The Diffusion Group reports that podcasters will balloon in number by 2010.

Advertising Age calls podcasters the new darlings of the media. But how many podcasters are out there? The Diffusion Group estimates that the number of podcasters was under a million in 2004, but projects huge growth through the end of the decade.

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