HipCast.com - Create + Publish: Audio, Video, Podcasts

HipCast is your means to create media for the masses. This publishing platform allows all you creative types to create and publish audio, video, and podcasts. There are three ways to create audio files. The first is via telephone; you’re limited to 60 minutes, which gives you plenty of time for an interview or a complete show review. The second way to record audio is directly from your web browser; no additional software is required. Finally, you can simply upload files that have already been recorded. Producing videos is just as easy. Again you can go through the cellphone route, emailing HipCast the video once you’re finished. There’s always the webcam option, and for higher quality you can use your digital camera. For podcasters, HipCast offers four levels of unmetered bandwidth plans, with the standard starting at $9.95 a month. You’ll get premium, unmetered bandwidth, 500MB disk space, unlimited podcasts and blogs. If you’ve already got a blog, just add HipCast to your account and everything you’ve recorded is easily published in a slick, customizable player.

“Welcome to your very own recording studio. Whether you've got a mobile phone or a web browser, Hipcast.com makes it easy to upload, record over the web, or phone-in audio and video*.”

Podcasts, blogging and video are each big in their own right. As media becomes easier to manage and publish with tools like HipCast, publishers are stretching their repertoires to include all media. Bloggers progress to podcasts and videos. Videographers accompany their work with blogs and audio. HipCast makes multi-media juggling extremely efficient and extremely easy. Podcasting from your cellphone, for instance, is just what makes HipCast very current and practical.

HipCast isn’t the first in this line of multimedia publishing. Similarly named SplashCast allows users to create and grab media from all over their web and broadcast it on their own channel. Will HipCast add similar functions, such as easy social networking embedding?