Publish podcast episodes as posts
Members that regularly experience your exclusive content are more likely to stay subscribed, so the easier you can make it to consume your exclusive content, the better.
It used to be that members would need to regularly check their listening apps or have notifications enabled to find out when you add a new podcast episode, but not anymore.
In this help article, we'll show you how to configure Memberful to automatically generate a post that you can send via email or publish to your member website whenever you add a new podcast episode.
In this help doc:
- Create a podcast.
- Create draft posts for new episodes.
- Customize your new podcast episode post.
- Publish your post.
- How members play your podcast episode inside a post.
- Import past episodes.
Create a podcast
You'll need to configure a paid podcast in Memberful before you can publish posts announcing each new episode. Learn how to create a paid podcast with Memberful.
Create draft posts for new episodes
Navigate to Content → Podcasts, select your podcast, and enable the Create draft posts for new episodes toggle.
When a new podcast episode is published, a new draft post will be created and the account owner will be notified via email.
Post drafts will only be created for future episodes, not previously released ones.
Customize your new podcast episode post
The podcast player follows the branding colors you've chosen for your site. Learn how to customize your branding colors.
The image and meta data displayed is fetched directly from the podcast's RSS feed.
Inside the Post editor, we display a placeholder for the podcast player so you can move it around other content or remove it entirely from the post.
Publish your post
When you're ready to share this with your members, review the post's settings and click the Publish button. Posts can also be scheduled to be published at a later date.
How members play your podcast episode inside a post
When a member views the post, they can play the episode directly from the post.
On posts that are exclusive to paying members, we display an excerpt showing a locked version of the player.
If the post is sent via email, we'll display the cover art and a link to open the web version of the post so your member can listen to the episode on your website.
Import past episodes
When you enable the Create draft posts for new episodes toggle, you'll also see an option to import past episodes.
This will publish a post for each episode in your podcast's RSS feed that has not already been imported. This is useful if you want to have all of your past episodes available as posts on your member website, not just future episodes.
This is available for existing podcasts as well (even podcasts that were added before this feature was released). In those cases, you'll see an Import past episodes button instead of the toggle.
The import process takes some time, so the task will be scheduled to run in the background. You can navigate away from the page and the import will take place after some time.
Once episodes are imported, Memberful will also create a draft page for that specific podcast.
You can also find a reference to this page at the top of the podcast's settings page. You'll see the page's URL and a button to edit it.
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