And, Volomedia CEO Brian Steel says podcast ad rates are $30 and stable While half a billion users are on social networks, billions of people are on portable devices such as mobile phones. One company hoping to be the provider of advertising solutions to major media distributing their shows is Volomedia, a provider of advertising in podcasts. Joining Bambi Francisco to talk about Volomedia is CEO Brian Steel. BF: So your company helps major media companies make money off of podcasts. I saw that on your Website. So at one point podcasts were really popular and then they went through some kind of makeover. Podshow is now Mevio. Then there was Podtech, which was sold for a song, and the "pod" thing kind of went away. It strikes me that maybe podcasts aren’t ...   [ Read more ]