Best Short-Term Rental Podcasts in 2026: Which to Pick

Most lists for best short-term rental podcasts in 2026 rank shows by download count. That tells you which host has the biggest audience, not which one solves your problem. Which one you start with depends on the revenue problem you are trying to fix.

A show about buying your fifth property will not help if your first listing has empty midweek nights. So this list is sorted by job, not by popularity.

The 18 short-term rental podcasts at a glance

Scan this, pick one row, then read the section it sits in.

Start here if you are launching your first listing

At this stage you do not need strategy. You need to know what a normal week looks like.

No Vacancy

Natalie Palmer manages her properties remotely and publishes every Wednesday. She covers the small operational stuff most shows skip, including what to do when a guest complains. Start here if hosting still feels like guesswork.

Vacation Rentals with John

Episodes run about 13 minutes, which is the entire appeal. If you have one question and a short drive, John Candelario answers it without a 45-minute interview first. Good for practical booking fixes you can apply the same day.

Short Term Rental Management

Luke Carl owns one of the longest-running Airbnbs in the Smoky Mountains. Episodes are short and blunt, aimed at people managing their own units rather than hiring someone to do it.

Start here if your calendar has gaps

Gaps are usually a pricing problem wearing an occupancy costume. These three treat rates as the lever.

RevLabs by PriceLabs

This is our show, so weigh the placement accordingly. Host Kyle Driskell interviews revenue managers running 100 listings or more, covering how to set a base price, event pacing and seasonal strategy in plain language.

Get Paid For Your Pad

Jasper Ribbers has been publishing since 2014, now alongside Eric Moeller and Kaye Putnam. The recent run leans hard into revenue work: minimum stay settings, event pricing and the trap of chasing occupancy for its own sake.

STR Data Lab

Jamie Lane is a travel economist at AirDNA. If you want market-level numbers rather than one host's opinion, this is the STR podcast to pick. Useful before you commit to next season's rates.

Start here if too much is going to OTA fees

Three shows, one obsession between them: bookings that do not route through a booking site.

The Boostly Podcast

Mark Simpson and Liam Carolan have built hundreds of episodes around email lists, websites and repeat guests. If direct bookings are the goal for the next 12 months, this is the deepest archive on the subject.

Thanks For Visiting

Sarah Karakaian and Annette Grant treat hospitality as a way to charge more, not just a way to be nice. Expect episodes on listing photos, guest experience and standing out in a crowded market.

We also interviewed them about their own pricing setup, which is worth reading alongside the show. It is in our customer story with them.

Bill Faeth Unfiltered

This is the show formerly called STR Unfiltered, so search the new name. Bill Faeth publishes short, opinionated episodes, mostly on marketing and which amenities actually earn their cost.

Start here if you are buying or scaling

Four shows for the stretch between your first property and your tenth.

The Short Term Show

Avery Carl sells short-term rental property for a living, so the show is built around acquisition. Which markets, which numbers, which mistakes. Pair it with your own view on where to buy rather than taking any single recommendation.

Short Term Rental Riches

Tim Hubbard keeps episodes to about 22 minutes and covers acquiring, operating and scaling. It fits the awkward middle stage where you have outgrown spreadsheets but do not yet have a portfolio plan.

Short Term Rental Secrets

Mike Sjogren and Emanuele Pani aim at investors who want systems rather than side income. Heavy on automating operations so that a bigger portfolio does not automatically mean a bigger team.

Vacation Rental Revolution

Shawn Moore treats rentals as assets you also get to use, not purely as cash flow. Useful if you are weighing a second home and want a realistic read on what a good return looks like.

Start here if you manage properties for owners

Different job, different shows. These three are about the business of managing, not the business of investing.

Alex and Annie

Alex Husner and Annie Holcombe interview the people running vacation rental brands and the vendors selling to them. It is the fastest way to hear what the industry is arguing about, including where the technology is heading.

The Vacation Rental Manager's Podcast

Sarah Bradford and Tim Cafferty have been doing this for years and talk about the actual job: staffing, seasons and difficult owner calls. Listen before your next round of owner reporting.

Vacation Rental Success

Running since 2013, this is the oldest show here. Heather Bayer has owned and managed properties in the UK and Canada, and interviews working owners rather than coaches. Good background on how management fees are structured.

Two more worth your time

The STR Sisterhood

Stacey St. John built a portfolio and left her job on the earnings, by her own account. The show interviews women running rental businesses and works well alongside a structured course if you learn better with a syllabus.

