 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards.
Over the 15 day period from the 1st to the 15th of July, 3285 shows were nominated from a submission pool of 875,000 nominations. A team of volunteers reviewed, listened and graded over 500 podcast sites and shows in order to determine the final voting slate. Recognized were the top five shows in 22 categories for a total of 110 shows representing a very diverse range of subjects. New categories for this year included the Best Podcast Directory and Best Mobile Podcast. Voting commenced on the 28th of July and will continue through the 11th of August at http://www.podcastawards.com.
Podcast Connect congratulates all of the nominees and looks forward to announcing the winners on the 15th of August and presenting the Awards at the upcoming Podcast and Portable Media Expo in September.
Todd Cochrane, founder of the Awards, explains that the nomination review process was tedious, but laced with anticipation. The makeup of the slate of nominated shows has changed dramatically from last year which is to be expected due to the number of new shows making their debuts in the podcasting space over the past 12 months.
The 2006 People’s Choice Podcast Awards has been made possible by the generous support of fine sponsors, including StreetIQ.com, our platinum sponsor for a second year in a row. The sponsors have donated trophies and prizes to recognize the hard work and creativity of podcasters worldwide. Stephen Malaster, the host of Raising Your StreetIQ, will be on hand to co-present the Awards to the winners during the awards ceremony.
About Podcast Connect, Inc.
Podcast Connect Inc. (www.podcastconnect.com) is the world's leading innovator in podcast marketing. The Podcast Connect Team has developed itself into a powerhouse marketing arm for the Podcasting Community. Its mission statement is simple: “Podcasters do the work; podcasters get paid.” Its model is based on trust and respect with good moral and family values.
About StreetIQ.com
The mission of StreetIQ.com is to create a marketplace of compelling audio content that empowers investors and businesspeople. Visitors to StreetIQ.com will discover an enormous range of audio content produced by both large media companies and independent podcasters that includes everything from the latest business news to stock talk and from CEO interviews to earnings calls. The audio programs are organized into channels, updated frequently, and tagged for categories, sectors, and stock ticker symbols. Users can listen to the audio programs online or download them to portable media players as podcasts. For more information, please visit the website at http://www.streetiq.com. StreetIQ.com is a wholly owned subsidiary of FinancialContent, Inc. (OTC BB:FCON), which is publicly traded on the over-the-counter market under the ticker symbol FCON.
Contacts
Todd Cochrane
Podcast Connect, Inc.
ceo@podcastconnect.com
808-741-4923
Stephen Malaster
StreetIQ.com
info@streetiq.com
650-873-8243
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Good Luck to all the nominated sites, voting is now open at PodcastAwards.com
Ok the list is up at PodcastAwards.com voting starts on Friday, congratulations to all that made the final cut! More tomorrow!
Do you have experience in pushing live video? We are looking for some volunteers that will be at the Podcast and Portable Media Expo to help us in streaming video of the Podcast Awards Ceremony. If you have the equipment and the expertise to do this let me know. podcast@podcastconnect.com
The 2006 People's Choice Podcast Awards is getting ramped up and we have already filled three of our Major five sponsorship slots. The podcastawards.com website activity is already starting to pick up as we get prepared to do a site refresh on May 15th with all the new sponsors listings and category updates. New this year is a specific sponsorship category for trophies. You can get the details at podcastawards.com and send your questions to podcast@podcastconnect.com
The Awards Ceremony will once again be held in Ontario California during the Podcast Expo.
I am quite happy as we have secured the Platinum Sponsor and Two Gold Sponsors, so we are in good shape with only 2 Gold Sponsorships remaining and virtually all the Silver spots which tend to fill up near the start of the contest we have added a new sponsorship category this year which will help us cover the added cost of the new trophy design. [PodcastAwards.com]
Well we are six months away from the start of the 2006 People's Choice Podcast Awards and I have sent all of last years sponsors an invitation to participate again this year as they are being given the option to jump on board first. I was happy to see this morning that PodKive.com is the first company to jump on board with a sponsorship for a second year in a row.
If your company would like to become one of the Sponsors for the 2006 People's Choice Podcast Awards details can be found at PodcastAwards.com
Now that we have the first year of the Podcast Awards behind us it is time to kick it up for 2006, I want to kick it up in a big way. In order to do that and make it like the Grammys we will need to raise a small fortune in cash. Here is what I am thinking.
500 Person Banquet Ticket Price Subsidized
Top Notch Keynote Speaker
Video Simulcast
Major Prize Packages
Of the top of my head I think this will run about $50,000 if I want to really kick this thing up we can fly the winners in, and will need to raise even more money. To pull this off I am going to need someone that can help secure some major sponsors. If you want to be involved in what could turn out to be the beginning of something really big and will draw major press coverage send me a e-mail podcast@podcastconnect.com this position will be commission based.
