Happy Birthday Podbop!Happy Birthday Podbop!
This one almost passed us by. Today is Podbop's first birthday! Just one short year ago, Daniel and I launched our little mashup upon the world. A few days after that we won Best Mashup at the first ever Mashup Camp in Mountain View, CA.
It's our birthday, so we can gush right?
As of today we have 3,583 Artists offering 5,650 free and legal MP3s (with over 80 record labels offering their full catalog).
We've also recieved some incredible press including mentions from TechCrunch, CNN.com, CBS, CBC Radio, News.com, Popular Science, Newsweek, Flavorpill, Daily Candy, The Chicago Tribune and even a chapter in a book. Most recently our blog has been mentioned on CNN.com and Guardian.co.uk.
We've also started taking Podbop in a new direction by not only offering city specific podcast feeds, but in-depth festival coverage and our own festival scheduling app. We covered 4 Festivals last year and look to cover even more in 2007 (starting with SXSW in a month!).
Thanks to everyone for reading and supporting us. Thanks to the artists and labels who believe there should be an easier way to discover concerts (and listen to them) in your town. Thanks to Mashup Camp and the web community for embracing us. Thanks to our blog editors. Thanks to the entire Eventful team (especially Chris Radcliff) for supporting us in every way possible (api and moral).
Thank you Daniel for believing in this project enough to put so much time into it and making a great partner.
One year already, wow. Congrats, guys!