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Posted on 08/25/2010 4:30:24 AM PDT by PJ-Comix
Sleep tight. Don't let the bedbugs bite.
Unfortunately for residents of many urban areas such as New York and Philadelphia, the bedbugs are not only biting but spreading at an alarming rate. Despite this outbreak, the mainstream media has until recently kept insisting that bedbugs developed a resistance to DDT so any emergency lifting of the EPA ban on that pesticide is unnecessary. However, your humble correspondent has speculated that the MSM would eventually have to change its position on the DDT ban due to the fact that so many of its members are being assaulted by bedbug attacks which keep increasing despite the use of other pesticides. Well, it now appears that New York Times writer, Emily B. Hager, has had a revelation about DDT. While its not an outright call for a lifting of the DDT, consider it an important pit stop on the way to demanding the ban be lifted:
...Bedbugs, once nearly eradicated, have spread across New York City, in part because of the decline in the use of DDT. According to the citys Department of Housing and Preservation, the number of bedbug violations has gone up 67 percent in the last two years. In the most recent fiscal year, which ended on June 30, the citys 311 help line recorded 12,768 bedbug complaints, 16 percent more than the previous year and 39 percent above the year before. A New York City community health survey showed that in 2009, 1 in 15 New Yorkers had bedbugs in their homes, a number that is probably higher now.
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Liberals are poised to admit the DDT ban is a scam when their precious NY hotel rooms are at stake but they didn't bat an eye when the DDT ban killed tens of millions (or hundreds of millions, who knows for sure) Africans from malaria.
They are heartless inhuman bast*rds. Every single one of them.
Rachel Carson's whiny, 'Silent Spring' is to blame for this; and for the malaria that has taken millions of lives. She was heralded as an environmental genius (of the AlGore variety). Her politically timed rants against DDT (and other needed pesticides) have caused more suffering than will ever be admitted.
She was from Pittsburgh (they even renamed a bridge after her!) and when I was in school I had a wonderful science teacher (a Sister of Mercy) who railed against the idiocy of Carson' turning back the hands of progress that bettered human existance; and against the the purported 'coming Ice Age.' (She taught of the Maunder Minimum, sun spots.)
How can they claim that bedbugs have developed a resistance to something that hasn't been used for thirty years?
So, let's see,
Bedbugs brought in by illegals (product of liberalism)
Bedbugs not exterminated by DDT (banned by liberalism)
Yea, I think I got it.
We now have something called and integrated pest management system that requires the rotational use of pesticides.
A lawsuit would be grand! Especially if the claim is found to be false.
The DDT ban has destroyed far more human lives than the Holocaust.
NOT DDT. It is the infected criminal illegals
imported by the White House, DNC and Congress.
Hmmmmm Hmmmm Hmmmmmm.
Is this the DDT Ban that was effective after December 31, 1972?
We need one of our capable conservative leaders (Mark Levin, paging Mr. Mark Levin) to write an expose on the whole Rachel Carson/DDT scandal and tie it into the overall, planned reduction of the population: the Malthusian movement, Margaret Sanger and Planned Parenthood, the eugenics movement, the green and animal rights movements, and the tax exempt foundations that funded those leftist efforts, and the NGOs set up to implement them, mostly through the UN - to name a few. Tyrants need to reduce populations in order to control them.
Don't count on it, that would be logical. What the government will probably do is announce a war on bedbugs to be fought using a expensive "GREEN" alternative treatment that they will subsidize claiming it creates jobs. Their friends and low income housing will qualify for "free" treatment that you and I will pay for.
Very true. If NYC and the left get behind lifting the ban then maybe the international community will start using DDT to kill mosquitoes in the third world and prevent millions of deaths annually.
With the kids coming back to Georgetown, GW and American Washington DC is sure to be in bedbug outbreak soon. Perhaps once DC gets hit, DDT will quickly get re-permitted.
I was raised in dry Los Angeles but I remember visiting family in Nebraska as a child and seeing the DDT trucks going up and down the street spraying for mosquitoes. (I also remember the cicadas. What a racket!)
None of my family got sick or died from DDT. And not from malaria or any of the other mosquito borne diseases either.
DDT worked, served a valuable purpose in society and was railroaded by the first environmental whackos.
It - the DDT ban - has caused literally millions of deaths by malaria over the past thirty-odd years. DDT was - is - truly a miracle of twentieth century chemical science. Yet the all-caring environmental Luddites don't care about the cost in human lives - it's okay, they'll send more mosquito nets.
I don't normally speak ill of the dead, but I would make an exception for her.
July 2007 Nat Geo ran an extensive article documenting that DDT was NOT a problem around the world in it's use for contolling maleria.
The ONLY place it was an issue is here in the U.S., were it was way over used and collected in deltas and estuaries.
It was all about eugenics! PERIOD!
