Navigating Listen Notes website: Your Essential Guide to Finding New Podcasts

In this article, we'll give you an overview of some key product features on ListenNotes.com for discovering podcasts.

1. Podcast Search Engine

As of March 2024, there are over 3.3 million podcasts and 191 million episodes - See Podcast Stats. By contrast:

IMDb has over 8.7 million titles (movies, TV shows, TV episodes)
Spotify has over 8.2 million tracks
Audible has over 470,000 audiobooks

A podcast search engine is inevitable.

When you visit ListenNotes.com, you'll see a search engine UI, which is similar to Google.

When you click on the search bar and start typing search terms (e.g., a topic, or a person's name), you'll see a popup modal for suggestions:

You can click on one of those suggestions (e.g., a search term, a category, a podcast) to continue.

Or you can just hit enter to open a search result page like this:

By default, the search result page includes episodes that are most relevant to the provided search term.

You can switch to rank search results by published date:

And you can apply some filters to narrow search results (Note: some filters are premium features):

Or switch to search only podcasts, curated lists, playlists, or podcaster interviews - this is similar to how you can switch Google search results to include only images, videos, news...

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2. Listen Later Playlists

After you find podcasts or episodes from our search engine, you may want to listen later :) This is like YouTube's Watch Later playlists or Pocket / Instapaper's Read Later.

Try Listen Later

Click on a "SAVE" button to add a podcast or an episode to a playlist:

A Listen Later playlist can be either episode-centric or podcast-centric. An episode-centric playlist includes a list of episodes. A podcast-centric playlist includes a list of podcasts. You can switch by clicking on the "EPISODE" or "PODCAST" tab.

This is how a Listen Later playlist looks like ( Example):

Listen Later playlists provide a new way to consume podcast contents. You can use your favorite podcast apps to subscribe to the RSS feed of a Listen Later playlist. Here's a demo video: