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18,868 Podcasts Looking for Guests, with Host Emails (October 2026)
Updated 29 October 2026
18,868 English-language podcasts named 3 or more guests in their last 10 episode titles, published an episode in the 60 days before 29 October 2026, and list a host or show email that we could tie to the show. They are split into 19 categories and their Apple subcategories below; a show can sit in more than one list.
Source: Podcastquery, October 2026.
Lists by category and topic
Categories with the most shows first, each followed by its topics, most shows first.
$29 per list, one-time. Each list page has a free 25-show sample. Source: Podcastquery, October 2026.
All 18,868 shows by frequency, size, age, email and host
Publishing frequency
| Shows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Daily | 941 | 5% |
| Weekly | 9,066 | 48% |
| Every 2 weeks | 4,873 | 26% |
| Monthly | 3,360 | 18% |
| Irregular | 597 | 3% |
| Too few episodes | 31 | 0% |
18,868 shows; from the gaps between the last 10 episodes.
Episodes in the feed
| Shows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| 1 to 49 | 5,459 | 34% |
| 50 to 99 | 2,981 | 19% |
| 100 to 249 | 4,198 | 26% |
| 250 to 499 | 2,193 | 14% |
| 500 to 999 | 914 | 6% |
| 1,000 or more | 265 | 2% |
16,010 shows; Buzzsprout feeds left out. The dump caps the count at 1,000.
First episode in the feed
| Shows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 or 2026 | 6,403 | 34% |
| 2023 or 2024 | 4,571 | 25% |
| 2020 to 2022 | 4,576 | 25% |
| 2015 to 2019 | 2,578 | 14% |
| Before 2015 | 471 | 3% |
18,599 shows; feeds at the 1,000-episode cap left out, their first episode is no longer in the feed.
Contact email
| Shows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Own domain | 10,744 | 57% |
| Free mail | 8,124 | 43% |
18,868 shows.
Hosting platform
| Shows | Share | |
|---|---|---|
| Anchor (Spotify for Creators) | 5,012 | 27% |
| Buzzsprout | 2,858 | 15% |
| Libsyn | 2,502 | 13% |
| Riverside | 1,166 | 6% |
| Other | 1,060 | 6% |
| Megaphone | 785 | 4% |
| Transistor | 661 | 4% |
| Spreaker | 619 | 3% |
18,868 shows, most shows first; from the feed address. Other is the show's own server or a smaller host.
Source: Podcastquery, October 2026.
How the list is built
- We start from the Podcast Index feed dump and keep English-language shows that list a contact email. We fetched the newest episodes of 174,662 of them that had published since June 2026.
- A model (Claude Haiku) read the last 10 episode titles of each show and marked the ones that interview guests: 47,478 shows.
- A second pass listed the people named in those titles, and a third pass checked each name: a guest who appears on the episode, the host, a person the episode is only about, or not a person. A show stays when 3 or more different guests remain and it published in the 60 days before 29 October 2026 (35,422 shows).
- We fetched each feed again on 29 October 2026 and took the itunes:owner email, or an address from the show's own website. The address must be on the show's website domain or spell the show or host name. Relay addresses of hosting platforms are left out: 22,771 shows pass.
- A last check read each address with the show's title, author, owner and website and dropped the ones that belong to a network, publisher, radio station, agency or someone unrelated. It also took the host's name from those fields: 18,868 shows remain.
We checked 200 rows of the first version of these lists (28 October 2026) against the live feed and the show's website. 150 of 200 emails (75%) were the show's or host's own address; 27 were network or station inboxes and 11 belonged to someone else. We ran the same check on a new random sample of 200 rows after the rebuild. 154 of them passed the last check above, and of those 148 (96%) were own addresses, 2 were network inboxes and 0 were wrong; 4 could not be confirmed either way. In 100 guest lists read the same way, 15 of 518 names were not guests before the third pass and 4 after it.
Method for the feed dump behind every count on this site.
Questions
- What are podcast guest opportunities?
- Shows that book outside guests. 18,868 English-language podcasts named 3 or more guests in their last 10 episodes and published in the 60 days before 29 October 2026.
- Which podcasts interview guests the most?
- By topic, the largest lists are Business (5,457), Education (4,059), Society & Culture (3,613), Health & Fitness (3,062). The tables below have every topic.
- Is there a podcast host email list?
- Each topic list is a CSV with the host email of every show on it, $29 per list. 10,744 of the 18,868 addresses are on the show's own domain, the rest are free mail.
- What is a podcast guest booking list?
- A list of shows that take guests with a way to contact each host. These lists add how often each show publishes and the guests it had in its last 10 episodes, so you can see who it books.