Podcast Guest & Sponsor Finder - Who Appears on Which Shows

Find out who has been a guest on any podcast and which brands sponsor it - straight from the show notes. Paste an RSS feed, an Apple Podcasts link or just the show name, and get one clean row per guest (name, role, company, social handles) and per sponsor (brand, promo code, landing URL, offer) for the most recent episodes, ready to export to CSV, Excel, JSON or Google Sheets.

Built for PR and booking agencies, podcast ad buyers and researchers who need to know which shows book which people and which brands already pay for reads - without listening to hundreds of hours of audio.

What you get

One row per guest or sponsor, per episode:

• type - guest or sponsor
• podcastName, podcastFeedUrl, podcastWebsite
• episodeTitle, episodeUrl, episodePublishedAt, episodeDurationSec
• name - the guest's full name or the sponsor brand
• role, company, socialHandles - for guests (job title, organisation, book or project, any @handles or profile links in the notes)
• promoCode, offer, url - for sponsors (discount code, the deal, the vanity landing URL such as brand.com/show)
• confidence - 0 to 1; anonymous callers or people named only by first name score lower
• evidence - the verbatim sentence from the show notes that supports the row, so every result can be checked in seconds

Every name and brand is verified against the episode's own show notes before it is saved; anything the notes do not actually contain is dropped. A SUMMARY record in the key-value store lists episodes analysed, guests and sponsors found and any feeds that could not be resolved.

Use cases

• Podcast guest booking and PR outreach - see which shows in your niche interview founders, authors or experts like your client, and who they booked last month
• Sponsor prospecting - build a list of brands already buying podcast ads (with their promo codes and landing pages) to pitch your own show or network
• Competitor sponsorship tracking - monitor which podcasts a competitor sponsors, what offer they run and when it changes
• Influencer and expert research - find the people who appear across many shows in a category and the companies they represent
• Ad-market intelligence - map which categories (sleep, supplements, fintech, SaaS) dominate ad reads on the shows you care about

How to use

1. Enter one or more Podcasts - an RSS feed URL, an Apple Podcasts show URL, or simply the show name (for example The Tim Ferriss Show). Names and Apple links are resolved to the show's feed automatically.
2. Set Max episodes per podcast (default 20 most recent episodes).
3. Pick What to extract - guests, sponsors or both.
4. Optionally set Published after (e.g. 2026-01-01) to look at a date window only, and Max results to cap the run.
5. Run the actor - rows stream into the Dataset tab; open Key-value store → SUMMARY for per-podcast counts.

Tips: the same guest or sponsor appearing in several episodes gets a row for each episode, so you can count appearances or sort by episodePublishedAt to see the most recent booking. Filter confidence >= 0.8 to keep only clearly introduced guests and drop first-name-only callers from advice or Q&A episodes.

Output format

A guest row:

{
  "type": "guest",
  "podcastName": "The Tim Ferriss Show",
  "podcastFeedUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/tim-ferriss-show",
  "podcastWebsite": "https://tim.blog/podcast",
  "episodeTitle": "#883: How to Legalize Medical Psychedelics in Your Country — Tania de Jong on The Playbook Behind Australia's World-First Breakthrough",
  "episodeUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/episodes/8226a13e-77b3-4f59-98af-384d22ce645e.mp3",
  "episodePublishedAt": "2026-09-18T19:30:00.000Z",
  "episodeDurationSec": 7948,
  "name": "Tania de Jong",
  "role": "co-founder",
  "company": "Mind Medicine Australia",
  "socialHandles": [],
  "promoCode": null,
  "offer": null,
  "url": null,
  "confidence": 1,
  "evidence": "My guest today is Tania de Jong , co-founder of Mind Medicine Australia ."
}

A sponsor row:

{
  "type": "sponsor",
  "podcastName": "The Tim Ferriss Show",
  "podcastFeedUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/tim-ferriss-show",
  "podcastWebsite": "https://tim.blog/podcast",
  "episodeTitle": "#881: Tales of Overcoming The Odds, and How to Turn Losses Into Wins — Tim McGraw, Terry Crews, Dax Shepard, and More",
  "episodeUrl": "https://rss.art19.com/episodes/c599888a-c9bb-403c-96a9-b1bb87125ccc.mp3",
  "episodePublishedAt": "2026-09-04T10:00:00.000Z",
  "episodeDurationSec": 3923,
  "name": "Incogni",
  "role": null,
  "company": null,
  "socialHandles": [],
  "promoCode": "TIM",
  "offer": "60% off an annual plan",
  "url": "Incogni.com/Tim",
  "confidence": 1,
  "evidence": "Incogni, which removes your personal data from the web, helping shield you from fraud, scams, and identity theft: Incogni.com/Tim (use code TIM at checkout and get 60% off an annual plan)"
}

episodeUrl is the episode's web page when the feed provides one, otherwise the audio file URL.

Pricing

Pay per episode and per result: a small episode-processed event for each episode analysed, plus a guest-result event for each guest row and a sponsor-result event for each sponsor row saved to the dataset. Episodes with no show notes are skipped and never charged; names that cannot be verified against the notes are dropped.

Limitations

• Results come from the written show notes, not the audio. Shows that publish one-line descriptions with no guest or sponsor mention will return few or no rows - pick shows with proper episode notes (most interview shows and network-produced podcasts have them).
• Spotify links are not supported because Spotify does not expose show notes; use the RSS feed, Apple Podcasts link or the show name instead.
• Compilation and "best of" episodes list every featured guest, so a single episode can yield many guest rows.

FAQ

Can I get every guest a podcast has ever had? Yes - raise Max episodes per podcast (up to 500 per run) and set Max results to 0. Older episodes are analysed newest-first.

How do I find shows a specific person has been on? Run this actor across a list of candidate podcasts in their niche, export to a spreadsheet and filter the name column.

Does it work for non-English podcasts? Yes, as long as the show notes name the guests and sponsors. Fields are returned as written in the notes.