Where your video episodes play

Modified on Mon, 3 Aug at 4:01 AM

Your video plays on Apple Podcasts, on podcast apps that support Podcasting 2.0 video, and on your own RSS.com podcast pages. Everywhere else your audience gets the audio version of the episode, so nobody misses it.

Apple Podcasts

Your video episodes stream on Apple Podcasts. Two things need to be true. You need the Max plan, and Apple needs to approve your show to carry video.

That approval is Apple's decision and it happens on their side, so a show can be on Max and still be waiting. Read how to enable Apple Podcasts Video for the setup steps.

Podcasting 2.0 apps

We add your video to your feed as an alternate enclosure, which is how apps like Fountain pick it up. This happens on its own once the video exists, as long as the Alternate Enclosure Power-Up is switched on in your settings.

If you already point an alternate enclosure at video you host yourself, you keep it. We add ours alongside yours rather than replacing it, and a single episode can carry more than one.

Your RSS.com podcast pages

Episodes with video get a Video tab on their page on your RSS.com site, so anyone you send the link to can watch there. Nothing to switch on.

YouTube

With YouTube connected, we send your real video file rather than converting your audio into a video. Compare the two paths in PodViz and YouTube's RSS ingestion.

Where video does not play yet

Video in podcast apps is still early, and most apps have not built support for it. Those listeners get your audio, which reaches every directory the way it always has.

Spotify does not read video from RSS feeds. Your audio reaches Spotify as usual, and putting video there is a separate upload on their side. See adding video to your episodes at Spotify.
Our embedded player plays the audio version of the episode for now. This is separate from your podcast pages, where video does play.
Other podcast apps that have not adopted Podcasting 2.0 video play your audio.

We add platforms as they become technically possible. Where an app or a directory makes video workable, we want to support it.

To publish a video episode in the first place, see how to add video to your podcast episodes.