Your podcast fans can now check any of your new episodes in one click via the Web App.  Enjoy!

Get it now on http://www.podbean.com

Please note: Your previous Podbean Comments will be displayed below Facebook Comments.

Check our Support Center to see how to manage and moderate your comments now!

Please note, due to reliable file uploading in AWS, FTP service is now retired from our system. Now please upload through menu: Upload->Media Manager.

Happy Podcasting!

A new set of exquisite podcast themes designed by professional artists are now available for you to customize your podcast and make it more stunning! Besides themes that are suitable for any topics, several themes are designed especially for professionals in various areas or those who have special preference. Musicians, Photographers and Artists, yes, we have one for you. You have a thing for adventure? Yes, you can find it too. What else? Go to your dashboard to find it out.

What is more exciting, most of them support customization of Header Image and Background Image. Now go to your menu “layout”->”theme” in your dashboard to get one brand new look for your podcast!

One tip to be noticed: your media file should be in the supported formats of the platform. You may check out the supported file format here.

Join the advertising program now! Make your income grow with your podcast!

Yes, you can do it now easily with just some clicks in your Podbean account!

Podbean.com is now releasing a new fantastic feature of customized background image so that you can upload your own favorite pictures to make your podcast site look distinctive with your own style.

Don’t hesitate, log in your Podbean dashboard, “Layout”->”Background Image” immediately to give your podcast site your own DNA!

Another piece of good news for Android users! One new feature is added to Podbean Android APP-transaction log. Now, with that, you can just go to your dashboard and check your own APP’ sales record in the Android market.

Continue enjoying podcasting with Podbean.com !

You customize the appearance for the apps, and then Podbean will automatically update them so that users have access to your latest podcast episodes straight from their Android devices. This makes listening to your podcast easier and more convenient, which means your fans will listen to your podcast even more than they already do! The best part is that Podbean does all the work for you! There’s no need to know programming or go through the hassle of submitting your app.

You can set app to be either free or paid. This is a great way to expand the scope of your podcast, and maybe make a little extra cash as well! What are you waiting for? Log in to create an app now!

With all these great benefits, what are you doing still reading this? Go join the Podbean Ads Network now by clicking the “Advertising” link in the top right hand corner of your dashboard!

One is called i3Theme and is an eye-catching but pleasant, blue Mac OSX inspired theme with three columns. Our other addition, zBench, combines simplicity and style in one clean, modern theme wtih two columns.

Check out the screen shots below, or just give them a go, they’re available now!

Here’s i3Theme:

And here’s zBench:

You can learn more about how to publish a podcast from Adobe Premiere Elements 8 to Podbean by visiting our FAQ here . If you don’t already have a Podbean account, you can get one free here. To download a Free Trial Adobe Premier Elements , you may go to the movie editor.

Through Podbean Mobile, users can:

• Discover popular podcasts and find what other people subscribe to.
• Collect your favorite podcasts in one place and access them from anywhere on the web.
• Share your taste in podcast with friends and get recommendation in return.

Thus, Podbean Mobile offers a great destination for podcast audience to move beyond the desktop but still be able to enjoy podcasting moments instantly.

Please check your “Account” page to find the new FTP server name and your new FTP user-name, password. The “Account” page can be accessed by clicking the “Account” tab after you log into your Podbean dashboard.

To make the video compatible with iTunes, we recommend videos to be encoded with H.264 based mp4 or m4v format.

Need information fast? Chances are, there’s a podcast out there that has just what you need!

In a recent article posted in The Wall Street Journal, author Mary Pilon said she wanted to find personal finance information that “fits into my pocket but doesn’t put me to sleep.” The result is a comprehensive list - “The Best Personal Finance Podcasts” - that highlights the best of the best when it comes to personal finance, budgeting and investing… and all of this invaluable information is coming from podcasts.

Topping the list are several podcasts from NPR, including Economy, The Color Of Money and Planet Money as well as Marketplace from American Public Media. WSJ’s own personal finance podcasts - Your Money Matters and This Morning are listed too as are podcasts from financial giants such as Vanguard and Fidelity. These podcasts provide listeners with useful information that’s on target with today’s economic constraints. Learn simple explanations for complicated financial concepts and deal with debt like a pro. From tips and tricks for the more seasoned investor to basic financial concepts for beginners, this list is a great place to start for anyone wanting to brush up on their personal finance knowledge.

