Nominations for Thirty Top Podcast Category Awards Are Now Being Accepted Online at www.topcast.org
NEW YORK, April 6, 2005 — Move over Academy Awards, the growing Podcast industry now has its own awards program and nominations for Podcast shows and Podcast industry talent are now being accepted online at http://www.topcast.org. The TopCast Awards were developed to enhance, promote and strengthen the relatively new podcasting phenomenon as it continues to evolve. Internet entrepreneur and TopCast awards event founder Peter W. Bowman is pleased that already over twenty-five online nominations have been submitted for the TopCast Awards after less than one week online.
"A media market such as Podcasting deserves its own event to recognize industry pioneers, leaders and top program talent," said Bowman. "What makes the TopCast awards so appealing is the fact that the online podcasting audience will select their nominations for the individual awards directly at the topcast.org website."
The TopCast Awards feature categories such as Best Podcast Host, Best Co-Host, the Pioneer Award for industry leadership, many general category awards such as Best News, Sports and Entertainment Podcast and even categories for Best Kids and Best Local Podcast. In all, over thirty category nominations are included in this year’s TopCast Awards program.
According to Bowman, online TopCast nominations will end on June 15, 2005, and finalists will be announced in early September with a live awards event to be held in New York City on November 5, 2005. "We are excited at the immediate response we have received online with nominations, and we will continue to expand the program as additional interest evolves," concluded Bowman.
It is estimated that over 3,500 amateur and professional podcast programs are already operating online, and industry insiders are betting that many more "casts" will be launching in the future. The podcast phenomenon is based on a low-cost process of broadcasting audio and video directly from a PC and delivering that programming to any computer or remote digital device such as an iPod or MP3 player.
About Podcasting
"Podcasting" is a web-based broadcast medium. Audio files (most commonly in MP3 format) are made available online in a way that allows software to automatically detect the availability of new files (generally via RSS) and download the files for listening at the user’s convenience.
The word "podcasting" is a portmanteau of the words iPod and broadcasting. A podcast is like an audio magazine subscription: a subscriber receives regular audio programs delivered via the internet and can listen to them at their leisure.
About Peter Bowman and AVERICOM Communications
Peter Bowman has been developing and servicing Internet businesses for over ten years. Bowman founded AVERICOM in 2000 after his prior Internet company, founded in 1994, went public in 1998. AVERICOM currently has offices in the Philadelphia area.
For more information or to nominate your favorite podcast program for a TopCast award, simply log on to http://www.topcast.org.
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