I uploaded my podcast episode with Spotify Podcast, formerly Anchor.Fm but the episode is stuck in drafts

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I uploaded my podcast episode with Spotify Podcast, formerly Anchor.Fm but the episode is stuck in drafts

I uploaded my podcast episode ion the spotify podcast which is formerly known as anchor.fm. it uploaded perfectly to spotify, but for apple the episode appears, with all the information filled in but it is in draft. there is no option for me to make it active, or edit anything if needed. all information is filled in, so I am not sure what's going on?

the audio is also available and so is transcript for it.

can anyone help please!

Posted on Jun 5, 2024 6:17 PM

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Kayana01 Author

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Jun 6, 2024 5:21 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

Thank you so much for your response!

RSS feed: https://anchor.fm/s/78ff6a40/podcast/rss

on anchor fm there is another link I couhttps://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kayana-rich-%7C-rich-x-talk-podcast/id1608107653

i didn’t want to use this one because it has US and I’m in Canada

podcast url:

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kayana-rich-%7C-rich-x-talk-podcast/id1608107653

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Answer 2

Jun 6, 2024 7:17 AM in response to Kayana01

On the whole your feed is OK. You have 'Yes' for your "iTunes explicit" tags: this should be 'true' but I don't think this is fatal. The W3C validator flags a few minor things but nothing to be concerned about (except that some of your 'summary' tags contain HTML, which may be displayed rather than rendered and look messy).

When looking at your podcast in the Podcasts app 'Browse' on a Mac episode 201 does not show. however when subscribing (where the feed is read directly) it does appear.

The episode was only posted 17 hours ago: it's not unusual for it to take up to two days, occasionally more, for a new episode to appear, so I think it's probable that you will see it in the next day or so.

The Anchor link you say you don't want to use is just the Apple URL (not the feed), the same as you quote later. You can use a URL omitting both the 'us/' and the title and it will still work:

https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/id1608107653

though the two sections will be filled in when the page loads.

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Kayana01 Author

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Jun 6, 2024 9:20 AM in response to Roger Wilmut1

hello! im not sure which one you are looking for?

https://anchor.fm/s/78ff6a40/podcast/rss

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/kayana-rich-rich-x-talk/id1608107653

thank you again!

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Jun 5, 2024 11:40 PM in response to Kayana01

If you post the URL of your feed, and that of your Apple Podcasts preview page if your podcast is already up, I'll have a look an see whether any issue is apparent.

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