My Podcast Reviews has a Contest!

My Podcast Reviews, run by Daniel J. Lewis, is holding a contest. Correctly guess when Apple Podcasts hit 1 million – and win a subscription to My Podcast Reviews.

Apple Podcasts is the #1 podcast app ad directory, and its about to reach 1 million valid podcasts!

Let’s celebrate this major milestone with a fun guessing game!

For everyone who correctly guesses the date Apple Podcasts reaches 1 million valid podcasts, we’ll give a free 1-year subscription to a My Podcast Reviews “Solo” plan ($50 value) or equal-value discount on a higher plan!

To enter, you need to fill in a form on the My Podcast Reviews website. It asks for your first and last name, your primary podcast, your email, your Twitter, and your date guess. My Podcast Reviews will stop accepting entries when Apple Podcasts reaches 975,000 podcasts.

Contest rules include:

  •  Contestants must be 13 years old or older to enter.
  • One entry per person or household. Multiple entries will disqualify you.
  • Entries will be accepted until Apple Podcasts reaches 975,000 podcasts, as reported in the Podcast Industry Statistics (updated nightly) and the entry form will be closed.
  • Only data tracked by My Podcast Reviews or officially announced by Apple will be used as the winning date
  • And more!

My Podcast Reviews tracks your reviews from multiple apps in every country, including Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, and Podchaser. With any plan, you can add all of your shows to My Podcast Reviews and monitor more than one podcast. Receive your latest reviews weekly or daily.

Win the International Podcast Day Gratitude Award

International Podcast Day Gratitude AwardInternational Podcast Day is dedicated to promoting podcasting worldwide through education and public engagement. It’s the podcast version of things like National Pancake Day (and other one-day celebrations of a specific thing). The official International Podcast Day is September 30.

There is an International Podcast Day Gratitude Award that will be awarded to one podcast. The purpose of the award is to recognize the podcast with the most engaged global audience, as measured through international podcast reviews in iTunes.

They made it fairly simple for podcasters to enter their podcast into this competition. First, you have to register your podcast on My Podcast Reviews. That website is run by Daniel J. Lewis, host of The Audacity to Podcast. It collects up your international podcast reviews for you.

After you sign up with My Podcast Reviews, it will collect your reviews and display them on the site. Users who have a free account will see the most recent 30 reviews. Premium users will see their complete archive of reviews.

For the purpose the International Podcast Day Gratitude Award, My Podcast Reviews will automatically check your reviews in all 155 iTunes stores through September 27, 2016. The podcast that has the greatest proportion of international reviews will win the gratitude award.

After you register your podcast with My Podcast Reviews, the second thing you need to do is ask your audience to write reviews about how your podcast has impacted their lives. International Podcast Day recommends that you should especially encourage those who are listening from outside the country to write an iTunes review for your show.