Best MSP Podcasts 2026: 23 Alive, Every Feed Checked

Key Takeaways

• I re-checked 32 MSP podcast feeds on 31 July 2026. One (MSP Voice) no longer exists in any form I could verify, so it is gone. Of the 31 that remain, 21 are still publishing, 6 have slowed to a stop, and 4 are dark. Two reader suggestions, Breakfast Bytes and One Last Ticket, were added and checked the same way on 10 August 2026, which takes the active list to 23.
• Every row below carries the date of that show's most recent episode and how many episodes it has put out in the last 90 days, taken from the show's own RSS feed. You can check any of them in about ten seconds.
• Business of Tech published 62 episodes in the last 90 days. The next most prolific show, Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast, published 48. Nothing else broke 25.
• Two corrections since the last version of this page. Sunny's Silver Linings has resumed and is back in the active list. Killing IT, MSP Success, Syncronized and The MSP Security Playbook have all gone quiet enough to be moved out of it.
• TubbTalk is still the show most "best MSP podcast" roundups recommend, and it has been dead since September 2025. Richard Tubb closed it with an episode titled "The Final TubbTalk: Saying Goodbye to Tubblog".

Quick Answer

If you only subscribe to three, take Business of Tech for a ten minute daily news briefing, It's a Numbers Game for the financial discipline most MSPs avoid, and MSP Chat for channel strategy from two analysts who have watched this market for twenty years. Then add one show from the category that matches your current bottleneck, whether that is sales, marketing, security or working out what your business is worth.

How This List Was Built

I spend my working week inside this industry. I am chief revenue officer for a US MSP, I own a few other businesses alongside it, and one of my teams publishes the MSP events calendar, so I know how fast lists like this rot.

The method is deliberately boring. On 31 July 2026 I pulled every show's RSS feed and recorded three things: the publication date of the most recent episode, the total number of episodes in the catalogue, and how many episodes landed in the previous 90 days. Where a show has no public RSS feed, I counted the episodes in its own published archive instead and said so.

The buckets follow from the dates, not from opinion:

• Still publishing: an episode on or after 2 May 2026.
• Slowed: last episode between three and nine months ago.
• Gone quiet: nothing in more than nine months.

Episode totals are the count in the Apple Podcasts catalogue entry for each show, which is the one source available for all of them. Last-episode dates come from the RSS feed itself, which is usually a few days fresher than Apple's cached copy. Host names come from the feed metadata, not from memory.

Disclosure. I host one of the shows on this list, Play It Smart. It is not in the five shows I recommend starting with, because it has published 4 episodes in the last twelve months against Business of Tech's 302. It gets a clearly labelled box after those five, and a single table row like everything else. Vendor-run and vendor-sponsored shows are labelled as such in the host column. Nothing on this page is paid for and nobody was told they were being reviewed.

Five Shows I Would Start With

These are the five I would put in a new MSP owner's app first, one per category. Everything else is in the full tables below.

1. Business of Tech

Best for: knowing what happened in the channel yesterday, in ten minutes, before anyone else brings it up.

Dave Sobel publishes this every single weekday under the MSP Radio banner. 517 episodes in the catalogue, 62 of them in the last 90 days, most recent on 31 July 2026. It is the only show in the category where the publishing record is genuinely not in question. The format is short: curated stories with commentary that tells you why a vendor announcement or an acquisition matters to your business rather than repeating the press release. If you subscribe to one show and skim the rest, this is the one.

Think twice if: you want long-form interviews. This is a news desk, and 62 episodes a quarter is a queue you have to actually keep up with or abandon.

2. MSP Chat

Best for: channel strategy and market reads from people who analyse this industry for a living.

Erick Simpson and Rich Freeman have both spent decades covering and advising managed services, and the show is built around that vantage point rather than a single operator's experience. 141 episodes, 12 in the last 90 days, most recent on 24 July 2026, which works out at roughly weekly and holding. The guest bookings skew senior, so the conversations tend to be about where the market is going instead of which PSA to buy. Useful if you are making a two-year bet and want a second opinion on the direction of travel.

