How to get your podcast on to YouTube - the super simple way!

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YouTube has made it really simple to add your podcast

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

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

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

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

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you through how you can add your podcast to

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YouTube using its really simple ingest system.

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

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

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

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your podcast show settings and look for your

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YouTube Studio option. Click on that. That will then

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take you through to your YouTube Studio dashboard. Once

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

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and you want to click new podcast.

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

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scratch using their hosting video only of course, you

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

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

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

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

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button. Or you can use the new ingestion tool,

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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missing owner email for RSS feed, please contact your podcast

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

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If I go into my dashboard with my hosting company,

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Captivate, and go to podcast settings, I can scroll

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through in the page privacy settings hide

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

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going to click unhide for 24 hours

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

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

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next once again. And it's

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

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minutes for this to clear through and your email

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

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

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when it comes to winding forward content three.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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far, I can upload certain episodes published since

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

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episodes I'm making now, which are maybe geared

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more towards both types of audience, audio and video.

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Or I could make sure that it doesn't upload

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

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

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

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also see that it says paid promotion and it

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

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contain paid promotion. Mine does

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

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you've actually got episodes published within your RSS

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

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go. It now confirms I've created a podcast

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

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

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now going to be out there within YouTube as a

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legitimate podcast. I can click view podcasts

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

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ingesting and the playlist. It's going to

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

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see that I actually have the

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podmaster as a video podcast,

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

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

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

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the Podmaster helping you master the old art of podcasting

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is now a video RSS

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feed based podcast in YouTube. And it's as

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

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

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done, which is putting a podcast feed in

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a main channel offering, as in my brand Podknows

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podcasting, I would set up a bespoke podcast

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for that podcast. So your channel would be your

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

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

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anyway, to show you how you can do it really

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

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own channel for your podcast and submit the RSS

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feed through that. Hope that helps.