Their seems to be some confusion out their and we want to make sure that anyone that is looking for information on the People's Choice Podcast Awards at www.podcastawards.com has the full story.
Podcast Connect Inc. founder Todd Cochrane envisioned the People's Choice Podcast Awards and had the PodcastAwards.com website built, Podcast Connect put in place the procedures for the nominations, evaluation of nominees and voting. Podcast Connect staff were responsible for securing the sponsors and putting together the nearly $4000.00 in awards and prizes to the 20 category winners.
We partnered with the folks at the Portable Media and Podcast Expo to participate in a joint ceremony so that we could honor the People's Choice Podcast Awards Winners and hand out the 20 awards plus cash and prizes.
It should be noted that TNC Media had their own separate independent process in selecting their two podcast award winners. TNC Media honored their two podcast winners during the same joint ceremony. I have seen several press releases that give TNC media credit for the "People's Choice Podcast Awards" that was sponsored by Podcast Connect. So we wanted to clarify that although the awards ceremony was held jointly TNC Media and Podcast Connect had two independent awards process's
We would not have been able to honor our podcast winners the way we did without the help of TNC Media and are grateful for them allowing us the opportunity to work with them.
Podcast Connect Inc is the owner and administrator of the People's Choice Podcast Awards and we look forward to working with TNC Media for the 2006 event. We have invested literally thousands of dollars into podcastawards.com which is a one of a kind unique voting engine that took over 3 months to design test and implement.
Staff
Podcast Connect Inc.
podcast@podcastconnect.com
We have been really busy getting ready for the Podcast Awards ceremony at Podcast Expo. Trophies are due to be finished next week, the grand prize awards have been ordered. The ceremony program is in it's final design phase, that will be going to the printer next week. We have some big banners to be order at Kinkos this Saturday and a couple of the guys from techpodcasts.com will be photographing the event.
We need someone to video tape the event, looking for a podcaster of video caster volunteer.
We are pretty excited about November as thier are several major initiatives that are underway. My partners and I formed a new company to manage the Podcaster News Network and that site after months of work is set to launch very soon and I am really excited about that. The list does not stop there, we are looking for a marketing manager and content manager to join the team at RawVoice.
The gang is working hard at over at TechPodcasts.com in getting ready to move forward with phase two of that site, and I have some things up my sleeve that I have been working on here at Podcast Connect. We continue to look for podcasters that want to be involved with a new initaitive.
I plan on having a bag of swag when I show up at the Podcast Expo so if you come talk to me I will be sure to have something for ya to take home. We are working very hard to make sure we have a live stream of the Podcast Awards Ceremony, should be a lot of fun for all! Their is nothing like boot strapping a business though lots of fun, but exhausting to say the least.
Congratulations to the 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards Winners.
Platinum Sponsor StreetIQ by FinancialContent
Gold Sponsors Podcast Expo, Wiley Publishing,
Double Gold Sponsor KYOURadio
2005 Winners
Peoples Choice: This Week In Tech
Best Produced: Daily Source Code
Business: Media Artist Secrets Podcast
Comedy: Distorted View Daily
Cultural / Political: Free Talk Live
Education: Tips from the top floor
Food and Drink: Good Beer Show
General: illinoise!
Gaming: Orange Lounge Radio - To Go
Health / Fitness: MARINA's Walking & Aerobics Podcast
Mature: Dawn And Drew Show
Movies / Films: TheForce.net
Music / Radio: Coverville
Non English: Annik Rubens: Schlaflos in Munchen
Religion / Inspiration: Catholic Insider
Sound Seeing: The Richard Vobes Radio Show
Sports: 1954 and Counting
Technology: This Week In Tech
Top Rated: Slice of SciFi
World News: Kathleen Keating
Some amazng statistics from this inaugural Event total unique page loads at PodcastAwards.com 3.7 Million
Total Valid Votes Placed: 387,761
34,807 attempts at cheating votes
10,674 Unverified votes
All results are final, Podcast Connect Inc
I have been watching the voting every day and I can tell you that a few sites are really coming on strong and what I expected to be a slam dunk in a couple of categories is shaping up to be a race to the finish line.
I want to congratulate Coverville for driving the most traffic to the site over the past 10 days. Incredible number of hits from his site. Their were over 20 other sites that were within 2000 hits each.
