Audioboom sits in an unusual place in the podcast world. It is a hosting and monetisation platform used by some of the largest shows on the charts, and it also runs its own public listening catalogue — so getting a show onto it means more than pasting an RSS link into a form.
Our Audioboom podcast submission services cover the whole job: choosing the right plan for your download volume, creating or migrating the show, redirecting your old feed so nobody unsubscribes by accident, pushing the distribution out to every major directory, and then optimising the listing so people actually find it. You send us one RSS URL or one folder of audio. We hand you back a live, distributed, searchable show.
Here is the thing most pages on this topic will not tell you, and it saves people a great deal of wasted effort: Audioboom is a host, not an open directory. Apple Podcasts, Amazon Music and Spotify all accept a feed that lives somewhere else — you submit a URL and they index it. Audioboom does not work that way. Your show appears on Audioboom because Audioboom is where your audio and your RSS feed live.
So when someone searches for how to submit a podcast to Audioboom, what they actually need is one of two things. Either the show is brand new and the episodes are uploaded directly into an Audioboom account, or the show already exists on another host and is brought across using the platform's Import from RSS tool, which pulls in the back catalogue you select. From that point Audioboom generates the master feed and handles onward distribution to the directories your listeners already use.
That single distinction changes the whole job. Submission is not an admin form; it is a hosting decision, a migration, a redirect and a distribution setup. Get any one of those wrong and you either split your audience across two feeds or quietly lose the subscribers you spent years earning. We do all four in the right order and document what we changed.
One correctly configured Audioboom show feeds every surface your audience listens on, which is why the platform choice matters more than any individual directory submission.
Directory distribution is the step people rush, and it is the one that repays care. Category selection, the author field and the show title decide whether your programme is findable in each app's internal search, and those choices are made once at setup and then live with you for years. If your audience also finds you through Amazon's ecosystem, our Amazon podcast submission work pairs directly with this, and we run the same discipline across app store optimization packages for teams shipping a companion app.
Every engagement covers the full path from raw audio or an old feed to a live, distributed, optimised show. Nothing here is an upsell added later.
Audioboom prices by monthly plays, with an entry tier for individual podcasters and higher tiers for established shows and independent networks. We size the plan against your real download numbers so you are neither throttled in month two nor paying for headroom you will not touch for a year.
New shows are built and uploaded from scratch. Existing shows are brought across with Import from RSS, and we check every imported episode for missing audio, broken artwork, duplicated entries and mangled publication dates before anything goes live.
This is the step that protects your audience. The old host's feed is redirected to the new one so existing subscribers move across silently, and we monitor the changeover until downloads stabilise rather than declaring victory on day one.
Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and the rest are submitted or re-pointed, and we confirm each listing is live and pulling new episodes instead of assuming the switch worked.
Show title, author, description, categories and artwork are written and set for search rather than left as whatever the import brought over. This is where podcast directory submission stops being admin and starts being marketing.
Episode titles, descriptions and show notes are written around real search phrasing, with timestamps and transcripts where the package includes them, and monthly reporting on downloads, unique listeners and completion rates.
This is the exact sequence we run, and the reason our migrations rarely show a download dip in the following month.
We review your current host, download volume, episode count and feed health, then recommend the Audioboom tier that fits. Twenty minutes of your time, once.
The account is created under your ownership, not ours, and the show shell is built with the correct language, category and explicit settings.
New audio is uploaded and tagged; an existing catalogue is imported and then checked episode by episode against the original feed.
Titles, author, description and categories are rewritten for search and compliance, and artwork is resized or replaced if it falls outside the accepted square dimensions.
The 301 redirect is set at the previous host so subscribers follow automatically, and we leave the old feed in place for the recommended window rather than deleting it immediately.
Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music, iHeartRadio and the long-tail apps are submitted or re-pointed, then verified live one by one.
We confirm new episodes are pulling through everywhere, record baseline numbers, open the optimisation backlog and send a go-live report with your listen links and embed code.
Setup is usually completed within the same week. Directory listings then appear over the following few days, since each app runs its own review queue and none of them can be hurried.
Being hosted and being found are different outcomes. Every directory your show reaches runs its own internal search, its own charts and its own recommendation logic, and none of them care how good your audio is if the metadata gives them nothing to match against. Podcast SEO is the part of the job that continues after go-live.
Then we read the numbers back. Downloads tell you reach, unique listeners separate real audience from repeat devices, completion rate tells you whether the opening ninety seconds is working, and follower growth is the metric that compounds. Tracking them monthly is how we know whether a title change earned its keep or needs reversing — and if your show is heading towards Audioboom's advertising marketplace, those are the same numbers a sponsor will ask to see.
We work with independent creators, media networks, agencies and in-house marketing teams, and the brief changes with each. A solo host wants the fastest clean route to a live show. A B2B brand wants the podcast tied into a wider content and demand programme. An agency wants a white-label partner who will onboard forty feeds without drama.
