Apple Podcasts

8 Things You Should Check in Apple Podcasts Connect

Apple provides a portal for you to submit and manage your own podcast called Podcasts Connect. I suggest you check these 8 things right away!

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How to Fix Duplicate Listings in Apple Podcasts (or Other Podcast Apps)

If your podcast is listed twice in Apple Podcasts or another podcast directory, STOP! Don’t do anything about it until you read or listen to this!

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How to Choose the Right Podcast Categories

The right category can help your podcast get discovered and featured. But which categories are best for your podcast when there are so many?

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Should You Limit Your Available Podcast Episodes?

As you podcast consistently, you’ll build up a back catalog of episodes. But should you keep all of those episodes available?

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How to Make Episode Artwork Show in Podcast Apps (even in Apple Podcasts!)

Enhance the experience for your audience by making unique artwork for each episode. But you need to adapt to how each app might display the image.

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Should You Include Seasons in Podcast Episode Titles?

If your podcast uses seasons, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here’s some guidance to help you decide!

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Should You Include Episode Numbers in Episode Titles?

If your podcast uses episode numbers, you have multiple options for how to display them. Here’s some guidance to help you decide! But I’ll give this warning: it’s, unfortunately, more complicated than it should be!

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When to Use Trailer, Full, and Bonus Episode Types [episode 353]

A while back, Apple introduced the RSS tag to let you mark individual episodes as “bonus,” “full,” or “trailer” types. Here’s what each type means and how you should use them in your podcast-publishing tools.

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How Proxies and iOS 14.5 Affect Your Podcast

In summer 2021, iOS 14.5 introduced a major change to Apple Podcasts with implications many podcasters may still not realize. With that update, your audience on Apple Podcasts is no longer getting your podcast directly from your RSS feed, but from a proxy. And that has some potentially bad implications!

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Premium Subscriptions and More Coming to Apple Podcasts

In Apple’s live-streamed presentation on April 20, 2021, they announced several new products and offerings. But in only a couple minutes, Apple CEO Tim Cook mentioned Apple Podcasts with announcements that will affect the whole industry.

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