This is it! After 11 weeks of grueling challenges meant to hone the skills of our contestants, we give them one last challenge: take a LOSING submission from the past several weeks of challenges, and remake it into a better show. How did they do, and who’s going to take the prize as America’s Next Top Podcaster? Find out in this episode!

Ken Peleshok’s Entry for Challenge 11 – Podcast Re-Do Challenge

September McCrady’s Entry for Challenge 11 – Podcast Re-Do Challenge

We’re down to just three players, and one huge two-week challenge. Booking, recording, and editing an interview with a guest you’ve always wanted to interview! Three strong contenders…Who’s going home? Find out on this episode!

Ken Peleshok’s Entry for Challenge 10 – Full Interview Challenge

Jason Peters’ Entry for Challenge 10 – Full Interview Challenge

September McCrady’s Entry for Challenge 10 – Full Interview Challenge

Once again, we give our contestants some rough (and I mean ROUGH) audio from an interview, and ask them to turn it into a podcast. The difference this season? It’s an episode of producer Hammond’s podcast, Beyond the Playlist! Which means, they’ve got a very strict set of guidelines that they have to follow to keep with the formatting of an existing show. Who’s going home? Find out on this episode!

September McCrady’s Entry for Challenge 9 – Beyond the Playlist Editing Challenge

Kelly Lynn Colby’s Entry for Challenge 9 – Beyond the Playlist Editing Challenge

Jason Peters’ Entry for Challenge 9 – Beyond the Playlist Editing Challenge

Ken Peleshok’s Entry for Challenge 9 – Beyond the Playlist Editing Challenge

You’d think this would be an easy week, right? I mean, all each of our remaining contestants had to do was be a guest on another podcast. But they had to successfully promote their show, they had to jibe with the hosts, and fit their style in with the style of the show. Not so simple! How did they do? And who’s going home? Find out on this episode!

Jason Peters’ Entry for Challenge 8 – Live TMS Challenge

Kelly Lynn Colby’s Entry for Challenge 8 – Live TMS Challenge

Tripp Rogers’ Entry for Challenge 8 – Live TMS Challenge

Ken Peleshok’s Entry for Challenge 8 – Live TMS Challenge

September McCrady’s’ Entry for Challenge 8 – Live TMS Challenge

Comedy isn’t easy, and every season we have a new batch of contestants who learn that the hard way. This time around, we help them by giving them a requirement: use archived audio! How will they do integrating an old recording into their shows? Find out on today’s episode!

Questionable Ivory Drinks’ Entry for Challenge 7 – Comedy Challenge: “Bernie LoveAtNight”

Unsolicited Manuscripts’ Entry for Challenge 7 – Comedy Challenge: “Raymond Clyborn’s Nighttime Theatre”

It’s about time we all learned something from this whole podcasting thing, and our three teams are going to teach it to us! Will they get the apple on the teachers’ desk, or will it all sound like nails on chalkboard? Find out on today’s episode!

The Unsolicited Manuscripts’ Entry for Challenge 6 – Teaching Challenge: “This is a Science Podcast”

Three the Hard Way’s Entry for Challenge 6 – Teaching Challenge: “The World’s Most Dangerous Chemical”

Questionable Ivory Drinks’ Entry for Challenge 6 – Teaching Challenge: “Hey Marie Molecule”

What does it take to conduct a great interview? Planning, interaction, focus and listening more than you talk. We introduced our teams to Ali Spagnola this week for 15-minute recording sessions and asked them to pare those down into 10-minute podcasts. How did they do? Ali joins our judges this week for a critique session where someone will be going home!

Three the Hard Way’s Entry for Challenge 5 – Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: “The Identified Podcast”

The Unsolicited Manuscripts’ Entry for Challenge 5 – Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: “The Creative Life”

Questionable Ivory Drinks’ Entry for Challenge 5 – Ali Spagnola Interview Challenge: “Where I’m From”

We got lazy this week, and gave each team the choice of three genres, styles and tones of podcasts and let each one choose. What we ended up with was a Self-Help Game Show Comedy. I think we all learned something this week. What exactly? Listen and find out!

