Best MSP Podcasts 2026: Every Show Checked and Verified Alive

Key Takeaways

• I found 31 podcasts that regularly serve MSP owners and checked every single feed in July 2026. 25 are alive. Six of the best-known names in the space, including TubbTalk, have stopped publishing, and most "best MSP podcast" roundups still recommend them.
• For daily industry news there is one clear answer: Business of Tech with Dave Sobel, publishing every day without fail.
• For growing and running the business, MSP Chat pairs two veteran channel analysts with strong exec guests, and the SMB Community Podcast has 490+ episodes of operational wisdom behind it.
• For the money conversation (pricing, cash flow, what your MSP is worth), It's a Numbers Game from the MSP Finance Team is the strongest specialist show.
• Podcasts are also an underused visibility channel: more than half the active shows on this list interview guests, and appearing on three or four of them puts you in front of thousands of MSP owners for the cost of a few hours on a webcam.

Quick Answer

If you only subscribe to three MSP podcasts in 2026, take Business of Tech for a 10 minute daily news briefing, It's a Numbers Game for the financial discipline most MSPs avoid, and Play It Smart for operator stories about growth, pricing power and exits. Then add one show from the category that matches your current bottleneck, whether that is sales, security or deciding 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 larger MSP in the US, and I own a few other businesses alongside it, including a marketing agency. Podcasts are how I keep a finger on the pulse between conferences. And because one of my teams publishes the MSP events calendar, I know how fast these lists rot.

So I did the boring work: in July 2026 I pulled the RSS feed or Apple Podcasts page for every show and checked the date of its most recent episode. Shows with an episode in the last three months are listed as active. Shows quiet for longer get a note. Shows that have clearly ended are in their own section at the bottom, because their back catalogs are still worth your time even if no new episodes are coming.

One honest disclosure up front: the first show on this list is mine. I put it at number one because it is my list. Everything else is ranked by what it is best at, not by affiliation, and I mark every vendor-run show as vendor-run.

The Best MSP Podcasts in 2026

1. Play It Smart, with Alexej Pikovsky

Best for: MSP owners who think like founders. Growth, ownership, pricing power and exits, told through operator stories.

Yes, this is my show, and yes, I put it first. Play It Smart interviews founders and operators about how they actually built their businesses: fundraising or refusing to, first customers, scaling, and getting to an exit worth having. Past guests include Rand Fishkin of Moz and SparkToro, Chili Piper co-founder Alina Vandenberghe, and TinySeed on what makes a software business acquirable.

In 2026 the show relaunched with a full season dedicated to MSP operators: how MSPs price, market, hire and eventually sell. If you run an MSP with a story worth telling, I am booking guests for the season now. Listen on Spotify.

Daily news and industry analysis

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Status (July 2026)
Business of Tech	Dave Sobel	A sharp 10 minute daily briefing on the IT services industry. The most consistent publishing schedule in the space.	Active, daily
MSP Zone	Charles Weaver (MSPAlliance)	Regulation, compliance and industry trends from the association side.	Active
Killing IT	Karl Palachuk, Ryan Morris, Dave Sobel	Longer arcs: AI, automation and where the industry is heading.	Publishing a few times a year

