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

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

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

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

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

you through how you can add your podcast to

YouTube using its really simple ingest system.

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

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

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

your podcast show settings and look for your

YouTube Studio option. Click on that. That will then

take you through to your YouTube Studio dashboard. Once

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

and you want to click new podcast.

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

scratch using their hosting video only of course, you

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

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

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

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

button. Or you can use the new ingestion tool,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

missing owner email for RSS feed, please contact your podcast

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

If I go into my dashboard with my hosting company,

Captivate, and go to podcast settings, I can scroll

through in the page privacy settings hide

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

going to click unhide for 24 hours

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

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

next once again. And it's

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

minutes for this to clear through and your email

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

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

when it comes to winding forward content three.

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

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

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

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

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

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

far, I can upload certain episodes published since

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

episodes I'm making now, which are maybe geared

more towards both types of audience, audio and video.

Or I could make sure that it doesn't upload

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

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

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

also see that it says paid promotion and it

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

contain paid promotion. Mine does

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

you've actually got episodes published within your RSS

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

go. It now confirms I've created a podcast

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

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

now going to be out there within YouTube as a

legitimate podcast. I can click view podcasts

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

ingesting and the playlist. It's going to

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

see that I actually have the

podmaster as a video podcast,

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

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

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

the Podmaster helping you master the old art of podcasting

is now a video RSS

feed based podcast in YouTube. And it's as

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

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

done, which is putting a podcast feed in

a main channel offering, as in my brand Podknows

podcasting, I would set up a bespoke podcast

for that podcast. So your channel would be your

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

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

anyway, to show you how you can do it really

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

own channel for your podcast and submit the RSS

feed through that. Hope that helps.