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Q: How do i get my YouTube video podcast to appear in my iTunes RSS feed?

I'd like my video podcast on YouTube to appear in my iTunes feed, but how? All links in this forum to this Q seem old.

Any tips welcome, thanks!

I know it can be done -- see Ricky Gervais example attached -- but where does the video get hosted (is YouTube no good for this?)

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Posted on May 4, 2016 5:06 AM

by Roger Wilmut1,Solvedanswer
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richle wrote:

 

http://www.smartpassiveincome.com/how-to-start-a-podcast-podcasting-tutorial/ and in particular his tutorial (video) on content hosting.

Clearly he's not a techie, but he is well-respected for how he explains the whole thing, and doing quite nicely out of it all. He has some cred ;-)

I've only looked briefly at his page: mostly it seems OK though I would quibble with one or two points. As regards hosting, the point he is making is that if you get popular it will consume a lot of bandwidth, so you need a service which can handle this - which is true enough. He suggests that hosting on the same server as your main website might result in that being affected by heavy bandwidth consumption of the podcast media, rather than suggesting that webspace hosting per se isn't suitable. if you subscribe to a service which can handle a large bandwidth this wouldn't be a problem; but the real issue here is that the popular free hosting services such as Google Drive or Dropbox are simply not up to handling podcast media: both have caused innumerable problems complained about here.

I don't know about Vimeo but I would have thought that like YouTube it simply provides embedded players, not a format which iTunes can read.

Posted on May 9, 2016 12:34 AM

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  • by shawnogordo,

    shawnogordo shawnogordo May 9, 2016 10:14 AM in response to richle
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    May 9, 2016 10:14 AM in response to richle
    So can you give me the names of any 'proper servers' -- the ones with 'byte range requests'?


    http://www.blubrry.com/ has all the tools you need to host your media files and publish them to iTunes, etc. e-Mail me: shawn(at)blubrry.com and I can give you a code to try the service free for a month.

    I wonder if Vimeo can offer that? Or Dropbox even... Or does it need to be something more along the lines of an Amazon Server Cloud service or something.


    Vimeo doesn't offer any publicly available downloading services, and you will need that in order to get into iTunes. Dropbox/Google Drive aren't designed to be used as CDN's and even if you can get them to work at first, they will eventually fail. Some people use Amazon services to deliver media. At first, it's OK because the cost is low but it doesn't usually scale with audience growth. Eventually, you'll be paying more to deliver that media than you would using a dedicated media hosting company.

    Presumably then, whatever hit-count they're getting for the Gervais show on YouTube has no correlation to the viewers they're getting on iTunes, as they're being hosted in completely different places.


    That's true. The stats on YouTube and the stats generated thru iTunes and other downloads would be separate. Blubrry provides stats for any traffic you receive thru the service.

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