Sam DeMaio of Showcase Remodels has been on podcasts, runs his own show — and almost none of it is searchable yet. Here’s how to fix that.
Sam DeMaio has been swinging hammers and leading crews in the Philadelphia area for years. He built Showcase Remodels into a multi-million dollar operation — and if you want proof, you can hear him say it himself. He’s been a guest on the Real Estate Pros Show, on Rock Stars of Remodeling with Drew Barto, and he runs his own YouTube podcast called the Relentless Podcast, with 145 videos and counting.
The problem? Almost none of it is findable in the places that build searchable, lasting authority online.
When you check Podchaser — the closest thing the podcast world has to an IMDb — Sam’s guest appearances on both shows show up, but they’re unclaimed. No creator. No guest credit. Just an episode floating in the database with nobody attached to it. His own podcast, the Relentless Podcast, doesn’t appear on Podchaser at all. Same story on Listen Notes. From the perspective of podcast databases — which increasingly feed into how search engines and AI systems understand who someone is and what they know — Sam DeMaio the expert remodeler and podcast voice barely exists yet.
That’s the gap we’re going to close. And it’s a gap that applies to most local service business owners who’ve started showing up on podcasts without a system to make those appearances count beyond the episode itself.
Why Podcast Databases Matter for Local Businesses
Most local business owners think about their online presence in terms of Google reviews, a website, maybe a Facebook page. Those things matter. But podcast databases are quietly becoming part of the layer that search engines and AI tools pull from when building a picture of who someone is.
When Google constructs a Knowledge Panel for a person, it’s looking for consistent signals across multiple platforms: an X handle, a personal website, a LinkedIn, a Facebook page, and increasingly, their presence on podcast databases like Podchaser. Each claimed, linked, accurate appearance is a signal that says: this person is real, they’re credible, and here’s where to find them.
For a remodeler in Philadelphia, that means when a homeowner searches “Sam DeMaio Showcase Remodels” — or even just “best remodeler Philadelphia” — the digital footprint they find should tell a coherent, authoritative story. Podcast appearances are part of that story. But only if they’re claimed.
What We Found When We Looked Up Sam on Podchaser
The two episodes that are already on Podchaser tell a compelling story about who Sam is.
On the Real Estate Pros Show (July 2025), host Kristen Knapp interviewed Sam about how he built a $4M remodeling business and landed NFL clients. The episode covers his path from military service to entrepreneurship — the kind of origin story that builds instant trust with prospective clients. On Rock Stars of Remodeling with Drew Barto (March 2024), Sam explained why he decided to add a one-day bath business to a custom remodeling operation, and what processes he believes every home improvement company needs to survive.
Both episodes are indexed on Podchaser. Both episodes have zero creator credits attached. Sam DeMaio the guest, the expert, the person who shared hard-won knowledge for 30+ minutes on each show — is invisible on both of them.
The fix is straightforward: create a Podchaser creator profile for Sam, then claim the guest role on each of these episodes. Podchaser allows anyone to submit a creator credit on an episode, though there’s a 48-hour manual review before it goes live — a small friction that keeps the database accurate.
The Bigger Gap: The Relentless Podcast Doesn’t Exist on Podchaser or Listen Notes
The guest appearances are fixable in an afternoon. The larger issue is that the Relentless Podcast — Sam’s own show, with 145 videos on his YouTube channel — doesn’t appear on either Podchaser or Listen Notes at all.
This is common with podcasts that live primarily on YouTube rather than being distributed through a traditional RSS feed to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and other podcast apps. Podchaser and Listen Notes both pull their data largely from RSS feeds. If a show isn’t distributed that way, it won’t be indexed automatically, and it won’t appear in searches.
This is actually an important distinction to understand: Podchaser and Listen Notes don’t have a complete inventory of all podcast content. They have a very good inventory of content distributed through standard podcast RSS feeds. YouTube-native shows, shows that were never submitted to Apple Podcasts, and shows that only live on a creator’s own hosting platform can fall through the cracks entirely.
What to Do About It
There are two paths forward for the Relentless Podcast, and we’ll do both and update this article with results.
The first is to check whether the show has a podcast RSS feed at all. If Sam is hosting the audio anywhere — through a platform like Buzzsprout, Anchor, Podbean, Transistor, or even a podcast plugin on his website — that feed can be submitted directly to Podchaser and Listen Notes. Podchaser has an “+ Add a Podcast” option in their search results; Listen Notes has a submission process as well. Once submitted, episodes can flow in automatically going forward.
The second is to distribute the show properly if it isn’t already. A show that lives only on YouTube is leaving audience and authority on the table. By submitting a feed to Apple Podcasts and Spotify — a process that takes less than an hour if the audio exists — the Relentless Podcast becomes findable by the tens of millions of people who use podcast apps rather than YouTube to discover shows. Those same submissions will trigger automatic indexing on Podchaser and Listen Notes over time.
We’ll walk through this with Sam’s show specifically, document what we find, and update this article with what we actually submitted and what appeared.
The 15-Minute Wins While We Sort Out the RSS
While the podcast distribution question gets resolved, there’s work to do right now on Podchaser that takes about 15 minutes and delivers immediate value.
Go to podchaser.com and search for “Sam DeMaio.” Create a creator profile — Podchaser will walk through a verification process using an X handle as the identity anchor (which is exactly why having a consistent X presence matters, even if it’s not your primary social channel). Fill out the bio, upload a professional photo that matches the one on the Showcase Remodels website and other social profiles. Consistency in name, photo, bio, and links across platforms is what makes an entity recognizable and trustworthy to both humans and search engines.
Then navigate to both existing episodes and submit creator credits — “Guest” on both the Real Estate Pros Show episode and the Rock Stars of Remodeling episode. Those credits will go into manual review, and once approved, Sam’s profile will show those two appearances linked and attributed.
That’s a real foundation. Two strong episodes, properly claimed, with a consistent profile, linked back to samdemaio.com. Each of those links is a signal. Each of those claimed appearances is a brick in a wall that will keep getting built as Sam does more interviews and the Relentless Podcast gets properly distributed.
This Is What the Content Factory Process Is For
The Relentless Podcast already produces raw material at a serious rate — 145 videos is not a small number. The question is whether each of those episodes is doing all the work it could be doing. A properly distributed podcast, with claimed creator credits on Podchaser and Listen Notes, with a linked personal brand site, with episode content repurposed into articles and social clips — that’s the difference between 145 videos that build Sam’s authority and 145 videos that mostly just exist.
We’ll be walking through exactly that process with Sam’s content in future updates to this article. Stay tuned.
Updates — In Progress
We submitted the Relentless Podcast RSS feed to Podchaser on [date]. Here’s what appeared and how long it took.
We claimed Sam’s guest credits on both episodes on [date]. Here’s what the profile looks like now.