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April 6, 2005

Podcasting Catching On - Or Is It?

Reuters reports:

The home-brewed audio programs known as "Podcasts" are catching on with people who own iPods or other digital-music players, according to a survey released on Sunday.

Twenty-nine percent of U.S. adults who own MP3 players like Apple Computer Inc.'s (Nasdaq:AAPL - news) iPod say they have downloaded podcast programs from the Internet, the Pew Internet and American Life Project found.

That means more than 6 million people are listening to a form of communication that emerged only last year, according to the nonprofit group.

Does this mean that RSS penetration is actually much larger than we all initially thought?

[Update]
Or is the Pew report fundamentally faulted (thanks to Darren for a heads up)?

Darren comments:

I originally read about this on Steve Rubel's site, so I'll repeat my comments from there. Pew managed to talk to all of 208 MP3 owners, making the margin for error on that podcasting number +/- 7.5%. Any statistician will tell you that's an extremely small--indeed, statistically insignficant--sample group.

208 MP3 owners is an inredibly small number to give it any higher relevance, so we really cannot trust their findings.

The problem is, if they missed so much on this issue, can we really trust them on their other RSS research as well?

It seems that others, such as Alex Barnett, agree as well.

Comments

Don't tell me you fell for it too Rok!
http://blogs.msdn.com/alexbarn/archive/2005/04/06/405838.aspx

Posted by: Alex Barnett at April 7, 2005 5:36 AM

Alex and Darren, thanks for the heads up:)

I posted on this one too quickly. Haven't had the time to research it deeper prior to the post. We certainly learn from our own mistakes:)

Posted by: Rok Hrastnik at April 7, 2005 7:01 AM

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