How to get on The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup: pitching, format and contact

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Sometimes has guests

20% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

26 min

Median of recent episodes. That is the commitment you would be asking for.

Publishing

Weekly+

691 episodes · last 2026-10-10

Language

English

The feed says "en" without a region, so the country is unknown.

Where it's from

Not established

No .uk domain and no region in the feed language. Apple reports the storefront, not the show, so we do not guess.

Reach

96

Percentile among shows you could realistically get on. Not a download count.

Check whether they charge. Some shows sell guest slots rather than booking them, and rates in some fields run to thousands. Nothing in a podcast feed reliably says so, so we do not claim either way. Ask before you write the pitch.

Worth a pitch. This show publishes its own contact, sits outside the national chart, is independently published, and its recent episodes show it books guests.

How this show compares to other news & politics podcasts

Guests appear here occasionally rather than weekly, though still more than the News & Politics average. Worth a pitch, with patience.

Measured against every news & politics podcast in the directory that has published in the last year.

	This show	Category average
Episodes featuring a guest	20%	15%
Episodes in the last 90 days	13	21
Typical episode length	26 min	43 min
Episodes published in total	691	187
Reach percentile	96	50

Reach is a percentile among shows you could realistically get booked on, built from chart history, longevity, activity and cadence. It is not a download figure. Nobody outside a show can see those.

What the show says about itself

The world is solving hard problems. We cover them! Every Friday, Arielle and Karissa dig into the week's best positive solutions news from The Optimist Daily. Plus, monthly guest interviews with the innovators and advocates making it happen.

Recent episodes

Straight from the feed. The quickest way to judge whether your angle fits.

(Guest Interview) A place to breathe: inside #CreateConnectCare, the youth mental health program giving young people a voice | World Mental
A wildlife overpass, a solar train, and Japan's massive centenarian population
The tilcayo, cancer-sniffing dogs, and 8 more things going right
A 450-year map mistake gets corrected by 164 countries, plus nine more solutions
NYC bans AI for 500,000 students, and seven other solutions
AI music banned from Australia's charts, Roman telescope launches, a biodegradable balloon and much more!

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Common questions

Does The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup accept guests?

Sometimes has guests. Interviews appear alongside other formats. This is our reading of the show's recent episode titles, not a statement from the show itself.

How do I contact The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup?

Yes. The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup publishes a contact address in its own RSS feed, and it is the show's own inbox rather than a shared network desk. We hold it and release it to people on a plan. We never invent an address and never send a pitch on your behalf.

How often does The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup publish?

It publishes at least once a week. There are 691 episodes in the feed. Episodes run about 26 minutes.

Is The Optimist Daily's Weekly Roundup still active?

Yes. It has published within the last 90 days.