Most podcast submission checklists tell you to "add your show to gPodder" in a single line and move on. That line is why so many shows are either missing from gpodder.net entirely or sitting there with artwork and episode titles from three years ago. gpodder.net is not a directory you fill a form on and forget. It is a libre, community-run index whose database is built from what real listeners subscribe to, and whose public API quietly feeds a whole family of open-source podcast apps.
Our gPodder.net podcast submission services get your show properly into that index, keep it refreshing, and extend the same feed work across the wider open-source podcast ecosystem — for podcasters and networks in the USA, UK, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India.
Let's be accurate, because the listicles are not.
gpodder.net is a free and open-source web service that lets listeners manage podcast subscriptions, sync them across devices, and track playback progress. It works best with the gPodder desktop application but also connects to Amarok, AntennaPod, Kasts, Mopidy, Kodi and other clients — or works standalone in a browser. It is run by volunteers, hosted on sponsored infrastructure, and its server software (mygpo) is public on GitHub.
The service was migrated to newer, faster hardware, moving from spinning disks to SSDs, and the team reduced database size by archiving long-inactive user accounts. The gPodder client itself is still under active development, with commits landing through 2026.
It is not Apple Podcasts. It does not have a polished podcaster dashboard. The web interface has known rough edges — a long-standing open issue means the browser-based add and subscribe flow can fail even when the underlying database accepts the feed perfectly well through a client. Industry newsletters have publicly criticised the service for downtime and for feeds that stop refreshing.
That combination is exactly why a submission service is worth paying for here. On Apple or Spotify, you submit a feed and the platform does the rest. On gpodder.net, knowing which route actually works — and how to keep the listing from going stale — is the entire job.
The subscriber count you see on gpodder.net is not the point. The reach is downstream.
Search, toplists, top tags and per-tag podcast lists are all available with no authentication and no API key. Independent developers build against it freely.
Media servers, Linux desktop players, Kodi add-ons, Mopidy extensions and client libraries in Java, Rust, Python and Node all query gpodder.net for podcast discovery. Your listing is not one page — it is a record that surfaces inside software you will never sign up for individually.
Search results are available as OPML feeds, which means your show can be pulled into curated meta-directories and shared subscription bundles.
Self-hosted, API-compatible sync servers exist — oPodSync, gpodder2go, the Nextcloud GPodderSync app — because privacy-focused listeners run their own. Getting your feed correct for gpodder.net makes it correct for all of them.
Open-source podcast app users are technical, ad-tolerant in the right formats, loyal, and heavily represented in exactly the markets our clients sell into.
This is the part almost no competing page gets right.
gpodder.net's database is populated primarily from real subscriptions. When a user subscribes to a feed through a syncing client, the service fetches that feed and creates the podcast record. There is also a "Missing Podcast / Add Podcast" route in the web interface — but this is the flow with documented reliability problems, and it is where most DIY attempts quietly fail.
Once the record exists, everything displayed about your show is pulled from your RSS feed. Title, author, description, artwork, categories, episode data — all of it. You cannot edit it on gpodder.net. If it is wrong on gpodder.net, it is wrong in your feed.
Refresh cadence is derived from your publishing frequency: the service uses the average gap between your episodes as the update interval. Publish irregularly and your listing lags. There are exactly two ways to fix that — implement WebSub (PubSubHubbub) so your hub pings the service the moment an episode drops, or hold a publisher account and trigger the refresh manually.
That is the mechanism. Our process is built directly on it.
Built directly on how the index actually behaves — audit first, submit through the route that works, then verify and keep it refreshing.
Before anything is submitted, we validate your RSS feed end to end: XML validity, required iTunes namespace tags, enclosure URLs, artwork dimensions and format, GUID stability, episode ordering, encoding and character issues. A feed that is broken here is broken everywhere.
gpodder.net's discovery runs on tags, search relevance and toplists. We write and place the show title, author, description and category tags so the record ranks in the service's own search and appears under the tag clusters your audience browses — using the keyword research above, not guesswork.
We get the feed into the database through the path that actually works, rather than the form that intermittently doesn't, and confirm the record exists and resolves correctly.
We check the live listing: correct artwork rendering, description parsing, episode list populating, website link resolving, and the show appearing in on-service search for your target terms.
We prepare and submit the publisher application on your behalf — your gpodder.net username, the show name and feed URL, and an email address publicly visible on your podcast's website for legitimation. Approval gives you access to popularity data and manual feed refresh.
We configure hub-based push notification so your listing updates on publish rather than on an estimated schedule.
The same validated feed is then submitted across the wider open-source and independent index landscape so one piece of feed work pays off many times.
You receive documented proof of listing, screenshots, the live URL, and a record of every submission made.
A directory listing is a snapshot. Feed health is the asset.
We treat your RSS feed as a technical SEO property, because that is what it is. Stable GUIDs so episodes are never duplicated or orphaned. Correct enclosure lengths and MIME types so players don't fail mid-download. Square artwork at compliant resolution so every app renders it cleanly. Complete author and owner tags. Valid categories. Clean, keyword-aware episode titles and descriptions that read like a human wrote them, because they were.
