Last updated: May 6, 2026
Podcast Review is a publication about podcasts. We review them, recommend them, list them, and interview the people who make them. Our job is to help you find shows worth your time, and to tell you honestly when something isn't.
This page explains who owns us, how we make money, and how those two things do and don't affect what we publish. It's the page we'd want to read before trusting a publication's recommendations.
Editorial Philosophy and What We Cover
We believe everyone can be a podcast listener. Most people just haven't found their show yet, and our job is to help with that.
That means we cover the medium widely. We write about the shows that defined the form and the ones reinventing it: the canonical seasons people are still arguing about a decade later, the formats that didn't exist three years ago, and the shift from audio-only into video that's reshaping how a lot of people find podcasts now. We cover history, comedy, true crime, science, sports, business, books, parenting, fiction, and just about every other genre, because there are devoted fans in every one of them. We pay attention to major-network releases, and we go looking for the independent shows that don't have a publicist behind them. We care about the canon and we care about what's brand new, because real podcast fans care about both. If you're working on something you think we should know about, we welcome pitches via our Pitch Portal.
What ties all of that together is a single commitment. When we recommend a show, it's because we think it's worth your time. Commercial relationships don't decide what we cover or what we say about it. We don't trade favorable coverage for sponsorship, and recommendations aren't for sale. When a piece is paid for, we tell you at the top, before you read it.
We're a small team, and most of us wear more than one hat. We're not going to claim a corporate-style firewall between the people who write about podcasts and the people who sell ads; at our size, that would be a fiction. What actually keeps editorial honest isn't organizational structure. It's a rule we live by, and the disclosures we put on this page and at the top of every article that needs one.
How Affiliate Links Work
Most articles on the site contain affiliate links to podcast platforms and other services that pay us a small commission when you subscribe or buy something through them. Every article that contains affiliate links carries a disclosure at the top, before you click anything.
The commission doesn't change what we recommend. If a show is great and the platform that hosts it doesn't pay us anything, we'll still send you there. If a show isn't worth your time and we'd make a commission on it, we'll still tell you to skip it.
Advertising and Sponsored Content
The site runs display advertising sold programmatically and, separately, ads we sell directly. Display ads are visually separated from editorial content. Our editors don't choose which programmatic ads appear next to which articles, and an ad showing up alongside a review doesn't mean we endorse the advertiser.
We also occasionally publish sponsored content: articles, lists, or features paid for by a brand. Sponsored content is labeled "Sponsored" at the top of the piece and anywhere it appears in a feed, list, or our newsletter. Sponsors can give us a topic or a brief to work from. They don't get to shape our regular editorial coverage, and paying for a sponsored piece doesn't earn anyone favorable treatment elsewhere on the site.
Who Owns Us, and How We Cover Them
Podcast Review is owned by The Podcast Review, LLC, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of QCODE Media, Inc. (“QCode”). QCode is a creator-services company and podcast network that also produces original scripted podcasts including Blackout, The Left Right Game and more. QCODE has another wholly-owned subsidiary, QCODE Sales, LLC d/b/a Daylight Media which operates a network of partner shows it helps distribute, monetize, and grow.
That means we sometimes review, recommend, or list a show that's produced or distributed somewhere inside our corporate family. When that happens, we say so in the article. The label doesn't mean the producer saw the piece, approved it, or had any say in what we wrote — it means there's a relationship you're entitled to know about, so you can weigh the recommendation accordingly. We hold shows from inside the family to the same editorial standard as everything else.
Corrections and Feedback
If we got something wrong, tell us. Contact us with the article URL and what you think we missed. We fix substantive errors with a dated note on the article explaining what changed. Typos and broken links we just fix.
You can reach us at the same address about anything else: feedback, questions, or concerns about how we covered a show.
