Publishing a podcast to Spotify from Subwave takes five minutes. Use the dedicated Spotify feed URL from your channel settings, then upload auto-generated short clips to cover the video gap.
Getting your podcast onto Spotify takes about five minutes with Subwave, and the process is simpler than most people expect. The one thing to know upfront: unlike Apple Podcasts, Spotify is audio only. No video imports. But that limitation matters less than it sounds, because Subwave handles the workaround automatically.
When you're setting up your show in Spotify for Creators, you don't use the same RSS feed you'd use for Apple Podcasts. Subwave gives you a dedicated Spotify feed URL, separate from the general feed that includes all your videos. Head to your Subwave account, go to Settings, find the channel you want to distribute, click Manage, and copy the Spotify feed URL. Paste it into Spotify's "Find an existing show using RSS" field, and that's it. All your episodes import automatically.
Use the Spotify-specific feed URL from Subwave settings, not the general RSS feed.
Since Spotify won't pull in your video files, the short-form clips Subwave generates become genuinely useful here. Every time you upload a long-form episode, Subwave automatically generates short video clips along with a transcript, subtitles, and show notes. You can download those shorts and upload them directly to your episode on Spotify as video clips.
Within five minutes, you can publish your podcast to Spotify.
The practical result: your full audio episode lives on Spotify through the RSS feed, and your short clips give listeners a video hook they can actually watch inside the app. It works, and seeing it live on a phone screen makes it feel real in a way the setup process doesn't quite convey.
To recap what you're actually getting without extra work: a transcript, subtitles, short clips, show notes, a general RSS feed for Apple Podcasts (including video), and a separate Spotify-optimized feed. Upload your episode once, and distribution across both major platforms follows from there.
"It's a really wild time to be a creator." — Frank, Subwave
Spotify being audio-only felt like a constraint worth worrying about. With the shorts workflow, it mostly isn't. Five minutes, one upload, two platforms covered.
