Make your whole podcast archive searchable

Most episodes get buried a few weeks after release.

Podcast apps list your episodes newest first. Anything older than a few months sinks out of sight, even when it's exactly what a new listener is looking for. That's hundreds of hours of your best work, earning nothing.

What listeners get today

A long scroll of titles in date order
Search that only matches exact words
No way to follow a subject across years
Your best older episodes, effectively invisible

What you can offer instead

Ask a question, get the right episode
Browse by topic, person, place or era
Related episodes surfaced automatically
Every episode findable, however old

Keyword search looks for words. Listeners are looking for ideas.

A listener types “women who ruled empires”. Here's what each kind of search finds in The Rest Is History.

Keyword search

women who ruled empires

episodes contain “women”, “ruled” and “empires”.

The listener gives up, or scrolls through hundreds of titles.

Podcast Navigator

women who ruled empires

The Greatest Female Pharaoh
The Empress of the Apocalypse
Empress Matilda: Civil War and the Fight for the Throne
Elizabeth I
Warlords of the West: Killer Queens

Real results from The Rest Is History. None of these titles says “women”, “ruled” or “empires”, and no episode's title or description contains all three.

	Keyword search	Podcast Navigator
How listeners search	Guess the exact word in the title	Ask in their own words, the way they'd ask a friend
What it matches	The same words	The same meaning: synonyms, related ideas, the subject behind the title
Who and what	Only names that appear in the text	The people, places and periods each episode covers
Series	Fourteen separate results	One multi-part series, kept together and in order
Where it lives	Inside an app you don't control	On your own site, in your show's look

More listens from work you've already made.

Old episodes, new listens

When listeners can find your back catalogue, they play it. Every older episode played is another download, and another ad impression if you run dynamic ads.

Coming soon

Know what your audience wants

See what listeners search for, which searches come up empty, and the topics they want that you haven't covered yet.

Coming soon

Works with the apps they already use

Every result links out to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and YouTube. We don't replace where people listen. We send them there.

Live in three steps. No engineering on your side.

1 Send

Send us your feed.

Your RSS feed is all we need. Every past episode is picked up, and new ones are added as you publish.

2 Index

We make every episode searchable.

We read each episode's title and description and map its topics, people, places and periods, so search understands what an episode is about, not just the words in its title.

3 Publish

Add it to your site.

A search page in your show's look, or a widget for the site you already have. It stays up to date on its own.

Everything you need, nothing to build.

Search that understands questions

“Anything on Roman emperors who went mad” finds the right episodes, even when those words never appear in a title.

Two ways to search

Best matches for a specific answer. Explore more for related people, places and themes.

Browse by topic

People, places and periods tagged automatically across every episode.

Series kept together

Multi-part series appear as one block, in order, instead of fourteen separate results.

In your show's look

Your colours, fonts and artwork, on a page we host or as a widget on your own site.

Always up to date

New episodes are added automatically as you publish.

Two ways to start.

Independent shows

For a single podcast.

Send us your feed, we set up search for your archive, and you add it to your site.

Get started →

Networks

For publishers with several shows.

One setup across your whole catalogue, a page or widget for each show, and one point of contact.

Talk to us →

Your back catalogue is your biggest unused asset.