Tracy Hazzard explains RSS feeds: XML text files that podcast hosts create to send your show and episode info to listening apps. Each podcast gets its own unique feed, and hosts manage compatibility so listeners can find you everywhere.
What is an RSS feed and how do I get one? Okay, well, this gets a little technical. So if you're into the tech and you want to know how it happens, then I'm going to explain it to you right here. If really you're not so much interested in the tech and you just want to know, how do I get one? Well, you sign up for a podcast hosting subscription on Potatoes, and then you automatically get one, whether you're starting a new podcast or you are moving an existing one from another hosting service to Poditize and on Potitize, you actually, with most of our hosting subscriptions, get more than one multiple shows or RSS feeds for your monthly or annual subscription. And an RSS feed, you get one unique one for every show that you're publishing. So an RSS feed technically is a large text file. It's actually an XML file if you're into the specific tech. And you can take that RSS feed and paste it into any web browser. And it will display in text and sometimes in more of a graphic format, but universally will display the text of all the information about your podcast show and then each episode that has been published. It is the mechanism. All podcasts are distributed to all listening apps in the entire podcast ecosystem. You cannot have a podcast beyond Apple Podcasts, Spotify, or any of the other listening apps without having an RSS feed for your show. So an RSS feed is created by your podcast media host, by your hosting service on your behalf for you, and all the information of your show, like I said, is contained within it for the show, the listing itself, all the identity and all the attributes of it, and each episode, its title, its description, all sorts of all the information that the listening apps need in order to be able to make your podcast available in their listening app. So it's pretty technical. RSS feeds have evolved over the history of podcasting. There was sort of a 1.0 version, now there's a 2.0 version, and someday there'll probably be a 3.0 version, but your podcast media host, especially Poditized, will handle that for you, making sure it's in compliance with all the listening apps so that your shows, your episodes, are properly distributed to all the listening apps.
