Podcast appearances are what AI models read, cite, and repeat, and what buyers trust. BookedPod puts you on top shows and charges $300 only when a recording is locked on your calendar. Not one second before.
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PR firms bill for activity. We think you should pay for placements. Here is the same work, priced two ways.
Often two shows. No guarantee you get booked at all. You pay the same either way.
The same work, unbundled. You cover the infrastructure, then pay only for placements that actually happen.
A retainer bills you the same whether we land six shows or none. Here the cost tracks the result, so a slow month costs you $99 and a great month is one you were happy to pay for.
This is infrastructure, not margin. It is what it costs us to keep your search running.
Think of it as a full-time employee working your outreach in the background, for less than most software subscriptions.
Getting a host to say yes and then actually put it on a calendar is the hard part. That is what this covers.
You are buying a booking, not an attempt. If it never gets on the calendar, you never pay for it.
This is the question every person asks on a call, so here is the answer in full, with no interpretation required.
If a host wants a pre-call and then decides you are not the right guest, that placement gets replaced with another show at no extra charge. We are not here to charge you and then not give you a show.
You already have the expertise. We pitch you like the influencer you already are, and it compounds: every show makes the next one bigger, and every episode keeps selling you while you sleep.
It believes what it heard on a podcast. ChatGPT, Perplexity, Claude, and Grok are trained on show transcripts and cite them when a buyer asks who to hire. Every appearance is training data for the answer engines your next client is already using. Ask an AI about our founder: everything it says traces back to a podcast.
You talk for half an hour. The host's team writes the show notes, builds the backlink, cuts the YouTube video, makes the thumbnails, clips it for social, and pushes it to Spotify and Apple. That is $2,000 to $4,000 of production and distribution per appearance, and it costs you nothing but the time.
Buyers are skeptical, and unless they went to high school with you, they do not know who you are. Third-party citation is what converts a stranger into a believer. Nobody is persuaded by you saying you are the expert. They are persuaded by someone else's audience treating you like one.
You accept the agreement at checkout, fill out an onboarding form, we open a shared Slack channel, and from there your entire job is saying yes or no.
The full service agreement is on this site and you accept it during checkout. Nothing to print, nothing to sign somewhere else. Then a long-form onboarding document, plus a call if you want one.
AI-driven search across the database, then real people listening to and transcribing shows to confirm the fit is genuine and the host actually takes guests.
Nothing gets pitched until you have seen the shows and signed off. You can strike anything, for any reason, without explaining yourself.
Within a week of finishing onboarding. Every pitch is written for that specific host and that specific show, referencing episodes they actually made.
All the back-and-forth, all the follow-up, pre-calls if the host wants one. It reaches you as a confirmed slot, and that is the moment the $300 applies.
That is the entire ask. We send a prep brief beforehand so you walk in knowing the host, the audience, and your talking points.
A media page on your site collecting your appearances, plus repurposing each episode into short-form content you can actually use.
Before a show ever reaches your list we check whether it is still active, whether it takes guests, what kind of guests it takes, and what the host actually talks about. Every show we pitch has a real website, a show notes section, and hundreds of episodes behind it. The only time we pitch a smaller show is when it is unusually relevant to the exact people you are trying to reach.
Watch the success stories"Connie Twomey got booked on multiple podcasts without doing any outreach. The process was seamless, and the results were exactly what she needed."
BookedPod is not a bot blasting hosts. Every list, pitch, follow-up, and booking has one of these people behind it, the same team that has run client work at IMS for two decades.
If your prospect cannot tell you apart from the other four firms they are considering, the differentiator has to be trust. That is what this buys.
A minority of shows charge an appearance fee, usually $100 to $200. Small shows have real production costs and people to pay. We disclose every fee before you commit, and you decide yes or no. It is never added to your bill without your approval.
For any reason, including free ones, including ones we thought were perfect. Approving the list is your call and you never have to justify a no.
No minimum term. Cancel whenever. The honest version is that the first month may produce nothing while pitches are still landing, so give it a quarter before you judge it.
There is no setup fee, no onboarding fee, no success fee, and no percentage on the back end. Nothing gets stacked on after a booking.
Your card is stored securely with Stripe. The $300 runs automatically when a placement is confirmed on your calendar, with an itemized invoice for each one in your client portal. Nothing runs before a booking exists.
Month to month. Cancel any time from your client portal. No setup fee, no minimum term.
No. The charge only runs on a confirmed calendar booking. If a host requires a pre-call and then decides not to move forward, that placement is replaced with another show at no extra charge. We are not here to charge you and then not give you a show.
No. It is the $99 per month and the $300 per confirmed placement. There is no setup fee, no success fee, and no percentage on the back end. The only other cost that can ever appear is a host's own appearance fee, which is disclosed to you before you commit to that show.
No. Any show that charges an appearance fee is flagged to you before we commit to anything, and you decide whether it is worth it. Most shows we pitch charge nothing.
No. The full service agreement lives on this site and you accept it as part of checkout. There is no separate document to e-sign, nothing arrives by DocuSign, and your acceptance is recorded with your signup. It is month to month and you can cancel at any time.
No. It is month to month and you can cancel at any time. That said, plan on about 90 days. The first month is largely pitching and the results compound after that.
You can, and some people do it well. What you would be rebuilding is a 30,000-show database, verified sending infrastructure, existing relationships with hosts, AI matching against your audience, and the willingness to send 50 follow-ups to one host. The pitch is the easy part. The follow-up grind is the job.
Show notes with a backlink to your site, a YouTube video, social clips, and distribution to that host's audience on Spotify and Apple. We request these from hosts upfront where possible, and we repurpose each episode into short-form content for you afterward.
Outreach starts around week two, within about a week of you finishing onboarding. Booking timelines vary by show, since larger podcasts often schedule recordings weeks or months out. Booked and recorded are two different dates and we keep both visible to you.
Shows in the top 10% of their charts or niche: hosts with hundreds of episodes, real websites, show notes, and genuine audio and video production. We do not pitch two-episode shows. The one exception is a small show that is unusually relevant to your exact buyer, and even then you approve it first.
You give us a card at signup for the $99 subscription and it stays securely on file with Stripe. The $300 runs automatically when a placement is confirmed on your calendar, and every placement is billed as its own itemized invoice naming the show and the booking date. You can log into your client portal any time to see every invoice, every receipt, and your subscription.
No. This is about being a guest on other people's shows, not hosting your own. You do not need followers. You need a point of view and 30 minutes per appearance.
Every week you wait, someone else records the episode your client will hear. $99 starts your machine today, and you only ever pay $300 for a show that is locked on your calendar.
Start for $99 today