Yes. And sort of. One of the miracles of DDT is that it is very cheap to produce. The new and very expensive pesticide will be DDT manufactured under a protocol that will increase its manufactured cost by 10,000%. Watch for it.
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First synthesized in 1874, DDT's insecticidal properties were not discovered until 1939, and it was used with great success in the second half of World War II to control malaria and typhus among civilians and troops. The Swiss chemist Paul Hermann Müller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1948 "for his discovery of the high efficiency of DDT as a contact poison against several arthropods."[2] After the war, DDT was used as an agricultural insecticide, and soon its production and use skyrocketed.[3]
I remember being in college in the south in the 50's listening to a local song on the radio, "Ain't no flies on Jesus 'cause He's sprayed with DDT". Children were fed spoonfulls of DDT as a wormer. Many grew up to become fullblown Arkies, mountain men, and etc.
I had a visitor from the west coast come out, and she couldn't believe the noise by the little critters! They do get loud, don't they? We're right in the middle of their "season" right now.
I said this on another thread when the bedbug issue first came up.
DDT not only will kill those bugs, but the BAN is responsible for the MURDER of millions in 3rd world countries.
Bring BACK DDT !!!
I had the same thought, but isn't it closer to 50 years. I remember having to read "Silent Spring" as a freshman in high school, and I graduated from high school in 1963.
It may be 50 years in the U.S. I am not sure about around the world.
Extensive hearings on DDT before an EPA administrative law judge occurred during 1971-1972. The EPA hearing examiner, Judge Edmund Sweeney, concluded that "DDT is not a carcinogenic hazard to man... DDT is not a mutagenic or teratogenic hazard to man... The use of DDT under the regulations involved here do not have a deleterious effect on freshwater fish, estuarine organisms, wild birds or other wildlife."
[Sweeney, EM. 1972. EPA Hearing Examiner's recommendations and findings concerning DDT hearings, April 25, 1972 (40 CFR 164.32, 113 pages). Summarized in Barrons (May 1, 1972) and Oregonian (April 26, 1972)]
Overruling the EPA hearing examiner, EPA administrator Ruckelshaus banned DDT in 1972. Ruckelshaus never attended a single hour of the seven months of EPA hearings on DDT. Ruckelshaus' aides reported he did not even read the transcript of the EPA hearings on DDT.
[Santa Ana Register, April 25, 1972]
After reversing the EPA hearing examiner's decision, Ruckelshaus refused to release materials upon which his ban was based. Ruckelshaus rebuffed USDA efforts to obtain those materials through the Freedom of Information Act, claiming that they were just "internal memos." Scientists were therefore prevented from refuting the false allegations in the Ruckelshaus' "Opinion and Order on DDT."
You misunderestimate the number and you left out dengue.
Call a spade a spade. The DDT ban was genocide on the 3rd world in the tropics. But hey, all those mosquitos are more deserving of life than people, right?
I have family in places where dengue, malaria, etc. are serious business and for me, it's personal.
Amen! (It's 10s or hundreds of millions, but who cares about the 3rd world, right?)
I'm not the only FReeper who lives in the 3rd world.
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Monday, Aug. 06, 1945
Many a civilian would give red points to get his hands on a little DDT, the Army's high-priority insecticide. Recently citizens of Media and Swarthmore, Philadelphia suburbs, were astonished: two of the towns' hardware stores offered bottles of DDT for sale across the open counter. The solution was just right for killing flies and mosquitoes. The stores did a land-office business at $1 per pint. Then WPB heard about it and asked grimly: where did the stuff come from?
The answer: a Swarthmore chemist named Walter Steuber (of Houdry Process Corp.) had decided that the easiest way to get DDT was to make it himself. He was turning it out by the gallon in his cellar. Said Steuber: any competent chemist can figure out the formula and make DDT out of non-priority materials. The ingredients are: chloral hydrate (better known as "Mickey Finn"), monochlor benzine, and concentrated sulfuric acid.
WPB solemnly ruled: "Anybody can make DDT, provided he uses non-priority materials or materials for which he has obtained a priority rating. But you can't sell it except for military or experimental purposes."
Last week, as a result of Steuber's enterprise, WPB suddenly changed its mind. Beginning this month, it announced, regular manufacturers will be allowed to sell limited supplies of DDT to civilians, manufacturers producing less than 1,000 lbs. weekly may sell their product to anyone they choose.
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,803716,00.html#ixzz0xebmKAUZ
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- We consider nonparametric estimation of the coefficients a_i(.), i=1,...,p, on a time-varying autoregressive process. Choosing an orthonormal wavelet basis representation of the functions a_i(.), the empirical wavelet coefficients are derived from the time series data as the solution of a least squares minimization problem. In order to allow the a_i(.) to be functions of inhomogeneous regularity, we apply nonlinear thresholding to the empirical coefficients and obtain locally smoothed estimates of the a_i(.). We show that the resulting estimators attain the usual minimax L_2-rates up to a logarithmic factor, simultaneously in a large scale of Besov classes. The finite-sample behaviour of our procedure is demonstrated by application to two typical simulated examples.