You can find these and other personal finance podcasts by visiting the Podbean Podcast Social Subscribing Directory. This directory makes it easy to discover new, timely podcasts as well as share your favorites with other users. And because our directory includes both Podbean-hosted as well as non-Podbean streams, you can always find the very best in podcasting that the web has to offer.

Want to start your own Podbean podcast? Just click here.

Most recently, Adam Watson’s English class at South Oldham High School decided to broadcast their literary discussion using podcasting services from Podbean. ‘Dragon Booktalk‘ became an instant hit among parents, teachers and students alike. The podcast has since receive national recognition and the students agree that the podcasting element drastically enhances the learning experience.

“It’s hands-on,” said Alexa Laviena in a recent interview. “You’re not just reading to read. You get through the reading because you want to be able to know what to say and do when you do your recording. That’s pretty cool even for people who don’t like reading.”

But the creativity doesn’t stop there.

Podbean’s collection of educational users is growing every day! The Toastmasters Leadership Institute provides podcasts to help listeners improve their public speaking skills while Mr. Stubbart’s 5th Grade class uses the Podbean Podcasting System to act out history lessons or discuss science, math and other areas of learning.

Want more inspiration for ways Podbean can help you achieve your educational goals? Visit Podbean.com and browse some of the best educational podcasts on the web.

Podbean Mobile Edition system automates all the tricky stuff to display different interfaces to mobile and normal browsers - you don’t need to code or configure anything. With the Podbean easy-to-use publishing system, staying in touch with your audiences has never been easier. The mobile site url is http://yoursite.podbean.com/mobile/

To see a demonstration, visit http://demo.podbean.com/mobile/ from your web-enabled mobile device.

Screenshots

We are gladly to see many individuals, corporations , non-profit organizations and educational institutes  started podcasts through our service.  We will be happy to hear your feedback and continue improving our service.  Should you have any suggestion please feel free to contact us.

Check out our new Podcast Social subscribing system and see how it does a great seach job for you. Podbean Social Subscribing is a collection of yours and everyone else’s favorite podcasts. You can image it is the del.icio.us sosical bookmarking for Podcasts. With Podcast Social Subscribing, you can:

• Store your podcast subscriptions in one place, access the same subscriptions from any computer and add new subscriptions from anywhere.
• Find Niche-interest Podcasts from Like-minded Individuals. Check out users who subscribe to the same podcasts as you do and see what else podcasts that they subscribe to.
• Share your favorite podcasts to your friends in Facebook or by email and get recommendations from them in return.
• Organize your favorites into tags and get Unique and Personalized Feeds for each tag. You can save the trouble on subscribing to dozens podcasts one by one on each of your computers or hand-held devices. Simply subscribe to one tag-feed you can get the aggregation of all the podcasts that you subscribed with this tag.

Here is a peek of Podcast Social Subscribing MySubscription page:

Fans are registered Podbean users who subscribe to your podcast via the “Subscribe” link under your sidebar logo or via the “Add to My Subscription” link in Podbean Podcast directory.

Simply add the “Fans” Widget to your podcast sidebar (click “Layout” -> sidebar widgets). You will see who are your Fans. Moreover, you can communicate your Fans via Podbean messaging system and invite them to be your friends.

Enjoy.

Starting Up: Small Biz Tech Speak

From smSmallBiz.com

AS THE FOUNDER of Moss Appeal, a promotional marketing firm based in New York, E.B. Moss doesn’t go anywhere without her laptop and Pocket PC. However, even she gets a bit befuddled by technology.

“I am always afraid that I might be misusing a phrase or acronym,” says Moss, who started her virtual agency in 2001 after working in radio and cable for many years. (For a video on how Moss uses technology to market her business, click here.)

Keeping up with the ever widening list of technology buzzwords is enough to confound even the tech savviest of business owners. But getting a grasp on tech terms can help you navigate the business world and spot new programs and applications before they hit the mainstream.

