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. One thing to know upfront: unlike Apple Podcasts, Spotify is audio only, no video imports. That matters less than it sounds, though, because Subwave handles the workaround for you automatically.
Here's exactly how to do it.
Spotify doesn't use the same RSS feed as Apple Podcasts. Subwave gives you a dedicated Spotify feed URL, separate from the general feed that includes your videos. Go to your Subwave account, open Settings, find the channel you want to distribute, click Manage, and copy the Spotify feed URL.
Use the Spotify-specific feed URL from Subwave settings, not the general RSS feed.
Paste that URL into Spotify's "Find an existing show using RSS" field. That's it, all your episodes import automatically from there.
Since Spotify won't pull in your video files, this is where the short clips Subwave generates become genuinely useful. Every time you upload a long-form episode, Subwave automatically generates short video clips, a transcript, subtitles, and show notes. Download those shorts and upload them directly to your episode on Spotify as video clips. Your full audio episode lives on Spotify through the RSS feed, and the shorts give listeners a video hook they can actually watch inside the app.
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 comes out of one upload, no extra work required: a transcript, subtitles, short clips, show notes, a general RSS feed for Apple Podcasts (video included), and a separate Spotify-optimized feed. Upload your episode once, and distribution across both platforms follows from there.
Spotify being audio-only can feel like a real limitation going in. With the shorts workflow covering the video side, it mostly isn't. Five minutes, one upload, two major platforms covered.
"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.
