This article examines how to setup a new episode in your Podcast, followed by a video tutorial.
1. Start in the Podcast Library. You can navigate here by clicking on the "Podcasts" button on the top left of the screen. Identify the Podcast you would like to create a new episode for.
From your Podcast page you can click between the Episodes tab (this contains all episodes currently in the RSS feed or scheduled episodes) and the Drafts tab (which has all Draft episodes for your podcast).
2. To create a new episode, select the "Create Episode" button and fill in the appropriate information. If you already have a Draft created for your podcast then use the appropriate Draft episode on the Draft tab.
Fill out the information for all of these fields:
Episode Title
Episode Clean Title (iTunes will pull this as the title, should not include episode or season numbers)
Episode Subtitle (commonly referred to as "Description")
Episode Summary (commonly referred to as "Show Notes")
You can add timestamps and chapter titles following the guidelines here:
Episode Website Link (links to a website that corresponds to your episode and appears as a link in Apple Podcasts).
Episode Type: Select between full (default), trailer, or bonus (for when submitting extra content such as additional interviews).
Episode Rating
Season and Episode Number: these fields specify the release order for episodes in iOS 11.
Episode Pubdate
Note: Sometimes audio producers enter similar information into ID3 tags when they are bouncing the MP3 file for their podcast. With Megaphone this is no longer required. When you upload an MP3 file to Megaphone the system will strip out all ID3 tags and replace it with the information you enter in this step. If you are going to dynamically insert ads (upload ads to a campaign and target the campaign to this episode) you will need to schedule the episode first - only use the "Publish Now" feature if this episode will not contain any ads.
3) The final step is to upload your audio/content and image (If no image file is uploaded, the default graphic will be the Podcast cover art file). Megaphone only accepts MP3 files. Once uploaded, click "SAVE" in the top right.