Growing and running the business

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Status (July 2026)
MSP Chat	Erick Simpson & Rich Freeman	Channel strategy and market analysis from two veteran channel analysts, with strong exec guests.	Active, weekly
How to MSP	Andrew Moore	Service delivery, scaling and valuation mechanics, explained concretely.	Active
SMB Community Podcast	James Kernan, Karl Palachuk, Amy Babinchak	The elder statesman show. 490+ episodes of operational wisdom.	Active, weekly
All Things MSP	Justin Esgar & Eric Anthony	Practical weekly interviews on marketing, hiring, tools and client relationships.	Active, weekly
Uncle Marv's IT Business Podcast	Marvin Bee	1,000+ episodes, live conference coverage, and the most approachable host in the industry.	Active, multiple per week
MSP Business School	Brian Doyle	Sales process, leadership and operational maturity, 200+ episodes.	Active, weekly
Evolved Radio	Todd Kane	Leadership and operations from an MSP coach who has seen inside hundreds of shops.	Active
The IT Experts Podcast	Ian Luckett	UK-focused MSP growth, nearly 300 episodes.	Active, weekly
MSP Unplugged	Paco Lebron & Rick Smith	Real talk for smaller and solo MSPs, no corporate polish.	Active
MSP Owner	Ben Tiggelaar	Peer to peer founder interviews: how owners got in, grew and think about getting out.	Slowed in 2026, catalog worth it
MSP Success Podcast	Robin Robins	Growth and marketing stories from the Technology Marketing Toolkit orbit.	Slowed in 2026
MSP Confidential	ScalePad (Luis Giraldo)	Vendor-run. A weekly livestream with candid operator conversations on growth and client value.	Active, weekly
Tate Talks	Chris Tate (JumpCloud sponsored)	Vendor-sponsored. Personality-led conversations with UK MSP and channel folks.	Check feed before subscribing
Syncronized	Syncro	Vendor-run. Automation, AI and service delivery.	Occasional

Marketing and sales

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Status (July 2026)
Paul Green's MSP Marketing Podcast	Paul Green	The most listened to MSP marketing show. One usable tactic every Tuesday, 340+ episodes.	Active, weekly
No Fluff MSP Marketing	Taher Hamid	Marketing tactics from someone still doing MSP marketing day to day at Alltek.	Active
The MSP Sales Podcast	Brian Gillette	Sales philosophy and process for engineers who hate selling.	Active

Money, valuation and M&A

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Status (July 2026)
It's a Numbers Game	Daniel Welling & Adam Morris	Pricing, cash flow, margins and what your MSP is actually worth. The finance show MSPs need and mostly avoid.	Active
MSP Growth Engine	Andy Sherman	Revenue growth and valuation strategies from the M&A advisory world.	Quiet since Dec 2025

Cybersecurity for MSPs

Podcast	Host(s)	Best for	Status (July 2026)
The CyberCall	Andrew Morgan (Right of Boom)	Where security practice meets MSP business reality. The community's security conscience.	Active
Risk to Revenue: The MSP Growth Blueprint	Tim Golden (Compliance Scorecard)	Turning compliance and risk conversations into recurring revenue, from a founder who ran an MSP himself.	Active
The MSP Security Playbook	Jacob Hazelbaker & Adam Pilton (Heimdal)	A newer vendor-run show on selling and delivering security.	Publishing since 2025

The Famous Ones That Have Gone Quiet

These shows appear on nearly every "best MSP podcasts" roundup published this year. None of them has released an episode in over nine months. The back catalogs remain genuinely valuable, just do not wait for new episodes.

Podcast	Host(s)	Last episode	Worth the back catalog?
TubbTalk	Richard Tubb	Sep 2025 (a formal farewell episode)	Absolutely. 150+ interviews with the smartest people in managed services.
Now That's IT (N-able)	N-able	Sep 2025	Yes, for the founder resilience stories.
Sunny's Silver Linings	Sunny Kaila (IT By Design)	Jun 2025	Selectively, for the talent and scaling episodes.
RocketMSP Podcast	Steve Taylor	Feb 2025	Yes, for tools and stack decisions that have not aged.
SuperPod	SuperOps	Dec 2024	The owner-journey interviews hold up.
MSP Voice	Doug Hazelman (MSP360)	~2020	Mostly historical interest now.

The Smarter Move: Get On These Shows

Here is the thing most MSP owners miss about this list: more than half of the active shows above are interview formats that need a steady supply of guests. The hosts are not doing you a favor by having you on. You are solving their weekly content problem.

A 45 minute podcast 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 genuine story, whether that is a niche you own, a buyout you pulled off, or a number most owners get wrong, pick the three shows above whose audience matches yours and pitch the host directly. Be specific about the story, not about yourself.

This is part of how I think about MSP content marketing in general: showing up where trust already exists beats building an audience from zero. The same logic drives the MSP leaders community I run: be present where your buyers already are, whether that is a podcast feed, a peer group or a ChatGPT answer.

Last verified July 2026. Feeds change; if a show on this list has resumed or gone quiet since, tell me and I will update it. For the in-person version of this list, see the 2026 MSP events calendar.

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