Portable Video Players Are Going Mainstream

NOTE: This study reveals the benefit for ministries to utilize audio and video podcasting in their efforts. The James Croft Evangelistic Association offers an audio podcast, Walking With The Giant, and a video podcast, Walking With The Giant Videos. Both of these are also available on iTunes.

Portable video players, like Apple’s latest iPod nanos, are going mainstream, according to a report from Parks Associates. Worldwide shipments of portable video players will grow at an annualized rate of 30% over the next five years, reaching 132 million units shipped per year in 2011:

The massive adoption of portable video players, with over half a billion expected to be in use within the next five years, promises unprecedented opportunity for world of podcasting and new media.

Read more about this study on Podcasting News.