How To Upload A Podcast

How to Distribute Your Show Onto the Major Podcast Directories & Apps

Getting your podcast into the popular podcast directories and apps is like shooting fish in a barrel and gratuitous! Here are the required steps:

Prepare your podcast on Simplecast.
Publish at to the lowest degree ane episode.
Submit your show's RSS feed URL to the podcast directories (a 1-fourth dimension process, most people start by submitting their prove feed to Apple Podcasts through Apple tree'south Podcasts Connect website).
Get approved and listed in each directory, and people all around the world will be able to find and listen to your show!
Add Listen & Subscribe Badges on your Simplecast Website and spider web embed players.

How It Works

The podcast directories and apps will monitor the RSS feed that Simplecast provides and updates for your testify after you submit your prove's RSS feed URL to those directories.

Whenever you publish a new episode in your Simplecast account, the directory or app will run across that a new episode, display information technology and notify anyone who has subscribed to your show that a new episode is available for download or streaming.

Before you submit your show's feed URL for review and approval, make sure to:

Fill out all the data most your podcast inside the Show Settings page of your Simplecast dashboard, which you can access by clicking on the Gear Icon in the upper lefthand corner dropdown card
Have at least ane published episode for your show

Most Pop Podcast Directories to Submit Your Show:

The post-obit is a growing list of the most popular podcast directories/apps to submit your Simplecast RSS Feed to maximize the reach of your audience.

💡 Nosotros've also included instructions about how to modify which RSS feed URL the podcast directories are checking (when you move your bear witness from another host over to Simplecast, for example).

Apple Podcasts - To submit a new show, click here. If your show is already in Apple Podcasts and you'd similar them to use a new RSS feed for your prove, copy your new RSS feed URL and log in to Apple Podcasts Connect. Click on the podcast you'd like to update, then enter in your new RSS feed URL.
Google Podcasts - You tin can now add your new or existing shows to Google Podcasts using Google Podcasts Manager, add users with permissions, and view listener information near your show on Google Podcasts. Click to learn more.
Spotify - To submit your show to Spotify, log into their Spotify for Podcasters website. We recommend creating a new Spotify account for your podcast versus linking information technology to a personal account. If you need to update which RSS feed URL Spotify is checking for your prove, you'll be able to modify that in the Spotify for Podcasters site.
Amazon Music and Audible will exist adding podcasts to their respective services. In advance, you tin submit your podcast to be available on their services when they launch. To submit your show to Amazon Music & Audible, click here.
Pandora - Complete Pandora's intake form here.
Stitcher - To submit a new show to Stitcher, submit your RSS feed here (it's costless). If you need to update the RSS feed on Stitcher, log in to the Stitcher Partner Portal, click on 'Edit Prove Info', paste in the new RSS Feed, and click 'Submit'.
iHeart Radio
To Submit a New Testify: Utilize this grade to submit your bear witness(south) to iHeart Radio.
To update: If your show is non updating on iHeart Radio, delight email assist@iheartradio.com and tell them to update your RSS Feed and provide them with your Show Title, iHeart Radio Prove URL, and your Simplecast RSS Feed.
Samsung Podcasts: To submit a show or multiple shows login to the Samsung Podcasts Partner Portal. Yous will need to create a Samsung account before logging in.
Audacy (Formerly Radio.com)- To submit your bear witness/RSS Feed to Audacy,
click here.
Deezer - To submit your show to Deezer, click hither.
Clouded - Clouded can find your RSS feed automatically as long as it's in Apple Podcasts (there are a few other podcast apps that apply Apple'south podcast directory as well).
Pocket Casts- To submit your bear witness to Pocket Casts, click here.
PlayerFM - PlayerFM has a large mobile and web audience, and excellent search engine optimization. Submit your show by following the steps here.
RadioPublic - Submit your show past following the steps here.
Breaker: To add your Podcast, download the app (on iOS, before long Android) and submit your podcast into their search past "Adding it by the URL". This can exist your Apple Podcast link or RSS feed. Past calculation information technology to Breaker directly, it ensures your podcast is available in their listening app right abroad. Download Billow on iOS.
TuneIn - To add a make new show, click hither. To update an existing RSS feed, fill out their Submit Your Podcast grade, enter your program ID in the "Annotate" field, and the TuneIn back up squad will update information technology accordingly. Click here for instructions on how to find your program ID.
Gaana- Gaana is India'south largest audio streaming app, where you can access millions of songs and podcasts. After submitting your show, your Gaana show URL will be emailed to y'all in a few days on your registered email ID. Submit your podcast on Gaana here.
JioSaavn- JioSaavn is one of India's largest Music & Podcast platforms with over 100 one thousand thousand monthly agile users. You lot volition need to submit your RSS Feed for review. You can add more podcasts in your JioSaavn YourCast dashboard. Become started by submitting your podcast to JioSaavn hither.

A: You can discover your show'south RSS feed URL in the Distribution section of your Simplecast dashboard.

Click the Gear Icon in the dropdown card in the upper lefthand corner of your dashboard.
Click Distribution in the lefthand side bill of fare.

A: SoundCloud is a hosting platform that does not pull information nearly episodes from an RSS feed the same mode that the other podcast directories exercise. If you find value in publishing on SoundCloud, you'll need to manage a hosting account with them and upload new episodes on their platform manually.

Q: Tin can I submit my podcast feed to my ain website (WordPress, Squarespace, or a different CMS/platform)?

A: Websites practise non operate like podcast directories, and virtually will not list your episodes and episodes notes as blog posts using an RSS feed. However, our embeddable sound players get in like shooting fish in a barrel to share your episodes on your own website.

Q: How long will it take to become my podcast to exist approved and listed in Apple Podcasts and other podcast directories/apps?

A: Approval times vary for every directory. Please review their documentation or contact the podcast directory's support team for more than data on approving time-frames. We would love to help speed upwards the procedure simply we do not take that admission. It'due south completely in the control of the directories.

Q: Will I have to re-submit my podcast feed every time I publish a new episode?

A: No: You won't ever need to re-submit your feed. One time your show's feed is approved past the podcast directories, they'll automatically get any updates or new episodes that you publish in your Simplecast dashboard. That includes whatsoever edits/updates you make to the show or episode details (audio files too).

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Finished submitting your show feed to the podcast directories? Here are another helpful articles to check out:

How to Add Podcast App Badges to Your Simplecast Site and Embed Players
How to Build a Perfect Podcast Website
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Need help starting your podcast? Check out Admittedly Everything You Demand To Commencement Your Podcast.

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Do you still have questions? We'd be happy to respond them. Contact the support team from the driblet-down menu located in the top-correct corner of your Simplecast dashboard or transport an email to back up@simplecast.com