Live Let Thrive

Note the name. It is Live Let Thrive, not Let Live Thrive, which is why people struggle to find it. Myka Artis and Steven Che Suarez have run it since 2017, with a lot on rental arbitrage.

Short-term rental podcasts by how much time you have

The other way to choose is by listening slot. Most people abandon a show because the episodes do not fit their week, not because the advice was wrong on the substance.

• Fifteen minutes or less. Vacation Rentals with John, Bill Faeth Unfiltered and Short Term Rental Management all run short. Good for a school run or a site visit between listing fixes.
• Half an hour. Short Term Rental Riches and The Short Term Show sit around 22 to 34 minutes. This is the best Airbnb podcast length for a gym session or a commute.
• An hour or more. Alex and Annie, Vacation Rental Success and Thanks For Visiting run long. Save these for a drive, when you can follow an argument to the end.

If you only have one slot a week, take the short shows. A 13-minute episode you finish beats a 55-minute episode you abandon halfway, in the same way one tool you configure properly beats three you half-set-up.

Length also tells you something about format. Short shows are usually one host answering one question, while the long ones are interviews that wander before they land on anything you can act on.

Short-term rental podcasts that have wound down

No other list does this, which is why people keep subscribing to dead feeds.

These four have stopped publishing. The back catalogues are still worth a listen if the topic fits, but expect nothing new. All four still appear on roundups dated this year.

The lesson generalises. Vacation rental podcast roundups rarely get pruned, so check the date of the most recent episode before you subscribe to anything, including any list we publish.

When a short-term rental podcast is the wrong tool

Nuance nobody selling you a listening habit will mention.

If you have a specific settings question, a podcast is a slow way to get an answer. Documentation is faster and more accurate. The PriceLabs help centre will answer a configuration question in two minutes rather than 40.

If your problem is legal, skip podcasts entirely. Rules differ by city and change often, and a host in Nashville cannot tell you what applies in Lisbon. Start with the current regulatory picture and then talk to someone local.

And if you are already listening to six shows but have changed nothing about your listings this quarter, more listening will not help. That is what an actual system is for, and it is what the next section covers.

Turn listening into one test a week

Here is the honest failure mode. You listen, you nod, you forget, and three months later your numbers look the same as before.

The fix is boring and it works. Pick one problem, choose three shows for it, then log one idea per episode and test that idea on a single listing rather than all of them.

How to tell if any of this worked

Advice you cannot measure is entertainment. Before you change anything, write down today's number so you have something to compare against.

Then pick one number and watch it for 30 days. Not a week. Booking patterns are too noisy over seven days to tell you anything, which is why decisions built on short windows tend to be wrong.

One warning on the second row. If you fix a midweek gap by cutting your rate everywhere, occupancy rises and revenue falls. That is why RevPAR beats occupancy as a scoreboard.

Listing changes need the same discipline. Change one photo or one title, not six things at once, or you will never know which one moved your position in search.

Frequently asked questions

What is the best short-term rental podcast for beginners?

No Vacancy with Natalie Palmer is the usual starting point. It covers week-to-week hosting rather than investing theory, with episodes every Wednesday. If you want shorter episodes, Vacation Rentals with John runs around 13 minutes and answers one question at a time.

How many short-term rental podcasts should I follow?

Three at once, and no more. Following ten shows produces contradictory advice and no action. Pick the single problem you are working on this month, choose three shows that address it, and mute the rest until the problem is solved.

Are short-term rental podcasts worth the time?

Only if you test what you hear. A podcast is a source of ideas, not a source of results. Hosts who log one idea per episode and try it on a single listing get value from listening. Hosts who only listen do not.

Which short-term rental podcast covers pricing?

RevLabs by PriceLabs is the STR podcast most focused on rates, alongside Get Paid For Your Pad, covering minimum stays and seasonal strategy. STR Data Lab by AirDNA covers market-level demand data instead, which is more useful for planning a season than for adjusting a rate this week.

Does Airbnb have its own podcast?

Airbnb does not publish a podcast for hosts. Searches for an Airbnb podcast usually surface an episode of How I Built This featuring the company's founders. That episode is a company origin story, not hosting advice, so set your expectations accordingly.

Where to start this week

Pick one row from the table. Subscribe to that show and two others in the same section. Ignore the rest of this page until next month, including the longer-stay tactics further up.

Then fill in one line of the log after your first episode. One tested idea beats twenty untested ones.

Come back in three months. The best short-term rental podcasts for you will have changed, because your problem will have changed.