Your RSS feed: find the URL and what it contains
Find your podcast's RSS feed URL, how the feed updates automatically, and what it includes: Podcasting 2.0 tags, seasons and the explicit rating.
Every Public or Unlisted podcast gets an RSS feed automatically. Podcast apps and directories read it to list your episodes, so you submit the URL once per platform and every episode you publish afterward appears there. This page covers the feed itself; for the rest of the publishing tools, see Publishing and Distribution.
A Private podcast has no feed: its feed URL returns a not found error to everyone, including anyone who had the link before it was made Private. See podcast visibility.
Find your RSS feed URL
On your podcast page in the Studio, click the RSS Feed button in the distribution row below the podcast header, then copy the URL from the dialog. That dialog and the Spotify, Apple Podcasts and YouTube distribution dialogs are available on Starter, Creator, Business and Enterprise, not Educator. Plans without distribution can still copy the URL from Copy RSS Feed in the podcast's actions menu or the RSS Feed button in Share Podcast.
The URL is https://{your-subdomain}.jellypod.com/rss, or https://{your-custom-domain}/rss once you add a custom domain. If you change your subdomain, the old feed URL stops working (it returns 410 Gone, which tells podcast apps the feed is gone), so update the feed URL in each app and directory. See changing your subdomain. Older jellypod.ai links redirect permanently, but some podcast apps do not follow redirects reliably, so submit the jellypod.com URL to each platform.
To submit the feed to Spotify, Apple Podcasts or YouTube, follow Distributing to podcast apps. Your feed contains a forwarding address for verification emails; only known senders get through, and that page explains how to get another sender added. Once the feed is live, analytics shows plays.
Automatic updates
The feed updates when you publish or unpublish an episode or change podcast details such as the title, description or cover art. No manual step is needed. Feed responses are cached for about 5 minutes, so a change can take a few minutes to appear. If a platform still shows old content after that, see RSS feed not updating.
If your subscription becomes inactive, the feed switches to a single notice episode titled "This Feed Has Been Disabled" until you resubscribe. Your episodes are kept, and the real feed returns after you resubscribe.
Share the feed with other apps
Listeners can paste the feed URL into any app that accepts RSS feeds, such as Pocket Casts, Overcast or Snipd, to subscribe directly.
Podcasting 2.0
Feeds use the Podcasting 2.0 namespace. Jellypod emits episode numbers, a unique podcast GUID, a locked tag that stops others from claiming the feed, and a transcript link on episodes that have captions, for apps that show transcripts.
Seasons
If you group episodes into seasons, the feed adds itunes:season and podcast:season tags for those episodes, and their numbers restart at 1 within each season. Episodes without a season are unaffected and keep whole-show numbering.
Explicit content
When you publish an episode, Jellypod scans its transcript and sets the Apple Podcasts explicit rating for you (itunes:explicit). If the rating is wrong, open Edit Episode Details and switch Explicit content on or off. Republishing an episode scans it again, so check the setting after you republish. The whole show is marked explicit whenever any published episode is explicit, which is what Apple expects.
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