Speaking/Advertising

Keynotes that bring the cosmos down to earth — storytelling, research-driven insight, and practical advice for audiences from Fortune 500 leadership to high-school scholars. (Surprise meteorite gifts included.)

Want to reach people who finish hour-long conversations with Nobel laureates? Sponsor The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast.

BRIAN HAS SPOKEN AT
MAICON
TEDx San Diego 2024 ↗ TEDx 2015 ↗ The Royal Institution ↗
Museum of Tolerance
AP Fellows Foundation
UC San Diego
Prof. Brian Keating

What organizers say

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Sponsor The INTO THE IMPOSSIBLE Podcast

I am a physicist, and I host the show the way I would want to listen to it: long, first-person conversations with the people who actually changed their fields. So far that is 28 Nobel Prize winners, 4 Pulitzer Prize winners, plus astronauts, founders and authors.

That kind of show attracts a specific listener. They choose an hour on quantum computing, cosmology or AI over a ten-minute recap. They build things, study things and buy the tools that help them think. If your product helps curious, technical people learn, research or build, they are your customers.

500,000
Subscribers across YouTube and podcast platforms, with 1.4 million views and 416,000 unique viewers a month on YouTube.
20K to 25K
Downloads for the average episode within 30 days of release. Listen on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Audible, YouTube Music, Pocket Casts, TuneIn and Snipd.
4 in 10
Hold a graduate degree: 20 percent a doctorate and 21 percent a master’s, with another 36 percent holding a bachelor’s. Top countries are the USA at 40 percent, the UK at 7 percent, Canada at 6 percent and Australia at 4 percent.
17%
Of listeners say they bought a product or service after hearing about it here, 12 percent recommended one, and 70 percent considered one.

I am a Chancellor’s Distinguished Professor of Physics at UC San Diego and the author of Losing the Nobel Prize (W. W. Norton). When I tell this audience a tool is worth their time, they know I have checked.

Ways to partner

Every partnership starts with one question: what does a win look like for you? Then we build around it.

Get known by the right people
Host-read integrations on the full episode, on YouTube and in the podcast feed, placed where people are listening, not skipping. Run one episode or a multi-episode series so the audience hears you more than once.
Drive sign-ups you can track
Your own link and code, with a segment that shows the product doing real work. Consensus put it this way: the segments “don’t feel like ads; they show exactly how the tool works in a research setting.”
Reach the newsletter
A sponsor slot in the Monday M.A.G.I.C. Message, which reaches about 20,000 subscribers across the newsletter, Substack and LinkedIn, with email open rates consistently above 40 percent.
Build a package around your goal
Packages run from a single episode to a five-episode series, with newsletter add-ons. Tell me your goal and I will send the media kit and packages built around it.

What sponsors say

Brands that do well here make tools for people who think for a living: AI research assistants, quantum computing platforms, learning and reading products, and anything a scientist, engineer or serious student would actually use. Here is what two of them said.

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Recent partners

Brands that have run integrations on the show and in the newsletter.

Shortform
Todoist
Grammarly
Superhuman

How it works

1
Email me with your product and what success looks like: awareness, sign-ups, or content you can reuse.
2
I will send the media kit and two or three packages that fit that goal.
3
My team handles scripting, production, links and reporting. You approve, then show up.

Robert Wold of Quantum Rings called it “one of the highest-return, lowest-effort collaborations” he has been part of. That is the standard.

Request the media kit

Or write to brian@briankeating.com with “Sponsorship” in the subject. I read every one.