Judging & Elimination Episodes

Once again, we give our contestants some rough (and I mean ROUGH) audio from an interview, and ask them to turn it into a podcast. The difference this season? It's an episode of producer Hammond's podcast, Beyond the Playlist! Which means, they've got a very strict...

You'd think this would be an easy week, right? I mean, all each of our remaining contestants had to do was be a guest on another podcast. But they had to successfully promote their show, they had to jibe with the hosts, and fit their style in with the style of the...

Comedy isn't easy, and every season we have a new batch of contestants who learn that the hard way. This time around, we help them by giving them a requirement: use archived audio! How will they do integrating an old recording into their shows? Find out on today's...

It's about time we all learned something from this whole podcasting thing, and our three teams are going to teach it to us! Will they get the apple on the teachers' desk, or will it all sound like nails on chalkboard? Find out on today's episode!Clean up your audio...

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...

We got lazy this week, and gave each team the choice of three genres, styles and tones of podcasts and let each one choose. What we ended up with was a Self-Help Game Show Comedy. I think we all learned something this week. What exactly? Listen and find out!Clean up...

A common style of daily podcasts is the news format, where headlines and editing are all done on a very rapid basis. We've asked out teams to create news stories based on headlines that are given to them just a day before! How did they do? Find out!Clean up your audio...

We've asked our contestants to create scripted short-form non-fiction podcasts, and we got three excellent history lessons! Which one will reign supreme? Find out!Clean up your audio with tools from Waves.com!

It's the first time our contestants meet our judges, Scott Johnson, Jennie Josephson and Justin Robert Young, to see how they did with their first challenge: Creating an Audio Drama that introduces us to who they are!Clean up your audio with tools from Waves.com!

It's a brand new season of America's Next Top Podcaster, and we've got new challenges, new twists, and the same judges you know and love. We've also got a brand new batch of contestants - let's meet them!Clean up your audio with tools from Waves.com!

What have all the season 3 contestants been up to since the finals, and what were their favorite (and least favorite) challenges of the season? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this reunion episode!Clean up your audio with tools from Waves.com!

This is it! The final judging and elimination for Season 3, where we see whose "Do-Over" episode shines the brightest! Which of our two finalists will be crowned America's Next Top Podcaster? Find out right now!Clean up your audio with tools from Waves.com!

We've given them interview subjects, we've given them recorded interviews to edit, and now it's time to put all those skills to the test! They have to find someone to interview, record and edit the interview and turn it into a podcast. Who will our final three get for...

Editing an interview down into a podcast is a complicated task. Do you rerecord your questions? Do you change the chronological order of the interview into something that better follows a story? How much do you take out? All of these are complicated enough, but what...