This Week in Virology: guest pitching info, reach and format

Should you pitch it?

Guest activity

Often has guests

55% of recent episode titles look like interviews

Episode length

78 min

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

Publishing

Weekly+

103 episodes · last 2026-08-30

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

79

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.

What the show says about itself

TWiV is a weekly netcast about viruses - the kind that make you sick. Professors Vincent Racaniello, Dickson Despommier, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler and science writer Alan Dove and guests deconstruct viruses, how they cause illness, and dissect the latest research.

Recent episodes

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

TWiV 1353: Phage bet-hedging and EBV antibodies
TWiV 1352: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
TWiV 1351: Ebola Virus Brains and Contagious Catfish Cancers
TWiV 1350: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin
TWiV 1349: Smallpox and mummies
TWiV 1348: Clinical update with Dr. Daniel Griffin

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