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- In the present paper a review on particle methods and their applications to evolution equations is given. In particular, particle methods for Euler- and Boltzmann equations are considered.
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- Gradiometry - an Inverse Problem in Modern Satellite Geodesy (1996)
- Satellite gradiometry and its instrumentation is an ultra-sensitive detection technique of the space gravitational gradient (i.e. the Hesse tensor of the gravitational potential). Gradeometry will be of great significance in inertial navigation, gravity survey, geodynamics and earthquake prediction research. In this paper, satellite gradiometry formulated as an inverse problem of satellite geodesy is discussed from two mathematical aspects: Firstly, satellite gradiometry is considered as a continuous problem of harmonic downward continuation. The space-borne gravity gradients are assumed to be known continuously over the satellite (orbit) surface. Our purpose is to specify sufficient conditions under which uniqueness and existence can be guaranteed. It is shown that, in a spherical context, uniqueness results are obtainable by decomposition of the Hesse matrix in terms of tensor spherical harmonics. In particular, the gravitational potential is proved to be uniquely determined if second order radial derivatives are prescribed at satellite height. This information leads us to a reformulation of satellite gradiometry as a (Fredholm) pseudodifferential equation of first kind. Secondly, for a numerical realization, we assume the gravitational gradients to be known for a finite number of discrete points. The discrete problem is dealt with classical regularization methods, based on filtering techniques by means of spherical wavelets. A spherical singular integral-like approach to regularization methods is established, regularization wavelets are developed which allow the regularization in form of a multiresolution analysis. Moreover, a combined spherical harmonic and spherical regularization wavelet solution is derived as an appropriate tool in future (global and local) high-presision resolution of the earth" s gravitational potential.
- Enskog-like kinetic models for vehicular traffic (1996)
- In the present paper a general criticism of kinetic equations for vehicular traffic is given. The necessity of introducing an Enskog-type correction into these equations is shown. An Enskog-line kinetic traffic flow equation is presented and fluid dynamic equations are derived. This derivation yields new coefficients for the standard fluid dynamic equations of vehicular traffic. Numerical simulations for inhomogeneous traffic flow situations are shown together with a comparison between kinetic and fluid dynamic models.
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Managers and shareholders of Italy's biggest retail bank are expected to discuss the plan to hive off so-called "non-core" assets in the next few weeks, the FT said, citing people familiar with the matter.
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Posted: 04/01/2014 - Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill Tuesday that puts the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners into the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Posted: 04/01/2014 - Governor Sam Brownback signed a bill Tuesday that puts the Kansas Board of Veterinary Examiners into the Kansas Department of Agriculture.
Updated: 03/26/2014 - Kansas House members have rejected a Senate plan to end the state's renewable energy standards despite concerns that the policies are leading to higher utility rates for businesses and residents.
Posted: 03/25/2014 - Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed legislation pushed by fellow Republicans making it harder for voters to switch parties before primary elections.
Posted: 03/23/2014 - The Kansas Senate Minority leader has raised questions about the chairman of the state Senate Education Committee's decision to send education bills to other committees for consideration.
Updated: 03/17/2014 - A Wichita man accused of trying to bring explosives-filled van to Mid-Continent Airport has become the face of an anti-terror bill in the Kansas Legislature even though he has not been convicted.
Posted: 03/13/2014 - Kansas House Democratic Leader Paul Davis says Republican Gov. Sam Brownback and the GOP-controlled Legislature should immediately increase aid to poor school districts by $129 million.
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Updated: 03/12/2014 - The Kansas Senate has approved a proposal from the state Republican Party to make it harder for voters to switch parties before primary elections.
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Updated: 03/07/2014 - The Kansas Supreme Court says the state's current public school funding levels are unconstitutional.
Posted: 03/06/2014 - A measure approved Thursday by the Senate gives a $10 million boost to the Kansas courts in fiscal year 2015 through additional funding and budget savings.
Posted: 03/06/2014 - The Senate Judiciary committee heard conflicting testimony on whether Kansas has enough legal protections for people, groups and businesses refusing for religious reasons to provide goods or services for gay weddings or same-sex marriages.
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I research this sort of thing and don't really want it to be quarantining the hacking tools as malware, because they aren't really.
Is there any way for all detected malware of type "HackTool" to be automatically allowed in Microsoft Security Essentials?
Well I mean you can go into the MSE settings and just exclude a directory, is that a good enough compromise? I suppose it wouldn't work if a hacktool you happen to have was actually infected, though.
As far as I know you can't get it to exclude a class of threat, merely a filetype or file/location.


