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Rock River Communications recently became among the first companies to sign contracts with record labels licensing songs for podcasts. These deals mark an important first step in the beginning of the industry's recognition of the opportunities for growth that may exist within podcasting.

According to a piece in today's Wall Street Journal, Rock River will be producing a series of podcasts promoting products manufactured by Ford and DaimlerChrysler, among others. These companies will then pay Sony a flat fee for the use of the songs.

Outside of this sort of arrangement, it is difficult to see how labels would collect money for podcasts. Since most people who create podcasts do it for free and then distribute them on the internet, it's unclear where the money would come from. It's a little bit like trying to collect royalties from a guy on the street who blasts his Discman a little too loud so that other people who did not pay are able to hear it. There's no one profiting and therefore no one to seek royalties from.

However, this is a good first step by the record labels in trying to work with advancing technology rather than fighting what is likely to be a fruitless battle in the long-run. If this partnership works well, we could start to see a lot more promotional podcasts in the near future.

Record execs warm up to podcasts originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Tue, 02 Jan 2007 17:40:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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Apple Computer, Inc. (NASDAQ: AAPL) ended the day at $76.41, down $1.20 or 1.55% after having a very strong week of gains that made me wonder yesterday if we'd be seeing $80 soon.

Certainly there are a lot of positives, with iPhone mania and scuttlebutt starting up, but Apple is generating some negative buzz with its attack on all things 'pod.' Use the words iPod and podcasting and Apple comes after you. Is this a reasonable attempt to protect trademarks, or is Apple going a bit overboard?

Add to that the fact that Apple is battling its media providers, with one of them yanking content worth 10,000 downloads a day from the iTunes store. It's the Major League Baseball radio podcast that people can download for free, but the reason it was yanked was due to Apple's uncooperative interactions with MLB, something many media companies report being dissatisfied with. Apple needs to mend some of these relationships as it tries to woo large studios to host their movies for download.

Apple after the bell 9/27/06: Apple loses iTunes content originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 27 Sep 2006 18:22:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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There's always a new indication that iPods and the technologies around the device are hitting the mainstream. In the curve of adoption, you don't expect manufacturing companies to be up there dabbling with the latest, hip, technology, but apparently National Semiconductors is giving every employee an iPod, or some 8,500 units.

Every employee will be receiving a 30 gigabyte iPod. Each one will be loaded with company podcasts and other such corporate communications, a cutting edge way to get everyone to sit up and pay attention. And that's 8,500 more people who will become quickly exposed to the idea of podcasting, using iTunes, and getting a look at Apple product.

And as a straightforward gift, I wouldn't have minded getting an iPod for any reason as an employee!

[Disclosure: I own Apple stock at the date of this post]

[photo credit: ugaldew]

[Link discovered via MicroPersuasion]

National Semiconductors using iPods and podcasts to keep its employees up to date originally appeared on BloggingStocks on Wed, 14 Jun 2006 08:21:00 EST. Please see our terms for use of feeds.

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