PodShow is a company founded by Adam Curry and Ron Bloom. Curry is credited as being one of the creators of podcasting. PodShow aims to help people to podcast and publish their podcasts, and to help listeners to find podcasts that suit their interests. It also plans to use the marketing potential of podcasts by allowing advertisers to find the podcasts their target audiences will listen and allow those podcasts to put commercials on their podcasts and receive money for it.

In August 2005, PodShow received $8.85 million dollars in Venture Capital from the Sand Hill Road firms Kleiner Perkins, Sequoia Capital, and Sherpalo Ventures. PodShow set up company headquarters in San Francisco, California in a temporary office South of Market Street. In February Curry announced Podshow L.A. a production division being setup by Mark Yoshimoto Nemcoff.

Podcast shows

PodShow maintains a small stable of flagship podcasts, including popular shows such as The Dawn and Drew Show (a spontaneous comedy show), and Adam Curry's own Daily Source Code as well as cult icon Madge Weinstein and her controversial program, Yeast Radio.

PodShow Music Rewind, hosted by Marcus Couch, is a comprehensive review of podsafe music in the form of a digest of the network's major MUSIC podcasts:

These MUSIC PODCASTS include:

• Marcus Couch's The Scene Zine
• Michael Butler's The Rock and Roll Geek Show
• Canis Lupus's Bandtrax
• Big Mike's Extra Super Action Show
• Julien Smith's In Over Your Head
• C.C. Chapman's Accident Hash

In January 2006, Marcus Couch opened the format of Podshow Music Rewind to include clips from any music podcast that wanted to participate. "PMR" is broadcast weekly on Sirius Stars channel #102.

Podcast directories

PodShow manages indiePodder.org (formerly iPodder.org), a podcast directory that many podcast aggregators use to help people find and subscribe to podcasts.

PodShow also owns Podcast Alley, a centralized directory of podcasts.

Podsafe music

PodShow advocates and facilitates the production of podsafe music (music which can be used in podcasts without significant licensing difficulties) by both independent and signed musicians, and the use and promotion of the same music by podcasters.

To this end, it operates a large repository called Podsafe Music Network, or PMN, which hosts any music which meets its legal terms' definition of "podsafe", and distributes the music to podcasters who agree to properly attribute the work and report the use. The music is also made available in streaming form to casual listeners. The site operates at no cost to listeners, artists, or podcasters.

Podcast hosting

Another arm that PodShow intends to develop is the PodShow Delivery Network, which will provide unlimited free hosting for podcasts. Details are not final yet, but the company's initial plan involves giving podcasters free hosting if they're willing to have advertising inserted before their podcasts. Ad-free hosting for a fee would also be available.

External links

• PodShow
• PodShow Music Rewind
• PodShow News - Press releases and articles about PodShow
• indiePodder - Podcast directory
• PodSafe Music Network

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