Media Kit

Thank you for your interest in Footnoting History. This podcast is hosted by a rotation of six historians dedicated to sharing interesting, obscure, and/or underappreciated history with the general public in entertaining bite-sized portions. We have been creating and releasing new content since February 2013 and are excited to be celebrating our 11th anniversary in 2024!

To learn more about our podcasters and episodes, please visit our About and Archive pages. If you are interested in speaking with us, please either use the Contact form or email us at [email protected]. Below you will find the basics of our podcast, our statistics, press profiles, artwork, and more:

[All information is updated as of June 2024. Numbers of downloads, subscribers, and for listener geography are via PodBean.]

Click here to download a .pdf of our Media Kit.
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Team

• Christine Caccipuoti, Co-Producer
• Kristin Uscinski, Co-Producer 
• Lucy Barnhouse, Contributor
• Josh Hevert, Contributor
• Samantha Sagui, Contributor

Basics

• 305 episodes released
• A new episode every two weeks (always on Saturday)
• Average episode length varies from 15-25 minutes
• Genre: History
• Tagline: "Because the best stories are in the footnotes!"
• Host: PodBean (direct RSS link: footnotinghistory.podbean.com/feed.xml)

Stats

• Over 3.9 million downloads since February 2013
• An average of 16,000 downloads per month
• An average of 3,800 downloads per episode within 30 days of release
• An average of 1,200 unique visitors to footnotinghistory.com per month
• An average of 2,000 page views on footnotinghistory.com per month

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Social Media Presence

• YouTube (started in 2021): Approximately 2,200 subscribers, and 3,500 views per month on YouTube.com/FootnotingHistory
• Facebook: Approximately 1,300 likes on @footnotinghistory
• Pinterest: Approximately 13,100 monthly viewers for @footnotinghistory
• Newsletter: Approximately 560 subscribers
• Instagram: Approximately 668 followers for @footnotinghistory 

Listener Geography

Top 10 States*:

• California
• New York
• Texas
• Illinois
• Florida
• North Carolina
• Pennsylvania
• Virginia 
• Georgia
• Massachusetts

 
Top 5 Countries*:

• United States
• Canada
• United Kingdom
• Australia
• Germany

 
* All 50 states and 90+ countries contain Footnoting History listeners

Accolades

• 2018 Podcast Awards: Best Education Podcast (Nominated)

Publications

• "Footnoting History for the Public" by Christine Caccipuoti and Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge in Independent Scholars Meet the World, University Press of Kansas, October 2020.

Selected Press

• Reviewed by Simon London on BBC Radio London's Gaby Roslin show, aired on 2 January 2022
• "5 Informative And Entertaining Podcasts", Wiki.ezvid.com, April 2020.
• "Under the Radar: Footnoting History", Podcast Magazine, March 2020.
• "Bringing History to the World with Christine Caccipuoti", The Hour of History Podcast, February 2019
• "A Definitive List of the 35 Most Interesting Podcasts Ever Made", Whatpods, June 2018
• "Fun Podcasts for History Lovers", Medium's Castbox, August 2017
• "Using the Popularity of Podcasts to Communicate the Humanities", Global Maritime History, March 2017
• "Top Picks", Christian Science Monitor, November 2016
• "History Podcasts Made by Women", Bello Collective, October 2016
• "History on the Download: Podcasting the Past", AHA's Perspectives on History, February 2016
• "Ten History Podcasts You Need to Hear", CBC's Podcast Playlist, October 2015
• "19 Fantastic Podcasts for History Buffs", Mental Floss, May 2015
• "Preserving Memories, Old and New, with Elizabeth Keohane-Burbridge", Fordham Conversations, February 2014

Appearances

• "Preparing for Podcasting Problems", Intelligent Speech Conference, 2023
• "History Podcasting Roundtable", Intelligent Speech Conference, 2019
• "Using Podcasts to Flip the Humanities Classroom", STLinATL, 2018
• "From Meghan Markle to Louisa Adams: Using the Present to Enter the Past", Sound Education, 2018
• "We Launched Podcasts -- and You Can, Too!", Berkshire Conference on the History of Women, 2017
• "Footnoting History: A Roundtable on Podcasting", Rocky Mountain Medieval and Renaissance Society, 2014

Downloadable Images

​Click here to download the full-sized logo (shown on bottom left) 
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Click here to download the full-sized logo with tagline (shown on bottom right)