Move your Podcast to Podhome

We love to enable your podcasting journey with Podhome! You can move your existing show to Podhome after you’ve signed up. Moving your show can be scary, and you might be concerned about technical issues or losing listeners.

Don’t worry, none of that will happen. You can move your podcast in two steps:

1. Import your show into Podhome

   • Importing your show does not delete anything at your current host, and it doesn’t move your listeners. We just copy your files. That’s it

   • You can take your time to check if all the episodes and show settings have been copied correctly. Your listeners don’t switch to your Podhome feed until you are done with step 2

2. Configure a Redirect at your current host. This is best-practice when moving a podcast, and routes directories (like Apple, Spotify and the Podcast Index), and apps, to your new RSS feed at Podhome

   • After you redirected your feed, your use Podhome to update your show and episodes, and publish new episodes. Your listeners will automatically see the new updates and episodes, without knowing that you moved

If you have questions about moving your podcast, drop us an email: [email protected]

Import your show into Podhome

When you are ready to give moving a try, follow these simple instructions in Podhome:

1. After sign-up, you’ll be prompted with a screen where you can Import an existing show, or Create a new show.

2. To import your show, type your podcast name in the search box

   1. If your show isn’t found, paste your RSS feed in the search box. You can find this at your existing hosting company

3. Select your show from the search results

4. Click “Send E-mail and Start Import“ to start

• If your show’s feed is locked, we cannot import it, until you unlock it at your current hosting company

• If your feed has an email address in it, we’ll send you a mail to verify that you own the podcast

Importing your podcast: what happens?

When the import starts, you can see the progress of the import. Depending on how many episodes you have in your show, this can take a while. Relax and go do something fun, we’ll e-mail you when the import is finished.

During the import process:

• We copy everything in your show to our servers. This includes all artwork, even chapter-artwork, transcripts, chapter Json files, and of course your audio files

• If you have chapters embedded in your audio files, we’ll detect them, show them in Podhome (so that you can edit them), and create a podcasting 2.0 compatible chapter Json file for them.

  • We do the same with chapters that we detect in your episode description. For instance when you have “(00:00) - Introduction” in your description

• We copy information from your feed to our system, including podcasting 2.0 information, like License, Medium, Value, Value Time Splits, and more

We do not delete any files at your current host. We just copy things. Take your time to check the episodes and show settings after the import : your listeners won’t move to your new feed until you redirect your old feed (see the next section).

After the Import

When the import is finished, we send you an email from [email protected] (check your spam folder if you don’t see it).

You need to perform several steps to complete the migration process:

1. Redirect to your new Podhome RSS Feed

Directories like Apple Podcasts, Spotify and others know the old RSS feed of your podcast. Now, we need to let them know that you have a new RSS Feed. You can do that by redirecting your old feed to your new Podhome RSS feed.

1. Go to the configuration settings of your current hosting company and find the Redirect URL (sometimes called 301 redirect) setting

2. Enter your new Podhome RSS feed URL. You can find it on your Dashboard and in the Distribution page

   • It looks like this: https://serve.podhome.fm/rss/66ae706b-9a48-460c-a7fa-2ff7a2b46aae

• Libsyn redirect instructions

• Buzzsprout redirect instructions

• Blubrry redirect instructions

• RSS.com redirect instructions

• Podbean redirect instructions

• Fireside redirect instructions

• Castos redirect instructions

• Captivate redirect instructions

• Redcircle redirect instructions

• Simplecast redirect instructions

• Springcast redirect instructions

• Spreaker redirect instructions (at the end of the article)

• Spotify for Podcasters redirect instructions

• Transistor redirect insructions

Every request to your old RSS feed will now be redirected to your new Podhome RSS Feed. By doing this, your listeners can continue to listen to your podcast as always, without changing anything.

(Optional) 2. Speed up the process

To make sure that all podcast directories update quickly after you’ve redirected your feed, take the following steps:

1. Log into your Apple Podcast connect

   1. Select your show

   2. Click “Refresh” (next to the last update date)

2. Make a small change (like something in the description of your show), and save it. This can trigger some directories like Apple and Spotify, to take another look at your feed

3. (Optional) Update your distribution settings

In your Podhome distribution page, you can configure in which podcast directories your show is available. As you have an existing show, your show is probably already in Apple Podcasts and in other directories.

1. We’ll try to automatically find and fill some of these settings and let you know when we do

2. You can also manually copy the links to your show on Spotify, Apple Podcasts and others, from your old hosting company, and paste them in your Distribution settings

This step is optional as we only use your distribution settings to show badges in the Embeddable player and on your Podhome Website.

4. (Optional) Lock your feed

When you’re completely switched over to Podhome, we advise to lock your feed. This let’s other podcasting companies know that your feed is locked and should not be imported. You can always change this setting if you need to.

To lock your feed:

1. Go to Settings (this takes you to your Show Settings)

2. Open the “Leaving Podhome“ panel

3. Switch the RSS Feed Lock to “Locked“

4. Click Save Changes

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