A podcast app will, every so often, pull down a new copy of your RSS feed - and see if there’s a new episode of your podcast in there. Podcasting works using an RSS feed, which is essentially a list of your episodes. James Cridland, from Podnews, explains why: However, it can take a while for your episode to appear in individual podcasting apps like Apple Podcasts, Overcast, and Google Play. So if you share the episode using our built-in sharing features, people can listen right away.

When you publish an episode on Transistor, the MP3 is instantly available on our server. Anyone subscribed to your show via those podcast apps will automatically see the new episode in their library.Once your RSS feed is updated, podcast apps (like iTunes) detect the new episode and update their directory.When you save and publish your episode, Transistor updates your podcast's RSS feed.You create a new episode on Transistor, and upload your audio file (which we convert to MP3).What happens after you submit your podcast?Īfter that's done, every time you publish a podcast episode on Transistor, it automatically gets pushed out to all of the podcast player apps. You do not need to submit your podcast to them. Google Podcasts will automatically crawl any public podcast feed on the web. Submitting to Apple Podcasts is particularly important because almost all of the other popular directories pull their data from Apple.

It can take them up to 5-8 days to manually review submissions. Apple Podcasts – you'll need to manually submit your RSS feed to Apple's Podcast Connect.Go to the 'Integrations' tab and click 'Submit.' Spotify – Transistor can submit your podcast to Spotify immediately.Once you've set up your podcast on Transistor, we recommend that you submit to these public directories: After that those platforms will automatically pick up every new episode you publish. Note: You only need to submit to Apple Podcasts and Spotify once.

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