The latest issue of BLOGGER AND PODCASTER MAGAZINE has been published. The online version of the magazine is very slick, appearing as a “flipper” format which allows the viewer to flip through the pages of the magazine in a virtual layout of the print edition. The lead story in the magazine’s “News Feed” section (on page 6) is about NEW MEDIA CREATIVE. We also have a full page ad appearing in the magazine (on page 18). Our ad is accompanied by an audio promo we recently produced. We also produced an audio promo to accompany the full page ad for the APHEX 230 MASTER VOICE CHANNEL (on page 14 of the magazine). That promo includes an endorsement from our own voice-over and production guru Joe Klein. The audio promos launch automatically when the reader lands on the page where the ad appears, which, as audio producers, we have to admit is pretty cool.
As we did for the last issue, we produced certain segments of the audio podcast version of the publication. Joe voiced the “News Feed” and “Editor’s Note” segments and worked on additional production for the remaining podcast segments. We also produced new branding media elements, which can be heard as audio signatures at the opening and closing of all the podcast segments of the new issue. Bill Fortune’s splendid pipes really stand out on the awesome new sigs for the magazine podcasts.
In this issue of the magazine, its publisher, LARSTAN PUBLICATIONS, announced the launching of an ambitious new venture, the BLOGGER AND PODCASTER MEDIA NETWORK. The new network combines the resources of Blogger and Podcaster along with established podcast directory PODCAST PICKLE, U.K. social blog network FUEL MY BLOG, and blog discovery engine SOCIAL RANK to form a powerful new network that will offer significant reach, income and other valuable benefits and monetary rewards to its blogger and podcaster members. You can read all about it on page 30 of the current issue. We’re working with the article’s author, company CEO LARRY GENKIN, on the podcast version of this major story, which should be posted online next week.
Each individual column and article in the magazine has an embedded flash audio player at the top of the page that will load and play and podcast version of the story. There is also a flash player with a pre-loaded playlist of all the current issue’s podcast segments. That player is on the publication’s home page here. From the home page you can also open up the online flipper version of the current issue and search for and access past issues from the magazine’s archives.
