FOR AUTHORS
Move a show, keep the subscribers
A podcast lives in its RSS feed. Directories remember your show by the feed, so a careful switch keeps every subscriber. Here is the order that works.
1. Set up the show here first
Create the show on Norsolia, upload the episodes, and check the new feed at /feed/<slug>.xml. Do not touch your old feed yet. Nothing is public to listeners until you point the directories at the new address.
2. Match the important fields
Keep the title, author and cover close to the old show so the directories recognise it. The episode guid is what apps use to tell episodes apart, so re-upload each episode once and let Norsolia assign a stable guid rather than changing it later.
3. Redirect, if your old host supports it
The clean way to move is a 301 redirect from the old feed to the new one, which most hosts offer as “new feed URL” or “redirect feed”. Apple and Spotify follow it and carry your subscribers over within a day or two. If your old host cannot redirect, you submit the new feed to each directory by hand and some listeners re-subscribe.
4. Submit the feed to the apps
- Apple Podcasts: sign in to Apple Podcasts Connect and add the feed URL. Apple validates the tags Norsolia already includes.
- Spotify: use Spotify for Creators and paste the feed URL.
- Other apps (Overcast, Pocket Casts, AntennaPod and the rest) read from Apple's and their own indexes, so they pick the show up once Apple lists it. Some let you submit the feed directly.
We do not submit on your behalf and we do not promise placement. The directories decide, and a valid feed is what they need from you.
5. Keep the old feed alive for a while
Leave the old feed and its redirect in place for at least two weeks so slow-polling apps catch up. Then you can close the old account.
What can go wrong
Changing episode guids duplicates episodes in apps. Deleting the old feed too early strands subscribers on apps that had not re-checked. Both are avoidable by keeping guids stable and the old feed up.