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Love is the message for our time, we are its carriers.
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Love is a melody that no one can resist. It becomes part of the rythum of your soul the first time that you're kissed.
Love is a rainbow that touches everyone. It fills our minds with positive thoughts. It warms our hearts like the sun.
To paraphrase a famous quote: Prophecy is easy. Comedy is hard.
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Racism is not a symptom of evil nor is it a symptom of stupidity. It is a symptom of ignorance.
If everyone fell in love with someone from a group they hate the most, there would no longer be hatred in the world. They would either give in to that love or destroy themselves for feeling it.
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Let's legislate love.
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I eat chicken & fish. Gave up red meat.
I'm afraid that you are trying to make yourself feel good by getting rid of red meat, but ALL meat is the issue. Most will slam me for even saying this, but chicken and fish are spiritual beings just like us. So eating any animal is wrong, in my view.
I have been a vegetarian for over 10 years now. No, I'm not down to "skin and bones". Yes, I'm much healthier than I used to be. I try to eat vegan, but I love cheese too much. I don't believe in the way chickens (eggs) and cows (milk, cheese) are raised and enslaved.
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Umm no I was simply makng an honest admission about what meat I eat.
Are you of the opinion that trees & plants are 'spiritless'? Why would plants respond to emotion and music if they weren't sentient? Why is our entire ecosystem designed around the consumption of living things? Why is the stability of the eco-system designed to be contingent on population control and BALANCE? Is it some how 'wrong' when the animals consume one another, or do we say it's natural and instinctual? Why when humans are entered into the equation does it become an issue of morals and no longer an issue of being natural and instinctual?
I have no desire to debate you concerning the whether it is ok to eat animals because we also eat plants. Yes, I believe that ALL living things are spiritual beings. I just consider some spiritual beings at a different levels of spiritual development than others. Enough said there about that.
We are here to learn to overcome our instinctual drives and to begin to become more advanced beings that no longer are controlled by our instincts, but by our hearts.
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So I guess the moral is that it's okay to consume some sentient, spirit-filled 'beings' but not others? Some sort of spiritual pecking order, right?
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IAB Announces Podcast Upfront
The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) will host its second annual Podcast Upfront on September 7th and expand from a half to full day long program. The Second Annual Podcast Marketplace will feature 12 podcast companies, selected from a larger group based on their proposals to participate. Attendance is by invitation for advertisers and media agency executives.
Selected sponsors will each have a 20 minute presentation that will spotlight marketing opportunities for advertisers in podcasting. Last year's event was very successful, and the expanded format for this year promises to be just as exciting.
Selected presenting sponsors include:
- AdLarge
- Authentic (formerly Podtrac)
- CBS Radio's Play.it
- HowStuffWorks
- Midroll
- Panoply
- PodcastOne
- Time Inc.
- WNYC Studios
- Wondery
The content of the presentations will feature an impressive list of some of the most popular podcasts:
- The Adam Carolla Show
- Engage: The Official Star Trek Podcast
- Entertainment Weekly: Game of Thrones
- ESPN: Fantasy Focus Football
- TED Radio Hour
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- WTF with Marc Maron
No word on which presentations will include their personality hosts, but I do know that the intial RFP encouraged companies that were interested in participating to make their pitches as appealing as possible in order to be selected, so I'm guessing quite a few podcast personalities will be on stage. It's bound to be a great day for podcasting. Read more about it here.
Why Millennials Like Podcasts
The study showing that Millennials listen to less radio than older generations is hardly news. Other studies have shown similar trends, and you need to look no further than your favorite Millennial to know that they're all about connected consumption of all their media.
Meanwhile, we have the growing body of data showing that the very same folks like podcasts. The Podcast Consumer study released by Edison Research shows that 35% of podcast listeners are in the 18-34 demographic. In fact, comScore data shows that same demographic is 44% more likely than the average smartphone-owning adult to listen to podcasts on their device at least once a week. And podcasts are even more popular with younger demos – while 18-34 year olds are more likely than the general population to be podcast listeners, 12-17 year olds are almost twice as likely to listen.
Just this morning I had a conversation with my favorite Millennial about podcasts. She listens at work, and she works in an environment where she can't be connected all day long. Each day, she downloads her daily diet of podcasts and brings them with her. She says playlists get too boring.
The most fascinating part of this is that Millennials – as well as folks in the younger 12-17 demographic – are listening to podcasts, which are primarily talk programming. The very same programming that on broadcast stations is relegated to the AM dial and listened to mainly by 35+ demographics. How can that be? I'm thinking there are a few things that make podcasts so attractive to younger demos:
- It's all about the device. The younger you are, the more attached you are to your device. If the content is available on your device, it's worth your attention.
- On demand content is the everything. No matter what they're consuming, younger demos are consuming it on their terms: what they want, when they want it.
