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Dec. 5, 2023

How to get your podcast on to YouTube - the super simple way!

How to get your podcast on to YouTube - the super simple way!

YouTube Podcasting: Step-by-Step Guide to Ingesting Your Podcast into YouTube

In this episode of "The Podmaster", I'm sharing the process of adding your podcast to YouTube using its simple ingest system.

If you're a Libsyn customer, you probably won't need to go through any of this because they offer an easy way to add your show using their destinations page, and a similar tool is planned for Captivate customers.

But in case you're needing to add your own podcast to YouTube, here I am walking you through it.

To start with, you'll need to go into your show settings to obtain your RSS feed from your podcast hosting company.

Then, make sure you're logged into your YouTube account.

You'll be using the YouTube Studio tab to create and upload your podcast.

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YouTube has made it really simple to add your podcast

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to YouTube. Now, whether you should or shouldn't is

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a debate for another day. There are lots of reasons why you should.

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There are lots of reasons why you shouldn't. But for the purposes of this,

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let's assume that you've decided you should. So I'm going to talk

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you through how you can add your podcast to

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YouTube using its really simple ingest system.

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Before we start, we're going to go and get our RSS feed from our

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hosting company. Now, whether you're using Libsyn, Buzzsprout

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or Captivate, as I'm currently using, you'll find this in

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your podcast show settings and look for your

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YouTube Studio option. Click on that. That will then

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take you through to your YouTube Studio dashboard. Once

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you're in there, you want to go to create

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and you want to click new podcast.

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This thing gives you three options. You can either create a new podcast from

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scratch using their hosting video only of course, you

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won't be going to any of the podcast apps. With that, you can set an

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existing playlist as a podcast. So if you've already been posting out

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videos related to your podcast, but you'd like to

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take that playlist and turn it into your podcast, you could do it clicking that

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button. Or you can use the new ingestion tool,

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submit RSS feed. I'm going to do that because I haven't yet

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set my podcast as a YouTube podcast yet. You get a load

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of bump. You've got to read through. No one ever does. You click Agree and

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you hit accept. Oh my God, I've signed my life away.

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Now it gives you a load of gump about how it all works. Click through

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that next and we're going to pump in the RSS feed.

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It's going to check that RSS feed. Now this, I've left

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this in this content because it's important that you know

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all about this. It's come up with the RSS feed is invalid

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missing owner email for RSS feed, please contact your podcast

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hosting company. I've done this on purpose. I know exactly why that is.

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If I go into my dashboard with my hosting company,

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Captivate, and go to podcast settings, I can scroll

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through in the page privacy settings hide

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email address from feed. Email is currently hidden. I'm

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going to click unhide for 24 hours

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and it says, email is currently unlocked for a 24 hours period.

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I'm then going to show you back in the dashboard and I'm going to hit

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next once again. And it's

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still saying that it's missing. It might take maybe two to five

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minutes for this to clear through and your email

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to be public once again. So let's just wind time on, shall we,

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using that very cleverly used trick, the oldest trick in the book

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when it comes to winding forward content three.

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And it's finally gone through. So now it's given me the

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option to get a code, a verification code, to confirm

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that I own this feed. So I'm going to click send code that's

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now going to come through to my email. Okay, I now have that code

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and it gives me the option. Now I can either upload all

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episodes in my RSS feed, everything I've published so

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far, I can upload certain episodes published since

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a certain time. So this could be handy if I only want

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episodes I'm making now, which are maybe geared

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more towards both types of audience, audio and video.

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Or I could make sure that it doesn't upload

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any old episodes and only those that I publish. From this point

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forward, I'm going to say upload all episodes in the RSS

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feed. Why not? I've got nothing to be ashamed of. You

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also see that it says paid promotion and it

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gives you the option to tick a box saying episodes from my RSS feed

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contain paid promotion. Mine does

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not. Then you get a text telling you that you need to make sure that

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you've actually got episodes published within your RSS

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feed. And that is the same for Apple podcast, to be fair. There we

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go. It now confirms I've created a podcast

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from the RSS feed. It does tell me it's going to take some time

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to upload the episodes that I've released, but they are

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now going to be out there within YouTube as a

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legitimate podcast. I can click view podcasts

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and there we are. These are the episodes it's

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ingesting and the playlist. It's going to

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whir around for a while until it's done it. You can

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see that I actually have the

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podmaster as a video podcast,

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which sounds weird saying it, because I'm one of those people that says it's

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not a podcast if it's video and doesn't have an RSS feed. But there

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we are. Let's not get into that debate right now. But as you can see,

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the Podmaster helping you master the old art of podcasting

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is now a video RSS

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feed based podcast in YouTube. And it's as

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simple as that. If I was to give advice to a new

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podcaster that's doing this, I would say don't do what I've just

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done, which is putting a podcast feed in

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a main channel offering, as in my brand Podknows

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podcasting, I would set up a bespoke podcast

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for that podcast. So your channel would be your

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podcast's name. The reason I've done it this way is to

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show you because I don't really care about YouTube for my podcast

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anyway, to show you how you can do it really

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easily. Okay. But very simply, I would say set up your

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own channel for your podcast and submit the RSS

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feed through that. Hope that helps.