The latest figures on podcasting
Published on May 12, 2006 at 4:38 pm by Raoul 
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Loading ...Rick Klau, VP at FeedBurner, published the latest podcasting figures at this post on their Burning Questions blog.
FeedBurner now handles 44,889 podcast feeds (three of those are mine) and over 1,598,988 people subscribe to those feeds. The two bar graphs show the amazing growth that has occurred in the past 15 months. Wow!
I couldn’t have done it without FeedBurner, either. I detailed why I love and use FeedBurner in this post. You’ll see why when you read it. FeedBurner gives me the sort of peace of mind that one can get when he knows important documents are locked in a thick safe somewhere. No matter what happens to my web hosting, and no matter how many times I’ve got to switch my original feed URL, my FeedBurner feed stays the same, and my subscribers don’t have to concern themselves with my problems. It’s just plain nice!
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