Welcome to Pocket-Sized Podcasting, brought to you by Alitu: The Podcast Maker.

And on this episode, we’re talking about publishing your podcast.

This stage can cause some confusion for new podcasters. You might think that you need to upload your episodes to listening platforms like Apple and Spotify, but that isn’t the case.

Instead, you create an account with a podcast hosting provider. That’s the place your podcast “lives”. Your cover art, your show description, and your episodes all go in there. Then, there are a couple of small steps needed to “tell” platforms like Spotify and Apple that your podcast exists.

After that, your show will be listed there, as will each episode you publish within your podcast hosting account. So you only ever need to upload to one single place to have your episodes pushed out to hundreds of listening platforms.

To use an analogy, if your podcast was a magazine, your hosting provider would be the printing press, whilst all of the listening apps and directories would be the shops that your magazine could be found in.

For a deeper dive on how to publish a podcast, head on over to http://ThePodcastHost.com/upload