Good luck to all 6 days left! www.podcastawards.com
I am simply amazed that a show that I listen to from time to time would be so bold as to think their was a conspiracy to keep them from being on the candidate slate. I find the e-mail exchange I had to be very arogant which shows me how little respect some of the bigger sites have for podcasters out their building their fan base. We laid out the contest process very clearly, and only one person has disputed how we organized the event. I will say that we have learned some things, and will make some changes next year but for being a initial event we can't be expected to be perfect.
I will say this the slate of shows was put together largely from the nominations, some shows missed the cut because of some of the rules criteria. There were no ties luckily, and some shows that I consider to be pretty popular simply did not end up with very many nominations.
We did our best to advertise, and announce the contest in various forums and ran a significant number of paid ads on podcast specific websites. I feel we got the word did get out as the nomination, post nomination and now voting traffic is at the expected level, with the site seeing close to 500,000 unique hits in the past 4 days. This is on mark with what I expected, and the website bandwidth is holding it's own. The number of votes is staggering and the vote spread across most of categories is very narrow within 3-5%
Todd..
Well I am very happy and we are learning a lot about the process surrounding people voting, and the verification process. Probably make some changes next year but we are going to roll with what we have now. The site is seeing about 120,000 front page loads a day. The shows that have been nominated are really getting out the vote.
The script writers have been busy also but so far the voting engine is doing what it is supposed to do. I have even received some probing questions which the developer has found useful in defending the integrity of the voting. Regardless everything has been logged.
I cannot even count the number of hours Podcast Connect and, One Technologies has put in to make sure that we have a viable awards site for future years. [The People's Choice Podcast Awards]
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The Podcast Awards site is open for Voting
The server was just about brought to it's upon turning on the slate. We did detect within 15 minutes a group trying to cheat but those tries were going straight to the trashcan. We tested quite heavily but I have the team watching the server and the log files to make sure that if a bug pops up we squash it right away. In the first hour we did have one issue that we fixed and thus far the voting is off to a good start.
Vote every day for your Favorite Podcast at www.podcastawards.com
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The following is the slate of sites that will go live for voting tonight at the www.podcastawards.com website. Their were quite literally thousands upon thousands of submissions. Congratulations to the slate of Podcast and we look forward to a very wild two weeks of voting.
People Choice Podcast of the Year
Catholic Insider
http://feeds.feedburner.com/catholicinsider
http://www.catholicinsider.com
MacCast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/maccast
http://www.maccast.com/
Slice of SciFi
http://sliceofscifi.com/podcast.xml
http://www.sliceofscifi.com
The Dawn and Drew Show
http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/wp-rss2.php
http://www.dawnanddrew.com/
This Week In Tech
http://feeds.feedburner.com/twit
http://thisweekintech.com
People Choice Best Produced
Daily Source Code
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
http://www.dailysourcecode.com
Digital Flotsam Email
http://digitalflotsam.org/rss.xml
http://digitalflotsam.org/
Inside Mac Radio
http://www.osxfaq.com/rss/radio.xml
http://www.osxfaq.com/radio/
Fake Science Lab Report
http://fakescience.libsyn.com/rss
http://www.fakescience.com/labreport.htm
The Richard Vobes Radio show
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RichardVobesRadioShow
http://www.vobes.com
Business
In Business
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/inbusiness/rss.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/news/inbusiness/index.shtml
For Immediate Release
http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz
http://www.forimmediaterelease.biz
Media Artist Secrets Podcast
http://www.fmstudio.com/podcasts/rss2.xml
http://www.mediaartist.com/
SmallBizPod
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Smallbizpod-TheSmallBusinessPodcast
http://www.smallbizpod.co.uk/
The Cubicle Escape Pod
http://feeds.feedburner.com/cubicleescape
http://www.cubicleescape.com/
Comedy
Area 51
http://bonsaidigital.com/area51/area51podcastfeed.xml
http://area51show.com/
Distorted View Daily
http://www.distortedview.com/show/index.xml
http://distortedview.com/show
Simulacrum
http://www.listentothestars.co.uk/simulacrum_podcast.xml
http://www.listentothestars.co.uk
The Radio Adventures Of Dr. Floyd
http://www.doctorfloyd.com/blog/rss.xml
http://www.doctorfloyd.com/
The Whip Report
http://www.thewhipreport.com/index.xml
http://www.thewhipreport.com/
Cultural / Political
blogTo Podcast
http://www.blogto.com/podcasts/index.xml
http://www.blogto.com
Free Talk Live
http://freetalklive.com/files/dircaster.php
http://freetalklive.com
Israelisms Podcast
http://www.israelisms.com/rss
http://www.israelisms.com
The Overnightscape
http://TheOvernightscape.com/rss.xml
http://theovernightscape.com
Yeast Radio
http://feeds.feedburner.com/yeastradio
http://yeastradio.com/
Education
Allegheny College Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Allegheny
http://webtools.allegheny.edu/podcast
Connect Learning Email
http://davidwarlick.com/podcasts/syndicate.php
http://davidwarlick.com/connectlearning/
Matt's guitar lick of the week
www.learntoplayrockguitar.com/mattsguitarlickoftheweek.rss
http://www.learntoplayrockguitar.com
Teach42
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Teachfourtwo
http://www.teach42.com
Tips from the top floor
http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/wp-rss2.php
http://www.tipsfromthetopfloor.com/
Food and Drink
Eat Feed
http://www.eatfeed.com/eatfeed.xml
http://www.eatfeed.com/
Good Beer Show!
