A familiar name can get people to press play once. What happens after that determines whether a podcast actually works. Influencer podcasts often start with an existing audience, but the ones that last, need more than recognition to keep listeners coming back. The shows on this list stand out because they have developed their own appeal, whether through interviews, comedy, personal stories, or conversations that fans keep returning to.
1. The Colin and Samir Show
Colin Rosenblum and Samir Chaudry met working at The Lacrosse Network, a college sports channel that sold to Whistle Sports in 2014. They left in 2016 to build the Colin and Samir YouTube channel, then launched this podcast in 2018 as an audio-only show about digital culture and the business of being a creator. Guests have included Marques Brownlee, Lilly Singh, Emma Chamberlain, and Patreon founder Jack Conte.
A recurring segment called Creator Support answers audience questions, including how much a YouTuber's staff typically gets paid. The show also tracks how creators structure brand deals, once breaking down its own partnership with Lexus, and their newsletter regularly covers launches and shakeups among other influencer podcasts. Every year they publish a self-audit of their own numbers pulled from YouTube Studio, comparing what worked against what did not. They have also broken down the backlash after MrBeast's recreation of Squid Game, part of the show's occasional coverage of cancel culture inside the creator economy. Fun fact: The pair made the TIME100 Creators list in 2025.
2. Anything Goes with Emma Chamberlain
Emma Chamberlain started posting casual, jump-cut YouTube vlogs in 2017. Her first podcast, a science-themed show called Stupid Genius, launched in April 2019 but was gone within a year. She started over in February 2020 with Anything Goes, moving between subjects like philosophy, seasonal depression, and old stories from a decade earlier. In a recurring segment called Advice Session, she reads listener dilemmas and answers with what she calls unprofessional advice.
The podcast won a People's Choice Award for Favorite Pop Podcast in 2020, an honor voted on by the public across categories that include film, TV, and music. In 2019 Time magazine named her to its Time 100 Next list and its list of the twenty-five most influential people on the internet. Fun fact: She founded Chamberlain Coffee in December 2019, and it now sells on shelves at Target and Walmart.
3. Trash Taste
Trash Taste began when Kadokawa's talent agency moved anime YouTubers Garnt Maneetapho and Connor Colquhoun to Japan, where their friend Joey Bizinger was already based. The first episode went up in June 2020, and the weekly show runs past two hours per episode. Known online as Gigguk, CDawgVA, and The Anime Man, the three are YouTube creators who each built large channels on their own before combining forces.
Beyond the main feed, they run spin-off shows across several social media platforms, including Trash Taste After Dark and the highlight channel Trash Taste Shorts. On March 19, 2022, the three hosted a twenty-four-hour Twitch stream for Doctors Without Borders that raised $181,000 in donations. That same year they recorded episodes outside Japan for the first time, taping three in London and eight in Los Angeles. Fun fact: Garnt is a practicing Buddhist who has served as a monk twice, once as a teenager and once as an adult.
4. Distractible
Mark Fischbach, the gaming YouTuber known as Markiplier, started Distractible in May 2021 with his college roommate Bob Muyskens and Wade Barnes, a friend since sixth grade. It runs on a game where one host picks a topic, the other two try to out-talk each other, and the winner hosts the next episode.
The games carry names like Morals or NO Morals and Wade's Secret Words. One episode that has become a running reference point, titled Bob's Fridge, has Bob recounting a fight with a delivery company over a broken refrigerator. In 2023 the trio signed a deal with Spotify that added video versions of the show. They also opened a Distractible merch store in December 2021, stocked with items built from the group's running jokes. Fun fact: Within two days of launching, Distractible hit number one on Apple and Spotify.
5. Pretty Basic
Alisha Marie and Remi Cruz were already established YouTubers when they launched Pretty Basic in October 2018, one of the first shows on Ramble, a network UTA and Cadence13 launched that same year specifically for influencer podcasts hosted by YouTube stars. Later, they moved the show to Dear Media, the network known for women-led podcasts. Episodes have covered dating and confidence as well as career changes and, as Cruz has put it, learning to be okay with not working all the time.
The guest list has included Meghan Trainor, Ashley Tisdale, and TikTok influencers like Dixie D'Amelio. Off the mic, Remi Cruz launched a skincare brand called HoneyPop, and the pair once hosted the Streamy Brand Awards together. Fun fact: Pretty Basic won the 2021 Webby Award for Best Lifestyle Podcast.
6. Emergency Intercom
Enya Umanzor and Drew Phillips started Emergency Intercom in July 2021 from a corner of their kitchen, first releasing it through the Tiny Meat Gang network before it moved to iHeartPodcasts in 2025. Both were already social media influencers before the show, Drew from YouTube in Granbury, Texas, and Enya from fashion-facing content and modeling in Los Angeles. Their audio engineer, Ky Newman, works behind the camera and regularly ends up part of the conversation. Guests have included Finn Wolfhard, Barbie Ferreira, and model Alex Consani.
The show runs on almost no format, what co-host Drew Phillips has called a stream-of-consciousness vibe. Their merchandise drops skip the hosts' own faces for characters instead; past designs have referenced cartoonist Kim Casali's Love Is comics and the film Natural Born Killers. A Patreon funds bonus episodes, livestreams, and early access to those merch drops. Fun fact: Enya Umanzor got her start on Vine, then modeled in campaigns for houses including Miu Miu, Celine, and Marc Jacobs.
7. Woman of Influence
Julie Solomon spent over a decade in PR and social media marketing before she started coaching creators on how to pitch themselves. She launched the show in 2017 as The Influencer Podcast, then renamed it Woman of Influence. It has aired weekly since that launch and passed 500 episodes and 15 million downloads.
Her programs, including The Influencer Academy, walk a micro influencer through pricing and pitching from the ground up. Solomon's coaching centers on three themes she calls positioning, messaging, and sales strategy: the framework she uses to turn visibility into paying clients. She also runs live intensives, including a multi-day retreat for entrepreneurs working on their messaging and public identity. Fun fact: She wrote a book called Get What You Want, which Forbes listed among its must-read titles from lifestyle influencers.
8. The Basement Yard
Joe Santagato recorded the first episodes of The Basement Yard in 2015 in his mom's basement in Queens, which is where the name comes from. He was already a YouTube comedian, and the early episodes featured his brothers and friends as rotating guests. Comedian Danny LoPriore co-hosted from 2018 until 2020, when Santagato's childhood friend Frank Alvarez, who grew up on the same block, took the second seat. Santagato also runs Santagato Studios, the company he founded in 2016 to house his projects.
The pair later launched their own hot sauce line, Secret Handshake Food Co., devoting an episode called "We Created A Hot Sauce" to how they made it. They did a live act big enough to sell out Radio City Music Hall, then toured again under the name From the Basement to the World. Santagato also co-hosts a second show through Santagato Studios called Other People's Lives. Fun fact: Before the podcast, Santagato first went viral with a YouTube series making fun of photos from People of Walmart.
Whether you already follow these creators or are finding them for the first time, these podcasts offer a chance to spend more time with the personalities behind the content. From funny conversations to thoughtful discussions, each show brings something different to the table.