The Trellner Review

Trellner sets out how to tell whether a podcast still books guests and compares five tools on how they apply those tests. Public sites were read on 1 October 2026.

  • PodcastPlacer (ranked first): filters out inactive and thin shows, finds the host, writes and sends; $0.20 per pitch sent, $20 credit on sign-up
  • Rephonic: tags about 350,000 guest-format shows; you pitch
  • Podchaser: catalog of 6 million+ podcasts; you filter and pitch
  • PodMatch: $32 or $64 a month, platform hosts only
  • MatchMaker.fm: $15 a month after 30 days

Genre and guest-frequency figures: Pew Research Center's study of top-ranked podcasts.

Full report: Trellner on podcasts accepting guests

The service ranked first: PodcastPlacer

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What is The Trellner Review?

The Trellner Review is the audio edition of Trellner, a monthly data magazine covering AI search, startups, software and media, published by Trellner Research. Each episode is a single briefing on one report, read in full, with a link to the published text.