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"Getting paid to podcast is a familiar idea, and Divvycast, which launched last week, is another new startup trying to make it work.  The site allows you to create and upload podcasts, post your podcast on social networks, publish it on iTunes and Yahoo Podcasts, accept sponsorships and get paid by advertisers.  \nDivvycast users can download some software (ePodcast Creator Lite for PCs, ePodcast Express for Macs), create a podcast and host it on Divvycast.  You can then grab buttons for MySpace, Tagworld, hi5, Piczo and blogs that allow listeners to download your podcast or stream it.  As part of this effort, they're trying some MySpace marketing - the company's MySpace page has 9000 friends, so they must be doing something right.\nYou can also upload artwork for iTunes and publish your podcast to the directories on both iTunes and Yahoo Podcasts.   What's more, you can create intro and outro clips and (where available) insert ads.  However, it seems unlikely that Divvycast has many advertisers available, and they're unlikely to attract many newcomers.  This is a chicken-and-egg problem: advertisers want to sponsor podcasts with big audiences, and the podcasts with the biggest audiences go wherever the advertisers are.  Another factor that doesn't help is that Divvycast isn't free for podcasters: once your 15 day trial is over, you'll need to pay $9.95 per month for the software, 1GB of storage and 50GB/month of bandwidth.  You can increase that to 4 GB storage and 200 GB of bandwidth for $29.95/month.  \nMost of the factors at play suggest Divvycast won't be a massive success: charging for the service will probably scare off some users, and cheaper storage is available elsewhere.  If they could sign up lots of advertisers, that would certainly sweeten the deal, but for now I'm unconvinced.\nRelated: Text Alerts for MySpace Bands\n\nDivvycast(via)"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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