If you want to grow your podcast audience, make money with your podcast, or deepen your relationship with your listeners, Podgagement gives you practical tools to support those goals!
Podgagement began as My Podcast Reviews, which collected international podcast reviews and delivered them to podcasters. But it has been completely rebuilt because it now does much more than reviews. It helps you understand your podcast’s visibility, simplify your calls to action, involve your audience, uncover networking opportunities, and make better decisions about your podcast.
Yes, this is my product, and this article is going to sound a bit like an infomercial. I won’t apologize for that because I created Podgagement as a podcaster for podcasters, podcast networks, and podcast agencies. I use it myself, I love building it, and I truly believe these tools can help you get more from your podcast.
You can learn more about Podgagement and try it yourself as I share the following features.
1. Aggregate your international podcast ratings and reviews from nearly 200 places [03:24]
When your podcast is available in Apple Podcasts, it can appear in as many as 175 different country catalogs. Each catalog has its own ratings and reviews. You could manually switch between countries in Apple Podcasts Connect, keep track of what you’ve already seen, and repeat that process regularly. But that takes a lot of clicks.
Podgagement does that work for you. It monitors your ratings and reviews across nearly 200 places, including Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podchaser, Goodpods, and Castbox, with support for additional platforms planned.
It also distinguishes ratings from reviews. A rating is simply one to five stars, while a review includes written feedback. Spotify currently supports ratings but not written reviews, while Apple Podcasts allows both. Podgagement brings these signals together and calculates an engagement score showing how often your audience writes reviews instead of only leaving ratings. It intelligently excludes Spotify from that calculation because Spotify listeners don’t have the option to write a review.
The important thing isn’t merely where your reviews appear. What matters most is what you do with them.
Join a free Podgagement Success Session [06:58]
That principle of using your engagement is what I teach in my free Podgagement Success Sessions.
These are live, one-hour group sessions on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. Eastern. They’re not hard-sell webinars with some artificial offer that expires before you can think about it. I demonstrate how to use Podgagement’s tools, answer questions, and often show attendees what their own podcasts look like inside the system.
You’re welcome whether you’re already a Podgagement member, considering it, or simply curious about how these tools could work for your podcast. Join a free Podgagement Success Session.
2. Get more ratings and reviews with a simplified call to action [08:23]
Asking listeners to review your podcast can quickly become complicated: “Review us in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Goodpods, Podchaser, or wherever else you can find us.” Then what should a listener do if they don’t use any of those services?
Podgagement gives each podcast a LovethePodcast.com landing page. Instead of listing several apps, you can make one simple request: “If you love the podcast, please give us a rating and review at LovethePodcast.com/audacity.”
The page detects the visitor’s device and displays compatible options. Someone on Android won’t be shown an Apple Podcasts button because Apple Podcasts isn’t available there. Someone using Windows may see “iTunes,” while an iPhone user will see Apple Podcasts.
You can also enable direct reviews. This lets anyone submit a rating and written review through your landing page without installing an app or creating an account. The review won’t be posted to Apple Podcasts or another platform, but it will still be available for you to use. Again, it’s not where the review lives that matters most. It’s what you do with it.
See this in action on my Love page.
3. Share your podcast reviews anywhere [11:04]
Collecting reviews is only the beginning. Podgagement helps you use them inside and outside your podcast.
You can tag, sort, and filter reviews so you know which ones you’ve already read in your podcast. You can copy a review in several formats, including Markdown, HTML, single-line text, and multiline text. This makes it easy to add testimonials to your episode notes, website, email newsletter, or social posts.
Podgagement can also turn any review into a downloadable image with only a few clicks. You can select square, portrait, widescreen, and other useful dimensions, including the 1.91:1 aspect ratio commonly used when Facebook, LinkedIn, and X embed images. You can adjust the colors, switch between light and dark modes, toggle elements, and save your preferred design as the default for future images.
If you want reviews on your website, you can create an embeddable widget for one review, a selected collection, or an automatically updated group, such as every five-star review or everything with a particular tag. You configure the widget inside Podgagement instead of editing its code each time.
