Learn how to submit your sermons or other podcasts to services such as Spotify, Apple Podcasts, etc., and display them on your website so people can subscribe.
Note: for performance reasons, all sermons and podcast feeds show a maximum of 150 entries.
Video walkthrough:
Need more details? Here are the step-by-step instructions:
1) Complete the podcast fields in the Herald CMS (podcast title, summary, podcast image, etc.).
For the sermons podcast, this will be located at Content > Sermons > Podcast. If you have another podcast in the podcasts module, this will be located at Content > Podcasts > Name of Podcast > Streams.
2) Obtain your source feed URL by clicking the "copy" button.
3) You're ready to submit the source feed URL to the different podcast directories. Here are instructions for the most popular services:
- Apple Podcasts
- Podbean
- Google Podcasts (Google is discontinuing this in 2024)
- Spotify
- Amazon Music
- iHeartRadio
- Pandora
- Player FM
- Listen Notes
- Podchaser
- TuneIn
4) Once you've submitted your source feed to one or more directories, you'll receive a URL (website address) for each directory profile. Now, you'll want to link your website to these directories using our Streams feature.
For the sermons podcast, this will be located at Content > Sermons > Podcast. If you have another podcast in the podcasts module, this will be located at Content > Podcasts > Name of Podcast > Streams.
4A) Click the "Add Stream" button.
4B) Click the service you'd like to link to. Then, enter your URL in the box at the bottom. Click the green "save" button. Repeat this process for each service you'd like to link to.
4C) Once you've added links to each service, click the green "Save Settings" button at the top right.
4D) Voila! Refresh your sermons or podcast page on your website, and you'll now see icons with links to these services. Your website visitors can now subscribe to your podcast via their service of choice and will automatically receive all future sermons and episodes.
