At PODIUS.io, verifying your owned shows gives you access to more detailed insights and features. Verifying your podcast is easy. This article shows you how to do it.

Why should I verify my podcast?

Verifying your shows let's us know, you actually own the podcast. PODIUS.io offers a vast suite of tools tailored specifically for publishers, looking to increase their reach and maximize discoverability.

With Podcast Platform Optimization, you get access to Guidelines. PPO Guidelines gives you more detailed insights into optimizing your show. Get personalized keyword recommendations, see other relevant keywords in your genre or have your entire podcast metadata analyzed and rated according to the platform specifications.

Creating dashboards also get's way easier. A dashboard for your entire verified portfolio is created automatically. This allows you to not only optimize your shows but also track progress and changes over time.

How to verify a show?

Whenever you need to verify a show in order to get access, you will be prompted to do so. If you desire to verify, you can navigate to your Verified Podcasts library and start verification from there:

This will open your Verified Podcasts Library. You can see your already verified podcasts, pending verifications or start verification for another one.

To start verification for a new show, press "Verify Podcasts". This will open a window where you can search for any show listed on PODIUS.io. You can search for multiple shows at once. This makes verification easier if you have a large amount of shows that need to be verified. If you see any podcasts shown as disabled, they are most likely already verified or have pending verification.

Once you are happy with your selection, press "Continue". You will be shows a list of all podcasts you selected for verification with their feed's email address. Make sure you have selected the right podcast, you have ownership and access to the email. With some hosting providers, the provided email is an alias that automatically forwards all incoming emails to the email associated with your hosting provider's account.

Once you press "Send Code" verification emails will be sent to all selected podcasts. In case any emails did not get delivered, you can request another verification email. If these issues persist, contact support.

You can now check your inbox to complete verification. Each podcast has a unique 6 characters long verification code that needs to be provided in order to verify ownership. Put in your code and press "Check" to complete verification. You can always come back at a later time to finish verification. Just open your Verified Podcasts library again. You will see a pending verifications banner which will take you right where you can enter the verification code.

How can I verify podcasts hosted exclusively on Spotify?

To verify ownership, we send out an email to the email address provided by your show's RSS feed. With podcasts hosted without an RSS feed (eg. shows exclusively published on Spotify), there is no reliable way to check ownership automatically. In that case, you will be prompted to send a support request when attempting to verify such shows. This will open a ticket for us automatically. Our team will respond to verify ownership manually and get you setup with the verification code as soon as possible.