Unlock the Secrets Of Sharing Podcasts on Spotify
By Tom Seest
How Do You Put Podcasts on Spotify?
At PodcastBig, we help new podcasters develop strategies to create content, traffic, and revenue from podcasts based on our experiences and experimentation.
Spotify can help expand your audience reach. Podcasters can submit their shows for free submission, while receiving listener totals and demographic data in return.
Libsyn, Anchor and other hosting platforms will automatically submit your podcast to Spotify and once validated, its artwork, description and episodes will appear.
How Do You Put Podcasts on Spotify?
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How Can You Easily Start Your Spotify Podcast Journey?
Spotify is a leading podcast listening platform with over 30 million active users worldwide. Their free account lets listeners listen to any podcast, while giving statistics about who’s listening. It is an effective way of reaching a larger audience and growing shows.
Submitting your podcast to Spotify requires meeting its requirements, such as having a unique title and cover art for each show episode as well as at least one episode description. Also, your podcast must conform to ISO/IEC 11172-3 MPEG-1 Part 3 audio format (MP3) no larger than 200MB in size and be professionally recorded without noise or hum.
Spotify makes signing up for a podcast easy, offering free registration via their website. Simply provide your name, email address, country of residence and agreeing to their terms and conditions before receiving an eight-digit code to verify your account. Afterward, they’ll ask for details about your podcast such as providing its RSS feed link which contains information about each episode.
After you have filled in all of the relevant information, click on “Submit to Spotify” to initiate the submission process. It could take several hours before your podcast goes live on Spotify; once this occurs, share it with your target audience!
Podcasting has quickly become one of the most popular forms of storytelling over recent years, offering an easy and fun way to engage your target audience through social media sharing. However, it should be kept in mind that the podcasting industry remains relatively young; therefore, building up a following may take some time.
Make sure your podcast is “podsafe.” This means only using music you own or have permission from its owner for your show – otherwise you could violate copyright laws and risk being removed from the platform.
How Can You Easily Start Your Spotify Podcast Journey?
How Do You Create a Captivating First Episode?
Spotify can take the hassle out of podcast hosting by automatically pulling an RSS feed from your host, enabling you to upload episodes without needing separate hosting services. Once uploaded, this streaming platform plays your episode on demand while keeping track of listeners – such as “starts,” which counts both complete and partial streams – helping identify popular episodes more quickly. Furthermore, using the Audience tab gives a breakdown of total listeners, active listeners, and new listeners – you can monitor who your listeners are and whether or not they return regularly!
Step one of submitting your podcast to Spotify is creating an RSS feed of your show using either an existing hosting provider, such as Libsyn or Anchor, or one of the free services such as Libsyn or Anchor. After creating an RSS feed for your show, follow the prompts on Spotify’s submission page to complete all necessary details relating to it; such as episode name, description, cover art and other essential details that allow Spotify to identify it and include it in their directory.
Once you have provided all the required information, Spotify will issue you with a verification code to validate that you are the owner of your podcast. With that code in hand, log into Spotify and submit it for review – typically this process takes between one to three days if everything goes according to plan – however if it still does not appear within that period please reach out directly to Spotify Support as this may indicate something was missed during submission.
Your audience will know about your podcast when you promote it through social media or a website with dedicated landing pages, but another way is selling merchandise such as T-shirts or mugs through Printify; this is an effective way of building brand recognition while expanding the size of your listenership.
One way of monetizing your podcast is through paid subscriptions. Spotify provides various plans tailored specifically to podcasters, from the most economical plan all the way up to premium. To set up paid subscriptions, log into your creator account and navigate to Money. From there you can set a price and payment method.
How Do You Create a Captivating First Episode?
How Can Spotify Boost Your Podcast’s Success?
Submitting your podcast to Spotify’s vast directory can significantly extend its reach. To submit, visit the Spotify for Podcasters portal and log in with any Spotify user account. Once logged in, provide the platform with your RSS link – typically provided by hosting services – before entering a primary category and three subcategories to help listeners discover your show.
Once you’ve filled out all the required information, click “Submit.” Spotify will review and approve your submission before making it live; once approved, they’ll send an email notifying you it has been added to their directory; you can also log in to Anchor account and click “Podcast Availability” at the top right.
If your podcasting host is affiliated with Spotify, submitting your podcast via their dashboard may often save time. For instance, Podbean allows users to upload and access statistics about their podcasts through this portal. In order to use it properly, make sure your RSS feed contains at least one episode recorded and published; additionally you’ll require a suitable cover image (you can either use free stock photos or create one yourself); just ensure it fits within 500kb file size limits for optimal results.
Last but not least, you must create an original podcast name and provide detailed episode descriptions with keywords your listeners would use to search for your show on Spotify. Furthermore, ensure it is “podsafe” by not including copyrighted material without appropriate licensing agreements in your episodes. By adhering to these tips, you should have no trouble getting your podcast online quickly. Once you’re there, make sure you share it with listeners!
How Can Spotify Boost Your Podcast’s Success?
What Happens After Submitting?
Once your podcast and RSS feed have been submitted to Spotify, they must be approved within 24 hours – during this period, no one other than those with your unique link is able to see your podcast. When approved, a notification email will be sent out from Spotify as well as status updates in “My Podcasts”.
Before Spotify approves your podcast, they must first verify that it belongs to you by sending a verification code directly to the email address associated with your RSS feed – often, this is also where you registered with a podcast hosting service.
Once Spotify has verified that you own your podcast, they will require further details about it. They need to know where and when it was created; its primary language; who hosted it and its primary category. They’ll even let you select up to three subcategories using a dropdown menu; just pick the ones which most closely fit with its genre!
To make sure that your podcast meets all of the guidelines for audio quality and format, make sure that it adheres to the bitrate of 128kbps or greater and cover art should be created using PNG, JPEG or TIFF files with 1:1 (square) ratio at maximum resolution – additionally the show title and episode titles must not exceed 20 characters to avoid being cut off with an ellipsis (“…”) on Spotify.
Additionally, your podcast must meet audio and formatting requirements, but also contain a podcast description. This text appears beneath each episode artwork on Spotify, so it should accurately convey what your podcast covers as well as provide information on where listeners can find more episodes and any relevant links.
Finally, your podcast must be hosted by an established podcast hosting provider such as Libsyn or Anchor to guarantee its inclusion in Spotify’s directory.
Podcasts hosted by unrecognized providers often struggle with being approved on Spotify, however once approved you will gain access to audience metrics and demographic data that can help identify your listener base and plan future episodes; also it allows you to assess which parts keep listeners engaged while others make them reach for the skip forward button.
What Happens After Submitting?
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