Reply All (podcast)


Reply All is an American podcast from Gimlet Media, hosted by PJ Vogt and Alex Goldman. The show features stories about how people shape the internet, and how the internet shapes people. Vogt and Goldman previously hosted the technology and culture podcast TLDR for WNYC. Producers of the show include Phia Bennin, Tim Howard, Damiano Marchetti, and Sruthi Pinnamaneni. The music is by Breakmaster Cylinder.
Reply All premiered November 24, 2014, the second podcast to be developed by Gimlet Media. It was a 2016 Webby Nominee for Best Podcast.

Format

Each episode varies in format, with some recurring segments, including "Yes, Yes, No", in which Vogt and Goldman explain internet trivia to Alex Blumberg, co-founder of Gimlet Media, with occasional help from outside guests. In a variation on this segment called "Sports, Sports, Sports", Blumberg instead explains sports-related tweets to Vogt and Goldman. The segment debuted in episode 106, "Is that You, KD?". In another recurring segment, called "Super Tech Support", the Reply All team—particularly Goldman, who previously worked as a network administrator—takes on odd or especially complex tech support issues that the listeners or friends of the hosts have encountered.

Episodes

Reception

The podcast has received mostly positive reviews, receiving an average of five stars on Apple Podcasts, with over 19,000 reviews.
The podcast was nominated in 2015 and 2016 for a Shorty Award. The nomination cited its unusual social media presence, including an event where the hosts accepted phone calls from listeners for 48 hours straight. In 2016, the Mixcloud Online Radio Awards nominated it as "Best Online Talk Show" in education. The show was also nominated for a Webby Award for Best Podcast.
In 2017, Quartz nominated episode 102, "Long Distance", as "Best Tech Episode". In 2019, the podcast was named the best podcast of the year by Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant and the sixth best podcast of the year by The New Yorker.
In March 2020, the podcast released episode 158, "The Case of the Missing Hit" to wide acclaim. The New York Times reported that the number of overall listeners to the show increased 35 percent across platforms in the days after its release. Hannah J. Davies of The Guardian called it "perhaps the best-ever episode of any podcast" and "an incredibly emotive piece of storytelling."