- Shared content is important. Not only do Millennials like to share, they like to like what others share. Listen, and share with your friends.
- Non-fiction and reality content is a thing with Millennials.
Back to the Millennial that I live with. When she's home from college I really enjoy an evening in front of the tv with her. It used to be easy to pick a movie that we both wanted to watch. But more and more, our tastes diverge, with hers preferring shows about cooking competitions, or brides picking dresses. If it's fiction, she's looking for crime and thrillers. The latest Jane Austen novel remake? Not so much.
Offering appealing content in a form that this age group likes to consume is the key to the success of podcasts with younger demos.
Podcasts have struck a chord with Millennials, and it has to do with several things, not the least of which is audio content that they like. While broadcast radio assumes that what they want to hear is the latest hits, it turns out they also want to hear great non fiction programming, on their phones, when they want it. If you podcast it they will listen..
Is YouTube the Next Frontier for Podcasts?
Podcasters are finding YouTube a friendly place to distribute their content. With a billion monthly users, YouTube's an attractive place to woo listeners. Libsyn, a podcast hosting company, recently introduced a feature that enables podcasters to easily turn their audio files into video and send them to YouTube at the same time they send them to other distribution services such as iTunes and GooglePlay.
But YouTube is a video platform, right? Although it's often disregarded in a conversation about streaming audio listening, YouTube is by far the largest on demand streaming audio service. It makes sense the podcasters would offer their content on the giant on demand streaming platform as well. YouTube also has some other features that make it a great platform for podcasters – such as search and sharing.
This American Life offers all of its content on YouTube, as do many others. Some, like The Moth, and NPR podcasts like The Hidden Brain and Invisibilia, have organized all of their content into YouTube pages that you can subscribe to, while others, like 99 Percent Invisible and Reply All, are not quite as organized, but easy to find through search.
YouTube also offers recommendations – when I subscribed to Modern Love, produced by WBUR and the New York Times, I got recommendations for a Ted Talk, and a podcast by The Minimalists.
From the looks of the numbers of subscribers to some of the podcasts, it's early in the idea that YouTube is a podcast distribution platform. The Moth's 47,000 subscribers seems huge compared to This American Life which has 8562 subscribers. Meanwhile Serial has only 216(!). But Youtube sure seems like a ready-made distribution platform for podcast content. Maybe it's the next frontier..
Branded Podcasts Come in Several Flavors
Brands are getting serious about podcasts as a content marketing strategy. Podcasts lend themselves well to branded content – their storytelling nature is engaging, appealing to brands seeking a better way to connect with consumers.
Branded content strategies in podcasts can vary greatly, from subtle approaches where the sponsor is barely mentioned, to shows where the sponsor is prominently featured within the editorial, with several alternatives in between.
Branding by Association – A subtle approach to content branding relies simply on a connection with clever, innovative and appealing content to establish a brand's connection. GE's The Message is a best in class for this type of content marketing. The podcast was hugely successful and very innovative. The sponsor branding was very subtle – GE Podcast Theater was the producer of the show along with Panoply Networks. GE's presence in the podcast is very understated, which in this case may well have added to both the success of the series and the effectiveness of the branding. It is really artful branding for sure.
Editorial Branding – A more overt type of content marketing is employed by eBay in the recently launched Open for Business by Gimlet Media. This type of branded podcast features the sponsor's name and company within the podcast, and in fact, features an eBay partner business within the episode. The editorial content of the podcast is focused on entrepreneurship, and reportedly, the company had input into and final say over the direction and content of each of the six installments. It's well done, with strong and interesting reporting elements that exemplify Gimlet's expertise in the space.
Sponsor Produced Podcasts – In this approach to branded podcasts, the sponsor produces its own content, with or without the help of outside resources, and focuses entirely on the sponsor's business. The McKinsey Podcast, produced by the inhouse McKinsey Publishing, focuses on educating its audience. It's a well done B2B podcast that discusses topics like the customer experience or the Chinese consumer. It's a great example of using podcasts to expand a customer base by positioning the sponsor company as a thought leader.
Sponsored Content – This most common approach to content marketing in podcasts is the one that familiar podcast advertisers like Mailchimp and Squarespace employ. Those companies employ native ads within popular podcast series like Serial to establish their brand. The native ads, often done by the podcast hosts, are personal and effective. I think the branding for Squarespace in the podcast series Reply All is particularly good. Hosts PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman create quirky websites using Squarespace, and then talk about them. (Has PJ met Alex's son yet is one, and Goldman.gripe is the other). It's funny and, as I am demonstrating right here, memorable.
Podcasts as branded content can take many different forms and create really great exposure for advertisers. These deeply creative approaches add enormous value and impact for the brands, and generate both quality content and great buzz that is no doubt part of the momentum driving expanding interest. May they thrive..
