This page will help you lot with submitting your podcast to Apple Podcasts (previously known as iTunes podcasts).

Before yous submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts

Before you submit your podcast to Apple tree Podcasts make sure you meet the following minimum requirements for Apple tree Podcasts.

  1. Your artwork is a square jpg or png formatted paradigm at least 1,400 x one,400 and at most 3,000 x 3,000 in size in RGB color space. An image that is 1,400 x ane,400 72dpi jpg is strongly recommended every bit it provides optimal paradigm quality and file size which is of import to provide an image that is web and mobile app friendly.
  2. A unique show championship (check Apple Podcasts to make certain your show title is unique).
  3. At least one Apple tree Podcasts category.
  4. Valid e-mail address in the Writer E-mail field (notifications from Apple tree will be sent to this address; don't use a faux address)
  5. Have created at to the lowest degree one podcast episode with a media file in either mp3, m4a, mp4, m4v, mov, pdf, or epub format.

If you have completed the above steps, y'all are now set up to submit your podcast to Apple tree Podcasts and other podcast directories.

Submit podcast to the Apple Podcasts directory

You must have an agile Apple ID to submit podcasts to the iTunes Store Apple Podcasts directory. Y'all may create a new Apple ID if you do not already have one.

  1. Sign in to Apple Podcasts
  2. Click the iTunes Connect Add podcast button at the top left of the Apple Podcasts Connect dashboard.
  3. Enter your RSS feed into the provided text box and then click the "Validate" button.
  4. A Feed Preview will load if y'all practice not take whatever validation errors. Please take a moment and review your podcast artwork, clarification, general information (e.yard. description, categories, etc), and episodes. Please see the Validation Errors department if you lot take whatsoever problems validating your podcast feed.
  5. If everything within the Feed Preview is correct, click the "Submit" button.

Your podcast is now submitted to the Apple Podcasts directory.

After you lot submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts

All podcasts submitted to Apple tree Podcasts are moderated. The procedure can take upward to 10 days, though most submissions are approved within 3 days and on occasion merely a few hours.

Apple volition due east-mail the accost y'all when your podcast is approved. The message will exist titled "Apple Podcasts Shop Podcast Canonical Notification" and will include your ain unique Apple Podcasts subscribe/follow URL.

See Email Notifications from Apple Podcasts Shop in the Blubrry podcasting manual for detailed explanation of Apple Podcasts notification emails.

Typical Apple Podcasts Connect Validation Errors

If y'all are having problems with your podcast feed, please visit CastFeedValidator.com to diagnose and validate your podcast feed. CastFeedValidator.com is the well-nigh robust and up to date podcast feed validation service and will point out possible issues with non only your podcast feed, but likewise with your podcast media, artwork and website.

Error: Can't read your feed.

Apple tree Podcasts is unable to find a podcast feed at the URL specified.

Ostend that the feed URL entered is valid. We recommend testing the feed URL using the Firefox web browser. A valid RSS feed will appear in Firefox like the example beneath assuasive yous to view the podcast feed in a readable way.

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Some URLs that utilise secure https:// may not exist supported by Apple Podcasts. The SSL document authorities (also referred to as the certificates chain file) must include a root or intermediate certificate that is packaged in the Java Evolution Kit (JDK). Some SSL certificates may crave a special chain file to work.

If y'all continue to have issues, delight validate your feed at CastFeedValidator.com to get a detailed report with instructions how to solve your issues.

Error: Podcast artwork must exist between 1400 x 1400 and 3000 x 3000 pixels, JPG or PNG, in RGB colour space, and hosted on a server that allows HTTP head requests.

The podcast artwork is not of the appropriate size, format, color space and/or hosted on a HTTP/1.1 complaint web server.

Confirm that the artwork image is the appropriate size by viewing information technology directly in the web browser. Nosotros recommend testing the image using the Firefox spider web browser. In Firefox, right click on the paradigm and select "View Image Info". A valid iTunes epitome will take the following attributes:

  • JPEG Image or PNG Image
  • Identical width and elevation
  • Width and height greater than or equal to 1,400 and no greater than 3,000

If the above attributes are truthful, then the issue is either with the web hosting or with the image'southward color space. The color space upshot tin easily exist resolved by saving the PNG paradigm as a JPG with your favorite image editing software. The process of saving the PNG as a JPG will convert the colour space to RGB likewise as shrink the file size in bytes.

If your paradigm is in JPG format and you still receive the error to a higher place, your web hosting provider may be the event. Contact your spider web hosting to verify that your service supports HTTP/1.1 Head requests. Please test your podcast feed at CastFeedValidator.com to confirm.

Mistake: Podcast submitted, before long afterwards received e-mail that podcast was rejected with no caption.

Apple tree did not accept the podcast due to a title conflict, typically if a show already exists with the same verbal title or a previously submitted show had the exact same title on the Apple tree Podcasts directory.

Solution: Slightly alter the title of your podcast then re-submit the podcast feed. If Apple tree has an error that the feed was already submitted, contact Apple back up via Podcasts Connect to re-submit the podcast.

One time the podcast is approved on Apple tree Podcasts, you could change the title back, but simply practice this and then as long as there currently is no other prove with the same title on the Apple podcasts directory.

Error: MXPodcastPublishSubmit.SSLError

One of the unfortunate and most cryptic errors from Apple, the MXPodcastPublishSubmit.SSLError is a SSL error that occurs between your website and Apple's infrastructure. A less ambiguous message would say "Nosotros are having issues communicating with your secure SSL website". AN SSL error tin mean 1 of 2 things; either the certificate has an issue or the SSL server is not communicating correctly with the client. Please see the page nigh Secure SSL Podcas website to see if your SSL's root certificate is supported (about are). If your SSL certificate is supported, more than than likely the 2nd result is the cause, your server is not talking with Apple'southward feed pulling system written in Java.

There are two solutions if your SSL web site does non support Java:

  • Host your podcast feed, media and artwork on podcast supported infrastructure. You tin can proceed your current website equally-is and reach this by using the Podcast Mirror service (a modernistic FeedBurner alternative) to host your podcast feed and artwork, and Blubrry Podcast Media Hosting to host your podcast media files.
  • Take your web hosting gear up the SSL issue with Coffee clients.

If you lot make up one's mind to ask your web host to fix the SSL issue, first use Qualy's SSL Server Examination and and then send them the results URL noting the Java errors on the page. Once the issue is resolved by your host you should be able to re-run the SSL Server Examination to verify Coffee is supported without error.

More information virtually Apple Podcasts

  • Apple (previously iTunes) Podcasts Submission Requirements
  • iTunes Support
  • New Podcast Settings for iOS eleven – 2017
  • Create Apple tree ID for submitting podcasts to Apple
  • Email Notifications from Apple tree Podcasts