Podcast Episode Titles That Get Found and Played
Ranked podcast episode titles built from your episode's best moment, sized for app truncation, keyword-placed, and checked for payoff.
Before & after
Same prompt, same agent — the only difference is the skill.
I'd be happy to help you brainstorm podcast titles. To make sure they fit your show, it would help to know a bit more. What's your podcast about—is it focused on content marketing, performance marketing, branding? Who's your target audience? Are you going for something catchy and curiosity-driven, or more straightforward and informational? What's your brand voice like? Also, what topics are these episodes covering? Once I know more about your show and niche, I can suggest some titles that will work well.
EPISODE TITLES: Growth Marketing Series Ranked by Searchability Score + Curiosity Factor 1. "Why Your Lead Magnet is Tanking (And the One Metric That Fixes It)" - Score 8.9 Searchability: "Lead magnet" is high-volume search term (2.1k/mo searches) Curiosity hook: Alludes to hidden metric, drives click Emoji: 📊 The One Metric Use case: Appealing to struggling solopreneurs, mid-market marketers 2. "The 72-Hour Customer Activation Window Nobody Talks About" - Score 8.4 Searchability: "Customer activation" (1.4k/mo); specific number is memorable Curiosity hook: Implies secret timing window Emoji: ⏰ Hidden Window Audience: Product managers, growth teams 3. "How Two-Way Emails Increased Webinar Attendance by 47%" - Score 7.8 Searchability: Quantified result (47%) speaks to ROI-focused listeners Curiosity hook: "Two-way emails" is uncommon phrase, implies tactic unknown to audience Audience: Email marketers, growth operators 4. "The Pricing Psychology Nobody Tests (Until It's Too Late)" - Score 7.2 Searchability: "Pricing psychology" (890 searches/mo) Curiosity hook: "Too late" creates urgency Audience: Founders, SaaS marketers 5. "Cold Outreach Works Again in 2026: Here's Why (and How)" - Score 6.9 Searchability: "Cold outreach" evergreen (5.2k/mo), year reference catches recency focus Curiosity hook: Reverses expectation (assumes cold outreach doesn't work) Audience: Sales-focused practitioners NOTES ON STRATEGY Avoid generic: "Marketing Tips," "How to Grow" score 2-3 (low click-through) Specificity wins: Numbers + unexpected insights drive 34-62% higher engagement Angle differentiation: Each title targets different decision-maker psychology (pain avoidance, ROI proof, hidden knowledge)
About this skill
Your episode is great, but its title reads "Ep 87: Conversation With Dana." A new listener scrolling an app sees a number and a name they don't recognize, and the real hook gets cut off. This skill finds the most specific moment in your episode, puts the search phrase and the hook in the part of the title that stays visible, and rejects any title the episode doesn't back up.
What it does
- Pulls the strongest number, claim, or quote from your transcript or notes and builds the title around it
- Writes candidates in three registers (search, curiosity, outcome) and recommends one, with a reason for each pick
- Keeps the hook in the first ~40 characters so it survives app truncation, and reports exact character counts
- Decides where the guest's name goes: first only when listeners already search for that person, otherwise after the hook or in the notes
- Checks each title against when the episode delivers its payoff, and suggests a cold open when the best hook comes late
- Gives separate audio-app and YouTube versions for video podcasts, and fixes whole back catalogs in one table
What you get
One recommended title with its character count, ranked alternates with one-line reasons, a rejected "tempting" title with the reason it fails, the target keyword, and a payoff check.
Best for
Interview and solo podcasters, show producers, and agencies who publish weekly and want each episode titled for new listeners, not only existing subscribers.
SKILL.md preview
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name: podcast-episode-titles
description: Writes and ranks podcast episode titles that work in both the subscriber feed and app search. It mines the episode for its most specific moment, puts the hook in the first ~40 characters, places the keyword and guest name on purpose, and checks every title against what the episode actually delivers. Use when the user says "title this episode", "give me title options for my podcast", "is this a good episode title", "my episode titles are boring", "my downloads are flat and I think it's the titles", "how do I title a guest interview", "rename my back catalog", or "what should I call this on YouTube vs Spotify".
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