The entire process took just a few minutes.

'So their distribution is more limited then with Libsyn.')Īs a really quick test, I pulled a quick audio interview with my mom, posted it to Anchor and, within a few days, had the podcast on Spotify, Breaker, Google, RadioPublic and Breaker. (Rob Welch, the vice-president of podcaster relations at Libsyn, points out that Anchor will not get your show to other outlets like iHeartRadio, , Deezer and Pandora. And like Libsyn, Art19 and other distributors, it will take your podcast and push it out to other platforms, like Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Podcasts and Stitcher. Libsyn says the average one-hour show works out to 30 MB, so you'd be able to post one episode per month under this plan.Īnchor is free. Libsyn, for instance, charges $5 monthly and allows 50 megabytes of storage, which is the amount of new content you can upload each calendar month.

In the early days of podcasting, to get a show onto major podcast platforms like Apple Podcasts required an laborious method of submitting, including going out and finding a place to 'host,' or store the recording of, your show. Before we get into gear, we want to start at the end, with publishing, because that's what's changed dramatically, for the better.

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