How to Start a Podcast on Spotify for Free

What is Spotify

Spotify is one of the most popular audio streaming platforms having 350 Million users all over the world. In this web story, we will learn how how to upload your podcast on Spotify for free. You can get grown your audience & make viral your audio through this app. It’s quite different from uploading a video on youtube. Spotify does not host podcasts directly on the app you need to upload them & it will help you to viral on other platforms. It provides tools to record, edit, save and submit your podcast to Spotify.

Choosing a hosting platform

After that you need to choose a hosting platform. There are lot of hosting platform that you can use, but they don’t directly distribute to Spotify app. So you will have to check first listing platforms that it supports & all the tools it is providing. We have some suggestions here like  Anchor, Buzzsprout, Podbean, Simplecast and Acast. There are the greate options for freshers to start your podcast.

How to Meet Spotify's Podcast Requirements

Here is the first step to starting podcast on Spotify is first you match it’s podcast requirements. Here is the list of that particular points.

Your podcast should be:

Your title should be along with relevant details like category & primary language.

Should cover art in a 1:1 ratio & PNG, JPEG, or TIFF format. The resolution should be higher.

A high bitrate MP3 format (128 kbps+) or MP4 with AAC-LC.

Steps to Start a Podcast on Spotify

For upload a podcast you need to follow these steps.

First of all need to create a Spotify account.

Choose a podcast hosting platform

Need to Copy your RSS feed link.

Open Spotify for Podcasters.

Add your podcast info.

Review and submit your podcast.