The largest advertising market and the most competitive category charts, so title and category strategy carry the most weight here.
Audioboom's home market and the source of much of its catalogue, which makes it a natural fit for UK shows chasing network-level distribution.
Bilingual shows need careful language tagging and, in some cases, separate feeds — we advise on which route suits your catalogue.
Time-zone matched monitoring so a feed problem overnight in Delhi is not a day of missing episodes in Sydney.
Business, finance and technology shows aimed at an APAC audience, where category choice matters more than raw volume.
Multilingual feeds, regional category selection and Hindi or regional-language show naming that still reads cleanly in search.
Podcast work rarely sits on its own. Clients frequently pair this with our wider podcast submission services for other platforms and directories, and with Pinterest profile optimization when the show has a strong visual or lifestyle angle worth pushing beyond audio apps.
Three engagement shapes, because a first-time creator and a twelve-show network do not need the same thing.
Plan advice, account and show creation, upload or Import from RSS, artwork and metadata, redirect handling and directory distribution, with QA on every listing. Best for a single show that simply needs to be set up correctly, once.
Everything in Launch, plus listing optimisation, episode-level SEO for a set number of episodes each month, and a monthly report covering downloads, unique listeners, completion rate and follower growth. Most clients choose this, because going live is the starting line rather than the finish.
Bulk onboarding, migration and redirect management across a catalogue, clean-up of duplicate or abandoned feeds from earlier submissions, and a quarterly strategy session. Priced per feed with volume tiers, and available white-label under your own agency branding.
Our fee is separate from Audioboom's own subscription, which you pay directly to the platform and which scales with your monthly plays. We quote after a free feed audit rather than before it, because episode count and the state of the existing metadata change the work materially.
We have run search and content programmes since 2016 across e-commerce, marketplace, app store and audio channels, and podcast distribution sits naturally inside that. The team that migrates your feed is the same team that writes the episode titles and reads the analytics, so nothing is handed between departments and lost.
It is a strong platform for established shows chasing monetisation, and a heavier commitment than a small hobby show needs. If your download numbers say a simpler host serves you better this year, we will say so before you pay anyone — including us.
Every recommendation traces back to something in your RSS, your host dashboard or your own analytics. If we cannot show you the source, we do not claim it.
The Audioboom account is created in your name, your feed stays yours, and you can end an engagement or move hosts again without losing your catalogue or your subscribers.
A named account manager in your working hours, reporting on a fixed calendar date, in plain English rather than dashboard screenshots with no commentary.
Most enquiries reach us after something has already gone wrong. These are the cases we see weekly.
You do not submit a feed to Audioboom the way you submit one to Apple Podcasts. You either create the show inside an Audioboom account and upload your episodes, or you use Import from RSS to bring an existing show across from another host. Audioboom then generates your feed and handles onward distribution. Our team runs that whole sequence, including the redirect from your old host.
Not in the way most people expect. Audioboom is a hosting platform rather than an open directory, so a show appears there because it is hosted there. If you want to stay with your current host, we can still get you distributed across the directories that do accept external feeds — and we will tell you honestly which route makes more sense for your show.
No. Audioboom runs on paid plans priced by monthly plays, with an entry tier aimed at individual podcasters and higher tiers for established shows and independent networks. That subscription is paid directly to Audioboom and is separate from our fee, which covers the setup, migration, distribution and ongoing podcast SEO work.
Not if the migration is done properly. A 301 redirect at your previous host moves existing subscribers across silently, which is why we set the redirect before anything is announced and leave the old feed in place for the recommended window. Lost audiences almost always trace to a feed that was deleted too early rather than redirected.
Setup and import are usually finished within the same week. Directory listings follow over the next few days, because Apple, Spotify, Amazon Music and the rest each run their own review queue. We confirm every listing is live and pulling new episodes before we sign the project off.
No. The Audioboom account is created in your name with your billing details, and we work inside access you grant us. Your feed, your catalogue and your listings stay yours, and you can end the engagement at any point without losing them.
It happens more often than people expect — missing audio, wrong publication dates, dropped artwork or duplicated entries. We compare the imported catalogue against the original feed episode by episode and repair the differences before the show goes anywhere near a directory.
Expect a hosted, distributed show, verified listings across the major apps and a baseline set of numbers to measure against. Growth after that depends on your publishing rhythm, your promotion and how competitive your category is. We report on downloads, unique listeners, completion rate and follower growth monthly so the trend is visible rather than assumed.
Send us your RSS feed URL, or just tell us what you have recorded so far, and we will come back with a free written audit: whether Audioboom fits your show, what the migration involves, what could break, and what it takes to do it cleanly. If you want us to run it from there, most shows are set up within the same week.
Talk to our podcast team and tell us where your show lives today — that is genuinely all we need to start.
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