In the world of podcasts, YouTube is a behemoth. It’s the most-used platform for podcast listening in the US, and it’s also the leading source for podcast discovery.
Yet, it’s not a podcast platform in the traditional sense. Podcast listening apps serve up shows by grabbing them from the podcast’s RSS feed, and YouTube has never had that functionality. Instead, podcasters always had to manually upload each episode to YouTube, either as a full video podcast or something simpler, like an audiogram or a video of a static image.
Until now. YouTube has announced that it now supports adding audio-only podcasts to the platform via RSS feed.
Here’s why you might want to do this for your podcast—and why you might not—and a step-by-step guide to how to do it.
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