Here’s your small-business tech speak glossary:

Podcasting — Like VoIP (see above), these audio or video files may be transferred digitally. Business owners with expertise in their industries are increasingly creating podcasts as broadband Internet access continues to rise. For free podcast hosing services, Lee of the Arkansas SBDC recommends checking out SwitchPod and PodBean.

>>Read Full Story ….

Unlike a traditional podcast front page, which generates a list of your most recent episodes, the static front page is a customized page that displays static information that can either invite people to “click through” to the real good stuff or offer highlighted episode or promo that direct visitors to different areas of your Podcast site.

Check our FAQ for details.

If you have a few minutes, try clicking around and exploring the new layout. Enjoy!

1. Real-time progress bar gives you the current uploading status precisely.

2. Embeded into publish page, thus you can do uploading and publishing in one step.

It can’t be more convenient and straightforward, enjoy!

The new Custom CSS feature gives you complete control over your site’s design. That means you can create a design that integrates easily with an existing site or blog. Build a theme that captures the essence of your podcasting site. Design a site that’s completely and totally YOU.

Currently available to all paid account users, the new Custom CSS feature allows you to preview your changes before publishing so your readers don’t see a thing until you say its ready. Change and edit your stylesheet as often as you like. Upload your own images and backgrounds to really personalize your site. Build a design from scratch or feel free to modify the existing default template. Its all up to you and your only limitation is your imagination!

Here’s a peek:

Cheers

Building upon its popular offering of unmetered bandwidth and growing monthly storage space, Podbean has also incorporated some powerful analysis and marketing tools to allow businesses and non-profit organizations to jump on the podcasting bandwagon.

With a Podbean account, you can seamlessly integrate podcasts into your existing website or blog so there’s no major overhaul required to broaden your Internet presence. And with the familiar blog-like interface, becoming a podcasting master is a snap.Podbean users also enjoy the ability to maintain multiple podcasts for multiple audiences. This gives even the smallest business the ability to track their performance and fine-tune their podcasting efforts.

This one-stop-shop approach combines publishing tools with reporting, syndication and management features in two affordable packages for easy podcast deployment and both packages also include the unique ability to “private podcast” - a subscription-based service that allows users to broadcast only to select audiences such as internal departments or target markets. Podbean business users can also delegate their podcasting efforts through the multiple administrators and authors feature, making it easier than ever to launch a successful podcasting campaign.

This is a powerful, comprehensive and visualized statistics system with a single interface for podcasters to understand how their content is being consumed. It comes with a fully dimension view of episode hits, subscribers and site visitors.

Episode Hits gives publishers a bird’s-eye view into the performance of each episode. More precisely, different type of reach will be categorized into three areas: feed, download and streaming. Feed reflects the number of times your content is fetched via a subscribed Feed; Download is the number of times that your content files are downloaded directly through the web; While streaming is the number of times that your content files are played online in your podcast site or via embedded players.

Subscribers provides an approximate measure of the number of individuals currently subscribed to your feed. It’s based on an approximation of how many times your feed has been requested by many different feed readers (ex:google reader) and podcatchers(ex:iTunes) in a 24-hour period. Another good news is our stats filter system will filter out requests from browsers or bots to give you a more reliable results.

Site Visitors, as it’s called, gives the number of visitors to your podcast site. To prevent any type of fake or redundant data, any number of visitors with the same IP address will be counted only once in a 24-hour period.

Here are some screenshots:

Hope you like it.

This exciting new eStore feature is free to users with any Pro Gold and above Podbean account. There’s no set up fee, no monthly service charges and no minimum sales required.

To get more information and start selling your MP3’s online, visit http://faq.podbean.com/category/cat_h/.

Podcasters now have one more reason to smile. Podbean.com has announced a new customized domain feature, allowing account holders to use their own domain for podcast publishing. For just $9 per year(75 cents per month), users can set their podcast URL to a private domain - http://podcast.mydomain.com - instead of the generic http://username.podbean.com. This new custom domain feature allows podcasters the ability to extend their site’s look and feel to their podcasts, promoting branding and publisher recognition. You can build on this recognition by offering your listeners a way to subscribe to your podcast service. Just point them to your new customized feed at http://podcast.mydomain.com/feed.

