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Interviews are Always Free No Strings Attached!

CES 2012

We State this multiple times on the site, but we have had some questions come up again today.

  1. Live Interviews are Always Free.
  2. Floor Interviews are Always Free.
  3. All Interviews are Published.
  4. Every Vendor we Interview is Treated Equally.

While we do have a one more sponsorship opportunity. It is managed and executed separately from the interviews. Covering CES is an expensive venture. With 20 people on the ground, our cost just to cover the show, studio, bandwidth etc is in excess of $40,000. Our sponsors offset our cost, and in return we give them amazing exposure for the next year within all of the 200+ media interviews and live segments we produce.

TPN Breaks Your Product Out!

CES 2012

For the past 7 years the TPN team has honed our skills to get the vendors we choose to interview some serious consumer exposure. Everyone promises you exposure but who really delivers.  This is our not so secret formula.

  1. Each Host has a per-established audience/website/following/reputation for providing honest and critical commentary of CES products.
  2. We cover the show in Vegas Live so those that want the info while the show is happening can do so.
  3. We post produce each and every interview following the show.
  4. Each show host publishes their own write ups on those interviews on their respective sites plus here at tpn.tv, techpodcasts.com etc.
  5. Each Interview has a professional written blog post with media embed that includes outbound links to properties and products.
  6. We distribute that content to over 140 consumer devices through our network and parent company RawVoice.
  7. We have dedicated CES Channels on Roku, Boxee, Samsung Smart TV, Google TV, iTunes, Zune MarketPlace etc..
  8. Interviewed Companies Link back to us or use the video embeds on their own sites.
  9. With over 1500 previous CES interviews and Websites with deep tech and consumer coverage depth Google does the rest!

The long tail takes over, we have interviews on products and services from shows 1-2 years ago that still get huge traffic. The long tail is where we win the battle and vendors get ongoing traffic from our coverage. Our Sponsors like GoDaddy and previous sponsors like Audible, Hitachi, Luxor, Citrix GotoMeeting benefit as well, as their ad spots are embedded in those interviews forever.

See you at the show and be on the lookout for the Tech Podcast Network floor teams as well in their Blue Polo Shirts and their camera crews!

Get the TPN Channel App on Google TV

CES 2012, CES Countdown

Not much more app-etizing than the Tech Podcasts Network (TPN) on Google TV! Yes-sir, now your favorite shows and our dedicated CES Channel are now accessible on yet another platform. With Google TV, TPN provides our team the ability to access new markets that reach a worldwide audience of all demographics. Audiences can see network shows and manage their playlist through MyCast, whether they have a TPN user account or not.

The Google TV app is one more in our cache that also includes:

  • Roku
  • Boxee
  • LookeeTV
  • Samsung Smart TV

So, it’s official, TPN content creators can be ogled on Google TV in addition to just about every medium available. And audiences can subscribe to a show is as easy as pressing a button.

GoDaddy Official TPN Media Sponsor for CES 2012

CES 2012

The Team from the Tech Podcast Network is proud to announce GoDaddy.com as the official media sponsor for our coverage of CES 2012. All of the recorded media from the show will be hosted via a GoDaddy 4th Generation Hosting account (4GH)

We will demonstrate under absolutely extreme conditions how powerful GoDaddy 4GH hosting is.

We have an amazing product offer as well. Special CES offer 25% off 4GH hosting plans (12 months+) this code will work even if GoDaddy is having a sale! The promo code for this amazing offer is CES2 check it out today!

 

Apply Now for CES 2012 Coverage

CES 2012

It’s time to get your CES 2012 Interview applications in, we have started booking companies for our Live Broadcast and our Floor Interviews.

Live Broadcast Application
Sponsorship Opportunities

 

Last year we had over 700 companies apply for 300+ Interview slots. Please be sure to fill the forms out completely.

Live Broadcast Studio appearances book very quickly. We have roughly 120 total spots for the entire show. It is essential if you want to appear in front of our 100,000 viewers that you book early. Average viewers watched 9 hours of our coverage in 2011.

Note: Floor Interview the floor teams have a set floor coverage schedule, and we will do our best to get by your booth, please keep an eye out for our floor teams wearing the Blue Tech Podcast Shirts s as we progress through the halls. Floor Interview Application

 

CES 2012 Update

CES 2012

The Tech Podcast Network is ramping up for for CES 2012. Our content from 2011 continues to rack up amazing statistics. We really blew the doors off things in 2011 and I want to share with you some of our statistics.

Simulcast on 23 Sites
45 Hours of Live
901,000 Viewer Hours
271 Interviews  Live/Floor
Total 2011 Unique IP’s 8,315,110
Total 2011 Media Views to date : 40,201,856
Total Roku Views 6,007,408
Total Boxee Views 1,691,881
Vendor Cross Posts on their Websites 171
PR Firm Cross Mentions 255
Tweets and Facebook Mentions 144,610
Cross Posts on other website 911
Most Views Single Video – 1,612,402
MSNBC Appearance x2 Show #1 512,614 Show #2 377,911 Views

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See you at CES!

New Ford Sync Products announced at CES 2011

CES 2011, Mobile

Ford made some big announcements at CES 2011, the focus of this interview centered around their in-car technology, known as Sync. One of the biggest was AppSync, which takes the UI from your mobile device and integrates it into the car. That allows drivers to access apps on their mobile device through the Sync system via voice commands. They also teased some apps of their own which will be coming out soon. You will also hear a little bit about some the great safety feature that are being built into new Ford cars, the integration of extras like travel services information and even speed cameras and dangerous intersections warning. You can even check for coupons as pull up to a store or restaurant.

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central and Esby Larsen of MrNetCast.com

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Learn to Play Guitar with Raw Talent Guitar

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Todd Cochrane talked to Marc Quadagno and Shaun Fisher of RawTalentGuitar about their product at CES 2011. The RawTalent Guitar program works with any guitar that you can plug in. It comes with a guitar to USB cable. Plug one end into the guitar and the other end into a PC. The program offers performance feed back in real time. As you play your notes are place on top of the the correct cords and notes. The music scrolls as you play so there is no need to turn pages.

The program includes a Amplitube X-gear an industry-leading amp and FX modeling tool, so you can get the effects you want, without having to pay thousands of dollars for the equipment. It can even teach you how to tune your guitar and there is a metronome to help you keep time. There are 15 license songs included in the program. They said one of the hardest things they had to do is trying to get licenses for the songs. Rawtalent Guitar is available now for $199.99 at this time it is Windows only, although they are working on a Mac version

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central.

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DataLocker Protecting Your Data

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the DLS3 by DatalockerTodd Cochrane and Tom Newman spoke to Peter Whitman Director of Operations for DataLocker, about the importance of encrypting your data, especially when traveling. Peter Whitman talked about DataLocker newest product the DLS3. The DLS3 is an encrypted portable hard drive. It connects to your computer by USB 3.0 technology (it will work on USB 2.0) It use military grade 256 bit AES XTA mode encryption.

The DLS3 drive uses two factors of authentication a RFD card and a pass code. If someone tries to guess the code and enters the wrong code nine times the system will wipe the data. There is rapid secure wipe. It also uses keypad randomization so you can not figure out the code by lifting the fingerprints. It is platform independent so you can use with a Mac or PC. You can use is as a bootable drive and even partition it. It should be shipping in March.

Interview by Todd Cochrane of Geek News Central. and Tom Newman of The Fogview Podcast.

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