How to Connect a Podcast to Your Facebook Page

If you lot go to my Facebook page from your mobile device, y'all can heed to and subscribe to my podcast. In this post, I am going to explicate how I did it and how you can connect your podcast to your Facebook page.

You can lookout the video tutorial below…

NOTE: Facebook podcasts are currently only available to pages and users in the US.

Connect from Desktop

How you access the Podcasts section of your Facebook page will depend upon whether you have the new Pages experience. It's possible that there'south a persistent menu on the left side of your page that includes Podcasts.

If not, click "Manage" above your folio publisher box.

And then click "Podcasts" nether your tools…

Now click "Add Podcast."

Enter your podcast's individual RSS feed.

Hopefully yous know where to find that. If you utilize Libsyn to publish your podcast like I do, I find my RSS feed under the Quick Links after clicking "Destinations" at the top (the video tutorial walks through that).

Dorsum at your Facebook folio, paste in your podcast'south RSS feed and click the "Add" push button.

You will and so need to confirm ownership of your podcast.

Facebook Page Confirm Podcast Ownership

An authentication lawmaking is sent to your email. Y'all should go that immediately. Once you lot authenticate, you tin can motion to the next footstep.

Once autheticated, you'll see a green checkmark.

Authenticate Podcast for Facebook Page

By default, Facebook will enable Clips. This will allow people to share clips that are less than 30 seconds long. Y'all can plough this off if you lot want.

Facebook Page Podcast Enable Clips

Make some basic acknowledgments, and click to publish your podcast to your page.

Publish Podcast to Facebook Page

Once successful, it will wait like this…

Publish Podcast to Facebook Page

Connect from Mobile

You can also connect your podcast to your Facebook page from the main Facebook mobile app. Click the "View Tools" button near the top.

Facebook Page View Tools

Click on "Podcasts" beneath "Your Tools."

Facebook Page Podcasts Mobile

Everything should exist the aforementioned equally calculation from desktop from this point forrard.

Publication of Episodes

Beginning, Facebook volition pull in all of your recent episodes and may fifty-fifty publish the about recent one to your page after setting this up and then that your followers see it. Going forward, whenever you publish a new podcast episode, it will also be published to your page.

Your followers will then encounter it like this…

Facebook Page Podcast Episode

Note that they will ONLY see these episodes published when on their mobile device. I'm not sure how mutual information technology is, merely I get notifications whenever pages I follow (not sure if information technology'southward all of them) publish a new episode of their podcast.

Facebook Page Podcast Episode

Admission Your Podcast

There volition besides be a new Podcast section on your Facebook page — merely again, only from the mobile app. I don't know if this will be the case for all pages, but on mine it's buried under "Photos." Click that first.

Facebook Page Podcast Section

Click Photos over again and select "Podcasts."

Facebook Page Podcast Section

You will now encounter an entire section defended to your podcast. Visitors can subscribe to your prove or listen to any individual episode.

Facebook Page Podcast Section

What'south the Verdict?

This has the potential to exist not bad. At the moment, though, it seems like I become very little distribution and engagement on my podcast episodes. This could be because my followers are often on desktop, and y'all need to be on mobile to run into the eipsodes.

Regardless, it's completely painless to set up. And one time it's prepare, there is goose egg you lot need to do going forward. So, it'south a very like shooting fish in a barrel pace you can have to get more than distribution of your podcast.

Your Plow

Have you added your podcast to your folio? Accept y'all listened to podcasts on Facebook? What do you think?

Let me know in the comments below!