Learn exactly how to submit your podcast to iTunes and Stitcher Radio with this easy to follow tutorial. Follow these simple steps to get thousands of listeners from the biggest podcasting directories on the internet.

Hi, and welcome to Start A Podcast Fast, the series where I help you get your podcast started really quickly. I’m Ryan McLane from podcastfast.com and in this lesson you’re going to learn how to submit your podcast to iTunes and Stitcher Radio which are the #1 and #2 places where people listen to podcast.

The great news is you only need to do this step once because once you have done it your podcast episodes will automatically update every time you release a new one. In order to submit your podcast to iTunes and Stitcher Radio you need first your RSS feed URL. There are two ways to get this. First you can use the SoundCloud RSS feed which I don’t recommend because it doesn’t give you full control. However if you don’t have your own website and you only have a SoundCloud account then this is what you’re going to have to use. The second method that I recommend is using your own website with the Blubrry PowerPress Plugin.

First I’m going to show you how to find your SoundCloud RSS feed for submitting to iTunes. Go to soundcloud.com and log into your account. When you’ve logged in up the top right you’ll see this little cog which looks like a settings bar, click on it and then find the Settings tab which is located just about the logout tab. Inside the Settings tab you’ll see your RSS Feed. You need to be a SoundCloud podcasting beta user to have a RSS feed so if you’re not a beta user you’ll need to become one. So here’s our RSS feed here and we can simply copy that to use in our submissions to iTunes and Stitcher Radio.

At this point I’m going to show you how to use your own website and find the RSS feed Before you do this you do need to set up the blubrry PowerPress Plugin and I have created a lesson to show you exactly how to set that up correctly so check out that lesson and follow those steps if you haven’t done that already. To get the podcast RSS feed for your website go to yourdomain.com/wp-admin and log into your back end area which will then bring you to this dashboard. We then want to go down to the PowerPress Options and we want to click on Settings and we want to make sure that we are on advanced mode. If you are on this default mode you want to click switch to advanced mode to ensure that you’re in the advanced mode and then you want to go to this feeds tab here and it will show you this special podcast on the feed and the feed is there and you can basically copy the link address and that will copy that feed for submissions into iTunes.

I’m now going to show you how to submit your podcast to iTunes which is by far the #1 way people listen to podcast episodes. The first thing you need to do is open iTunes and go to the iTunes Store. When you’re in the iTunes Store you need to navigate to the podcast section. To do that you can click on these three dots up here which means more and you’ll find the podcast section. When you’re in the podcast section on the right hand side there are some different links there and you can see a link here: submit a podcast. So let’s go ahead and click submit a podcast. That will bring us to this page and we need to submit our podcast feed URL. Now remember if you’re using SoundCloud the RSS feed is in that settings bar here and so you can copy that RSS feed and use that. If you’re using your own website then it’s located in the PowerPress settings under the feeds tab and we want this link here. I am therefore going to go ahead and put that in and we then click Continue. You then need to sign in using your Apple ID. If you don’t have an Apple ID you can go ahead and create one (it is free) and then click Continue.