We also implement Podcasting 2.0 namespace tags where your host supports them — transcripts, chapters, funding, person tags, location. These are the tags modern open indexes and AI answer engines increasingly read, and they cost nothing to add.
A large share of the shows we work on are already "on gpodder.net" — technically. The record exists, but it stopped updating in 2022, shows the old cover art, and lists a feed URL that now 301s somewhere else after a host migration.
Our recovery workflow covers the diagnosis (why the fetch is failing), the fix (feed repair, redirect correction, host-side configuration), the refresh trigger, and the verification. If the record is unrecoverable, we establish a clean one and make sure the dead entry is not the version people find.
If you have changed hosts, rebranded, moved from a Feedburner URL, or switched to HTTPS in the last few years, assume your listing is stale until proven otherwise.
We would rather tell you this before you buy.
Technology, developer, Linux, privacy, security, open-source, science and education podcasts; independent shows building distribution breadth; networks running multi-directory submission at scale; podcasters in DACH and European markets where open-source players over-index; anyone whose listing has gone stale.
A brand-new show with no episodes published, a hyper-local show with no technical audience, or anyone expecting gpodder.net alone to move download numbers. It won't. It is one component of a distribution footprint, and we will tell you honestly where it sits in your priority list.
The gpodder.net listing itself is free. Anyone can submit a feed at no cost, and we will never pretend otherwise.
What you are paying us for is the work around it — the feed audit, the metadata and tag strategy, knowing which submission route succeeds, preparing and following the publisher application, implementing WebSub, verifying the live listing, syndicating across the wider ecosystem, and documenting all of it. If your time is worth more than the fee, we are the better option. If it isn't, our step-by-step guidance is above and you are welcome to use it.
Three ways to buy the same discipline, sized to a single show, a growing show, or a full network slate.
Full feed validation and technical audit, metadata and tag optimization, gpodder.net index entry, listing verification with screenshot proof, and a written feed health report with prioritized fixes. Ideal for one show testing the channel.
Everything in Starter, plus publisher account application and follow-up, WebSub hub implementation, episode-level metadata optimization across your back catalogue, syndication to the wider open-source and independent directory set, stale-listing recovery where applicable, and a quarterly listing health check.
Everything in Growth applied across your full slate, with feed templating and standards documentation so every new show launches correct, bulk submission management, host migration support with redirect handling, consolidated monthly reporting, and a named account manager.
All tiers are quoted only after the free feed audit. We do not price blind, and we do not quote for work your feed doesn't need.
We have run podcast submission and feed optimization programs across dozens of platforms — live directories, legacy indexes, host-side distribution and search-first indexes. We know which platforms return value and which are checkbox exercises, and we say so.
Our team works in RSS, XML namespaces, WebSub, structured data and technical SEO daily. Podcast distribution sits inside a broader discoverability practice, not beside it.
Every claim on this page is grounded in the platform's own documentation and public behaviour. We correct the record where the industry repeats itself incorrectly, because accuracy is the service.
We tell you when a listing is free. We tell you when a platform isn't worth your budget. We deliver verification proof rather than a status update, and we do not report submissions we have not confirmed.
We serve podcasters and networks across the United States, United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, Singapore and India, with communication in your timezone and reporting in your format.
Yes. It is a live, volunteer-run open-source web service. It was migrated to faster SSD-based hardware and inactive user accounts were archived to improve performance. The gPodder client application also continues to receive active development.
Listing on gpodder.net costs nothing. Our fee covers the feed audit, metadata and tag optimization, reliable index entry, publisher application, WebSub setup, verification and wider syndication — not the listing itself.
The web interface's add-podcast flow has documented reliability problems and can fail silently. The database is populated far more dependably through client-side subscription sync. Broken feeds, redirect chains and invalid XML are the other common causes.
Usually, yes. Refresh frequency is estimated from your average gap between episodes, so irregular publishing causes lag. We diagnose the fetch failure, repair the feed, implement WebSub so updates push instantly, and use publisher access to trigger a manual refresh.
It gives podcast owners access to popularity data and the ability to manually trigger a feed update. Applications are reviewed and require your gpodder.net username, the show name and feed URL, and an email address publicly visible on your podcast's website for verification. We prepare and submit this for you.
No. Everything shown is read from your RSS feed. Changes must be made in the feed at your host, after which they appear on gpodder.net following the next update.
The feed audit is typically returned within two business days. Index entry and verification usually complete within a week. Publisher account approval depends on the volunteer team's review time and is outside our control, though we follow up on your behalf.
Yes. gpodder.net is one page in a much larger distribution program. The same validated feed is syndicated across the live directories, indexes and player ecosystems relevant to your show, and we can quote for that as a combined package.
Send us your RSS feed URL and we will run a free feed audit — no obligation, no sales sequence. You will get a plain-English report on what is wrong, what it is costing you across every directory, and exactly what our gPodder.net podcast submission services would fix.
Request your free podcast feed audit today.
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