Podcast Guest Leads: Find Podcasts That Book Guests

Find podcasts to pitch yourself or your client to, in any niche, with the host's contact email already attached. Enter a topic and get a ranked list of shows that are still publishing, actually interview guests, and can be reached.

No API key, no account and no login needed.

What does this do?

Building a podcast tour normally means searching Apple Podcasts by hand, opening each show, guessing whether it is still alive, and hunting for an email address. Most of that work is wasted. Across the searches used to build this Actor, 17% to 32% of shows published no contact address at all, and of those that did, between 10% and 46% had already stopped releasing episodes.

This Actor does the whole pass for you and returns only the shows worth an email.

flowchart LR
    A[Your topics] --> B[Apple Podcasts<br/>directory]
    B --> C[Each show's RSS feed:<br/>contact, episodes, dates]
    C --> D[Active? Books guests?<br/>Reachable?]
    D --> E[Ranked list with<br/>host emails]

Who is it for?

You are	You use it to
PR and publicity agencies	Build a targeted show list for every client campaign in minutes
Authors and book marketers	Find interview shows in your subject before a launch
Founders and executives	Get on podcasts your buyers already listen to
Coaches and consultants	Fill a podcast tour with shows that take guests every week
Podcast guest booking agencies	Replace manual directory research with a repeatable run
Podcasters	Find peer shows for swaps and cross-promotion

What data do you get?

One row per podcast:

Field	Meaning
podcastName, hostName, publisher	The show and who publishes it
contactEmail	The address the show publishes for contact, taken from its feed
website, applePodcastsUrl, feedUrl	Where to research the show before pitching
leadScore	0 to 100, how worthwhile this show is to pitch (see below)
booksGuests, guestEpisodeSharePercent	Whether it interviews guests, and in what share of recent episodes
lastEpisodeAt, daysSinceLastEpisode, isActive	Whether the show is still running
episodesPerMonth	Median publishing pace from the recent episodes
totalEpisodes, averageEpisodeMinutes	Track record and typical episode length
category, categories, language, explicit	How Apple classifies the show
recentEpisodeTitles	The three newest episodes, handy for a personalised opening line
foundVia	Which of your topics matched this show

Turn on Also return recent episode titles as rows for a second table of the latest episodes per show.

How the lead score works

Every point is explainable, so you can sort and filter with confidence:

Points	For
25	A contact email exists
25 / 15 / 5	Newest episode within 30 / 90 / 180 days
up to 20	Recent episodes name guests, or the show describes itself as doing interviews
15 / 10 / 5	Publishes 4+ / 2+ / 1+ episodes a month
15 / 10 / 5	100+ / 50+ / 20+ episodes published

Example: real estate investing

One run, topic real estate investing, US catalogue, September 2026:

58 podcasts found → 57 feeds read → 23 worth pitching. Filtered out: 10 with no contact address, 6 that had stopped publishing, 18 that never have guests.

Podcast	Contact	Guest episodes	Per month	Last episode	Episodes	Score
The Real Estate Investing Club	gabe@therealestateinvestingclub.com	92%	7.3	today	666	100
Zen and the Art of Real Estate Investing	jonathan@trustgreene.com	68%	7.5	today	373	100
The Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast	chrisprefontainepodcast@gmail.com	84%	4.3	today	575	100
Rental Income Podcast With Dan Lane	dan@rentalincomepodcast.com	80%	4.3	1 day	608	100
Real Wealth Show	rw@realwealth.com	56%	14.5	1 day	500	100
PassivePockets: The Passive Real Estate Investing Show	podcast@biggerpockets.com	44%	4.3	1 day	339	100

Every one of the 23 leads came out with a contact address, because shows without one are filtered by default. The whole run took about 6 seconds.

Sample output (JSON)

{
  "podcastName": "Rental Income Podcast With Dan Lane",
  "hostName": "Dan Lane",
  "contactEmail": "dan@rentalincomepodcast.com",
  "website": "https://rentalincomepodcast.com",
  "applePodcastsUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/id1058275711",
  "leadScore": 100,
  "booksGuests": true,
  "guestEpisodeSharePercent": 80,
  "lastEpisodeAt": "2026-09-15T07:00:00.000Z",
  "daysSinceLastEpisode": 1,
  "isActive": true,
  "episodesPerMonth": 4.3,
  "totalEpisodes": 608,
  "averageEpisodeMinutes": 24,
  "category": "Investing",
  "recentEpisodeTitles": ["Buying 40 Rentals While Working Full Time With Marcus Reed"],
  "foundVia": ["real estate investing"]
}

How to use it

1. Add your topics, one per line. Use the words a listener would search: b2b marketing, women in tech, plant based nutrition.
2. Pick the Apple Podcasts country for the market you want.
3. Leave the filters on to get only reachable, active, guest booking shows, or turn them off to see everything that was checked.
4. Run it, then export to CSV, Excel, JSON or straight into your CRM.

Add several related topics in one run. Results are combined and de-duplicated, and foundVia tells you which topic matched each show.

Popular searches

Ready to run examples, each one a real podcast outreach list:

• Real Estate Investing Podcasts That Book Guests
• B2B Marketing Podcasts Accepting Guests
• Startup and Founder Podcasts That Interview Guests
• Personal Finance Podcasts That Book Guests
• Health and Wellness Podcasts Accepting Guests
• Fitness Podcasts That Interview Guests
• Women in Business Podcasts That Book Guests
• Tech and AI Podcasts That Interview Guests
• Mental Health Podcasts Accepting Guests
• Leadership Podcasts That Book Guests
• Career Advice Podcasts That Interview Guests
• Sales and Ecommerce Podcasts That Book Guests
• Find Podcasts to Pitch: Guest Shows With Host Emails

Pricing

Pay per result: $0.02 per podcast lead. You are charged only for the rows you receive, after the filters have run, so dormant and unreachable shows cost nothing. Use Maximum leads to return to cap what a run can cost.

Where the data comes from

• The Apple Podcasts directory, through Apple's public iTunes Search API.
• Each show's own RSS feed, which is how podcasts publish themselves to every app.

Contact addresses come from the <itunes:owner> tag that Apple requires a podcast to publish in order to be listed, so these are the addresses shows put out for people to reach them. Platform mailboxes such as feeds@soundcloud.com and noreply@ addresses are discarded rather than passed off as contacts.

FAQ

Do I need an Apple account or an API key? No. Both the directory and the feeds are public.

How accurate is "books guests"? It reads the recent episode titles for a named guest and the show description for interview wording. Shows that clearly name guests are caught reliably; a show that has guests but never names them in titles or its description can be missed. guestEpisodeSharePercent shows the evidence so you can judge for yourself.

How many shows can I get per topic? Apple returns at most 200 per topic, so use several related topics to go wider.

Are audience numbers included? No. Apple does not publish download or listener counts, and neither does any RSS feed, so nothing here pretends to. Publishing pace, episode count and how long a show has run are the honest proxies for reach.

Why do some shows have no contact email? Roughly a fifth to a third of feeds leave the owner email out, depending on the topic. Those shows are filtered out by default; turn off Only shows with a contact email to see them.

Can I use these addresses for cold outreach? They are the contact addresses shows publish for exactly that reason. Sending relevant, personal pitches is normal practice; bulk unsolicited mail is not, and your own local rules on electronic mail still apply.