The PodSearch blog
Guides to podcast search, podcast APIs, podcast datasets, PR research and podcast discoverability, from the team behind podsearch.org.
For developers and API buyers
Podcast search, metadata and recommendation APIs, and moving off ListenNotes.
Migrating from the ListenNotes API: a drop-in alternative at half the price
How to move a podcast app from the ListenNotes Listen API to the podsearch.org ListenNotes-compatible API: what changes, what stays the same, and how to test the switch safely.
How to add podcast search to your app: a complete API guide
A practical guide to building podcast search with a REST API: typeahead, episode and show search, filters, field queries, boolean syntax, pagination, caching and ranking, with working code.
Podcast APIs compared (2026): ListenNotes, Podcast Index, Podchaser, Rephonic, Apple and Spotify
A fair, sourced comparison of the main podcast data APIs as of October 2026: what each is for, how they authenticate, what they cost where prices are published, and how to choose.
Building a podcast recommendation engine with a search API
How to build "more like this", personalized home feeds and cold-start recommendations for a podcast app using catalog data, full-text search, genres, charts and Podcast 2.0 fields, with code.
Podcast 2.0 data and real-time freshness for developers: transcripts, people and Podping
A developer's guide to Podcast 2.0 data (transcripts, chapters, soundbites, persons) and to how Podping makes new episodes searchable within minutes, with API examples and design advice.
For data buyers and researchers
Podcast datasets for market research, academic work, lead lists and trend analysis.
Buying a podcast dataset: what is in it, what it costs, and how to judge quality
A buyer's guide to podcast datasets: the fields that matter, where the data comes from, how to filter a useful slice, how to check quality, and what a CSV export from podsearch.org contains and costs.
Podcast market research: how to size a niche with catalog and search data
A step-by-step method for podcast market research: defining a niche, counting active shows, measuring growth and saturation, finding gaps, and presenting defensible numbers, using catalog exports and full-text search.
Podcast data for academic research: sampling, corpora, ethics and reproducibility
A methods guide for researchers studying podcasts at scale: building sampling frames from the open RSS catalog, constructing text corpora, handling bias, ethics and copyright, and making studies reproducible.
How to build a podcast lead list for B2B sales and partnerships
A practical playbook for building, qualifying, enriching and contacting a list of podcasts as sales leads or partners, with filters, scoring, compliance basics and costs.
Podcast trend analysis: tracking topics across millions of episodes
How to measure what podcasts are talking about over time: building topic time series from full-text search, normalizing for catalog growth, detecting emerging topics, and avoiding the classic traps.
For podcast PR and ad agencies
Guest booking, sponsorship prospecting and finding shows by topic and audience.
How to find podcasts for guest booking: a research workflow for PR teams
A repeatable workflow for podcast guest booking: defining a client's angles, finding shows that interview similar guests, qualifying them, researching hosts, pitching well and tracking results.
Podcast sponsorship prospecting: how to find shows that fit a brand
A media buyer's guide to finding podcast sponsorship inventory: translating a brief into searches, finding shows already running similar sponsors, vetting brand safety, building a media plan and measuring results.
How to find podcasts by topic and audience: advanced search techniques
A hands-on guide to finding the right podcasts for any topic or audience using full-text search: phrases, field prefixes, boolean operators, wildcards, filters, browse charts and repeatable query libraries.
Podcast PR and outreach tools compared (2026): Rephonic, Podchaser, ListenNotes and podsearch.org
A fair comparison of podcast research tools for PR, booking and ad agencies as of October 2026: what each does well, published prices, data types, and how to combine them into an efficient stack.
Podcast media monitoring: how to track brand and client mentions in episodes
How PR and comms teams can monitor podcasts for brand, client, competitor and executive mentions: query design, alert schedules, transcripts, freshness, triage and reporting, with working code.
For podcasters
Getting discovered: feed hygiene, Podcast 2.0 tags, Podping and how directories index you.
How podcast directories and search engines find and index your show
A plain-English explanation for podcasters of how directories, apps and podcast search engines discover your RSS feed, crawl it, decide what is new, index your text and rank you in search, and what you can do at each step.
Podcast RSS feed hygiene: a checklist for podcasters
A practical checklist for keeping your podcast RSS feed healthy: required tags, stable GUIDs, correct dates, artwork, enclosures, categories, contact details, migrations and validation, with examples of what breaks.
Podcast 2.0 tags explained: transcripts, chapters, soundbites, persons and more
A podcaster's guide to the Podcast Namespace ("Podcast 2.0"): what the most useful tags do, how they help discovery and listeners, example XML, how to add them through your host, and which to start with.
Podping explained: how to get new episodes indexed in seconds
What Podping is, why podcast apps were slow to notice new episodes before it, how it works on the Hive blockchain, how to tell if your host sends podpings, and what it changes for discovery and listeners.
Podcast SEO: how to write titles and descriptions that search can find
A practical guide to podcast discoverability in podcast search engines and directories: how ranking works, how to write show titles, episode titles and show notes, using transcripts and guest names, and how to measure what works.