How to find the podcasts that would actually have you, then pitch them.
One good podcast interview does more for your credibility than a month of posting. The hard part isn't the interview. It's finding the shows that book guests like you, and most pitches die because the show has never had a guest in its life. CastFox filters that out before you open a tab, then writes the email from the show's own data.
Updated · Written by the CastFox team from the live product
Guest Finder: find podcasts that book guests like you
Under AI Tools. One field: tell it what you know. Underneath, the usual controls: active shows only, category, language, audience size. Watch the “AI matched” chip. It shows the category the tool decided you belong in, so you can correct it before you burn a search.
Guest profiles: one per client, reused forever
Expertise alone is thin, so build a guest profile. This is the person you're pitching, and every show gets scored on how well it fits them.
- Who
- Name, field, current role, a short bio.
- Proof
- The traction that makes a host say yes: book, company, audience, research, press.
- Goal
- What you actually want out of guesting: leads, book sales, authority, recruiting.
- Signature topics
- What you can talk about for forty-five minutes.
- Ideal audience & geography
- Who should be listening, and where.
Agencies: this is where each client lives. Build it once, reuse it forever.
Reading Guest Finder results: fit score, guest history, angle
Hit Find shows and watch what it's checking. Shows that match the topic, then, of those, how many take guests. That's the number nobody else gives you.
Results are ranked by fit, not by size. Every card tells you the show takes guests, how many it has had and how recently, whether it's growing or slowing, its episode count, audience range and country. Then the part that does the work for you: why it fits, in plain English, and an angle, the specific thing this guest could talk about on this specific show. That's your pitch's first paragraph, written.
| Field | What it tells you | How to use it |
|---|---|---|
| Fit score | How well the show matches the guest profile and query | Sort by it. A 57 with a strong angle beats a 46 with a big audience. |
| Takes guests · N · last Xd | Confirmed guest history and recency | Recent guests mean an open door. A last guest a year ago means a cold one. |
| Growing / Slowing | Direction of the show's audience trend | Growing shows want fresh guests. Slowing shows may be winding down. |
| Episodes, listeners, country | Track record, reach range, primary market | Match to the client's geography and the size tier that answers email. |
| Fit reasoning | Why the AI thinks this show suits this guest | Sanity-check it against the show's recent episodes. |
| Angle | A specific talking point for this guest on this show | Paste it into the first paragraph of the pitch. |
From any card: Draft pitch writes the email against everything you just read, Open show goes to the full profile, Save to list files it for the campaign.
Multiple angles for the same guest
Same guest, different angle. A climate finance economist can also talk startups. Change the query, keep the profile, run it again. Both runs stay saved side by side as chips above the results, so you can flip between them and compare. Three pitch angles for one client in about five minutes is how you find the show nobody else pitched.
Host contacts and the AI pitch wizard
2M+ verified emails for hosts and producers, plus their X, LinkedIn, Instagram, YouTube and Facebook profiles, websites and booking pages. Contacts sit on the podcast profile and export with any list.
The pitch wizard runs from a profile, a Guest Finder card, or a whole list. Four steps, about sixty seconds, and the AI writes from the show's audience data, its recent topics and your proposal, so every email references something true about that specific podcast.
- 1 · ABOUT YOUName and email pre-filled from your account, plus the bio the host will read.
- 2 · YOUR MESSAGEWhat you're proposing: guest spot, sponsorship, cross-promo.
- 3 · REVIEW YOUR PITCHThe drafted email. Change the tone, cut it down, it's yours.
- 4 · SUBMITOne button sends it to every show in the list.
Every pitch then has a status, and the dashboard shows the whole campaign at a glance.
What makes a podcast pitch get a reply
The wizard drafts the email, but the draft is only as good as the research behind it. These are the things a host notices, and where in CastFox each one comes from.
- Proof you listened
- Reference a recent episode by name. The Episodes about results and the profile's recent episodes give you one.
- A specific angle
- Not "I can talk about AI" but the Guest Finder angle: the one thing this guest can say to this audience that the host has not covered.
- Fit with past guests
- If Pitch Fit says 41% of recent guests are academics and you are one, say so. If none are founders and you are one, lead with why that is a gap worth filling.
- The right size of show
- Small-tier shows answer email. A pitch to a 250K+ show competes with a queue.
- Short, then follow up
- A pitch of around 120 to 160 words with one ask reads in twenty seconds. Track status and follow up once when a new episode drops.
Done-for-you outreach on Enterprise
On Enterprise, the CastFox team processes and sends pitches for you, dozens a day, and sets up recurring discovery and outreach workflows for your roster. Support runs over Slack and WhatsApp rather than a ticket queue. It is built for agencies with several clients who want the pipeline running without a seat in front of it.
Your expertise in. A booked calendar out.