Think twice if: you want step-by-step tactics you can run on Monday. This is the altitude above that.

3. It's a Numbers Game

Best for: pricing, margin, cash flow and what your MSP is actually worth.

Daniel Welling and Adam Morris run The MSP Finance Team, which the feed describes as founded by former MSP owners, and the show is the only consistent one in the money category. 138 episodes, 9 in the last 90 days, most recent on 29 July 2026. Nothing else in this list survived the check as a going concern on valuation and finance: MSP Growth Engine, the other candidate, has not published since December 2025. If the number you quote when someone asks what your business is worth is a guess, start here.

Think twice if: you are in the US and want US tax and accounting specifics. The team is UK based and it shows in the detail.

4. Paul Green's MSP Marketing Podcast

Best for: one usable marketing idea a week when nobody in the building owns marketing.

352 episodes, 13 in the last 90 days, most recent on 27 July 2026. The longest unbroken run of any marketing show aimed at this audience, and the format is built for owners who are doing the marketing themselves between tickets: a tactic, a guest, a short segment, done. That constraint is the reason it works. It is also the reason it can feel repetitive if you binge it rather than taking one a week.

Think twice if: you already employ a marketer. The show funnels toward Paul Green's paid MSP Marketing Edge membership, which is stated openly in the feed, and the free advice is pitched at owners without a marketing function.

5. The CyberCall

Best for: the commercial side of selling and delivering security, not the technical side.

Andrew Morgan founded Right of Boom, and the show carries the same posture: security framed as a business conversation your clients will either fund or refuse to fund. 69 episodes, 12 in the last 90 days, most recent on 27 July 2026, so it is publishing at a real weekly clip. Worth it if your security offering exists but you cannot get anyone to pay properly for it, which is the position most MSPs are in.

Think twice if: you want hands-on technical depth. Also the shallowest back catalogue of the five at 69 episodes, so there is less archive to mine.

The host's show · not ranked

Play It Smart

This one is mine, so it does not get a number. Operator conversations about growth, pricing power and exits, relaunched in 2026 with a season made for MSP owners. The catalogue is 30 episodes and the recent run is short, which is why it sits outside the five above rather than in them. If the premise sounds useful, start with Peter Moriarty on buying MSPs at 1-2x profit while the market pays 5-8x.

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Every MSP Podcast Still Publishing

All 23 shows with an episode on or after 2 May 2026. Dates are from the feed on 31 July 2026, or 10 August 2026 for the two shows added since.

Industry news and analysis

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Episodes	Last episode
Business of Tech	Dave Sobel (MSP Radio)	A ten minute daily briefing on the IT services industry. The most consistent publishing schedule in the space by a wide margin.	517	31 Jul 2026 62 in last 90 days
MSP Chat	Erick Simpson & Rich Freeman	Channel strategy and market analysis from two veteran channel analysts, with senior guests.	141	24 Jul 2026 12 in last 90 days
The MSP Zone	Charles Weaver (MSPAlliance)	Regulation, compliance and industry trends from the association side.	354	28 Jul 2026 8 in last 90 days