Three the Hard Way’s Entry for Challenge 4 – Podcast Mad Libs Challenge: “Self-Helpless”

The Unsolicited Manuscripts’ Entry for Challenge 4 – Podcast Mad Libs Challenge: “America’s Next Top Self-Help Guru”

Questionable Ivory Drinks’ Entry for Challenge 4 – Podcast Mad Libs Challenge: “Pop Culture Smarts”

A common style of daily podcasts is the news format, where headlines and editing are all done on a very rapid basis. We’ve asked out teams to create news stories based on headlines that are given to them just a day before! How did they do? Find out!

Questionable Champions’ Entry for Challenge 3 – Tight Format News Challenge: “Turbo Mode”

The Ivory Microphones’ Entry for Challenge 3 – Tight Format News Challenge: “Ten Minute Tech Time”

One Last Drink’s Entry for Challenge 3 – Tight Format News Challenge: “Civic Snippets”

We’ve asked our contestants to create scripted short-form non-fiction podcasts, and we got three excellent history lessons! Which one will reign supreme? Find out!

The Questionable Champions’ Entry for Challenge 2 – Scripted Non-Fiction: “Invisible History”

The Ivory Microphones’ Entry for Challenge 2 – Scripted Non-Fiction: “A Sports History Podcast”

One More Drink’s Entry for Challenge 2 – Scripted Non-Fiction: “Cheers to Brewing”

It’s the first time our contestants meet our judges, Scott Johnson, Jennie Josephson and Justin Robert Young, to see how they did with their first challenge: Creating an Audio Drama that introduces us to who they are!

The Questionable Champions’ Entry for Challenge 1: Getting to Know You

The Ivory Microphones’ Entry for Challenge 1: Getting to Know You

One More Drink’s Entry for Challenge 1: Getting to Know You

It’s a brand new season of America’s Next Top Podcaster, and we’ve got new challenges, new twists, and the same judges you know and love.

We’ve also got a brand new batch of contestants – let’s meet them!

Joe & Dusty’s submission for the Comedy Redemption Challenge: A History of Intemperance

Diddi & Shane’s submission for the Comedy Redemption Challenge: Wastelands

Over the course of three seasons, our contestants would all agree that Comedy Week is the toughest week in the competition. And to date, it’s been the elimination week for four of our contestants. for this special All-Stars week challenge, we’ve brought back all four of those contestants to redeem themselves with a challenge that they’ll have to take very seriously…mostly.

What have all the season 3 contestants been up to since the finals, and what were their favorite (and least favorite) challenges of the season? Find out the answers to these questions and more on this reunion episode!

This is it! The final judging and elimination for Season 3, where we see whose “Do-Over” episode shines the brightest! Which of our two finalists will be crowned America’s Next Top Podcaster? Find out right now!

Niki’s submission for the Final Do-Over Challenge: Breaking Biology

Will’s submission for the Final Do-Over Challenge: Aftermath

We’ve given them interview subjects, we’ve given them recorded interviews to edit, and now it’s time to put all those skills to the test! They have to find someone to interview, record and edit the interview and turn it into a podcast. Who will our final three get for their shows? Find out!

Will’s submission for the Full Interview Challenge: Creator Corner with Nick Koss

Niki’s submission for the Full Interview Challenge: We Are Science

Audie’s submission for the Full Interview Challenge: the Oddly Normal Ones

Editing an interview down into a podcast is a complicated task. Do you rerecord your questions? Do you change the chronological order of the interview into something that better follows a story? How much do you take out? All of these are complicated enough, but what happens when we provide an interview that’s full of common traps and mistakes and make our conterstants edit it? Find out on this episode!

