Welcome to episode 17 (audio) of the Zune Insider Podcast co-hosted by Cesar Menendez and Rob Greenlee . This audio episode was recorded the Zune building on the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. Topics covered this week include: Top 25 Podcasts on Zune for December '08 , The Great Zune T-Shirt and Zune white laptop decal giveaway contest and we speak with the ever-popular Zune Product Manager Jessica Zahn , she discusses our new 3.1 feature “Like Minded Listeners”. We also discuss...

Everyone has switched into fall mode and that has translated into a huge jump in podcast interest in the Zune Podcast Marketplace software . This is an annual rite of passage, that summer is the time when podcast usage dips and then it comes stampeding back in the Fall and Winter. Well, this year is no exception and we have seen a 30% or more jump in new podcast subscriptions from August to September . This heightened activity around podcasts involves Zune users discovering great new podcasts in...