You might see an error when pasting your RSS URL if it doesn’t meet Riverside’s import requirements. Below are the most common reasons:
- Your podcast has more than 1,000 episodes
- Riverside can only import podcasts with up to 1,000 episodes. If your feed has more than that, reduce the number of episodes in your RSS URL and try again.
- Your RSS feed is missing the required
explicitcontent tag- Riverside requires the
itunes:explicittag at the channel level of your RSS feed to meet Apple Podcasts RSS requirements and correctly classify content. To add this tag, contact your current hosting provider. Read more about Apple’s required RSS tags here.
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- Riverside doesn’t support this hosting provider
- Riverside supports migrating your podcast from over 80 hosting providers. If yours isn’t one of them, you won’t be able to import your podcast at this time. To view the list of supported providers, click here to go directly to the Top RSS Hosting Domains section.
You can still set up your podcast with Riverside and automatically distribute new episodes to multiple listening platforms.
- Riverside supports migrating your podcast from over 80 hosting providers. If yours isn’t one of them, you won’t be able to import your podcast at this time. To view the list of supported providers, click here to go directly to the Top RSS Hosting Domains section.
- Your feed is private or password protected
- Riverside does not currently support importing private or password-protected feeds. To transfer your podcast, update your feed settings on your hosting platform to make it public, then try again.
- Your podcast already exists on Riverside
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This can happen if you previously imported the show, created it directly in Riverside, or if the podcast is hosted under a different Riverside account.
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