Growing and running the business

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Episodes	Last episode
Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast	Marvin Bee	The biggest back catalogue in the category, live conference coverage, and the most approachable host in the industry.	694	30 Jul 2026 48 in last 90 days
SMB Community Podcast	James Kernan, Karl Palachuk, Amy Babinchak (MSP Radio)	The elder statesman show. Contracts, pre-sales, pricing and the operational questions that never go out of date.	544	30 Jul 2026 14 in last 90 days
The IT Experts Podcast	Ian Luckett	UK-focused MSP growth, close to 300 episodes deep, with a strong culture and leadership thread.	298	31 Jul 2026 14 in last 90 days
MSP Unplugged	Paco Lebron & Rick Smith	Real talk for smaller and solo shops, no corporate polish.	103	31 Jul 2026 12 in last 90 days
All Things MSP	Justin Esgar & Eric Anthony	Weekly interviews on marketing, hiring, tools and client relationships, with a lighter tone than most.	173	29 Jul 2026 13 in last 90 days
MSP Business School	Brian Doyle	Sales process, leadership and operational maturity for service providers trying to professionalise.	279	28 Jul 2026 13 in last 90 days
How to MSP	Andrew Moore (Ridgeview Advisors)	Service delivery, referrals and scaling mechanics, explained concretely. New show, worth watching.	12	28 Jul 2026 4 in last 90 days
Sunny's Silver Linings	Sunny Kaila (IT By Design). Vendor-run.	Talent, offshore teams and scaling. Listed as dark on the last version of this page and now publishing again.	157	23 Jul 2026 7 in last 90 days
Evolved Radio	Todd Kane	Leadership and operations from a coach who has seen inside hundreds of shops.	140	11 Jul 2026 6 in last 90 days
MSP Confidential	Luis Giraldo (ScalePad). Vendor-run.	A live stream with candid operator conversations on growth, pricing and client value. No RSS feed, so counts come from ScalePad's own archive.	95	19 Jun 2026 3 in last 90 days
Tate Talks	Chris Tate (JumpCloud). Vendor-sponsored.	Personality-led conversations with UK MSP and channel people. Only just clears the active bar, so check the feed before you commit.	74	12 May 2026 1 in last 90 days
Play It Smart	Alexej Pikovsky. This is my show.	Operator stories about growth, pricing power and exits. Relaunched in 2026 with a season on MSPs, so the catalogue is small and the recent run is short.	30	23 Jul 2026 4 in last 90 days
One Last Ticket	John Fisher, Michelle Coombs, Gareth Westwood & Danny Boyle	Four UK MSP folk talking through the week's "stuff" on a Friday afternoon, sometimes serious, sometimes not. YouTube only, so counts come from the channel itself. Brand new.	4	5 Aug 2026 4 in last 90 days

Marketing and sales

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Episodes	Last episode
Paul Green's MSP Marketing Podcast	Paul Green	One usable tactic a week. The longest unbroken run of any MSP marketing show.	352	27 Jul 2026 13 in last 90 days
The MSP Sales Podcast	Brian Gillette	Sales philosophy and process for engineers who hate selling. Small catalogue, fast publishing.	53	27 Jul 2026 14 in last 90 days
No Fluff MSP Marketing	Taher Hamid (Alltek Services)	Marketing from someone still doing it day to day inside an MSP rather than selling it as a service.	171	17 Jul 2026 8 in last 90 days

Money, valuation and M&A

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Episodes	Last episode
It's a Numbers Game	Daniel Welling & Adam Morris (The MSP Finance Team)	Pricing, cash flow, margin and valuation. The only show in this category that survived the feed check.	138	29 Jul 2026 9 in last 90 days

Cybersecurity for MSPs

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Episodes	Last episode
The CyberCall	Andrew Morgan (Right of Boom)	Where security practice meets the commercial conversation. The community's security conscience.	69	27 Jul 2026 12 in last 90 days
Risk to Revenue	Tim Golden (Compliance Scorecard). Vendor-run.	Turning compliance and risk into recurring revenue. Publishes in bursts, hence the high 90 day count against a modest catalogue.	176	9 Jul 2026 22 in last 90 days
Breakfast Bytes	Felicia King (QPC Security)	Vendor selection, network security, AI governance and compliance, argued from the practitioner side. No Apple Podcasts entry, so counts come from the show's own Podbean feed.	100	8 Jul 2026 3 in last 90 days

Slowing Down: Check Before You Subscribe

Six shows that were publishing a year ago and have not released anything for three to nine months. None of them has announced an ending, so any of them could come back. Do not build a listening habit around them yet.

