Moonshot Network Is Opening For YOUR Podcast Pitches This Friday! But Who Even ARE We? What Does That

Moonshot Network is opening for YOUR podcast pitches this Friday! But who even ARE we? What does that mean? How do you even send a pitch????

Good news: we’ve made this handy slideshow in order to answer all those questions, and also questions you didn’t even know you had! It’s a condensed version of our official pitch guide, to save you the trouble of clicking through to the GDoc link! You can also find the full plain text below the cut here.

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TOP 10 PODCASTS ON AO3 BASED ON NUMBER OF FANWORKS (2013-2022)

YEAR = November 6 (or closest date to it if unavailable) of that year

To make this bar chart race, all series titles in the Other Media Category on November 6 (or the closest date to it) of every year were copy-pasted from Wayback Machine to Google Sheets, rearranged according to number of fanworks, and manually filtered since not all podcasts were marked as such. Then I inputted all the top 10 data to Flourish to turn into a bar chart race.

Some web series like Critical Role and Dimensions 20 released audio-only versions of their works too, but I left them out since they were listed was a web series on ao3 and more known as one too. 

Similarly, radio shows which only had podcasts years after they started are not included. That means Cabin Pressure, which I accidentally added in the 2022 Top 20 ranking last week, is not included here because it was only rereleased as a podcast in 2019, and 90% of the fanworks it has now are from before 2019.

All nonfiction podcasts have also been excluded (Not that there were many), because with RPFs, it’s hard to tell if the fic in question is just based on the podcast or because of the things the person has done outside of it. 

The bar race starts on 2013 because there were no podcasts in the Other Media category before that year.

The first podcast fandom to post on Ao3 was We’re Alive on January 1, 2013, followed by The Thrilling Adventure Hour on January 27, 2013, and then Welcome to Night Vale at June 2013.

In 2014-2016, Sparks Nevada Marshal on Mars, a segment from The Thrilling Adventure Hour, was also in the top 10, but I didn’t included it since it’s not its own podcast.

TOTAL = the total fanworks of all the top 10 over the years, not the whole podcast fandom itself

Thanks for understanding and hopefully I didn’t miss anything! Apologies for any mistakes, I’m still a podcast noob.🙏

ETA: Locked fanworks aren’t included in the count because Wayback Machine can’t view those, only Ao3 users can.

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Hey - I'm Ely. I'm not-quite-fleeing Twitter; Twitter built my career and I'll be there until the end of time, but Tumblr was my first real social media love (and you'll pry that username information from my cold, dead hands).

A long time ago, I started writing about fiction podcasts on Twitter and people... cared about it?

I started a fiction podcast-focused newsletter called Audio Dramatic and essentially launched into my career as a podcast critic at a time when if you said those words, everyone just kind of looked at you funny (jk they still look at me funny). I wrote for a bunch of audio-focused outlets, most of which have now shuttered. I fought with a lot of people about the value, style, history, and future of criticism in audio. I screamed my way through every single piece of podcast industry nonsense you can imagine. I became the host of Radio Drama Revival, a podcast that's been running since 2007 (when it was on the literal radio) dedicated solely to fiction podcasts and their creators.

I burned myself out in late 2019 and spent effectively 2 years trying to scrimp by as a very disabled freelancer.

Now I'm the content and communications manager at Simplecast -- effectively, I'm the managing editor for the blog and I'm using it to create a platform for podcasters and for podcast audiences, written by fairly paid creators and critics. (I am still fighting and screaming.)

I wouldn't have gotten here without fiction podcast creators, nor fiction podcast audiences. The time has come again for me to engage, myself, not through Simplecast (though I'll probably brag about how great my writers are, lbr).

So - looking forward to my Tumblr being as messy as my Twitter, where I talk about podcasts, yell about injustice, share resources about all of it, and also get really weird.

Give me the weird shit.

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