I've got an idea I've been chatting up around AOL/WIN: free podcast hosting in exchange for some advertising/a thank you. You see, we have this huge bank of servers now and they have this huge pipeline into them. We have over 100k downloads for Engadget's podcast and it works perfectly... great download speeds, etc.
Anyone out there have a huge podcast and big bills to pay who wants free hosting? Ping me at jason at calacanis dot com. No string attached... you keep ownership of your podcast, we get the thank you for hosting ya.
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(Page 1 of 1)2. Jason,
Your AOL brothers have been doing that for sometime over at AOLmusic.com. They have been carrying the bandwidth for http://reelreviewsradio.com since last summer. There are a number of shows (TWIT and others) that also have that deal. It is a great idea and I am glad you are working on expanding it.
Posted at 1:04PM on Mar 16th 2006 by Michael Geoghegan
3. I dropped you an email asking for the details. There is certainly a need for quality hosting WITH good download speed.
Posted at 3:44PM on Mar 16th 2006 by Andru Edwards
4. I think this is an excellent idea - one of the smartest propositions I have heard anyone make recently.
Think about for a minute ..... lots of people have Podcasts .... more are made every day...Podcasts are popular and when they are downloaded it consumes lots of bandwidth; if your Podcasts are popular someone hosting the Podcasts can run up a big bill. When you can place your podcast in a nice safe place and then promote it.....you can get a Win Win situation - free hosting of a big MP3 ...your own Podcast and Jason gets to make money of the advertising he sells PLUS his domain gets a TON of traffic........
Maybe I'm wrong .... but I really think some one could make a lot of money off of this idea. While hosting the Podcasts - I'd also catogorize them and make sure they were well optimized (ie: ID3 tags, titles, descriptions).
Posted at 10:24PM on Mar 16th 2006 by webmetricsguru
6. John... one word: performance.
I hear Archive.org and Libsyn are both very, very slow.
AOL's server farm is one of the fastest in the world (think serving up 5m people during Live8).
However, you are right... there are some cheap options out there. What else could we provide to make this work do you think?
7. Jason,
Are you trying to give me a heart attack?!?! This theoretically subverts my whole podcast advertising supported hosting project. ayayay. had to vent, sorry.
Brian
Posted at 3:38PM on Mar 17th 2006 by Brian Breslin
8. Rizzn.net is an option. He?s experiencing some growing pains as he moves onto a new server (read: mp3s won?t upload instantly), but it?s a free option with unrestricted bandwidth and storage (as far as I can tell) for your casts, as well as RSS feed creation.
Posted at 5:53AM on Mar 27th 2006 by Mike
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1. Good idea Jason. For anyone considering this, I'd also think about posting your work to archive.org, a free, not for profit (but very well financed) hosting service, service. Chances are, download times won't be nearly as fast, but the goal is to keep this content online forever---Which is good insurance if your primary hosting is in the potentially volatile corporate sphere. Maybe not such a good idea to host your eggs in one basket.
Posted at 11:40AM on Mar 16th 2006 by jonny goldstein