/r/podcasts/

r/podcasts

3.9M members
r/podcasts is a subreddit with 3.9M members. The community frequently discusses podcasts, recommendations, podcast, looking, and history, and they frequently recommend/review podcast recommendations, podcasts, and podcast, and the most common flair used is general podcast discussions, true crime, other podcast genre, history & geography, and horror & paranormal.
r/podcasts: a subreddit to discover, discuss, and review podcasts with other podcast enthusiasts. As part of this mission, r/podcasts is curated to promote respectful and on-topic discussions. This is not a place to promote your podcast.

Popular Topics in r/podcasts

#1

Podcasts

318 posts
#2

Recommendations

62 posts
#3

Podcast

43 posts
#4

Looking

31 posts
#5

History

31 posts
#6

True Crime

31 posts
#7

Hate

24 posts
#8

Struggling

23 posts
#9

Annoying

21 posts
#10

Worst

10 posts

Products Discussed in r/podcasts

#1
Podcast
4.6 from 41 reviews
#2
This American Life
4.8 from 14 reviews
#3
BBC
4.7 from 10 reviews

Podcasts

418 reviews
#1
Stuff You Should Know
4.6 from 8 reviews
#2
Sawbones
4.8 from 5 reviews
#3
Serial
4.8 from 5 reviews

Podcast

322 reviews
#1
Swindled
4.8 from 4 reviews
#2
Small Town Murder
5.0 from 3 reviews
#3
American Scandal
4.7 from 3 reviews

Flair Used in r/podcasts

#1
General Podcast Discussions
: "An absolutely unreal episode of Search Engine: “Why doesn’t anybody come to my parties?” - the host calls a lady’s friends and asks them why they don’t go to her parties anymore. It’s brutal."
61 posts
#2
True Crime
: "Looking for Respectful True Crime"
22 posts
#3
Other Podcast Genre
: "If Books Could Kill - The Body Keeps the Score"
21 posts
#4
History & Geography
: "Fall of Civilizations is absolutely GOAT-tier"
15 posts
#5
Horror & Paranormal
: "What is the scariest paranormal episode you’ve listened to?"
13 posts
#6
Arts & Culture
: "What Went Wrong is one of the best podcasts I've ever listened to (it's about movies, their creation, and what went wrong, etc.) They mention reddit discussions, but the subreddit has like one post. Is there a subreddit I'm missing?"
11 posts
#7
Health & Welbeing
: "Fitness/wellness podcasts that explicitly reject manosphere and other toxic influences?"
11 posts
#8
News & Current Affairs
: "New Podcast from Serial Productions & NYT - “The Last 12 Weeks”"
7 posts
#9
Comedy
: "Funny girly podcast recs?"
7 posts
#10
Tip of My Tongue
: "help finding a Podcast about a weird college town"
6 posts

Member Growth in r/podcasts

Yearly
+26k members(0.7%)

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Last updated: July 1, 2026