http://goodbeershow.com/wp-rss2.php
http://goodbeershow.com/
Grape Radio
http://graperadio.com/wp-rss2.php
http://graperadio.com
Podchef
http://syndication.motime.com/podchef/rss2.xml
http://podchef.motime.com/
Wine Cast
http://winecast.net/wp-rss2.php
http://winecast.net/
Gaming
DreamStation
http://www.dreamstation.cc/podcast/dreamstationcc_podcast.xml
http://www.dreamstation.cc/
Gamer's Radiocast
http://www.yankidank.com/episodes/combo.xml
http://www.gamersradiocast.com/
Gaming Steve Podcast
http://www.gamingsteve.com/index.xml
http://gamingsteve.com/
Orange Lounge Radio - To Go
http://www.orangeloungeradio.com/phpnuke/podcast.rss
http://www.orangeloungeradio.com
RPGMP3 World's Largest Dungeon Audio Review
http://www.rpgmp3.com/downloads/data/wld/rss.xml
http://www.rpgmp3.com
General
Bizzycast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Bizzycast
http://www.barefeetstudios.com
Exit50.com
http://www.exit50.com
http://www.exit50.com/?p=29
illinoise!
http://feeds.feedburner.com/illinoise
http://www.illinoise.net
Mondays - What Sunday Threw Up
http://mondays.pwop.com/
http://perseus.franklins.net/mondays_0024.mp3
Radio GoDaddy podcast
http://radiogodaddy.com/feed
http://www.radiogodaddy.com
Health and Fitness
Arthritis Central Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/arthritiscentral
http://www.arthritiscentral.com/
DrRubin Podcast
http://www.drrubin.com/rss.xml
http://www.drrubin.com/
MARINA's Walking & Aerobics Workout Podcast
http://www.marinaspodcast.com/walking.xml
http://www.marinaspodcast.com/highnrg_podcasts/
HerbalEd.org
http://feeds.feedburner.com/herbaled
http://www.herbaled.org
Intraspectus Psychotherapy Podcast
http://www.intraspectus.com/learn/audio/podcast.xml
http://intraspectus.com/learn/audio/
Mature
Dawn And Drew Show
http://dawnanddrew.podshow.com/wp-rss2.php
http://dawnanddrew.com/
Keith and the Girl
http://shitecom.libsyn.com/rss
http://www.shite.com
MXL
http://feeds.feedburner.com/MxlPodcast
http://www.mxlpodcast.blogspot.com
Soccergirl Incorporated
http://soccergirlincorporated.com/SGINC.xml
http://soccergirlincorporated.com/
The Viking Youth Power Hour
http://www.thefeedlot.org/feeds/vikingyouth/feed.xml
http://www.thefeedlot.org/vikingyouth/index.php
Movies / Films
(Cool) Shite on the Tube
http://www.coolshite.net/wp-rss2.php?category_name=podcasts
http://www.coolshite.net
Cinecast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/Cinecast
http://cinecastshow.com/
DVDWeekly
http://www.dvdweeklypodcast.com/podcasts/dvdweekly.xml
http://www.dvdweeklypodcast.com
Reel Reviews Radio
http://reelreviewsradio.com/podcast.xml
http://reelreviewsradio.com/index.php
TheForce.net
http://feeds.feedburner.com/tfn
http://www.theforce.net
Music / Radio
Coverville
http://www.coverville.com/index.xml
http://www.coverville.com/
Insomnia Radio
http://insomniaradio.net/rss
http://insomniaradio.net
PODMEGO
http://podmego.libsyn.com/rss
http://www.podmego.com
Tartanpodcast
http://tartanpodcast.libsyn.com/rss
http://tartanpodcast.libsyn.com/
Tracks Up the Tree
http://tracks.upthetree.com/index.xml
http://www.upthetree.com
Non English
Annik Rubens: Schlaflos in München
http://annik_rubens.podspot.de/rss
http://annikrubens.de/
chilepodcast
http://chilepodcast.libsyn.com/rss
http://chilepodcast.libsyn.com
Le podcasteur
http://feeds.feedburner.com/BertrandLenotreMultiPodcasting
http://www.podcasteur.com
RedPlaneta Radio
http://blogs.planetachat.com/xmlsrv/rss2.php?blog=6
http://redplaneta.com
Tellerrand - where marketeers meet brainiacs
http://tellerrand.podhost.de/rss
http://www.markendreiklang.de
Religion / Inspiration
A New Beginning with Greg Laurie
