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Qumana Blog :: Main Page: The question is, why is the growth so fast and why CGM?  The speed of increase is primarily due to the newness of this media segment.  This is also why there will be a "slow down" in spending 2005 vs 2006.  But why CGM?  Frankly marketers are realizing that CGM is where the audience is.  People who read CGM are at the cutting edge of a lot of areas, and they tend to be better educated and earn more than the general online population.  Bloggers and blog readers tend to be the influencers, the connectors, and if you're looking for an affluent audience . (via Cosmos)

Qumana Investor Blog :: Main Page: Mark Evans of the National Post points to an eMarketer report on podcasting (see chart above) as a reality check.  Let's be real, even those of us (like me) who produce podcasts, don't always listen to them.  But does this mean that podcasting is a ho-hum idea?  That it won't take off?  No, certainly not.  Because just as websites were originally more of a hobby or techie thing, they are now accepted (essential) to business.  Just as blogs started as daily journals and diaries of one person's musings, they are now becoming powerful tools for companies to showcase their expertise and connect with the rest of the world.  Podcasts are going to find their niche soon enough, and Charlene Li ends her post with something I've been talking about for months: (via Cosmos)

  The Voice of Online Marketing · MarketingVOX: Combined blog, podcast and RSS ad spend by the end of 2005 totaled $20.4 million, a 198.4 percent increase over the 2004 levels for user-generated online media - and is projected to climb 144.9 percent in 2006, reaching $49.8 million, according to a new report, "Blog, Podcast & RSS Advertising Outlook," from PQ Media. Total spending on user-generated online media is forecast to grow at a compound annual rate of 106.1 percent from 2005 to 2010, reaching $757.0 million in 2010. (via Cosmos)

[FuzzyBlog] About that Dinner Tonight: I know I had advocated for a dinner tonight at Chaat. And I’d really like to do it but, in a happy creative glow post Stirr, having gotten like Big N good ideas, I think its more important for me to actually follow through on implementation of those ideas.

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