Find the right shows
Search for podcasts and YouTube channels in Prospector, save searches you'll repeat, and add the shows you want to your pipeline.
Transcript: Prospector in 20 seconds
Prospector, under Discover, finds podcasts and YouTube channels for you. Search by show title, topic or keyword, add filters, and save the searches you'll run again. Or switch modes to Chat, AI Match, Pitch Targets or Authors. Your remaining searches for the month are shown at the top.
Prospector is under Discover › Prospector in the sidebar.
Search for shows
Choose what to search
Pick Podcasts or YouTube in the channel picker (YouTube isn't included in every plan). For podcasts, choose Find Podcasts, Find Guest Appearances (enter a person's name to see the shows they've been on) or Find Episodes.
Enter your search
Search shows by title, topic or keyword, and click Search.
Narrow it down
Click Filters to filter by relevance, language and location, timing and recency, or content. Filters with a padlock aren't included in your plan. Reset clears them.
Add the shows you want
On a result, click the add button (Add to pipeline as potential opportunity), or open its menu and choose Import as Potential or Import as Aired. In the table view the button reads Add to Pipeline. To add several at once, use Select All, then Import Selected.
Transcript: Search results in 15 seconds
Type a topic into Prospector and press Enter to search the podcast directories. Each result shows the show and, where known, how popular it is. Narrow the list with filters such as genre, language and country, save the search to run again, and add any show to your pipeline.
Each result shows the show's title, its host or author, its cover and, where known, a popularity rank. (In the pictures on this page, hosts' names and covers are blurred.)
A show you add lands in your pipeline with the Potential status (or Aired, if you chose that). A result you already track is marked In Pipeline or Aired. Adding a show counts toward your plan's limit on tracked opportunities.
Save a search to run again
Click Saved, then Save current search, give it a name and click Save search. To use it later, open Saved and pick it: its query and filters load, and you click Search to run it. Saved searches are yours alone, within the workspace you saved them in.
Your remaining searches
The badge at the top shows how many searches you have left this month, for example "412 / 500 searches remaining". Searches in Chat count toward it too.
Other ways to find shows
The mode switch at the top offers more than Search:
- Chat: describe what you're looking for in plain words. Not every plan includes it.
- AI Match: see below.
- Pitch Targets: see below.
- Authors: enter a topic and click Find authors to see who is publishing on it. Authors with a recent book are marked New release · likely touring. Find podcasts featuring an author runs a guest appearance search for them, so you see the shows that book guests on your topic.
AI Match
Transcript: AI Match in 15 seconds
AI Match starts from your media kit: your bio, the topics you want to be known for, and an optional goal. Choose Find my shows, and it ranks the shows that fit you best, each with a fit score and a bookability score and the reasons it fits.
Choose AI Match in the mode switch. It fills in from your default media kit: your bio, the topics you want to be known for and your headline. You can also start from your LinkedIn profile or a short bio, and add an optional goal. Click Find my shows.
Each matched show comes with a fit label (such as Authority Fit or Audience Fit), a fit score and a bookability score, the reasons it fits, and a suggested angle. Select the shows you want and add them to your pipeline.
Your workspace's first AI Match is free. After that each run uses credits; a cached result says so and costs nothing.
Agencies
In the All clients view you can search, but you can't add a show: pick the client first. See Work in a client's workspace.
Pitch Targets
Transcript: Pitch Targets in 20 seconds
Pitch Targets, in Prospector's mode switch, ranks the shows in your pipeline that you are still working toward. Choose Find my pitch targets; each run uses credits. Every show gets three scores: Fit, Access through your warm paths, and the Authority an appearance would bring. A green dot marks a show you have a warm path into.
Pitch Targets ranks the shows already in your pipeline, so you know which to pitch next. Choose Pitch Targets in the mode switch and click Find my pitch targets. It ranks up to 25 of the shows in your own pipeline that you're still working toward: not the ones that have aired, converted, been cancelled or been marked unqualified. Your teammates' shows aren't included. Each run uses credits; a run that fails isn't charged. Agencies: in a client's workspace it ranks that client's shows. In All clients it ranks every client's shows, unless you're assigned to particular clients: then it uses your one client, or asks you to pick one first if you have several.
Each show gets three scores out of 100:
- Fit: how good a target the show looks: whether its category is one of the topics on your default media kit, how recently it published, and whether it has contact details.
- Access: how reachable it is: contact details on file, and people around your shows, such as someone who has appeared on both this show and a show you track.
- Authority: the authority an appearance on the show would bring you.
A green warm path mark means you have a way in. A show that hasn't published in six months ranks lower.
Why a show ranked
Transcript: Why this show, in 15 seconds
Choose Why on a ranked show to see what is behind it: its three scores, a sentence on why it ranked, and the evidence, such as a person who has appeared on both this show and one you track. When you have a warm path in, the drawer says through whom.
Click a show, or Why, to open its drawer: the three scores, a sentence on why it ranked, and the evidence behind it. When you have a warm path in, the drawer says who it runs through, by name where Guestify has one.
Open the show to ask for an intro opens the show's page in your pipeline. Its Your network on this show lists your contacts who have appeared on the show, each with Request intro. They aren't always the person the warm path runs through.