This page will assist y'all with submitting your podcast to Apple tree Podcasts (previously known as iTunes podcasts).

Before you submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts

Before you submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts make sure y'all see the following minimum requirements for Apple Podcasts.

  1. Your artwork is a square jpg or png formatted prototype at least 1,400 ten 1,400 and at most 3,000 x 3,000 in size in RGB color infinite. An image that is 1,400 x 1,400 72dpi jpg is strongly recommended every bit information technology provides optimal prototype quality and file size which is important to provide an prototype that is spider web and mobile app friendly.
  2. A unique prove title (check Apple Podcasts to make sure your bear witness title is unique).
  3. At to the lowest degree one Apple Podcasts category.
  4. Valid e-mail address in the Author Email field (notifications from Apple tree will exist sent to this address; don't apply a fake address)
  5. Have created at least one podcast episode with a media file in either mp3, m4a, mp4, m4v, mov, pdf, or epub format.

If yous accept completed the above steps, you are now fix to submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts and other podcast directories.

Submit podcast to the Apple Podcasts directory

You must have an active Apple ID to submit podcasts to the iTunes Shop Apple Podcasts directory. You may create a new Apple ID if you practise not already accept 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 volition load if yous do non have any validation errors. Please take a moment and review your podcast artwork, description, general data (e.yard. description, categories, etc), and episodes. Please come across the Validation Errors department if y'all have any issues 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 tree Podcasts directory.

After you submit your podcast to Apple Podcasts

All podcasts submitted to Apple Podcasts are moderated. The procedure tin can take up to x days, though most submissions are canonical within three days and on occasion only a few hours.

Apple tree volition email the address you when your podcast is approved. The bulletin will be titled "Apple Podcasts Store Podcast Canonical Notification" and will include your own unique Apple Podcasts subscribe/follow URL.

See E-mail Notifications from Apple Podcasts Store in the Blubrry podcasting manual for detailed explanation of Apple Podcasts notification emails.

Typical Apple Podcasts Connect Validation Errors

If you lot are having issues with your podcast feed, please visit CastFeedValidator.com to diagnose and validate your podcast feed. CastFeedValidator.com is the most robust and up to appointment podcast feed validation service and will signal out possible issues with non only your podcast feed, but also with your podcast media, artwork and website.

Error: Can't read your feed.

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

Confirm that the feed URL entered is valid. We recommend testing the feed URL using the Firefox web browser. A valid RSS feed will announced in Firefox like the example below assuasive you to view the podcast feed in a readable style.

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Some URLs that apply secure https:// may not be supported by Apple tree Podcasts. The SSL certificate government (as well referred to equally the certificates concatenation file) must include a root or intermediate certificate that is packaged in the Java Evolution Kit (JDK). Some SSL certificates may require a special chain file to work.

If you continue to accept issues, please validate your feed at CastFeedValidator.com to get a detailed report with instructions how to solve your bug.

Error: Podcast artwork must exist betwixt 1400 x 1400 and 3000 10 3000 pixels, JPG or PNG, in RGB color space, and hosted on a server that allows HTTP caput requests.

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

Confirm that the artwork image is the appropriate size by viewing it straight in the web browser. We recommend testing the paradigm using the Firefox web browser. In Firefox, right click on the epitome and select "View Image Info". A valid iTunes prototype will accept the following attributes:

  • JPEG Image or PNG Prototype
  • Identical width and meridian
  • 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 spider web hosting or with the epitome's color infinite. The color space issue can hands be resolved past saving the PNG image as a JPG with your favorite prototype editing software. The process of saving the PNG equally a JPG volition convert the color space to RGB as well as shrink the file size in bytes.

If your image is in JPG format and you lot still receive the error to a higher place, your web hosting provider may be the issue. Contact your web hosting to verify that your service supports HTTP/1.ane HEAD requests. Please test your podcast feed at CastFeedValidator.com to confirm.

Mistake: Podcast submitted, shortly later on received email that podcast was rejected with no explanation.

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

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

Once the podcast is approved on Apple Podcasts, you lot could change the championship dorsum, but only practise this and then every bit long as in that location currently is no other show with the same title on the Apple podcasts directory.

Error: MXPodcastPublishSubmit.SSLError

One of the unfortunate and most cryptic errors from Apple tree, the MXPodcastPublishSubmit.SSLError is a SSL error that occurs between your website and Apple's infrastructure. A less cryptic message would say "We are having issues communicating with your secure SSL website". AN SSL error tin can mean 1 of two things; either the certificate has an issue or the SSL server is not communicating correctly with the client. Delight run into the folio near Secure SSL Podcas website to see if your SSL's root document is supported (nigh are). If your SSL document is supported, more than than likely the second result is the cause, your server is non talking with Apple's feed pulling system written in Java.

In that location are two solutions if your SSL web site does not support Java:

  • Host your podcast feed, media and artwork on podcast supported infrastructure. You can keep your current website every bit-is and achieve this past using the Podcast Mirror service (a mod FeedBurner alternative) to host your podcast feed and artwork, and Blubrry Podcast Media Hosting to host your podcast media files.
  • Accept your web hosting fix the SSL issue with Java clients.

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

More information nearly Apple Podcasts

  • Apple (previously iTunes) Podcasts Submission Requirements
  • iTunes Support
  • New Podcast Settings for iOS xi – 2017
  • Create Apple ID for submitting podcasts to Apple
  • E-mail Notifications from Apple Podcasts