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VoiceRankVoiceRank: one 0-100 measure of how strong a podcast booking someone is, built from four signals (Presence, Reach, Pull and Authority), each ranked against every other rated voice. Recomputed nightly; the arrow is the week-over-week change.
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Ranked among rated voices
How consistently they actually get booked: guest spots on shows they don't host, with recent ones counting for more. They are ahead of 81% of rated voices on it.81
How many people hear them on YouTube: total views across the episodes they guest on. YouTube alone, because no other platform publishes per-episode plays. They are ahead of 34% of rated voices on it.34
Whether the audience turns out for them: how the episodes they appear on perform against that show's own average. They are ahead of 9% of rated voices on it.9
How central they are to the conversation: who they appear alongside in the guest network, and how connected those people are in turn. They are ahead of 3% of rated voices on it.3
Appearances
9
guest spots
Guest shows
2
excl. their own
Total views
403K
every episode
Last guested
2mo ago
Aug 4, 2026
View lift
Audience impactEpisodes with Richard earn below the show’s typical views. View lift compares their episodes with each show’s own average (1.0×), weighted by episode count. It reports how those episodes did, not what caused it.
0.3×9 appearances on 2 shows
Similar people
Who else fitsPeople booked by the same shows as Richard Sakwa and tagged on the same topics. Further right means more shared shows, higher means more shared topics, measured against the other matches here: the top and right edges are this list’s strongest, and the axes start at none shared. A guest spot counts half as much for each year since it aired. Direct comps lead on both; Same circuit leans on the shows; Fresh angle leans on the topics, from shows Richard Sakwa hasn’t done.
Actively guestingNo guest spot in 12 months
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