The Complete Guide to Podcasting 2.0 Tags

New namespace tags bring transcripts, chapters, funding links and more to open podcasting. Here's what matters in practice.

The landscape

When it comes to which new tags are worth implementing today, the details matter. Here's what the evidence and practitioner experience point to:

• Podcasting 2.0 is an open initiative extending RSS with a new 'podcast:' namespace — supported by Pocket Casts, Fountain, CurioCaster and increasingly mainstream apps.
• podcast:transcript links a transcript file (SRT/VTT/JSON) — enabling accessibility and search. High-value, widely supported.

What actually works

When it comes to which new tags are worth implementing today, the details matter. Here's what the evidence and practitioner experience point to:

• podcast:chapters points to a chapters JSON with timestamps, titles and optional images/links — richer than ID3 chapters.
• podcast:funding and podcast:value (streaming payments) create listener-support rails; adoption is growing in open apps.

Putting it into practice

When it comes to which new tags are worth implementing today, the details matter. Here's what the evidence and practitioner experience point to:

• podcast:locked prevents hosting platforms transferring your feed without consent — important for feed portability.
• PodKrafter feeds emit the core Podcasting 2.0 tags automatically — transcripts, chapters and funding hooks work out of the box.

Key takeaways

• Podcasting 2.0 is an open initiative extending RSS with a new 'podcast:' namespace — supported by Pocket Casts, Fountain, CurioCaster and increasingly mainstream apps.
• podcast:funding and podcast:value (streaming payments) create listener-support rails; adoption is growing in open apps.
• PodKrafter feeds emit the core Podcasting 2.0 tags automatically — transcripts, chapters and funding hooks work out of the box.

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