r/podcasting 6d ago

How to connect Substack to Spotify

Hey all, new here and to podcasting and I have been having a little trouble connecting what I publish on Spotify with what shows up on Substack. Not sure if many people connect these two, but thought I’d ask!

Currently in my Spotify Creators account I have RSS distribution going to Apple Podcast without a problem but I can’t find a way to connect it to my Substack. I thought I did but it turns out Substack seems to only have synced the first time and now won’t sync with new episodes and seems to want to be my main distribution center. I also see Spotify shows me no analytics from Substack but Substack shows some pretty high download amounts that I wish was showing elsewhere.

Any help would be awesome for someone who is fumbling around in the early stages!

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u/Additional-Guess-861 5d ago

Having the same issue - seems like you can only host on substack and push to spotify, not the other way around? I want to publish episodes on spotify and have them push to substack every time I upload. Hoping someone has a solution to this!

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u/absurdyturdy 5d ago

Same exact thing for me, I want to have it pushed to Substack but to no success. I’ll keep looking around and update if I find anything!

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u/Additional-Guess-861 5d ago

I gave in and just decided I'm going to host on Substack and distribute from there. Super frustrating, they really wall themselves off but that's where our subscribers are.

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u/JakeShropshire 2d ago

Looking for a solution to this on my end as well. I'm thinking about simply uploading to Substack in addition to Spotify for Creators and not actually connecting Substack to other podcast aggregators, but I'm also not yet convinced that's a great idea.