Connect your podcast RSS feed to YouTube once through Subwave and every new episode appears on your channel automatically, with no manual uploads.
Publishing a podcast to every platform individually, every single time, is a grind that burns most creators out before they ever hit their stride. You forget a platform, upload the wrong file, or just lose the will to repeat the same steps over and over. There's a better way, and it starts with one thing: your RSS feed.
Your RSS feed is a unique link your hosting platform generates for you, a direct line between your show and every platform you want to be on. Every time you publish a new episode, the feed updates automatically, and any platform connected to it syncs the episode instantly. You upload once, it appears everywhere.
You upload once and everything takes care of itself.
Before you can connect anything to YouTube, you need somewhere hosting your episodes. Subwave is free and does exactly this: stores your episodes and distributes them to every platform automatically. Without it, you're logging into YouTube, Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music separately for every single release.
Upload once to Subwave and every platform updates on its own.
How to Connect Your RSS Feed to YouTube
Open Subwave, go to your channel settings, and copy your RSS feed URL.
Open YouTube, tap Create, then select New Podcast. When it asks how you want to set up the show, choose "Submit RSS feed" and paste in the link you copied from Subwave.
YouTube sends a verification code to the email address on your account. Enter it back on YouTube, this just confirms you own the podcast you're connecting.
Once verified, your feed is connected. If you're just starting out, everything populates quickly. If you already have a back catalog, it can take a bit longer, just let it run.
"Depending on how many episodes you already have, it can take some time for everything to show up on your YouTube channel."
Most podcast platforms, YouTube included, display your episode as audio only, even if you recorded video. Subwave supports uploading both audio and video episodes, but if you upload a video episode through the RSS feed, YouTube generates a thumbnail from it and shows a static image rather than playing the full video.
If you want the full video to actually play on YouTube, upload it there directly as well. For audio distribution, though, connecting your RSS feed is still the most efficient way to get your podcast everywhere at once.
From here, you never have to manually upload anything to YouTube again. Every time you publish a new episode on Subwave, your RSS feed updates and YouTube pulls it in automatically, it appears on your channel on its own. You focus on creating, the platform handles the rest.
That's the whole setup. If you want to do the same for Spotify or Apple Podcasts, it follows the same logic: get your RSS feed from Subwave, submit it to the platform, verify ownership, done.
You focus on creating, the platform handles the rest.