Audie’s submission for the Editing Challenge: More Than One Path

Niki’s submission for the Editing Challenge: Interview with the Wicked

Tony P.’s submission for the Editing Challenge: Broad Strokes

Will’s submission for the Editing Challenge: Tales from the Backlot

Being a guest on another podcast. It sounds easy, right? Well, it depends on how well you want to promote yourself, while still being a good enough guest to be invited back! We teach our contestants the skills they need to be able to do just that, and in the process, give you the tools as well! Have a listen!

Will’s TMS visit for the Podcast Guest Challenge

Tony P’s TMS visit for the Podcast Guest Challenge

Niki’s TMS visit for the Podcast Guest Challenge

Chetana’s TMS visit for the Podcast Guest Challenge

Audie’s TMS visit for the Podcast Guest Challenge

It’s the week every contestant dreads…it’s Comedy Week! We kept it simple this time, no guidelines, no limits (except time). How did our players do with the toughest week in the game? Find out on this episode!

Bananas on Bananas’ Entry for the Comedy Challenge: Serious World News

Hats on Hats’ Entry for the Comedy Challenge: Prime Time

What does it take to produce a daily show, where the content is news headlines that have to be fresh and current? Our three teams had to figure that out this week as they were given topics in the field of tech, video games and politics just a little over a day before their show had to be produced. How’d they do? Find out on this episode!

Connect Four’s Entry for the Daily News Challenge (Tech): Here and Now In Tech

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for the Daily News Challenge (Video Games): NewsGlitch

The Makers’ Entry for the Daily News Challenge (Politics): ADV News Media

This week, our teams had to create a sponsor message for one of three fictional companies: Tasty Crate, OrangeSite or ComfortSoft. Did they sell our judges on their submissions? Find out on this episode!

Connect Four’s Entry for the Sponsorship Challenge: Tasty Crate

The Makers’ Entry for the Sponsorship Challenge: OrangeSite

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for the Sponsorship Challenge: ComfortSoft

This week, our teams had to create an educational podcast, and we’ve limited them to three fields of science: biology, space science and earth science. We’ll also be joined by ANTP producer and science podcaster Bobby Frankenberger as a guest judge! How did our teams do? Find out on this episode!

The Makers’ Entry for Challenge #5: Education Challenge

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for Challenge #5: Education Challenge

Connect Four’s Entry for Challenge #5: Education Challenge

This week, each of our teams was given time to interview our special guest, Disney Channel Production Designer Mark Hofeling. They then had to edit that interview into a podcast – how did they do? Find out on this episode!

Connect Four’s Entry for Challenge #3: Mark Hofeling Interview

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for Challenge #3: Mark Hofeling Interview

The Makers’ Entry for Challenge #3: Mark Hofeling Interview

It’s time to Investigate! Our teams have the challenge of creating an Investigative Podcast – which of our teams will uncover a win, and who will go home? Find out on this episode!

Connect Four’s Entry for Challenge #2: Investigative Podcast

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for Challenge #2: Investigative Podcast

The Makers’ Entry for Challenge #2: Investigative Podcast

Let’s follow the contestants through their first challenge: to create a podcast that introduces us to all the members of the team, and makes it into a 100th episode. We’ll get reviews from our judging team, and yes, our first player elimination!

The Makers’ Entry for Challenge #1: Introduction Podcast

Blue Fan Group’s Entry for Challenge #1: Introduction Podcast

Connect Four’s Entry for Challenge #1: Introduction Podcast

It’s a brand new season of America’s Next Top Podcaster, and you’ll notice a new and improved format. The whole week has now been condensed into a single episode, so you’ll get coaching, submissions and judging all in one “story” package! (If you still like the previous multi-episode format with more content, and full coaching and judging sessions, we’ve moved that to our Patreon feed)

Let’s meet the new batch of contestants for Season 3!

How did our two teams of All-Stars do in our one-week challenge? Can I use two more hyphens in this description? Find out in this no-holds-barred episode of America’s Next Top Podcaster!

Let’s hear Rishi Bee & TheJen’s submission for All-Stars Week: Tangent!

Let’s hear Bobby & Bridget’s submission for All-Stars Week: Positively Charged!