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Our corporate podcasting unit has been commissioned to produce another set of audio podcasts for Calyx - one of Ireland’s most dynamic enterprises. We worked with Calyx earlier in the year and we’ve now been asked back to produce more online content for the company. Our podcasting portal www.podcastingireland.ie was set up in Sept 2005 and launched the following March with the first of our channels o2 Making Waves. We’ve been commissioned by both public and private bodies to create online content and our podcast client lists includes the National Consumer Agency, Vhi, Murray Consultants, Kingspan Century, AMAS to name just a few. We’ve keen to talk to you about our one stop offering if you need audio or video online content and podcasting solutions for your company, business or event. Give us a call on Dublin 4885851 and talk to Linda about getting a podcasting quote. Every quote is designed around your needs and budget and we can talk you through the impact good web and mobile communications can make. We currently have over 2 million hits so far this year on podcastingireland.ie - with an average of a couple of thousand unique visits to the site daily - so we can demonstrate the power of podcasting and the pull of good content - so check in today www.podcastingireland.ie - Helen

Our six part series on women writers from Anne Enright to Maeve Binchy begins on August 23rd. We’re now finished recording and we’re editing the series for broadcast.

We’re currently researching Irish podcasting habits as part of a presentation for the EBU in September. This year’s digital radio conference in being held in Sardinia to coincide with the Prix Italia so its bound to get a good turn out! The podcasting survey is available on www.podcastingireland.ie and we’d really appreciate if you could do it and help us get a better understanding of podcasting trends in Ireland. We’re also doing a parallel survey with broadcasters - radio broadcasters - about their podcasting strategy so the final research document should give an interesting insight into podcasting in Ireland and how its changing media, particularly radio, habits.

Our podcasting portal, which celebrates two years in March, has had a record month in June with a doubling of its traffic and visitors. The site now how nealyy 270,000 hits a month (over 1.2 million hits for the last six months) and in June alone had nearly 13,000 unique visitors. Our podcasting channel 02 Making Waves is the number one draw along with our ever increasing Irish podcast directory - a unique directory of all Irish podcasts. The site has grown steadily since it launch in 2006 but the last two months has seen significant volumes of growth with an average daily visit of over a thousand visits. The traffic is increasingly steady and consistent with visitors from Ireland, across Europe, US and Australia every day. Our online life has also seen a marked growth in traffic to this site athenamedia.ie and hundreds of people visit daily to read the reports, check out our details, work and online showreel. Thanks to everyone for visiting - do feel free to tell us what you think and how we can improve the sites. We’re currently conducting podcasting research with all our registered users on podcastingireland.ie and if you’d like to help please do register (it take less than a minute) and we’ll get the survey to you.
Helen