Podcasting's Tipping Point
A few days ago Slate's Panoply Network launched a new series with best-selling author, speaker, and quirky, insightful social scientist Malcolm Gladwell called Revisionist History. The day it launched it hit number one on the iTunes Podcast Chart. The podcast series of ten episodes will be released week by week and examine past events that were mis-interpreted the first time around – Gladwell will attempt to "correct the record."
This is a big score for Slate's Panoply Media, and for the podcasting industry. Panoply's Andy Bowers thinks Gladwell's big name will bring new listeners, who haven't already listened to a podcast before, not to mention new advertisers.
The launch of the program came with a live reading at the iconic 92nd Street Y in New York by Malcolm Gladwell. Attendees were given a handout with instructions on how to download to a podcast on Apple's purple podcast app – the Revisionist History podcast series is sponsored by Apple's iBooks, another remarkable aspect of the show. Apparently, Gladwell was thinking about writing a book about these misunderstood historical events, but was convinced to do the podcast series instead.
Everyone is hoping the new series will see the same kind of blockbuster success that Serial saw in its first season. In addition to the live reading, Gladwell's been tweeting about the series to his 373,000 followers – "My mother says it's amazing!" Meanwhile, his motives for producing the series are characterized as kind of a lark, more of a challenge than producing another bestselling book.
It just might be a social experiment as well. Gladwell just might be hoping his new series hits at The Tipping Point for podcasting. In his book The Tipping Point, Gladwell examines "that magic moment when an idea, trend, or social behavior crosses a threshold, tips, and spreads like wildfire." Podcasting is arguably at its Tipping Point – as Tom Webster of Edison Research pointed out in his presentation on the Podcast Consumer a few weeks ago. Podcast listening has been growing modestly for a bunch of years, but this year things have taken off, says Webster, citing the 24% growth in monthly listening and referring to a possible hockey stick pattern in growth. (All hail to Gordie Howe)
When a product reaches the tipping point, "the moment of critical mass, the threshold, the boiling point," it can spread like wildfire with a few simple factors, which Gladwell calls "agents of change." The podcasting pot is arguably ready to boil. I'm thinking this new show Revisionist History is both a new podcast and a social experiment, where Gladwell is looking to be one of the agents of change that propels podcasting into epidemic status. Read the book and see what you think…
This week I listened to the intro and first episode of Revisionist History, and also listened to Lena Dunham's Women of the Hour.
Why Binge Listening to Podcasts is a Thing
Podcasters have an episodic approach to content that lends itself to binge listening. People that listen to podcasts weekly listen to more than one – 64% of those that are listening weekly listen to more than two a week, according to Edison Research. This is not surprising, given the "serial" nature of some of the more popular podcasts, such as the popular Serial (there's a reason they were not allowed to trademark that name!)
Bridge Ratings confirms not only that more people are listening more to podcasts than ever before, but also that they are listening for an average of 33 minutes per session. This data, which is based on a year-long study of podcast listeners, confirms a healthy time spent listening trend that Bridge says has already "helped some ad agencies take the leap" into investing in podcast advertising.
Podcasts' long form audio consists of several approaches:
- Episodic programs, like Serial, where one story is told over a series of episodes -usually released week by week. While week by week releases can put a damper on bingeing, that only applies to listeners who are keeping current with the material. Listeners that are coming to the party mid-stream or later can consume more than one at a time.
- Theme programs, which have new subjects each week, but tied together around a central theme. These are also compelling and often clever – listeners want to stay with the theme of the podcast and listen to several. WNYC's Death, Sex and Money, about the topics we need to talk more about, and the New York Times/WBUR's Modern Love, which covers lots of angles on love, take that approach.
- Personality podcasts use the host as the consistent element from week to week, and topics cover whatever the host wants to talk about. Marc Maron's WTF, Lena Dunham's Women of the Hour, and The Adam Carolla Show for example.
All three approaches are compelling, and I find myself wanting to stay with many of the podcasts I try and listen to more than one. That's why Netflix-like consumption of podcasts is a big thing, one that is good for the listener as well as the advertiser.
Long form, compelling audio programming isn't new – in fact broadcast radio's roots are in that type of programming. The famous "War of the Worlds" was a Halloween episode of a regular weekly radio drama called The Mercury Theater on the Air. Amos and Andy was a personality driven one-hour weekly broadcast. Somewhere along the way that kind of programming disappeared and radio turned its attention to capturing quarter hours. Now we have "news and traffic every ten minutes" but the unique and creative storytelling approach to audio has in many cases left the broadcast building…
This week I've been listening to the podcast Modern Love, produced by the New York Times and WBUR.
comScore: Podcast Ads Are Compelling
New data from comScore says that people listen, like and act on ads in podcasts more than ads in any other digital media. As highlighted in Audio4cast a few weeks back – podcasting has taken a native ads approach that is reinventing audio advertising by integrating the ads into the program and creating a live-read, endorsement feel to the ads that is both memorable and inspiring to the consumer.
