What do I need to get started?
Just a website. Paste the URL, yours or your client's, and the
agent works out who the guest is, what they can credibly speak
about, and which shows would want them. Finding shows and hosts is
free, and adding a card grants you $10 in starter credits without
charging anything, so your first pitches cost you nothing.
How much does it cost?
$0.10 per pitch actually sent, and that is the entire model: no
subscription, no per-seat fee, no charge for finding shows. You
start with $10 in free credits, which covers your first 100
pitches. After that you set a daily budget that caps spend, and
spending stops the moment you pause your campaigns.
How is this different from a booking agency?
Booking agencies charge $3,000+/mo retainers before a single pitch
goes out, and you still sit through the calls. There is no
retainer here and no minimum term. You pay $0.10 per pitch sent,
and the agent does the research, the pitching and the back and
forth with the host itself.
How does it find the shows?
It reads your site, turns it into show clusters by category and
keyword, and matches those against our own database of 163,000+
active podcasts, every one with a contact email. Shows that
stopped publishing are dropped, and so are the ones with no real
back catalogue. Then it finds the host or booker behind each show.
Audience size is shown as an estimated tier, not a download count.
What happens when a host replies?
Replies land in your PodcastPlacer inbox, where the agent answers
the usual host questions from the guest facts you set, bio,
topics, past appearances, availability, and coordinates the
booking. Anything your facts do not cover is handed back to you
instead of guessed at, and you can take over any thread with one
click.
Can I pitch clients instead of myself?
Yes. Agencies and PR folks are first-class here: run one project
per client, and the pitches go out on their behalf ("I handle
bookings for X") rather than pretending to be them. Each client
gets their own show clusters, guest facts and campaigns.
Whose mailboxes send the pitches? Is my domain at risk?
Pitches go out from our pool of pre-warmed inboxes, never from
your own mailbox or domain, so your reputation is never on the
line. Each show is paired with one inbox that carries the whole
conversation, and replies land back inside PodcastPlacer.
How do you keep pitches out of spam?
Every mailbox in the pool is warmed up and authenticated with SPF,
DKIM and DMARC, with daily sending caps and gradual volume ramps.
Bounce and complaint rates are watched across the whole pool, and
any inbox that starts to degrade is pulled out automatically, so
one campaign can never drag down the rest.
How much control do I have over what goes out?
Every campaign shows you its show list and three sample pitches
before anything sends, and you can steer the angle, the topics and
the tone by chatting with the agent in plain language. One click
pauses everything.