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We know you have questions, here are some of the common ones.
A podcast is group of episodes packaged as a series of digital media files. The term podcast, like 'radio', can mean both the content and the method of delivery. Podcasting in this way provides a method of distributing audio or videos files over the internet for future playback.
Podcasting uses an XML-based technology called Really Simple Syndication or RSS. Each podcast is delivered like a news stream, and when you subscribe to this podcast stream, the latest podcast media file is added to the sequence and comes packaged with its title, description, date, and any keywords. The items then can be either downloaded separately, or there are many other services which make subscribing, downloading and/or streaming each podcast very easy.
You can listen to audio podcasts, or watch video podcasts, via a huge variety of websites and apps. These sites and apps read podcast series' RSS feeds and present the podcasts in an easily navigable way. They allow you to subscribe to series, download episodes or just stream episodes.
The best way is to read through our Podcasting - Getting Started guide. This guide will provide an overview to the steps required to get podcast content created and published. Briefly, you must download and have the podcast "speaker" sign the release form; create a relatively high-standard mp3 audio or mp4 video file; send us the media file to place it online, create a series into which you may catalog your podcast episode and link to the file (using MediaPub), and then have us review everything before we approve the episode for publishing.
If you are already a maintainer of an existing series, this series will appear on your dashboard when logging into the MediaPub website. If you want to create a new series, you must have special permissionsю
No. Once you have recorded your shows and finalised your audio file, Podcast Websites will do the rest.
Although your podcast media hosting & statistics are integrated completely into your website, making Podcast Websites the easiest system to use on for podcasters, your podcast feed runs autonomously and with fallbacks in place, ensuring that your podcast is in the safest of hands.
We encourage series growth. However, there are technical constraints to our publishing platform and to Apple Podcasts (formerly iTunes U). There are two loose ways of conceptualising our service: series as fixed subject and series as growing collection.
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