Podcast Guest Booking Leads - Interview Shows + Host Emails

Find podcasts to pitch as a guest. Give it topics; get back active interview podcasts that regularly book guests, each with the host / booking email, the guests they had recently, how often they publish and when the last episode came out.

Built for podcast guesting, PR agencies, podcast booking services, authors, coaches and founders doing a podcast tour. Keywords: podcast guest finder, podcast booking, podcast guest list, interview podcasts, podcast host email, podcast outreach, podcast pitching, be a podcast guest, podcast PR.

Why this beats a plain podcast list

A podcast directory gives you every show on a topic. Most of them never take guests, and about 40% haven't published in a month. This Actor reads each show's recent episodes and keeps only the ones worth pitching:

• Books guests — share of recent episodes that are interviews (titles like "… with Jane Doe", descriptions like "my guest today", "joined by", "sits down with").
• Still active — latest episode within your window (default 60 days).
• Reachable — host email from the RSS feed (itunes:owner), which Apple requires.

You only pay for shows that pass all three.

Use cases

• Podcast guesting / podcast tours — a ready pitch list for an author, founder or expert.
• PR and booking agencies — fresh lists per client topic, re-run monthly.
• Personalised pitches — recentGuests and recentGuestEpisodes show who the host interviews, so you can reference a recent episode and pitch a fitting angle.
• Prioritising outreach — sort by episodesLast90Days or guestEpisodeShare to start with the busiest interview shows.

How to use

1. Enter the topics your guest can speak on, e.g. saas marketing, leadership.
2. Keep the defaults (active in the last 60 days, ≥30% guest episodes, email required) or loosen them.
3. Click Start. 100 shows per topic are checked in under a minute.
4. Export to CSV / Excel for your CRM or outreach tool, or pull it via the Apify API.

Output (one item per show)

{
  "name": "Social Media Marketing Podcast",
  "ownerEmail": "m***@socialmediaexaminer.com",
  "ownerName": "Michael Stelzner, Social Media Examiner",
  "website": "https://www.socialmediaexaminer.com",
  "guestEpisodeShare": 1,
  "recentGuests": ["Elizabeth Marberry", "Adam Ivy", "Shannon McKinstrie", "Tara Zirker", "Derral Eves"],
  "recentGuestEpisodes": [
    "Making Instagram Reels Easier, Faster & Scalable",
    "YouTube Retention Strategy: How to Hook, Hold, and Convert Viewers",
    "How to Use AI on LinkedIn While Sounding Human"
  ],
  "lastEpisodeDate": "2026-10-15T09:30:00+00:00",
  "daysSinceLastEpisode": 0,
  "episodesLast90Days": 12,
  "avgEpisodeMinutes": 45,
  "genre": "Marketing",
  "episodeCount": 763,
  "itunesUrl": "https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/social-media-marketing-podcast/id549899114",
  "feedUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/social-media-marketing-podcast",
  "sourceTerm": "marketing"
}

(Real run output; the email is masked here, the dataset contains the full address.)

Input

field	meaning
searchTerms	topics your guest speaks on
itunesIds / feedUrls	check specific shows directly
country	Apple Podcasts storefront (US, GB, CA, AU, …)
maxPerTerm	shows checked per topic before filtering (default 100, max 200)
activeWithinDays	latest episode at most this old (0 = off)
minGuestEpisodeShare	0–1, share of recent episodes with a guest (0 = keep all)
requireEmail	only shows exposing a host email (default on)
episodesToScan	recent episodes analysed per show

Pricing (pay per event)

event	price	when
podcast-lead	$0.05	per show returned — active, books guests, has an email

Shows that are filtered out are free. Typically 5–15% of the shows on a topic pass, so one topic gives you roughly 5–15 qualified leads (≈ $0.25–0.75).

FAQ

Where do the emails come from? From each podcast's public RSS feed. Apple Podcasts requires an owner email (itunes:owner) in every feed; some hosting platforms hide it, and those shows are skipped when requireEmail is on.

How is "books guests" detected? From the titles and descriptions of the latest episodes (default 12). Shows that only introduce guests in the audio can score low — lower minGuestEpisodeShare to include them.

Are the guest names exact? They are extracted from text and are best-effort; occasionally a phrase that looks like a name slips in. The episode titles in recentGuestEpisodes are always verbatim.

Do I need a proxy or an account? No. Data comes from the public Apple Podcasts search API and each show's RSS feed.

Can I get every podcast with an email, not just interview shows? Use Podcast Email Scraper, or set minGuestEpisodeShare to 0 here.

Can I automate it? Yes — schedule it monthly, or call it from the Apify API, Make, Zapier, n8n or an AI agent via the Apify MCP server.

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