The new comScore study was commissioned by Wondery and also tells us that two-thirds of the respondents have acted on an ad by researching a product or making a purchase. Not surprising – ads in podcasts are remarkably compelling. Like the ad for Eero, "the world's most innovative wifi system" in this episode of 99% Invisible. Roman Mars chats the product up at the beginning, "I love these little things, unreliable wifi has been my nemesis." and "My whole family is happy I'm not stomping around the house…muttering about not being able to watch Netflix." He's even tweeted about the product to his 60k followers:
What's more compelling than that? The comScore/Wondery study adds strength to the concept that podcasts, and podcast advertising, are creating valuable opportunities for advertisers to connect with listeners with messaging that is innovative, integrated and impactful.
There's an incredible dedication to crafting great content in podcasting, and it extends to the ads as well. It's a holistic approach that makes the advertiser part of the program rather than an interruption to be tolerated. The end result – satisfied listeners who listen to, like and react to ads, translating to happy advertisers. That's the secret sauce driving the energy and success in the podcast space..
This week I have been listening to – you guessed it – 99% Invisible. Still loving my Overcast app..
Podcast Listeners Click and Listen
Last year more people listened to podcasts than ever before, and that number will continue to grow. That's info we've had for a couple of months from the Infinite Dial annual study from Edison Research. Last week we got a bunch of new specifics to go with that info. Some of it is rather predictable – podcast consumers are more affluent and educated than the population at large, they are more male than female, and the bulk of the listeners are 18 – 54 years old.
The survey asked people about their "method of listening to podcasts", and from that we learn that 59% of regular weekly podcast listeners usually "Click on podcast and listen immediately." The other choices are "Download manually to listen later" and "Subscribe to and download to automatically to listen later." It's tempting to conclude that 59% of weekly listeners are now streaming podcasts. Not so fast. "Click on podcast and listen immediately" does represent on-demand behavior, but it does not equal streaming.
Say you want to listen to Serial. You have a few choices of how to do that. You can go to Pandora, and "Click on podcast to listen immediately," or you can open your podcast listening app on your smartphone, where you have the choice of streaming it, downloading it, or subscribing to it. Streaming it is a fine choice if you're planning to stay connected while you listen, but if I'm planning to listen while running, or walking, or getting in my car I choose download so I can have offline listening if I want it. I'm still clicking and listening immediately, but I'm not streaming. This isn't a meaningless nuance. Part of the appeal of podcasts is that you can download and listen on or offline.
The bottom line of course is that podcasts are consumed more and more in an on-demand fashion. Click and listen immediately includes two different technical options – streaming or downloading, but it does translate to on-demand behavior. It would be nice to know the data within that segment, but it's possible that trying to get more specific with that question would only confuse casual podcast consumers. As an additional data point we have this chart tweeted out during the data presentation last week, which shows that most listening is still via downloads rather than streaming (this is the activity of one podcast, not the industry):
The immediacy of listening is a selling point for the medium, since advertisers like to buy placements for their ads that are going to be heard within a certain period of time. A transition to streaming is certainly beneficial to the ad supported model – it's easier to count connected listeners, monitor session length, and confirm that a listener heard an ad when they are continuously connected. But knowing that they clicked and listened immediately, either by streaming or downloading, makes ads at the beginning of the podcasts a lot more attractive to advertisers as well.
Podcast consumption is moving to on-demand. Immediate consumption in any media is a good trend, which lends itself to greater time spent listening. By introducing the "Click and listen immediately" phrase, Edison Research has given the industry a nice way to represent on-demand listening that merges downloading for immediate listening and streaming into one behavior that's appealing to advertisers.
This week I've been listening to StartUp Podcast using my Overcast app.
Print's Loss is Podcasting's Gain
Podcasting is the audio hotbed of the publications industry. The driving force behind the growth in popularity of podcasts is the diverse and very high quality of the content. The reason behind this expansive selection of excellent listening options lies in the fact that journalists and publications – creative, talented writers – are producing it.
Media companies have seized the podcast opportunity. The New York Times just launched a new audio unit focused on podcasts, Slate's Panoply is a "podcast network that connects sophisticated listeners with top publishers and thinkers" – among them, WSJ, Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, Inc.. Check out any newspaper's site and you'll find a selection of podcasts.
The shift from print journalism to podcast journalism makes a lot of sense economically. Publishers, from large and small newspapers, to magazines, have suffered huge losses in readership and revenues over the past decade. Meanwhile, consumption of Internet media keeps growing and growing, taking bites out of all forms of traditional media, according to this chart from Pew Research (BIA Kelsey data). Bad news for print, but good news for podcasting.
