Mark, I’m a little surprised by your characterization. They certainly DIDN’T give away the ad revenue they already had obtained for themselves, and even the worst Podshow contract doesn’t take the “lions share” of a podcaster’s revenue for “merely hosting their mp3 files”.

You may have personally suffered indignant treatment by people at Podshow (and I believe that to be true) but you are now misrepresenting them in this matter.

I was worried (at the time I was a Podshow podcast producer) to note that, while the deal was financially healthy and of an amount that could faciliate quitting the day job (for a while), it was clear that it was the Mommycasters themselves (and by that I mean one of the husbands, name escapes me) that had done all of the brokering, or spadework. And that at anytime, despite all their hard work, Podshow (and by that I mean Ron Bloom; he was on the other end of the phone call I witnessed) could have pulled the plug (and by that I mean ‘blown it’) on the deal.

A reasonable person may conclude that if you’d done most of the donkey work in putting together an ad deal for your podcast you’d probably be loathed to give the lion’s share to Podshow for merely hosting your mp3 files. That same reasonable person would perhaps conclude that leaving Podshow within the year would be to your advantage, at least financially.