And because Podbean offers unmetered bandwidth and monthly growth space, you can promote your private domain podcasts to your heart’s content - there’s no extra costs for exceeding bandwidth limitations set by your hosting company.

Customizing your domain is easy. Just login to your Podbean.com account and choose “Set Own Domain” from your Account page. Follow the steps in the short wizard and your new private podcasting domain will be live within hours. You’ll need to have access to your DNS records to activate the feature.

We, Podbean.com, are glad to announce the embeddable Multimedia Podcast Player now is available to all Podbean.com users. Yes, it is Free. Now you can embed your Podcast in Facebook, MySpace, blogs by simply copying & pasting the Podcast flash player that Podbean.com automatically generated for you. This Podcast Player supports both videos and audios and comes with Podbean unique “Embed Once, Use Forever” feature which means you only need to embed your player once at a place and Podbean.com will automatically update the player whenever you create, modify or delete your Podcast episodes. We hope this new feature will help all Podbean users to boost their exposures. Sounds interesting to you, get the player now. It is Free.

You may check out our FAQ to find out how to get the player embed code and other related info.

There are different colors and sizes for you to choose. Here is a peek of the player:

Should you have any comments, please feel free to contact us.

Enjoy !!!

As more and more cool widgets, videos are available on the internet, it is a joy for any podcaster/blogger to easily embed any favourable widgets/videos in his/her own podcast/blog site with a simply copy & paste. We are glad to see this joyful feature now is available to all Podbean users after we had many days of hard working/thinking/testing.

Hereafter is a demo of embedded Adsense code:

Garland is a mac style, three column, widget friendly theme in soothing blue. But what we think you’ll really go gaga for is the color customizer that comes with it. Enjoy!!

Well now you can, and it has never been so easy. The Podbean eStore service is designed for bloggers and podcasters just like you and takes your selling experience to the next level, simply, without any added complexity.

Podbean eCommerce Breakthrough

Podbean.com eStore is integrated with Paypal’s secure online payment system, thus, ensuring that you receive payment prior to shipping the merchandise and offer your customers payment security.

For digital goods, Podbean.com provides secure file storage that enables you to store downloadable items on the Podbean servers for sale at a later date. These items may include: Software, eBooks, music, movies, digital art, manuals, articles, certificates, forms, files, and just about any material that can be downloaded. This feature allows your customers to instantly gain access to your products and download their selected digital goods after payment.

Highlights of the eStore Feature

• No set up fees; No monthly fees;
• Automate and streamline payment and download with automated delivery of your digital goods immediately after payment.
• Quick and easy to selling merchandise in any blog or podcast(Podbean podcast site or not Podbean podcast site).
• Detailed purchase log and selling history as well as earning information to keep you abreast of your sales activity.

Check out the Podbean eStore how to at Podbean FAQ blog.

With Podbean.com MyPlaylist feature, you can easily embed your own MP3 files or any MP3 that you can find on internet into your myspace, blogger or your web site pages. You can save, edit the playlist, set it to auto-start. Best of all, this feature is free to use for anyone — Podbean users or not Podbean users. Enjoy!!

It is a Forum in Audio and Video.
Ever dream of posting forum topics in Audio or Video? Here it comes.

It is a podcast/blog community where your unique personalized podcast/blog meet with the community’s common interest groups.

It is …. . We don’t how to describe our new group system. It likes nothing in the current Internet world. It can be rich-customized to fit your needs. You’d better check it out yourself.

Here are some examples about what you can do in this “Group Podcast/Blog” system:

Case 1: Aggregate multiple Podcast/Blog feeds into one group feed
Want to check out all your friends’ recent posts in one feed? You can simply create a group and invite your friends to join the group. All your friends can publish new posts to their own podcasts/blogs and to the group at one click. You can simply subscribe one feed and get all your friends’ new posts.

Case 2: Publish different characterized posts into different groups
Are you a mixture of Football fan and tech geek? No problem. You can have all the fun by publishing football posts into a football group where all your football friends belongs to and publishing tech posts into a tech group where all your tech friends joined.

Case 3: Publish one post into multiple groups
We think your single one post may be interested in multiple groups? So we create the “One Post Multiple Publish” feature. Your one post can be published into multiple groups at One Click. In each group, your post will be linked back to your original podcast/blog post.