Every review also receives a shareable page. That page displays the review and gives visitors simple options to review or follow your podcast. Instead of repeatedly telling people how wonderful your own podcast is, let your audience’s words provide the social proof.
4. Watch your podcast rankings across nearly 34,000 global charts [15:59]
Podgagement tracks podcast rankings every hour across nearly 34,000 Apple Podcasts and Spotify charts around the world.
Because I began collecting this information years before releasing the chart-tracking feature, you may be able to see historical rankings from long before you joined Podgagement. You can review your best position, when you first appeared on a chart, your most recent appearance, and how that ranking changed over time.
These rankings can provide useful signals for experiments. What happens after you change your publishing frequency, adjust how you title episodes, or publish more interviews instead of solo episodes? Downloads can show how your own audience is responding, while chart positions can show how your podcast’s popularity compares with other shows in the same category.
Ratings and reviews do not determine your podcast’s chart position. Tracking rankings won’t improve them by itself, either. But the historical data can help you evaluate what’s happening and make better decisions about your podcast.
5. Collect written and voicemail feedback from your audience [18:16]
Podcast calls to action often become an exhausting list of options: call this number, email this address, record a message somewhere else, or fill out another form. Every additional choice gives your audience another opportunity to give up.
Podgagement provides a simple PodcastFeedback.com page where your listeners can either write a message or record a voicemail. The same page works on computers and mobile devices, and listeners can include written context with a recording when they need to clarify a name, spelling, or URL.
You receive an email notification when new feedback arrives. Voicemails are automatically transcribed so you can quickly understand the message before deciding what to do with it. You can then download the audio for your podcast.
Instead of explaining several feedback methods, you can simply send people to my Feedback page.
6. Share audience feedback inside or outside your podcast [20:17]
When someone sends voicemail feedback, you can download the audio and play it in your podcast. This brings your audience’s literal voices into your episodes and shows other listeners that you welcome their participation.
Using audience engagement can produce more engagement. The person whose message you feature will probably feel valued, while other listeners may become more interested in sending their own questions, stories, or ideas.
You can also share feedback outside your podcast. Every submission receives a shareable URL. If it includes audio, visitors can listen directly from the page. This could be useful for a fan podcast that receives an interesting theory and wants to invite discussion before the next episode.
These feedback pages also invite visitors to submit their own feedback or follow the podcast. Thus, sharing one person’s participation can encourage even more participation.
7. Discover networking opportunities [22:21]
Apple Podcasts often displays a “You Might Also Like” section beneath a podcast. This isn’t a random list. It’s algorithmically generated from audience overlap, which makes it a useful source of potential networking opportunities.
If another podcast appears beneath yours, some proportion of your listeners also listens to that show. I call this an outgoing networking connection. You might invite its host onto your podcast, offer to be their guest, arrange a cross-promotion, collaborate on a project, or simply learn more about what interests your shared audience.
Podgagement tracks how this outgoing list changes over time. More importantly, it also finds incoming connections: other podcasts whose recommendation lists include your show. Finding these manually would require checking millions of podcasts, but Podgagement monitors them automatically and notifies you when it finds a new connection.
A podcast can have no more than 15 outgoing recommendations, but there’s no practical limit to how many other podcasts might point back to it. Thus, your incoming list could contain hundreds or even thousands of opportunities.
You can filter these podcasts by genre, review count, publishing recency, number of episodes, and other signals. This helps you focus on the relationships most relevant to your podcast instead of treating every connection as equally valuable.
8. Track in-app search rankings for better podcast SEO [28:23]
Podcast SEO is about making your podcast and episodes easier to find when someone searches inside a podcast app.
Podgagement tracks your actual search positions inside Apple Podcasts. This matters because Apple Podcasts displays three kinds of results: a mixed list of podcasts and episodes, podcast-only results, and episode-only results. Podgagement tracks all three.
You choose the terms you want to monitor, such as your name, podcast topic, niche, or a phrase your ideal listener might search. Podgagement then checks your rankings every hour across supported countries and keeps the historical data.
Apple doesn’t reveal every phrase people use to discover your podcast, so no tool can provide a complete list of your search terms. But when you know which terms matter to you, Podgagement can help you track your visibility for them.
