How to Search Podcast Episodes With Rephonic

If you want the fastest route to the right podcast episode, use Rephonic. We have designed our episode search engine to help you:

• Find the right podcasts for a guesting campaign
• Discover the best podcasts for an advertising campaign
• Research existing content to help you produce better podcasts.

You can also use it to get alerts on topics, people or keywords and check on your competitors. Knowing when they're mentioned lets you work out their podcast guesting strategies, see where they advertise or which of their content is mentioned on podcasts.

This article shows how you can search podcast episodes with Rephonic.

How Rephonic's podcast episode search works

When you enter a keyword or phrase into Episodes, our search engine looks for that keyword in:

• Podcast titles
• Show notes
• Transcripts

The results display all the relevant episodes, so you won't miss any conversations that mention your keyword.

How to search podcast episodes

Use Rephonic's search tool and filters

Let’s say we want to see the most recent episodes about “FinTech” and we only want to see episodes with over 5000 listeners and with an audience primarily in the UK.

1. Tap the Episodes button and enter the search term “FinTech”.
2. Add filters. In this case, we’d filter listener numbers and location.
3. Scroll through the episodes and open the ones that interest you most by clicking their titles.

Rephonic's search filters include audience demographics.

An audience search is important if you’re searching for relevant podcasts to pitch as a guest or advertiser because podcast PR works best when you’re speaking to listeners in your target audience.

Let’s change our FinTech search parameters to focus on the episodes’ audiences, rather than their numbers or location.

For example, we’ll look for FinTech episodes that focus on a young, professional audience in the tech industry. This search shows a very different set of results from the one that focused on Listener numbers and location.

Use search operators to optimize your searches

You may be familiar with the advanced search operators available in Google and other search engines. Now you can apply them to podcast episodes during your Rephonic search.

Either term can match: e.g., FinTech OR “financial technology.

Use OR when podcasts might use different labels for the same idea.

Both terms must match: e.g., FinTech AND “small business”.

Use AND when each term narrows the idea and you only want episodes with that intersection.

Exact phrase: “small business” .

Use quotes when the exact wording matters, especially for common phrases and buzzwords that get paraphrased.

Don’t match: FinTech -crypto.

Use a minus term when a keyword attracts a ton of adjacent-but-not-your-topic results.

Create keyword alerts for podcast episodes

Want to know when your product or brand is mentioned on a podcast episode? Or when particular topics or keywords come up? How about when a competitor's episode drops? Or when your own guest interview goes live?

You can set Rephonic to monitor all new podcast episodes for specific names or keywords by setting up an alert.

Here's how you do it.

1. Go to My Account on your home page (top right) check the drop-down menu and select Alerts.
2. Click the blue Create an Alert button.
3. Type the name, topic or keyword in the search bar. (Remember to use quotation marks for a name or phrase.)
4. Select Email daily or weekly. Select daily to get an email within 24 hours of a relevant email's release or weekly to hear within 7 days.
5. Click Create Alert.

How to search for a specific podcast episode

When searching for a specific podcast episode rather than episodes that cover a specific topic, you can enter the name of the episode in the search bar and it will pop up with a link to the episode page on Rephonic.

The episode page includes:

• A Listen button
• A Transcript button
• A link to the podcast page
• Show notes
• Topics covered during the interview
• A summary of the conversation
• Names, including the podcast host and guests
• Sponsors (if appropriate)
• Key Moments - time stamps to memorable or impactful moments from the episode
• Analysis of the episode's overall format and tone

How to search within podcast episodes

Maybe you want to search a specific podcast episode in more detail, or see exactly where they mentioned your keyword or name and what they said.

Here's where Rephonic's episode transcripts come into their own.

You can search for names, topics and keywords within any podcast episode by searching it's transcript on Rephonic.

Learn more about Rephonic's podcast transcript search here, including the top four ways to use them.

Final thoughts

Use Rephonic's podcast episode search engine to find:

• Information for specific episode titles
• Episodes related to a particular keyword or phrase
• Podcasts that feature or mention a specific person

Get more relevant results by adding search filters like Active, Guests or Sponsors and narrow down the options by including audience demographic filters or podcast filters (e.g., listener or episode numbers, social follower numbers).

Try Rephonic free for the first seven days to skip the guesswork and find the right podcast episodes for your guesting, advertising or research needs.

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