Hosting: Upload and publish new episode

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Publish your episode from Riverside to your connected listening platforms, or schedule it for a later release.

Who: Account owner, admins, directors, and editors
Plan: Pro, Grow, Webinar, and Business
Device: Computer browser

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Step by step

  1. Log in to your Riverside account.
  2. Navigate to the relevant studio.
  3. From the sidebar on the left, click Hosting.

  1. On the right side of the screen, click + New.

  2. To add an episode thumbnail, hover over the podcast cover art and click the edit-2.svg edit icon.
    The episode thumbnail applies to Apple Podcasts and Spotify only.

  3. Enter the episode title.

  4. Select a Riverside file or upload an external file.
    Each file must be under 10 GB and shorter than 180 minutes (3 hours).

  5. In the description text field, enter the episode description.
    Or, click the Suggestion icon.svg Generate description icon to auto-generate a description.
    Note that not all listening platforms support rich formatting.

  6. Under Season number, enter a number (optional).

  7. Under Episode number, enter a number (optional).

  8. Under Type, choose the episode type from the dropdown: Normal episode, Bonus, or Trailer.

  9. Under Content warning, toggle on if the episode contains explicit content.

  10. To add a custom thumbnail to display on YouTube:
    1. Under Video thumbnail, click theplus.svgplus icon.
    2. In the file picker, choose a JPG or PNG image from your computer.
      Thumbnails must be under 2 MB, ideally 1280x720px.

  11. Click Publish.
    The episode's status shows Processing while Riverside prepares it. It then changes to Published, and Riverside sends the episode to your connected listening platforms.
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Icon.svg Good to know

  • When scheduling an episode for publishing, Riverside publishes to your RSS feed at the exact scheduled time. However, listening platforms control when they read your feed and complete their moderation process. This can take up to an hour, and occasionally longer, before the episode appears on listening platforms.
  • It is not possible to replace an episode’s audio or video file. 
  • You can schedule the future publishing of an episode if it is currently unpublished.
    However, you cannot schedule an episode that is currently published.
  • When you publish a video episode to Spotify, the video won't automatically appear on Spotify. By default, only the audio will be published. However, you can still add the video manually via Spotify for Creators.
  • If an episode is marked as Published on Riverside and more than 3 hours have passed without it appearing on a connected listening platform, reach out to Support.

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