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Your sermon podcast on Apple Podcasts and Spotify

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church staff with Sermons and media (owners, administrators and content editors)
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  1. Turn it on
  2. Submit it
  3. What goes in the feed
  4. Good to know
  5. Coming from Planning Center

Your church’s podcast is made from your sermons. Turn it on once, submit its address to Apple Podcasts and Spotify, and every sermon you publish with audio reaches them on its own.

Turn it on

  1. Go to Website → Sermons and choose Podcast.
  2. Switch on Publish a podcast.
  3. Title: the podcast’s name, such as “Alpha Church sermons”. Required.
  4. Description, Author (usually your church) and Category (Religion & Spirituality, or Christianity, Religion or Spirituality within it).
  5. Contact email: Apple asks for one to confirm the podcast is yours. Use your office’s address: it is in the feed for anyone to read.
  6. Artwork: a square image from Website → Images, 1400 to 3000 pixels wide, as Apple asks.
  7. Choose Save podcast. The Feed address is shown the next time you open Podcast: https://<your website>/sermons/feed.xml.

Submit it

  • Apple Podcasts: sign in to Apple Podcasts Connect, choose Add a show, then Add a show with an RSS feed, and paste the feed address.
  • Spotify: sign in to Spotify for Creators, choose Add an existing podcast, and paste the feed address.

You do this once. After that, a sermon you publish with audio becomes an episode the next time each app checks your feed (usually within an hour or so).

What goes in the feed

  • Every published sermon with audio (uploaded, or a link), newest first, up to 300.
  • Each episode carries the sermon’s title, date, speaker, summary and scripture, its artwork (or the series’s), and its length when the file was uploaded.
  • A sermon with video only is not an episode. A sermon you unpublish or delete leaves the feed.

Good to know

  • Switching Publish a podcast off removes the feed: podcast apps stop receiving new episodes, and your website no longer offers “Subscribe to the podcast”.
  • Your website’s sermon archive offers the feed to visitors while the podcast is on.

Coming from Planning Center

Planning Center Publishing pushes sermon audio to a podcast feed per channel that you submit to Apple and Spotify, and updates it as you add episodes. HoW does the same for your church’s sermon library, with one feed.