We are proud to announce the availability of the new Blubrry API. The Blubrry API extends our commitment to the community by allowing 3rd party applications and web sites to work with our services.

The new Blubrry API allows developers to build  applications to interface with our media hosting and statistics services. Applications can delete, upload and list media files as well as retrieve media statistics information.

The Blubrry API is a hybrid of the RESTful implementation found at Twitter and WebDAV. More technical details may be found on the Blubrry Help site under the section titled Blubrry API.

We know we’re tools . . . in a good way. That’s why you come to us. We’re always looking out for you and bringing you the most advanced applications in podcasting. That’s why you know that when we say the Blubrry Uploader Blog Posting Tool, the latest innovation for our hosting clients, is a drag . . . we mean it in a good way. It’s pretty self explanatory, really, and the tool itself  is way easy to install just:

• Click this link for the media uploader
• Hit “Run” (not to be confused with hit n’ run)
• Agree to the terms (we know you’ll read every word)
• Enter your Blubrry username and password, and there ya go!

The Blubrry PowerPress plugin for WordPress version 0.7.1 is now available. The latest version includes a large number of new features as well as bug fixes. The latest version may be downloaded here.

New Features Include:

• Simple/Advanced Modes
  • Simple Mode is perfect for podcasters just starting out
  • Advanced Mode includes additional settings, tools and features.
• Enhanced iTunes Summary option (learn more)
• Create Unlimited Custom Podcast Feeds
  • Each Feed includes the same extensive feed settings as the default podcast feed.
  • Customize feed title, description and landing page
  • Specify number of episodes per feed
• Hosted Feed Service Support (e.g. FeedBurner.com)
• WordPress Nonces support
• Added WordPress Roles and Capabilities support for User Role Management
• Additional player settings, specify audio player width and video player width & height
• PodPress Episode Import Tool
• Simple Mode for Podcast Entry Box (just enter the media URL and you’re done)
• A handful of bug fixes and improvements
  • Fixed duration detection bug
  • Improved player in-page loading time
  • Duration formatting improved for episodes that go over 1 hour.

There are many new features in this release of Blubrry PowerPress. Many of these features were the result from the support and suggestions from the the community. Thanks everyone for your contributions.

Some of the features in depth:

Custom Podcast Feeds
The new Custom Podcast Feeds feature allows podcasters to create additional podcast feeds for syndicating multiple media formats or versions of their podcast. No other WordPress podcasting plugin provides custom podcast feeds. The advantage of using PowerPress Custom Podcast Feeds is you can decide which media file is associated with which feed at the time you edit your blog post.

Enhanced iTunes Summary
The Enhanced iTunes Summary option is intended to save Podcasters time. Many podcasters have asked us to provide an additional text field so you can enter a special iTunes Summary for each podcast episode. When we analyzed what podcasters wanted, we discovered that they simply wantd to enter the same blog post content without the HTML markup. Enabling the Enhanced iTunes Summary option will automatically remove the HTML markup in a readable format for iTunes while including web links and links to embedded images. The web links and embedded images are clickable within iTunes and open in the default browser when clicked.

Simple/Advanced Modes
The addition of the Simple and Advanced modes for managing PowerPress settings was a direct result of the feedback we received from podcasters wanting an easy to configure podcasting plugin for WordPress. Simple mode is perfect for someone starting out who may not understand all of the options and settings available in Blubrry PowerPress. The Simple Mode displays only the essential settings required to get your podcast started.

We are committed to providing a well developed and mature podcasting plugin for WordPress. Please leave a comment below or contact us with your thoughts, comments or feature suggestions so we can continue to improve the plugin.

The Blubrry Powerpress plugin for WordPress version 0.5.0 is now available. The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes as well as some minor enhancements. The latest version may be downloaded here.

• Options to report media duration and file size next to download links.
• Added <itunes:author> and <itunes:subtitle> to header portion of podcast feeds by default.
• Added <itunes:summary> to post items by default.
• Quotes and extra spaces are no longer removed from from the <itunes:summary> fields.
• Player auto-play bug fixed when quicktime media mixed with non-quicktime media.
• Added option to ping iTunes in a new browser window in settings.
• Verify flash player check added. The check is only necessary if your in-page player no longer appears on your site after upgrading Blubrry Powerpress. (WordPress built in plugin update may corrupt the flash player. This bug in WordPress is fixed in the soon to be released version 2.7)
• Media URL now displays a warning if the URL contains characters which may cause problem for some applications.

The addition of the Media URL warning was in response to issues many podcasters have been having when they publish episodes with file names that contain spaces and other special characters. Spaces and special characters such as apostrophes, # and ? may prevent some web sites and podcasting applications from downloading the media. We recommend only using letters, numbers, dashes and underscores for your file names for maximum compatibility. Users may ignore the warning message if they so desire.

We are committed to providing a well developed and mature podcasting plugin for WordPress. Please leave a comment below or contact us with your thoughts, comments or suggestions.

