Merch for the curious and weird
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) (scaredtodeathpodcast.com) scores 67 out of 100 on Brand Analyzer, placing it in the Developing tier among Media & Entertainment brands, E-commerce brands, in the 15th percentile of 19758 Media & Entertainment brands.
Timesuck Podcast is a media brand produced by Bad Magic Productions, covering topics such as true crime, serial killers, comedy, science, and history. The brand operates an official online merchandise store, scaredtodeathpodcast.com, offering fan products tied to the podcast's content. It positions itself as a resource for listeners interested in curious and unusual subject matter, combining entertainment media with e-commerce.
| Brand Name | Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) |
|---|---|
| Domain | scaredtodeathpodcast.com |
| Industry | Media & Entertainment, E-commerce |
| Parent Company / Owner | Bad Magic Productions |
| Main Competitors | Last Podcast on the Left (72/100), My Favorite Murder (79/100), Crime Junkie (72/100), Morbid Podcast (54/100), True Crime Garage (72/100), Generation Why Podcast |
Moz Domain Authority 26/100 vs category average 53 / leader 100 - limited third-party links, so AI systems rarely encounter mentions of the brand.
No Wikipedia presence was found - a major gap, since Wikipedia is among the most heavily weighted sources in AI training data.
The homepage meta description reads "Merchandise for fans of Serial Killers, True Crime, Comedy, Science, History, and everything in between. Timesuck is for the curious and the weird. No other podcast has better merc…" (Meta description: 29 words (ideal length). OG description present and descriptive) - this is the summary AI engines are most likely to quote.
Structured data on the homepage: 2 JSON-LD block(s), Organization schema, og:title, og:description, og:image, og:type, Twitter cards, canonical. Adding FAQ schema would further help AI crawlers parse the brand's identity.
AI-crawler access: robots.txt present, no AI bot restrictions - robots.txt controls whether engines like GPTBot and ClaudeBot can read the site at all.
Detected tech stack: Cloudflare, Shopify.
Social footprint: verified profiles on Instagram; no detected presence on Facebook, X (Twitter), LinkedIn, YouTube, GitHub - consistent profiles reinforce the brand's identity across the web.
0 Reddit mentions - community discussion signals real-world reputation to AI models.
Common questions people ask in Google, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, Perplexity, and other AI search engines.
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions)'s main competitors in Media & Entertainment: Last Podcast on the Left (72/100), My Favorite Murder (79/100), Crime Junkie (72/100), Morbid Podcast (54/100), True Crime Garage (72/100).
Sources: Brand Analyzer scan
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) has limited AI-search visibility, scoring 25/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI visibility composite (visibility 0, trust 36, recommendation 56). This estimates how likely AI engines like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini and Perplexity are to know, trust, and recommend the brand.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) scores 56/100 on Brand Analyzer's AI recommendation signal, indicating it is reasonably likely to be surfaced when AI assistants like ChatGPT suggest Media & Entertainment options. Recommendation depends on crawlability, structured data, and category authority.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck is a podcast produced by Bad Magic Productions that explores topics including true crime, serial killers, comedy, science, and history. It is associated with an official merchandise store at scaredtodeathpodcast.com, which sells fan-related products tied to the show's content and themes.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) can improve AI discoverability by strengthening structured data (Organization and FAQ schema), maintaining an accurate Wikipedia/Wikidata entity, earning authoritative citations, and keeping content crawlable for AI bots. Brand Analyzer measures these as visibility, trust, and recommendation signals.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck offers podcast episodes centered on true crime, serial killers, comedy, science, and history. Through its online store, it also sells official branded merchandise designed specifically for fans of the podcast and its content themes.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck is known for blending true crime and serial killer topics with comedy, science, and history content in its podcast episodes, as well as for offering official fan merchandise through its dedicated online store under Bad Magic Productions.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
The brand's audience consists of listeners and fans of the Timesuck podcast who are interested in true crime, serial killers, comedy, science, and history. The site describes this audience as curious, quirky, and loyal followers of the show who purchase related merchandise.
Sources: Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) official site
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) scores 25/100 for AI visibility - how well ChatGPT, Claude, Perplexity and Google AI Overviews can discover, identify and cite the brand.
Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions) has a weak AI-visibility profile at 25/100 - a proxy for how readily ChatGPT, Perplexity and Google's AI Overviews can recognise and cite it. Its strongest area is recommendation likelihood (56/100) and its weakest is visibility (0/100). It benefits from open access for AI crawlers (GPTBot, ClaudeBot, etc.) and machine-readable schema.org markup. The main gaps holding it back: no clear Wikipedia entity to anchor it in LLM training data, no strong Wikidata entry and a low Moz Domain Authority of 26/100.
The score combines seven dimensions - name quality, digital presence, visual identity, messaging clarity, trust foundation, AI discoverability, and brand authority - into a single objective benchmark.
Ranked closest to Timesuck Podcast (Bad Magic Productions): Satta King (67/100), Saratoga Arts (67/100), Scarlet Moon Records (67/100), Schauspielhaus Zürich (67/100).
A step up - brands to learn from: Ziyouz (71/100), Ziggo GO (71/100).
Category leader: Change.org (97/100).
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