How to Find Podcasts To Be a Guest On

Being a guest on a podcast is not only fun, but is also a great way to promote yourself. As a podcast guest, you can promote yourself in a variety of ways, including directly advertising your work, networking with thought leaders, sharing your social media accounts, and more. If you’d like to learn more about the benefits of being a podcast guest, we’ve written an article just for you.

In this article we’ll share how to find podcasts to be a guest on, and how to help podcasts find you.

Table of Contents:

• Target the Right Podcasts
  • Explore Podchaser
  • Utilize Podchaser Credits
• Save Time Researching with Podchaser Pro
• Help Podcasts Find You
  • Use Your Podchaser Creator Page as a Resume
  • Social Media
• Sending a Guest Pitch Email
• Conclusion

Target the Right Podcasts

When finding podcasts to be a guest on, don’t cold email everyone you can think of! Podcasters receive dozens of guest pitches a day, so you’re not going to succeed if you send a scattershot email to a ton of podcasts. You need to target podcasts that you’d be the perfect fit for. How? Podchaser!

Explore Podchaser

Podchaser gives you a variety of tools to find the perfect podcast to guest on. First, you can search for specific keywords in your niche to find podcasts, creators, episodes, or user lists that are related to your niche. You can also explore by Categories and Tags to find podcasts that fit your niche.

Utilize Podchaser Credits

The last way to target podcasts is through Podchaser credits. Like movie credits, Podchaser credits are a record of every person who was involved with making a podcast or episode – from hosts, guests, and producers to composers, designers, even foley artists. (See a full list of roles at podcasttaxonomy.com)  

Once you’ve found podcasts that seem up your alley, view their credits to see who has guested on that show before. Exploring podcasts through credits allows you to quickly determine if you’d be a good fit for the podcast based on their previous guests, tone, and topic. 

You can then explore creators who are similar to you, and find shows that they’ve guested on. It also helps you see if a podcast only has high profile guests, and probably wouldn’t invite a smaller creator to guest on their show.

Save Time Researching with Podchaser Pro 

When researching podcasts to guests on, Podchaser Pro has an exclusive feature that will save you hours of time. With Pro, you can filter your search to only find podcasts that feature guests. With this one simple filter, you immediately cut out thousands of non-contender podcasts, allowing you to target the right podcasts quickly.

Podchaser Pro offers additional features to help you find a podcast to guest on. One example is Power Score, which is an algorithmic score of a podcast’s influence. You can use Power Score to find the hottest podcasts to guest on.

Podchaser Pro also gives you exclusive audience insights into demographics, so you can match a podcast’s demographics with your ideal audience demographics.

Help Podcasts Find You

Podcasts don’t always wait for people to pitch them, they will often seek out guests themselves. Especially once you gain a bit of a reputation, this can become one of the main ways you get yourself booked as a podcast guest.

To take advantage of this, you need to be as easy as possible to find. Podcasters will be using a lot of the same tactics we’ve previously highlighted to find the perfect guest for their show. Knowing this, you can optimize your online presence and get booked!

Use Your Podchaser Creator Page as a Resume

Once you’ve added yourself as a creator on Podchaser, and claimed your podcast – you can add all of your podcast guest credits to your profile, and use it like a resume. Potential podcasts can easily find and listen to your previous guest appearances. They quickly understand what kind of podcasts you appear on, and they can vet your ability to be a fascinating guest.

Your Podchaser profile page also helps to present your biography, so podcasts can quickly learn who you are. Be sure to include links to your social media and any other official website so potential podcasters can easily research more about you.

Social Media

Social media is still the best place to connect with strangers. Make sure you’re active on social media with your own posts, and authentically respond to posts from the podcasts you’d like to guest on. They might view your profile and invite you on their show, or at the very least, they’ll recognize your name if you send them a pitch email later on (more on that later).

Sending a Guest Pitch Email

Once you’ve found several podcasts that you’d be the perfect guest for. Now all there is left to do is send a guest pitch email and cross your fingers! Sounds easy? It isn’t.

First you have to find the podcast’s contact information. Luckily, Podchaser Pro is the world’s largest verified database of podcast contact information. To learn more be sure to read our article all about how to find a podcast’s contact information.

Next you have to write your pitch emails. With the dozens of emails podcasters receive, you’ll need to stand out. Many details to keep in mind when writing your pitch. Luckily we’ve written about writing podcast pitches here.

If you’ve read that article and it all sounds incredibly difficult, it’s because it is. A wonderful alternative to the headache of trying to get yourself booked is to hire Podchaser Connect to do it for you.

Our team will handle every step for you, from finding podcasts, to gathering contact information, and writing a personalized pitch for you. After thousands of guest placement pitches, we’ve perfected the pitch that works. We work with you or your team to craft a message that resonates with podcasters.

Conclusion

Knowing how to find podcasts to be a guest on is half the battle. The second half is actually guesting on a podcast. It’s an old business adage that it’s twice as hard to get your first customer than your second one. It’s the same with being a guest on podcasts. Once you’ve guested on one show, and have added that credit to your Podchaser creator page, you instantly have credibility. That’s when the snowball starts to grow and you can guest on podcasts all the time.

Read our article about how to be a guest on a podcast for more tips.

Read More About Guesting On Podcasts

• How To Be a Guest on a Podcast
• 6 Benefits of Being a Podcast Guest
• How to Find Podcast Contact Information