Latest Episodes
Judging & Elimination Episodes
America’s Next Top Podcaster Season 4 Episode 5: Interview Podcast Judging with Special Guest Ali Spagnola
What does it take to conduct a great interview? Planning, interaction, focus and listening more than you talk. We introduced our teams to Ali Spagnola this week for 15-minute recording sessions and asked them to pare those down into 10-minute podcasts. How did they...
Contestant Entries
America’s Next Top Podcaster S04E06A Teaching Challenge: Questionable Ivory Drinks
Questionable Ivory Drinks' Entry for Challenge 6 - Teaching Challenge: "Hey Marie Molecule"
America’s Next Top Podcaster S04E05C Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: Three The Hard Way
Three the Hard Way's Entry for Challenge 5 - Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: "The Identified Podcast"
America’s Next Top Podcaster S04E05B Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: The Unsolicited Manuscripts
The Unsolicited Manuscripts' Entry for Challenge 5 - Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: "The Creative Life"
Special Episodes
Diary of a Reality Competition Podcast Contestant Season 2: Eliminated Contestant #6
This week, Alex interviews our latest eliminated contestant. #6 is probably the contestant whose elimination stung the most - how are they dealing with leaving the competition? Find out in this episode of Diary!
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What is America’s Next Top Podcaster?
America’s Next Top Podcaster is part game-show, part-podcasting how-to, all wrapped up in a Reality Show shell.
We’ll start with 12 contestants, and each week, we’ll give them a podcasting challenge. Things like creating a 5-minute show of a certain genre, or conducting or editing an interview. Each week, their creations will be reviewed by our team of judges, Scott Johnson, Nicole Spagnuolo and Justin Robert Young: Three long-time podcasters with nearly 40 years of podcasting and content-creation experience between them. The contestants will also have access to a consultant in Tom Merritt, who will use his own experience to help guide them to a successful creation. On top of that is Brian Ibbott, a host who has been both a podcaster and a fan of reality shows since both were invented!
Behind the scenes, we’ve got Hammond Chamberlain, who has been creating and editing content for years, and our music is written and performed by Andrew Allen, who has released five albums, and will also be lending his expertise to the winner’s podcast theme!
Host, Brian Ibbott
Brian Ibbott has been producing the cover song show Coverville since 2004. Since then he has hosted and co-hosted shows like The Morning Stream, Soundography, Film Sack, The Pokemon GO Show and Lyrics Undercover. In 2005, Brian worked with the songwriting licensing agencies ASCAP, BMI and SESAC to develop easy-to-use licenses for podcasters to help support artists.
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