The Blubrry Powerpress plugin for WordPress version 0.3.0 is now available. The latest version incorporates a number of new features and enhancements. The latest version may be downloaded here.

• Added list of important feeds in feed settings
• Logic to prevent stats redirect duplication
• Added podcast only feed

The new podcast only feed is useful if you wish to provide your audience a feed that only contains podcast episodes.

We are committed to providing a well developed and mature podcasting plugin for WordPress. Please leave a comment below or contact us with your thoughts, comments or suggestions.

The Blubrry Powerpress plugin for WordPress version 0.2.1 is now available. The latest version incorporates a number of bug fixes and enhancements. The latest version may be downloaded here.

• Fixed itunes:subtitle displaying ‘…’
• Display itunes:summary in items option
• Add trailing slash to media url if not present
• Enhance ability to copy Podpress settings

If you would like to have the <itunes:summary> included in the <item> portion of your RSS feeds, please add the following line to your wp-config.php file:

define(‘POWERPRESS_ITEM_SUMMARY’, true);

Note: The <itunes:summary> is optional, iTunes will use the <description> when this value is not present.

Let us know what you think. Please leave a comment below or contact us with your thoughts, comments or suggestions.

Special Announcement:

Today we are also proud to announce customizable homepages. For those of you that are Publishing and Hosting customers with us, you will want to look for the “Homepage” link on your settings page.

This is a real sweet feature. If you visit www.brrycast.com this is an example of a custom homepage in action. Powered 100% by Blubrry on our Publishing and Hosting service. You will see that the custom homepage looks like a regular weblog, and it has all the standard features you have come to expect from. We have 7 really cool templates designed by Brian our creative director to choose from, and if you don’t like our templates you can build your own just by picking your colors no coding knowledge required.

You can add your own HTML snippets to the sidebar for advertising, blog roll or anything else you would want to put in there. We even allow you to add your Google Analytics code on the site, so not only do you can have a full picture of web traffic with Google Analytics you also track your Podcast Statistics with Premium Statistics that is included in every hosting package.

No other podcast hosting company is offering more cool features than we are, we encourage you to consider moving your shows to our platform. We have three developers working on options that are going to do nothing but help you grow your show. We will be releasing new features almost weekly!

If you don’t have a domain name we will be opening our own domain store after NME but you can go over to GoDaddy.com and pick up a domain today to use on your custom homepage. Until you get your own domain name you can still use the custom homepage we create by default, as an example the Brrycast page is also located at brrycast.blubrry.com

If you are not hosting with us, and would like your own custom page on blubrry to promote your show let us know we are weighing the options on this now.

RawVoice is proud to have the most powerful media publishing platform in the new media space.

RawVoice is proud to announce our latest podcasting tool it’s called the Blubrry PowerPress Podcast Plugin for WordPress.

We built the PowerPress plugin to support our Premium Publishing Service here at Blubrry. It’s a Wordpress podcast plugin for our customers, and those using our, or other third party stats service.

You can find out all the details and download the plugin at www.blubrry.com/powerpress

If you have not been paying attention we have introduced a slew of new products that you can power up your podcast with. Yesterday we made it easy to purchase Premium Podcast Statistics.

Today we introduced Publishing with Hosting this is fully integrated system that for one price gets you premium stats, publishing, hosting, instant monetization and a host of cool tools to promote your podcast and build your audiences. I have provided links to all of our new products here.

More exciting things are just around the corner.

Podcast Publishing with Hosting

Podcast Statistics Premium

Podcast Publishing Premium

No Company has worked Harder to Advocate for Podcasters, RawVoice continues to put huge sums of dollars in Podcasters Pockets through Podcast Advertising Deals and we have done it in a way that should make everyone realize that we care about podcasters and want them to succeed.

We look forward to serving you with these services to the best of our ability and hope that you will consider making Blubrry your number one podcasting provider.

Todd Cochrane CEO RawVoice

We are pleased to announce some new features and changes to Blubrry!

First, the account settings page has changed. We’ve cleaned up the menu options by only providing a link to the Statisticss system (if you’ve filled out an advertising survey) and a link to the new Publisher system.

We’ve developed a new interface called the Publisher for members to manage their podcast(s) listed on Blubrry.com. Over the coming weeks we will be adding a number of features to the Publisher system for Blubrry members to utilize. I can’t get into the details what these new features include, but if you snoop around in the settings section you will find that we’re now asking for your twitter user name.

We’ve received a lot of complaints about home page coverage. We’ve changed the logic for the most recent podcast section to randomly select 4 episodes that have been created in the past few hours. we’re re-randomizing these 4 episodes every 15 minutes. This should provide fair exposure to all of the podcasts listed on Blubrry. Remember, your post has to include media in order for it to be included in the home page. blog posts will no longer be included on the home page.

Please contact us if you are having any problems or have suggestions how we can improve blubrry.