Podcast	Host(s)	Episodes	Last episode	Worth the back catalogue?
MSP Success Podcast	Robin Robins (Technology Marketing Toolkit)	108	11 Mar 2026	Yes, for the growth and marketing stories, with the usual caveat that it orbits a paid programme.
MSP Owner	Ben Tiggelaar	18	25 Feb 2026	Yes. Short catalogue, but the founder interviews are unusually candid.
The Killing IT Podcast	Karl Palachuk, Ryan Morris, Dave Sobel	103	17 Feb 2026	Yes. Four episodes in the last year, but the long arcs on AI, private equity and where the industry is heading hold up.
Syncronized	Syncro. Vendor-run.	19	28 Jan 2026	Selectively, for the automation and AI service delivery episodes.
The MSP Security Playbook	Jacob Hazelbaker & Adam Pilton (Heimdal). Vendor-run.	19	28 Jan 2026	Only if the specific topic matters to you. It launched in 2025 and stalled quickly.
MSP Growth Engine	Andy Sherman	8	9 Dec 2025	Marginal. Eight episodes total, and the valuation material is better covered elsewhere.

The Famous Ones That Have Gone Quiet

These four appear on nearly every "best MSP podcasts" roundup published this year. None has released an episode in more than nine months. The back catalogues are still worth your time. Just do not wait for new ones.

Podcast	Host(s)	Episodes	Last episode	Worth the back catalogue?
TubbTalk	Richard Tubb	200	22 Sep 2025	Absolutely. It closed with an episode called "The Final TubbTalk: Saying Goodbye to Tubblog", and the archive is still the best interview library in managed services.
Now That's IT	N-able. Vendor-run.	59	11 Sep 2025	Yes, for the founder resilience stories.
SuperPod	Arvind Parthiban & Radhika Nair (SuperOps). Vendor-run.	70	12 Feb 2025	The owner-journey interviews hold up.
RocketMSP Podcast	Steve Taylor	173	5 Feb 2025	Yes, for tools and stack decisions that have not aged.

What Changed Since The Last Check

• Two shows added on 10 August 2026 after suggestions in The Tech Tribe community: Breakfast Bytes, from QPC Security's Felicia King, and One Last Ticket, a brand new Friday wind-down show from four UK MSP folk. Both verified the same way as everything else.
• Sunny's Silver Linings is back. It was in the gone-quiet section last time with a June 2025 last episode. The feed now shows 7 episodes in the last 90 days and 157 in total. It has moved into the active list.
• Four shows dropped out of the active list: Killing IT, MSP Success, Syncronized and The MSP Security Playbook. All four have been silent for four months or more.
• MSP Voice is gone from this page. Its domain no longer resolves and I could not find it in the Apple Podcasts catalogue, so there is nothing left to point a reader at.
• Uncle Marv's episode count corrected. The last version said 1,000+. The Apple catalogue entry lists 694, so that is the number here. The episode numbering runs higher than the catalogue count.
• MSP Confidential now has a verified count. 95 episodes in ScalePad's public archive, most recent 19 June 2026. It bills itself as weekly and is currently running closer to fortnightly.

This list covers podcasts about running a managed service provider. If security is the bigger part of your business, or you sell to CISOs, I keep a separate guide to cybersecurity podcasts for founders and CISOs, checked the same way.

The Smarter Move: Get On These Shows

Here is what most MSP owners miss about this list. Most of the 21 active shows are interview formats, and an interview format needs a guest every week. The host is not doing you a favour by booking you. You are solving their content problem.

A 45 minute appearance puts you in front of an audience of your exact peers, and on the regional shows your prospective clients, with more trust than any ad you could buy. If you have a real story, a niche you own, a buyout you pulled off, a number most owners get wrong, pick three shows above whose audience matches yours and pitch the host directly. Be specific about the story, not about yourself.

This is how I think about MSP content marketing generally: showing up where trust already exists beats building an audience from zero. Same logic behind the MSP leaders community I run.

Last full check 31 July 2026; Breakfast Bytes and One Last Ticket added and verified 10 August 2026. Feeds change. If a show here has resumed or gone quiet since, tell me and I will re-run the check. For the in-person version of this list, see the 2026 MSP events calendar.

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