Case 4: A Fan Club Forum in Audio and Video
Want to get interactive feedbacks from your audiences and fans? Open a group and let everyone post feedbacks in text, audio or video.

Case 5: Mashup
We thought that it could be fun to import any your favourite posts into one group, but we haven’t implemented this feature. If you like to have it, please let us know.

Sounds interesting. Create a group now and start to have all the fun in the podcast/blog community.

If you create a category “sports”, the RSS Feed URL of this category will be:
http://yourusername.podbean.com/category/sports/feed/
All posts in the sports category will be listed in this feed.

A unique “Embed Once Use Forever” feature is provided in Podbean multi-track players. Yes, that’s right. You, your friends or your audiences can simply embed the player once, Podbean.com will automatically update the play list whenever you create, modify or delete an audio post. The embedded players will start to show the latest audio tracks in about 24 hours.

Here is the four players :

The multi-track embeddable player for each channel.

The single-track player for each post.

Podbean.com proudly announces Podbean Message is live now. With this revolutionary message system, you can send message in video, audio, photo, PDF, MS Word, Excel and PowerPoint. There is NO file size limit. Yes, you can send a file in unlimited size. Try it here or click the mailbox link at the top right corner of any podbean.com page.

Currently, all messages only can be fetched within Podbean.com. We are thinking to make new messages forwarded to your normal email accounts. However, we don’t like SPAM , so we don’t want to spam you. Let us know what you think. We proceed according to most user responds.

Cutomizable Blog Header Image.

Now you can customize your podcast blog header image with your own photo in most of our Themes.

How to customize Podcast Blog header image?

After you log into your podbean Dashboard. Click “Layout” Tab, select a theme which is marked with “header image customizable”. A “header image” sub-tab will appear in “Layout”. Click “header image” tab, you will get instructions on what size of the image should be and you can upload your own image. The header image will be changed to the new uploaded one. Due to Cache effect, sometimes, you need to “refresh” to see the new image appear in your “header image” manage page, however, new header image will be shown right away in your podcast blog site. Enjoy!

This function is available for all users, Free or Paid. You can customize your social bookmarks by clicking “Layout” tab, then select “social bookmarks” tab after you log into your podbean.com account Dashboard.

Advanced graph stats are available in Podbean Advanced account and higher package. To view your blog podcast advanced statistics, simply click the “Statistics” Tab after you log into your Podbean.com account.

Here is a peek:

To set your podcast/blog to be private, click “Settings” tab, then in “General” sub-tab, choose the channel privacy option. You can switch your podcast from private to public or from public back to private any time.

After you set your podcast to be a private one, go to “My Private Members” page. You can add private members with their Podbean user names or use the email invitation function to invite them. The invitation email receivers will automatically be your private members after they follow the link in the email to login or signup a Podbean account.

The Free account can have up to 10 private members. The Advanced account can have up to 100 private members. The Pro account can have up to 1000 private members. The Premium account can have unlimited private members.

• My Subscriptions
  With our new MySubscriptions function, you can now subscribe to any user’s podcasts so that all of their Podcast episodes show in one convenient location. Just click the ‘Add to my subscription’ button at the side-bar of the Podcast site that you’d like to subscribe to . The podcast will immediately appear under your Podbean MySubscriptions Tab.
• My Favorites
  Want to play all your favorite audio video episodes in one convenient place? You can easily collect your favorite audio video episode/post by clicking the “Add to my favorites” link at bottom of each episode/post. The episode/post will immediately appear under your Podbean MyFavorites Tab.

This is what you will get:

The Podbean “Monthly Archive Disk Space” plan is designed to meet your ever growing needs on disk storage space. If you are a regular podcaster, you will quickly realize — one day, your upload files will grow out of your disk space quota. With the Podbean “Monthly Archive Disk Space” plan, you don’t need to worry about the disk quota limitation any more. You can simply choose one of the Podbean services which can meet your growing pace. Should your uploaded files grow out of your current active disk quota, you can choose to archive some old files and make fresh rooms for new files. The archived files are still accessible and stored on our reliable archive server. So all your old posts are still reachable by your audience.