http://harvest.org/podcast/anb
http://www.harvest.org
Catholic Insider
http://feeds.feedburner.com/catholicinsider
http://www.catholicinsider.com
LifeSpring! Podcast
http://lifespringonline.com/rss.xml
http://lifespringonline.com/podcast
RevTim Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RevtimPodcast
http://www.podshownotes.com
Vatican Radio
http://feeds.feedburner.com/vaticanradio105live
http://www.105live.vaticanradio.org/
SoundSeeing
Audio Collective
http://feeds.feedburner.com/TheAudioCollective
http://www.audiocollective.net
Herro Flom Japan
http://feeds.feedburner.com/herroflomjapan
http://www.herroflomjapan.com
Notes From Spain
http://notesfromspain.libsyn.com/rss
http://www.notesfromspain.com/
Sound Seeing Tours
http://soundseeingtours.podshow.com/
http://soundseeingtours.podshow.com/?feed=rss2
The Richard Vobes Radio Show
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RichardVobesRadioShow
http://www.vobes.com/
Sports
1954 and Counting
http://feeds.feedburner.com/giants
http://giants.mysportsradio.com/
Cubcast
http://cubscast.com/podcasts/index.xml
http://cubscast.com/
FormulaPod
http://www.formulapod.com/feed.xml
http://www.formulapod.com/
Raider Podcast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/RaiderNationPodcast
Raidernationpodcast.com
TheSportsGeeks.com
http://feeds.feedburner.com/thesportsgeeks
http://www.thesportsgeeks.com
Technology
DotNet Rocks!
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/DotNetRocks_FullMP3.xml
http://www.dotnetrocks.com/
IT Conversations
http://www.itconversations.com/rss/recentWithEnclosures.php
http://www.itconversations.com/index.html
Slashdot Review
http://slashdotreview.com/wp-rss2.php
http://slashdotreview.com/
The Maccast
http://feeds.feedburner.com/maccast
http://www.maccast.com/
This Week In Tech
http://feeds.feedburner.com/twit
http://thisweekintech.com/
Top Rated
Dave's iPAQ Podcast
http://www.davesipaq.com/podcast.xml
http://www.davesipaq.com
Daily Source Code
http://radio.weblogs.com/0001014/categories/dailySourceCode/rss.xml
http://dailysourcecode.com
Podcast 411
http://feeds.feedburner.com/podcast411a
http://www.podcast411.com/
Slice of SciFi
http://sliceofscifi.com/
http://feeds.feedburner.com/sliceofscifi
The Bitterest Pill
http://www.danklass.com/pill/pill.xml
http://www.thebitterestpill.com/
World News
Brian Lehrer Show
http://www.wnyc.org/rss/show.py?show=bl
http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl
From Our Correspondent
http://downloads.bbc.co.uk/rmhttp/downloadtrial/radio4/fromourowncorrespondent/rss.xml
http://www.bbc.co.uk
kathleen keating
http://feeds.feedburner.com/EnigmaRadioNetworksPodcast
http://www.kathleenkeating.com
The Marty Roberts Show
http://www.israelnewsradio.net/support-files/podcast.xml
http://www.israelnewsradio.net/
WGBH Morning Stories
http://streams.wgbh.org/podcast/morningstories.xml
http://www.wgbh.org/article?item_id=2020890
The 2005 People's Choice Podcast Awards website is seeing amazing amount of traffic. Everyone has been playing nice thus far minus a couple of shows that had to be disqualified for cheating. We have some verifications out on other nominations that have not come back which has raised our eyebrows on a couple of others, more on that later.
So far the site has seen approx 800,000 unique hits, and a high number of nominations. Podcasters are mobilizing their listeners. We will be giving out the first of three awards for sites driving the most traffic to the site in a few days. Make sure you get over, and nominate your favorite show, polls close at the end of the month. [www.podcastawards.com]
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