You can then test changes. Publish an episode targeting a particular phrase, adjust your podcast description, or refine a title, and then watch how your visibility changes. This data doesn’t guarantee better rankings, but it can show whether your choices coincide with movement in search results.
9. Grow your podcast audience with a smart landing page [31:08]
Podgagement’s FollowthePodcast.com pages are designed around one goal: helping someone follow your podcast.
Instead of telling people to find you in Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Podcast Addict, Overcast, or a dozen other apps, you can give them one URL. The page detects their device and presents compatible options. An Android visitor might see Podcast Addict but not Apple Podcasts. An iPhone user might see Apple Podcasts and Overcast.
This simplifies the decision for your potential listener and simplifies your call to action. You can say, “Follow the podcast to receive every episode automatically at FollowthePodcast.com/audacity.”
The Love, Feedback, and Follow pages all use speakable domain names. You don’t have to teach your audience how to spell Podgagement before giving them a call to action. You can also redirect a URL from your own domain, such as myawesomepodcast.com/follow, to the page Podgagement provides.
Each page can include a custom message or an embedded YouTube or Vimeo video. Your Follow page could introduce your podcast, explain why someone should follow it, or simply thank them for becoming part of your audience.
See the experience on my Follow page.
10. Track multiple podcasts and BCC notifications to cohosts [35:13]
You can manage multiple podcasts from one Podgagement account, with subscription levels based on how many shows you need to track.
This can be useful if you host several podcasts, manage shows for clients, or operate a podcast network. You can configure the notifications for each podcast and blind-carbon-copy cohosts, clients, or network affiliates.
You retain control of the account while the appropriate people receive notifications about new ratings, reviews, feedback, and rankings. That gives everyone useful information without requiring you to forward every message manually or provide access to the entire account.
11. Upcoming: make your podcast and episodes more shareable [37:13]
One upcoming Podgagement feature will make it easier for your audience to share your podcast or a particular episode.
The planned share page will let visitors choose what they want to share and then provide convenient buttons for social networks and other destinations. If your podcast has a trailer, that can be the default. Otherwise, the page can highlight your latest episode or let someone select from your episode archive.
Individual episode pages will include a player so a new visitor can simply visit the page and press play. The page will also show device-aware following options, making it easier for someone who enjoys the episode to become a regular listener.
The goal is to equip your existing audience to introduce your podcast to other people without making them wrestle with complicated links or instructions.
12. Upcoming: get paid by your audience [39:08]
Another major feature in development will help podcasters receive financial support from their audiences through a value-for-value model.
This isn’t designed around locking episodes behind a paywall or selling merchandise. It’s for podcasters who already provide something valuable for free and want to give listeners an easy way to return some value.
The planned system will support one-time and recurring payments, custom contribution amounts, and named levels or tiers. Listeners could choose a meaningful amount, including the kinds of symbolic numbers some podcast communities enjoy using.
I also want to support podcast app developers. If someone reaches the contribution page through a compatible modern podcast app, a disclosed portion of the payment could go to that app’s developer. Paying developers gives them more resources to make better podcast apps, which ultimately benefits podcasters and listeners, too.
The exact fees are still being calculated, so I’m not going to promise a number before the system is ready. My intention is to keep them low because you’ll already be paying for Podgagement.
Try Podgagement free for 2 months [42:43]
In celebration of International Podcast Day on September 30, 2026, listeners of The Audacity to Podcast can try Podgagement free for two months when signing up by the end of September.
The offer applies to any plan level. You may not see the promotion on the initial landing page, but you should see the two-month offer during checkout. If you don’t, use the website’s chat button so I can help you.
Join a free Podgagement Success Session [43:59]
If you already use Podgagement, or you want to see how these features work before deciding, join me for a free live Success Session on Tuesdays at 2:00 p.m. Eastern.
I’ll show you how to use the tools, demonstrate newer features, and answer questions along the way. Even if you never become a Podgagement member, I hope the session helps you think more strategically about your podcast’s visibility, audience engagement, and opportunities.
Join an upcoming Podgagement Success Session.
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