Connecting your Apple Podcasts Connect account to RSS.com unlocks a couple of features that aren't possible through a standard RSS feed alone. Once it's connected, you can manage them straight from your RSS.com dashboard, no second tool, no duplicate uploads.
Here's what becomes possible.
Apple Podcasts Subscriptions ↗
This lets you offer a paid tier on top of your regular show. Subscribers get whatever you decide to give them, bonus episodes, ad-free versions of your regular ones, or early access. You set the price (monthly or annual), you choose the benefits, and Apple handles the billing inside the Podcasts app. You keep 70% of the subscription revenue during a listener's first year and 85% from year two onward, minus taxes (Apple keeps the rest). Anything else you earn from the show, sponsorships, PAID revenue, stays totally yours.
When you're ready, Setting up Apple Podcasts Subscriptions walks through the setup.
You can publish a video version of your show that lives alongside the audio, so a listener can start an episode on their phone in the morning and finish watching it on their TV that night. Followers, downloads, charts everything keeps working the way it does today. You're just giving your audience another way to enjoy the show. The technical bit (Apple delivers video using HLS, the new standard they're rolling out for podcasts) is handled on our side.
The how-to lives over at How to enable Apple Podcasts Video.
What you'll need before you start
Both features rely on RSS.com publishing content to Apple on your behalf, and that's only possible once you've added an API key from Apple Podcasts Connect. Before that key works, two things need to be in place: your show has to be claimed in Apple Podcasts Connect under your own account.
Additionally, if you specifically want to set up Apple Podcasts Subscriptions, you'll need to be enrolled in the Apple Podcasters Program (Apple charges a small annual fee for this, it's what unlocks subscriptions on their side). We cover this in this article.
If your show isn't claimed yet, start with How to claim your show on Apple Podcasts. Once that's sorted, you may learn How to add your Apple API key to RSS.com, it will only takes a couple of minutes.
That's the overview. Pick whichever feature you want to set up first and we'll walk you through it from there.
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