How to Name Your Podcast So People Can Find It

Getting Heard: The Daily Pod Shot · Aug 19, 2026 · 6m

If you've been trying to work out how to name your podcast, you've probably given that name more hours than you've given any single episode you'll ever publish. That's the wrong way round, and I want to explain why.

There's a show title and there's an episode title, and they're two completely different things doing two completely different jobs. One gets you found. The other gets you picked. After ten years and more than a thousand podcast launches, the split I see almost every time is weeks agonising over the first one and about thirty seconds on the second.

In this episode I go through what…