🎁 Gifts Galore! The Podcasters Gift Guide 🛍

30+ things podcasters and podcast-lovers want.

Hello, hello! Lauren and I have been window shopping and got inspired. Shopping for the podcaster in your life can be tricky! How do you give a gift to someone that just loves listening to or making podcasts? Turns out, there are actually a lot of great options! As podcast lovers ourselves, it may seem like we’ve just created our dream list of podcast-related gifts… but we think you might want some of them too.

Hint: send this to someone who may be shopping for you!

Stay tuned to the end to learn how you could win some sweet podcast gifts 🤭

🎙 TECH 🎙

🎁High quality headphones are essential to better recordings, audio editing, and even for listening to their favorite shows. Try Audio-Technica ATH-M40x Monitor Headphones or Sony MDR-7506.

🎁Support their studio microphone with the simple, powerful and portable Vocaster from Focusrite.

🎁A microphone is only as good as the room it’s in, so treat it right with some Hexagon Acoustic Panels.

🎁If a microphone upgrade is needed, there’s the Rode NT-USB microphone or the Shure SM7B Podcast Microphone for an extra big upgrade.

🎁Zoom’s (not that Zoom) PodTrak P4 Podcast Recorder (to support XLR mics).

📚 BOOKS and AUDIOBOOKS 🎧

🎁Whether it’s a book about podcasting, written by a podcaster, or featuring podcasting in the story, we’ve collected a sweet bookshelf of options for you.

🎁As a podcast lover, they might enjoy an audiobook and even more, an audiobook about our voices. Inside Voice: My Obsession with How We Sound by Lake Bell takes you on a journey to better understand this huge part of our identity.

🎁Why Didn't You Tell Me?: A Memoir, written and read by Carmen Rita Wong

🎁Signal Fires: A Novel, written and read by Dani Shapiro, also known as the host of Family Secrets.

🧢 MERCH 🧢

🎁A shirt, mug, or poster from their favorite show on podswag.com. You might have to visit the show’s website to find more options if they’re not on Podswag.

🎁For the highly controversial word in podcasting – some incredibly perfect Ummm shirts from Arielle Nissenblatt.

🎁Crooked is offering coffee holiday gift boxes for bakers, crafters, and for the internet obsessed. A portion of every Crooked Coffee purchase helps Register Her achieve their goal of registering millions of women across America to vote.

🎁To quote Arielle Nissenblatt, “Ummmmm…” we really love these Santa Is a Woman and Gay Jews crewnecks, and this Nog Save America mug. Also from Crooked. The Crooked Store gives back with every order to support organizations like VoteRiders, F*ck Bans Action Plan, Every Last Vote, and more.

💻 DIGITAL GOODS 💻

🎁If they’ve been talking about starting a podcast or want to upgrade, hosting sites like Ausha, Buzzsprout, Libsyn, and Simplecast have great plans available.

🎁Help them make their podcast more accessible with a transcription site like Trint, Rev, or Otter so they can post transcripts for every episode in 2023!

🎁If they’re looking to add a custom intro song for their podcast, check fiverr for some artists they could collaborate with.

🎁With Canva Pro they’ll have so many more features for creating promotional assets for their show. (see, we’re still tying this into podcast marketing!)

🎁If they’re a fan of making video promos, Headliner’s Basic or Pro plans will allow them to make even more!

🎁Depending on their setup, they might like Recast’s abilities to repurpose video and audio files into engaging social media clips.

🎁Level up their remote recording set up with SquadCast (their Holiday bundle includes several other things on this list!)

🎁The “super listeners” in your life will love the additional features offered in Pocket Casts Plus.

🎁If they’ve got a favorite show with a subscription on Apple Podcasts, give the gift of early access and bonus content! An Apple gift card can help with this one.

🎁Unlock even more of the content they love by signing up to support their favorite show’s Patreon account. (there’s currently no way to gift a Patreon subscription, but you could create a custom email address for them to log in with and register them using that)

🎉 FUN STUFF 🎉

🎁Handcrafted Retro Mixtape Wood Cassette that links to any Spotify playlist you want.

🎁Listen while you swim with these waterproof headphones.

🎁Let a podcast lull you to sleep with wireless headphones designed to help you sleep.

🎁Cowboy Hat Headphone Attachment because why shouldn’t you accessorize your headphones?

🎁Cloud Headphone Stand or something more minimalist.

🎁Fuel their parasocial relationships with tickets to live shows! (you’ll have to know their favorite shows and check on their website to find out more)

🎁Gift certificates to a place where they can make their own podcast swag or music.

🎁An On Air sign so people stop interrupting your recordings!! Or to look cool in the background of any video calls/recordings.

🎁A podcast recommendation! Create one with our template so you can print it out and put in a CD case for something they can unwrap. (some inspiration for what the printed CDs look like!)

🎁Book a podcaster a storytelling workshop with Kevin Allison of RISK!

🎁Book a tarot card reading with Lizzy Cooperman! (Of Lizzy Cooperman’s In Your Hands!)

🎁Buy a podcaster a Podcast Therapy session—an hour with Arielle and Lauren that will help them grow their show.

💖 And now for our gift for you…

We are putting together podcast gift packages to send to three lucky winners that includes shirts, books, totes, and other fun swag from your favorite podcasts. Make sure you’re signed up for Podcast the Newsletter and next week, watch out for an open thread post. Open that up and add a podcast recommendation for a chance to win one of the gift packages. Make sure you’re subscribed so you receive the thread! 🤗