Fact sheet
Podcast Advertising: The Game
Sixty seconds to pitch a product that doesn't exist, on a podcast you've never hosted, while incorporating a critical note from the client.
Sell the advertiser. Match the podcast. Survive the client notes.
The one-liner
A party card game where you improvise podcast ad reads for fake brands, in the style of real podcast genres, while surviving live client notes.
Who it's for
Anyone who loves podcasts, works in podcasting, advertises on podcasts, or has ever listened to a podcast. Ages 13+. Work-party safe.
What's in the box
- 22 ADVERTISER cards. Fake brands, ready to pitch: a cellular carrier that doesn't accept incoming calls, a subscription box that mails you weather, a gym membership that donates to charity when you don't go.
- 16 PODCAST cards. The podcasts you're suddenly hosting: true crime, comedy, sports, sleep/ASMR, pro wrestling, conspiracy, public radio, pop culture, and seven more, plus a wildcard.
- 16 CLIENT NOTES cards. Critical guidance for every read: spell the brand name out loud, improvise a jingle, give the founder an origin story. Gotta keep the client happy.
54 cards · 2 to 16 players · Ages 13+
How it plays
One player is the CEO: they deal, judge, and sit out. The CEO flips an advertiser. Everyone else plays a podcast card from their hand, flips a client note, and does a live ad read: that brand, in that show's style, with the note worked in. Sixty seconds minimum. The CEO picks the best read; the winner keeps the advertiser card. When everyone has been CEO once, most advertisers wins.
Also in the rules: a two-player mode, team play for big groups, a 16-player single-elimination tournament, and freestyle.
No sign-ups, no onboarding calls, no research. Just three cards and some nerve. Rules fit on one card. 2 to 16 players in party, team, and tournament modes.
Details
- Maker
- ADOPTER Media, LLC — The Podcast Advertising Agency for Brands. Nominated twice for Best Ad Read at the 2026 Ambie Awards.
- Website
- podcastadgame.com
- Debut
- Podcast Movement 2026
- GTIN
- 884400631183
- Availability
- Amazon — $14.99
- Press contact
- game@adopter.media
Credits
- Executive Producers
- Elsie Kaplan · Adam McNeil · Tiffany Rubenstein
- Game Concept
- Glenn Rubenstein
- Design & Production
- Sherry Del Rizzo
- Writers
- Florian Flobo Boyce · Sherry Del Rizzo · Glenn Rubenstein