3 brands detected in episodes we have transcribed · 17% host-read
8 ad reads · first seen Sep 12, 2026 · last seen Sep 24, 2026 · The Guardian
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bombas.com
“Thank you for calling the Bombas Comfort Line. Bombas make socks, slippers, teas and underwear made with the highest quality materials. Press 1 for comfort, 2 for style, 3 for donation. You chose style. Bombas are styles for whatever you enjoy. You can run in Bombas, lounge in Bombas, dress them up, dress them down, but always give back in Bombas. Because with every item purchased, another is…”
stamps.com
“gone? Save the gas. Stamps.com lets you print postage and schedule pickups right from your desk. Sync your contacts into the address book. Get detailed accounting insights and get notified the moment your certified mail is delivered. All from my desk? All from your desk. Join the four million businesses using stamps.com right now with code podcast and get your free welcome gift. Stamps.com code…”
shopify.com
“I chose Shopify because when I was testing other platforms, it was definitely one of the most user-friendly. It was important to me to think about where we would be in the future. All of the tools for reading your sales like planning inventory. Just right there on your dashboard. For anyone starting a small business, the biggest thing I can tell you is it doesn't have to be perfect. Shopify can…”
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A brand appears here only when an ad read for it was detected in an episode of The Audio Long Read that we have transcribed. It is not a complete record of the show’s advertisers: we do not transcribe every episode, and dynamically inserted ads differ between listeners. Host-read share counts only the reads we could classify. Each quote is the transcript, verbatim, linked to the moment in the episode.