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Sponsor the Python Bytes podcast

One sponsor per episode. No competing ads, no shared airtime, 100% share of voice on the #1 Python news podcast. Reach 21,000 developers per episode, growing to 33,000 over the life of the episode, with a read that is baked into the audio.

By the numbers (August 2026)

16,400,000+
total downloads
21,000
per episode, 12-week rolling average
33,000
per episode, lifetime
87,000
most popular episode
One
sponsor per episode, never more
4.7 / 5
across 307 listener ratings

The audience splits three roughly equal ways: web and API developers, data science and ML/AI, and everyone else using Python in their own discipline.

Where developers find us

The #1 news podcast in Google for "Python Podcast" and named in Google's AI Overview as the show for quick, weekly Python news. Ranked in the top three for "Python podcast" by OpenAI, Anthropic, and Perplexity (productrank.ai, measured May 2025).

Sponsorship includes

  1. Show introduction

    A 5-second mention at the start of the episode.

    example
  2. Mid-roll segment

    45-90 seconds, delivered as a conversation between the hosts in their own words.

    example
  3. Featured in video format

    On YouTube, where the show is live streamed before the audio version is produced.

    example
  4. A permanent 500x500 banner

    Shown with a link to your site on the episode page.

    example
  5. A permanent back-link

    Links to your site from multiple locations on our domain.

  6. Listing at the top of the episode show notes

    In the podcast player.

    example

Note: the majority of our listeners listen through their podcast players, but the same audio segments are carried over to the YouTube version.

Pricing

$599 to $749 per episode depending on commitment length. Volume tiers are in the media kit.

Sponsors have included Sentry, Datadog, DigitalOcean, Posit, Microsoft, and Red Hat.

Python Bytes and Talk Python To Me reach overlapping but distinct audiences. Ask about running a campaign across both shows.

Start a conversation

Prefer email? Write us at sponsor@pythonbytes.fm.

Sponsor banner on the episode page

A Python Bytes episode page with the sponsor's 500x500 banner and link shown alongside the episode

Sponsor listing in the show notes

Episode 493 of Python Bytes open in a podcast player, with 'Sponsored by Logfire from Pydantic' listed at the top of the show notes