With all of this great content comes the need for more innovation, particularly in the form of podcast discovery. Last week PRX's Jake Shapiro announced the formation of RadioPublic, a company backed by several large media companies, that intends to "reinvent radio" by focusing on podcast discovery, as well as special offers and fan engagement.
Companies are focusing their investments in the space and with that will come better data and increasing revenues. Another big media company, EW Scripps, bought Midroll Media, which includes both the Midroll sales network and Earwolf podcast network. Technologies are improving as well – podcast listening can be a pretty seamless experience these days with an app like Overcast.
It's early days for the podcast industry. The marketplace is flooded with great content, and working hard to organize and monetize. No doubt that effort will benefit from the focus of the traditional media industry looking to reinvent its online strategy..
Written while listening to Anna Sale's podcast Death Sex and Money.
Podcasting's Pickle, Apple's Indifference
Last week, the New York Times published an article about Apple's indifference toward the podcasting marketplace's need for more and better data. It's a very interesting read that spawned several other articles, and lots of discussion. At issue is the fact that Apple, having basically birthed the podcasting industry back when it was primarily selling non-connected ipods and wanted downloadable content to drive those sales, holds the keys to the best data on listening, but doesn't share that data with content providers.
There's some debate among podcast platforms as to whether the data is important, but most of the larger companies driving revenue in the industry understand that there's a need for uniform standards and measurement that's verified by a credible third party measurement service. In the streaming industry that's Triton Digital's Webcast Metrics, which is accredited by the Media Ratings Council. Ad Agencies thrive on that data, and the amount of revenue that will flow into podcasting will be limited until it exists.
Apple's iTunes has the largest share of listeners of any podcast platform, so getting them on board is important. However, the financial incentive for Apple to provide data is limited. They drive lots of traffic to podcast content through iTunes, and sell devices that access that inventory. They don't make any other money from podcasts. In his recent take on the industry, Nick Quah referred to Apple as an "indifferent steward" of the podcasting industry. But, some say, Apple has a soft spot for podcasting that may spur them to help the revenue side of things grow.
I think the idea that Apple will assume a benevolent protector role toward the industry and start sharing data so others can make money is wishful thinking. If they start sharing data, it will be because they are going to monetize it, as in the App Store model where they get a piece of anything sold through their apps.
One interesting and relevant side note: a few weeks ago, Apple invited some folks from the industry to a little round table at Apple HQ. Apparently, that select group, which included a kind of quirky selection of businesses, got an audience with a group of Apple people who then met with Cue after the meeting and gave him the run down. It all happened under Apple's typical cloak of silence, so there's not a lot that we know beyond that. I don't think anyone came away particularly hopeful that data will start gushing their way.
Whatever Apple does, it will be because it's the best thing for them. And I do think they have to do something. Lately Spotify, Pandora, Audible (Amazon) and Google (Google Play) have all jumped in to the podcasting pool. This year iTunes' share of podcast listeners is down from 70% to 65%. I'm sure that 5% drop in one year got Apple's attention. Any or all of those other services could decide to make the water a little more enticing for podcast producers and start to grow their audience, maybe with exclusive opportunities for podcasters who align with them. The podcast industry is at this point eager to see iTunes' dominance dissolve.
No doubt Apple is remembering their misfire on streaming music. When the company started selling iphones, Pandora jumped on the opportunity early and quickly became one of the most popular apps in the App Store. In fact, Apple actually featured the Pandora app in a television commercial for iphones early on (there's an app for that!). Last year Apple finally launched their own streaming music service, which has a fraction of the number of subscribers that either Spotify or Pandora have. However, Apple took a really long time to launch its service, and along the way the iphone helped Spotify and Pandora get a very strong foothold in the market.
Data or not, the best thing that could happen for the longterm prospects of the podcast marketplace would be for iTunes' share of listeners to continue to drop. It's already happening – Apple's dominance is dropping while the marketplace is expanding. Last year iTunes lost 5% of the listener share while the marketplace grew almost that much – according to Edison Research, weekly listening grew from 10 to 13% of the 12+ population, while monthly listening grew from 17 to 21%. Maybe that's enough incentive for Apple to start turning over some data…


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Perpetual Ltd., the Australian fund manager with a 3.7 percent stake in casino operator Echo Entertainment Group Ltd., has regulatory approval to own more than 10 percent of the company.
Perpetual can lift its maximum voting power in Echo, which operates Sydney's only casino and three in Queensland state, to 15 percent following approvals from regulators in New South Wales state and Queensland, Echo said today in a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange.
Rival casino operator Crown Ltd. and companies linked to Genting Bhd. are awaiting approvals to increase their stakes beyond 10 percent, possibly presaging a bidding war for Echo, said Siobhan Weston, an analyst at Citigroup Inc. Crown, controlled by billionaire James Packer, has 9 percent of Echo, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
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