There are lots of podcast hosting companies, but not all offer the same features for the same price.
In this post, you’ll learn how RSS.com makes it easy to start, grow, track and make money podcasting.
🎤 Automatic and Guided Distribution to Podcast Directories (like Spotify)
Submitting your show to the major podcast directories is the easiest way to help your you get discovered by new listeners.
Once you’ve uploaded your first episode, you’ll be able to take advantage of RSS.com’s automatic and guided distribution of your show to the major podcast directories.
With RSS.com, you’ll get automatic distribution to these podcast directories:
To ensure your show gets the visibility and exposure it deserves, RSS.com also offers guided distribution to Apple Podcasts, Pandora, Tune In, iHeartRadio and Deezer.
Our guided distribution option makes submitting your show to these popular directories a breeze!
💻 Free Public Podcast Website for Your Show
When you sign up with RSS.com, you’ll get a free, customizable website for your podcast that will display your show’s details and all of your episodes.
With your free website, you’ll enjoy these features:
- Ability to add a custom description for your show and episodes
- Add custom show, episode and chapter art
- Easy 1-click social sharing
- Embeddable podcast episodes
- Donation and website links
- The ability to sort how your episodes are ordered
- Ability to add episode transcriptions
- A podroll, to feature other podcasts you want to support
Below is a screenshot of the free public podcasting website for RSS.com’s own podcast, Podcasting 101 with RSS.com.
🗓️ Episode Scheduling
With RSS.com, you’ll have the ability to prerecord and then schedule your episodes to drop at a future day and time.
Use the scheduling feature to work more efficiently and maximize your episode engagement!
💡 Learn more about RSS.com’s episode scheduling feature here.
📘 Add Chapters to Your Episodes
You may be already be familiar with chapters from seeing them on YouTube.
Similar to YouTube, chapters in podcast episodes are timestamped key moments that you can enhance with custom titles and images.
Adding chapters to your episodes makes it easy for listeners to find and jump to the exact information in an episode that they want to listen to.
💰 Add a Donations and Funding Button
Setting up a donation account on one of the following platforms can be a great way for your fans to show support for your show:
With RSS.com, adding a Donation button to your public podcasting website is easy. From your Dashboard, select “Settings” and then the “Enable Donations” button.
From there you can copy and paste your donation link which will be displayed on your show’s public website.
✏️ Add AI Transcripts to Your Episodes
RSS.com provides you with the ability to add transcripts of your audio to every episode.
In addition to being displayed on your public episode pages and included in your podcast’s RSS feed, you can also publish your transcriptions on a 3rd party website helping to increase your show’s visibility in search engines like Google.
Also, adding transcriptions will help your podcast to be ADA compliant!
💡 Check out this post on the RSS.com blog on how to transcribe your episodes for free.
📈 Cross-Platform Analytics
With RSS.com’s podcast analytics, you’ll get comprehensive podcast analytics data including:
- Real-Time Data Across the Globe: Get live updates on your podcast’s performance from listeners around the world, allowing you to make quick adjustments and stay ahead.
- Cross-Platform Insights: Track your podcast’s performance across all major directories like Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and more, providing a comprehensive view of where and how your audience is listening.
- Detailed Audience Demographics: Understand your listeners better with data on their location, devices, and preferred listening platforms, helping you tailor your content and advertising strategies more effectively.
- Episode-Specific Analytics: Dive deep into individual episode performance, including downloads, top cities, countries, and engagement over time. This helps identify what’s working and what could be improved.
- Visual Heatmaps and Peak Listening Times: Use heatmaps to visualize downloads by location and time, enabling you to optimize your publishing schedule to match peak audience activity.
- Rolling Average Subscriber Estimates: While actual subscriber numbers aren’t always available, RSS.com uses algorithms to estimate follower counts based on immediate downloads, giving you an idea of your show’s growth potential.
- Data Export for Advanced Analysis: Export all your data as a CSV file for further analysis, allowing you to integrate with other tools and customize your data insights.
- Episode Comparison Tool: Compare the performance of different episodes side by side to understand trends, episode popularity, and growth over time, helping refine your content strategy.
Check out the video below for a full walkthrough of RSS.com’s podcast analytics:
📱 Easy 1-Click Social Sharing
Promoting your podcast and encouraging your followers to share your episodes is a great way to help new listeners discover your show.
RSS.com simplifies the process of sharing your episodes on social media with our 1-click social share buttons. You can either share your podcast or individual episodes on Twitter, Facebook, Linkedin, or Pinterest.
▶️ Embeddable Podcast Episodes
A great way to share and promote your episodes is to embed them in other website for easy listening.
RSS.com makes embedding your podcast episodes easy and provides a embed code that you can copy and paste into a web page’s HTML or block to make the player appear.
💡 Learn more about embedding your podcasts here.
Boost Your Network with Podroll
Do you have multiple podcasts? Are there other shows you’d like to support? Looking to boost your podcast networking efforts too? RSS.com’s got your back with our Podroll feature.
Podroll lets you prominently feature up to six podcasts that will appear right on your RSS.com public podcast website.
Once you’ve set it up, your recommendations will be front and center on your public RSS.com website.
Your Podroll picks also sneak into your podcast’s RSS feed. Right now, only TrueFans and Podfriend are able to display this cool feature, but we’re betting more apps will jump on the Podroll bandwagon soon.
Podroll is a networking goldmine! Think about it – you recommend someone’s show, they might return the favor. After all, a rising tide lifts all boats – or in this case, all podcasts!
Ready to give it a try? Log in to your RSS.com account or start a free account and start building your Podroll today.
