Formatting your show notes

Podcasts hosted with Spotify

Use the rich text editor in Spotify for Podcasters to get your episode descriptions (also known as show notes) just right.

On the Episode options page, you can use the rich text editor to add:

  • Bold text

  • Italicized text

  • Bulleted lists

  • Numbered lists

  • Links

Or, click Switch to HTML to write your own tags.

Podcasts hosted somewhere else

You can format your show notes by using any of the tags below in your RSS feed.

Formatting Example HTML


Links
Note: We only support https links (not http)

<a href="https://podcasters.spotify.com/">our website</a>
Headers


<h1>Heading 1</h1>
<h2>Heading 2</h2>

Unordered lists (nested lists supported)


<ul>
<li>Bullet list item 1</li>
<li>Bullet list item 2</li>
</ul>

Ordered lists (nested lists supported)


<ol>
<li>Numbered list item 1</li>
<li>Numbered list item 2</li>
</ol>

Paragraphs


<p>Paragraph 1</p>
<p>Paragraph 2</p>

Line breaks <br>

 

Note: We send your HTML formatted text exactly as it appears to all listening platforms. Most platforms support HTML formatting, but be aware that your episode descriptions might look different on different platforms.

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