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The 2009 Podcast Award Banners are up on the website, as you know nominations open in a few short days. We hope that you have your audiences prepared to nominate your show.
We are still seeking some sponsors, I hope you will consider being one of our 2009 Podcast Ambassadors by purchasing a sponsorship!
Keep up to date on Twitter @podcastawards
Last year we introduced Podcast Sponsorships on the Podcast Awards sites largely because the big Podcast companies would not step up to the Table with their wallets. As we head into the 5th year we are seeing a significant number of podcast that sponsored the event last year step up to sponsors again largely due to the great ROI they received on their sponsorships last year.
In 2008 we saw the Podcast Awards website receive over 14 million hits leading up to and through the awards ceremony. I am already starting to see the traffic increase and it will continue to climb as it always does until the day the Podcast Award Nominations start and then the server will have to have dry ice thrown on top of it to keep it from melting down.
So far in 2009 the following companies have stood up to the Plate:
RawVoice and the Blubrry Podcasting Community! $1000.00
Podcast Sponsorships:
Geek News Central $250.00 (Disclaimer My Show)
Electric Politics! $250.00
Comedy4Cast $250.00
The Irish and Celtic Music Podcast $250.00
SDR News $250.00
Best of the Left Podcast $250.00
Trucker Ton Podcast $250.00
Our goal in 2009 is to raise between $5000.00 to $6000.00 the trophies last year where a little over $3500.00 every dime we raise minus the server and auditing firms expenses are turned back into prizes for the winners. This is a not for profit event for Podcast Connect as it has been in years past!
Todd Cochrane
Founder Podcast Awards
It’s Podcast Awards Season again, I am preparing the site tonight. The firm that manages the site will be putting us in pre-nomination mode tomorrow.
Podcast Nominations by your audiences will open at 2100 EST on Oct 4th so start getting your audiences prepared today to nominate your show.
We will be accepting sponsorships exactly as we were last year so be the first to get your sponsorship dollars in.
The awards take a huge amount of work each year, so much in fact that I had considered not holding the event this year. Over the past three weeks my email inbox has been exploding and I decided to go ahead and hold the event again. I am hoping that the volunteers step up like they did last year to help because without them it is a monumental job.
Get your audiences ready 🙂
Todd Cochrane
Founder Podcast Awards!