How do I start a podcast with Apple?

First step is to come up with a Title and show format - and then record your first episode or Trailer episode.

To get your show set up - you will need to get ALL of the following assets ready:

1. Artwork per the following specs:

1,400 x 1,400 pixels min to 3,000 x 3,000 pixels max - SQUARE

.jpg or .png

RGB color

AND

<500 kb in file size.

NOTE per Apple - do not have the Show Title in the lower 15% of the image

2. Show meta data -  Title, Description, website URL you want to point to.

3. Your first episode - If it is Spoken word Audio we recommend the following encoding:

.mp3 Format

128 kbps - Bit rate

44.1 khz - sample rate

mono

This works out to ~1 MB per minute 

4.  Your first Episodes Meta data - Title and Description

You do need to have ALL items - not most - but ALL items above ready first.  

Then you need to go and sign up with a Podcast host such as Libsyn.com - where you will upload all the items above and then get an RSS Feed. Your podcast host will then have instructions for you on how to then submit to Apple Podcasts.

Here are the instructions from Libsyn

Submitting show to Apple Podcasts / iTunes

http://blog.libsyn.com/2016/02/16/changes-coming-to-the-itunes-submission-process/

Let me know if you have any questions.

Rob W

Libsyn