Apple Podcasts is one of the most popular podcast directories. Beyond the fact Apple has coined the term “Podcast”, they also were among the first to distribute them in a user-friendly way. Since the early days of iPods and iTunes, podcasts are available on Apple platforms, so you probably get the point. (Assuming you’re old…
Distributing your podcast is one of the most important steps when launching or growing your podcast. After all the hard work planning, recording, editing and finalizing your podcast audio and content, it’s time to distribute it to popular podcast platforms and directories. This often brings a very important question – How can I upload my…
One of the first steps when you start a podcast is to make your podcast available and discoverable on podcast directories. Spotify is definitely one of the first directories you should start with. Up until recently, Spotify had little to do with podcasting. They solely focused on music. A few years back, Spotify started making…
Welcome to the Podcast Showcase series. In each post, we’ll bring you one featured podcast, and give a short overview about the people behind the microphone, the process they use to podcast efficiently, share tips and recommended tools used for the podcasts and more. We’ll share images of their podcast equipment or setup, and links…
Anchor.fm is the most popular podcast host. It is completely free, and backed (owned) by Spotify. If you’ve just decided to start a podcast, Anchor.fm might be a great solution for you to start with. It helps lowering the entry barriers and anyone with a simple smartphone can start their own podcast with Anchor. In…
If you are a podcaster, or want to start your own podcast, one of the most important terms you should be familiar with is the RSS feed. What is a podcast RSS feed you might ask? We’ll deep dive into RSS feeds in this article, but generally speaking it’s a public “list” of all your…
With more than 1,000,000 podcasts in the wild, it’s always interesting to see which are the most popular podcasts, most downloaded podcasts, and the podcasts that are running for the longest time. In this article, we explore the ones that reached the top of the charts, but remember they all started somewhere! We also take…
Simplecast is a podcast hosting, management and distribution tool. It has been really popular among podcasters for the past few years, and they were recently acquired by Sirius XM. They offer multiple plans for podcast hosting, sharing, and advanced stats/analytics. There are thousands of Simplecast users, and many must wonder how to create a complete…