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How To Join/Dues

Membership is open to any individuals or organizations involved in the production, distribution or monetization of episodic, downloadable media. This can include podcasters; video podcasters; vendors who provide hardware, services or tools to podcasters and video podcasters; representatives from advertising agencies; or representatives from companies that support or enable podcasting and video podcasting.

Two Ways to Join

Join Online. ADM is offering online registration with partner Signmeup.com. Through this service, you can pay by credit card and activate your membership. To register online now, click here.

Join by Mail. Download the membership form, fill it out, and send it along with your payment by check to:

The Association for Downloadable Media
611 Pennsylvania Ave, SE #164
Washington, DC 20003-4303

While contributions or gifts to Association for Downloadable Media are not tax deductible as charitable contributions for Federal income tax purposes, they may be tax deductible under other provisions of the Internal Revenue Code.

Questions? Please email us at: info@downloadablemedia.org.

Membership Levels


The Individual Membership is designed for the individual podcaster, video blogger or similar persons involved in producing or distributing episodic content in downloadable form. Individual membership is assigned to a person, not a company or organization. If you want to incorporate best practices and use industry standards for monetizing or measuring audience for your podcast or vidcast please join.


The Corporate Membership is designed for organizations that produce podcasts, video podcasts or other episodic content in downloadable form, or for companies that provide hardware, software, tools or solutions for podcasters or video podcasters. Corporate members may list up to five individuals as active members of ADM.


This membership is for organizations with a non-profit tax status involved in producing or distributing episodic content in downloadable form. Non-Profit members may list one individual; additional memberships can be purchased for $150 each.

Only active members are eligible for seats on the Board of Directors, Advisory Board or Membership Committees. There will be a teleconference in August, available only for paid members, to brief these new members and begin the voting process for board and committee seats. This conference call will prepare all new members to participate fully in the in-person meeting in September at the Podcast and New Media Expo.

Current Members

As of 10/12/2007, the Association for Downloadable Media has 54 members from a broad swath of the industry.

75 Members....

22 Corporate Members
48 Individual Members
5 Nonprofit Members

For a full membership list please click here

Interim Board of Directors

The interim board is comprised of the representatives from 15 companies that met in May 2007 to propose an association representing the downloadable media industry. This board will remain in place until a full Board of Directors is voted in by the association membership in September.

Pete Alcorn, Apple Computer
Susan Bratton, Personal Life Media, Inc.
Jonathan Cobb, Kiptronic
John Furrier, PodTech
John C. Havens, BlogTalkRadio
Kris Jacob, PodShow
Chris MacDonald, LibSyn - Wizzard Media / IndieFeed

Mark McCrery, Podtrac
Bryan Moffett, NPR
Murgesh Navar, Podbridge
Dave Osborn, Nielsen Online
Dave Praeger, Rev3
Matthew Snodgrass, Porter Novelli
Colette Vogele, Vogele Law

Board of Directors

Board positions include:

Nominations for board candidates are open to ADM members through September 2007.

Committees

Five initial committees are planned:

  • Advertising Standards: Formats/Units/Sponsorship
  • Measurement: Audience, Market Data (Psychographic, Demographic, Usage, Consumer Insights) and Advertising Efficacy
  • Outreach and Education (Consumer & B2B)
  • Terminology Standardization (Taxonomy)
  • Membership Committee

Upcoming Elections — Running for Positions in the ADM

Any ADM member can run for any of the elected positions. These include Executive Board (Chairman, Vice Chairman, Secretary, Treasurer), Advisory Board (11 positions), or Committee Chairs (5).

If you are interested in running for one or more ADM positions, please submit a brief summary of your background and ideas (platform) for each position for which you are running. Please limit the length to 250 words per position, and email your self-nomination(s) to nominations@downloadablemedia.org.

Self-nominations are open through October 8 at 11:59 PM EST (date could change). Election dates will be announced at the close of the self-nomination timeframe.

Only ADM members can run for an ADM position, so you must first join ADM before you can run. You may recruit anyone to join ADM and then run for a position. In selecting position(s) for which to run, please avoid any potential appearances of conflict of interest.

Self-nominations will be posted to this website periodically during the nomination period. Check back periodically to the ADM Election page to see who is running for ADM positions and the latest election updates.

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