WordPress; The New Podcast Publishing Platform

Wordpress founder Matt Mullenweg has announced that WordPress.com, a free blog hosting service, has updated the amount of space it allocates to each user to 3 gigabytes, ideal for podcasting.

“Much of the work we do at Automattic is behind the scenes, infrastructure you’ll (hopefully) never notice or see, but we’re always thinking about how the improvements we make to the foundation of the site will allow us to build more interesting things on top of it.

Today, one of those developments comes to fruition — everyone’s free upload space has been increased 60x from 50mb to 3,000mb. To get the same amount of space at our nearest competitor, Typepad, you’d pay at least $300 a year. Blogger only gives you 1GB. We’re doing the same thing for free.”

Since much of the challenge of podcasting rests with finding economical online storage, LibSyn was by default, the service of choice.

Now, WordPress has changed the game.

With its simple administrative interface for creating new episodes, powerful built-in search engine optimization and plethora of plug-ins, WordPress is poised to become the defacto standard podcast publishing tool.

If you’ve been thinking about starting your own podcast, download this free guide called “The Small Business Podcasting Kit“, then sign-up at Wordpress.