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How do I submit my podcast to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other directories?

You can submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music and other popular apps from your podcast's Distribution tab in Transistor. You only need to submit once. After that, every new episode you publish reaches those apps automatically.



Before you submit


The Distribution tab has a checklist of what directories need first:


  • A high-quality podcast artwork image
  • At least one published episode. Drafts and scheduled episodes don't count, so a short trailer is a good way to start.
  • A podcast description
  • A primary podcast category
  • The spoken language of your podcast


Submit your podcast


Go to the Distribution tab for your podcast and work down the list, submitting to each directory. Most take a single click.


You don't need to wait on the page. For most directories, we'll email you when your listing is live. As your listings go live, your Transistor podcast website adds a link to each one automatically.


For the two biggest directories, see:



Distributing video


If your podcast has video, here's the order to do things in:


  1. Turn on video. On the Distribution tab, click Enable video → above the checklist. You can also choose Video & Audio podcast when you create a new podcast.
  2. Publish your first episode with its video.
  3. Finish the checklist and submit to directories, as above.
  4. Connect YouTube and Apple Podcasts in the Video Distribution panel, which appears once the checklist is done. Apple Podcasts offers to send the videos you've already uploaded. For YouTube, click Publish next to YouTube on each earlier episode.


See How do I add video to my existing podcast?


Which platforms can I distribute to?


Your Transistor RSS feed works with any app or directory that accepts RSS feeds. The Distribution tab covers these.


Popular directories and podcast search directories are one-click submit.


Popular directories (one-click submit)



Podcast search directories (one-click submit)


  • The Podcast Index
  • Listen Notes


Listen Notes doesn't accept podcasts with AI-spoken content.


Other apps


Some of these apps pick up your podcast from another directory. For those, we add your link automatically once you're listed there, so you don't need to submit separately.


  • Overcast (pulls from Apple)
  • Castro (pulls from Apple)
  • Castbox (pulls from Apple)
  • Goodpods (pulls from Apple)
  • Metacast (pulls from Apple)
  • Fountain (pulls from The Podcast Index)
  • iHeartRadio
  • Pandora
  • Anghami
  • Gaana
  • JioSaavn
  • TuneIn


For the other apps, submit your RSS feed on their site, then paste your link into the Distribution tab. TuneIn adds podcasts on its own, so just paste your link if you have one.


SoundCloud doesn't accept RSS feeds from other hosts. To have your podcast there, you'd need to upload your episodes to SoundCloud yourself.


How new episodes reach podcast apps


When you publish an episode, Transistor adds it to your RSS feed straight away, and people can listen right away on your podcast website, share pages and embed players. Podcast apps check your RSS feed on their own schedule, so most pick up a new episode within a few hours. Apple Podcasts, Spotify and other platforms say it can take up to 24 hours.


See Why hasn't my new episode shown up in podcast apps yet?


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Updated on: 04/11/2026

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