Are You Ready for the Shift from RSS to API in Podcasting?

Yeah, based on a truestorypodcast.com. Well, I was checking the chat room to see if they had any questions before we jump into this.

I think it's a big deal, and part of it is a big deal because we don't know the answer to the question, and that is...

What happens, let's say, I'm just going to use Libsyn because they announced that they have now set it up to where you can submit a video.

So you upload a video to Libsyn and then they submit it to Spotify for you.

And Dave Jones over at, you know, Podcasting 2.0 and the Podcast Index, he said, hey, if you distribute a video to Spotify, their new system, is now served from your RSS and has to be managed exclusively from hosting on their platform.

In other words, if I'm on Libsyn and later move from Libsyn, I'm stuck on Spotify with Libsyn.

Like, you can't change it.

And the thing is, if I zoom in on this, we can't really see...

He's got this one clip.

He went down and said, look, this is even worse.

And I think these are – yeah, I understand that enabling Spotify video will permanently replace my existing Spotify RSS feed with an API-based distribution.

This cannot be undone.

And I believe this is from Podigy.

That's the thing.

We're trying to figure out where these are coming from.

I understand that my Spotify podcast will be exclusively – managed through whoever your media host is and won't automatically transfer to another hosting provider and that this cannot be undone.

And so you're kind of locked into your media host.

And when I was looking at this, James Cridland said there was like 3,500 podcasters changed media hosts last year or last, I think it was, it might've even been last month.

It was a lot.

Danny from Captivate says, Spotify did clarify that they still do the manual update on the RSS feed for videos, saying it takes some manual work on both sides.

So yeah, if you decide later, I want to be RSS based, not API based, they will do it, but it's a manual thing.

And so that could be an issue.

I hate relying on any media host to give me back my show because there's not a lot of incentive.

Like, hey, I'm leaving you.

Well, not really.