Podcast.com Announces the Top 10 Podcasts of 2007

Treedia Labs, a leading media aggregation and distribution company, announced today its Podcast.com "Top 10 Podcasts of the Year" Award for 2007. Podcast.com is the premier podcast destination that provides access to a growing list of over 43,000 curated and updated podcasts representing more than 175,000 hours of audio and video content. Podcast.com's unique solution for content consumers also presents an unsurpassed way for content providers to reach an audience that consumes podcasts via the Web, mobile phones and other multimedia devices.

Each year, Podcast.com tallies the total number of times a program has been accessed by consumers. In 2007, Podcast.com tracked over one million podcast access connections via the Podcast.com portal. The top 10 Podcasts represent those items that were accessed the most in 2007.

Podcast.com's Top 10 Podcasts of the Year Award recipients are:

1. World Soccer Daily Podcast - independent
2. CNN News Update - mainstream
3. ESPN Radio Daily Podcast - mainstream
4. Geek News Central Podcast - independent
5. BBC's Best of Today - mainstream
6. NOVA - PBS - mainstream
7. Slate Magazine Daily Podcast - mainstream
8. 60 Minutes Podcast - The Full Broadcast - mainstream
9. Face the Nation Podcast - mainstream
10. CNET News.com Daily Tech News Podcast - independent

This year's winners are enjoying the sizeable and growing audiences of downloadable media consumption. According to Edison Media Research data from 2007, more than 37 million podcasts were accessed by consumers in the US. According to Radio Joint Audience Research (RAJAR), a group dedicated to measuring radio audiences in the UK, podcast listening increased 40-percent, to 2.7 million people throughout the UK in 2007.