How to Enable Spotify for Your Subscribers

As a podcaster, one of the biggest advantages of Supercast is that it's extremely easy for your subscribers to listen to your premium content in a podcast player of their choice.

Now...Spotify is yet another listening choice for your subscribers. Heck yeah!

Please note: 
  • Spotify listeners will not receive any personalized episodes.
  • You will not be able to view listener data for subscribers using Spotify. If you would like to see the analytics, please contact creatorsupport@supercast.com.

This article covers the following:

What is the impact of this change?

Activating your Premium Feed on Spotify means two things:

  1. Your subscribers will be able to listen to your premium content in Spotify.
  2. Your premium feed will also appear in Spotify's search results. If somebody clicks on this premium feed, the episodes will be "padlocked", since it's premium content. However, Spotify will also give listeners a chance to link their Supercast accounts to unlock the content:
Your free podcast feed on Spotify will remain unchanged.

How to activate Spotify

1) Go to Settings > Podcast

Please make sure that:

  1. Your podcast Title is different from your Free Podcast.
  2. Your Description, Author, and Email fields are filled in

2) Go to Settings > Spotify Preferences

3) Click Enable Spotify Access

4) [Networks only] Repeat steps 1 to 3 for each of your podcasts.

Spotify Synced Feeds

Spotify has recently launched a new feature that helps sync both your free feed and your private feed, all while keeping your premium episodes locked!

Turning this feature on will allow non-subscribers to see all free episodes, locked bonus episodes, and any subtle (or not so subtle) upsells for the paid content, so they know what they’re missing out on while your subscribers see all premium versions of episodes, all bonus subscriber episodes, plus any free episodes that weren’t also published to the subscriber feed.

To activate your synced feed, you must make sure you have claimed both your public podcast and private podcast in your Spotify for Podcasters account. Follow the steps outlined in our article Turning on your Spotify Banner to ensure your feeds are claimed.

Once you've claimed your feeds, you're ready to activate your synced feed. 

  1. Log into Spotify for Podcasters on web and select your free podcast from the list on the left.
  2. Click Episodes then Synced feeds.
  3. Click Learn more and follow the steps on screen.

Check out this article for more information around Spotify's new synced feeds feature! Reach out to creatorsupport@supercast.com if you need any support.