It is easy to create a podcast episode and publish it in podbean.com and it takes only several steps:

1. Upload your media file. Podbean.com supports .3g2, .3gp, .mp3, .m4a, .ogg, .m4v, mp4, .flv, .mov, .avi, .mpg, .pdf, .doc, .ppt, .xls
   1. Log into your podbean.com Dashboard.
   2. Click “Upload” Tab.
   3. Select the ‘Media Manager’ tab from the sub-menu (see picture below).
   4. Click on the ‘Upload’ button to start uploading your file (pictured below). Please do not close this window during uploading otherwise the file upload will be interrupted.



2. Publish your media file
1. Click on the ‘Publish’ tab located in the main menu.
2. Under the ‘Post’ block you will find a ‘Podcasting’ section. Click the ‘Add Podcast Media File’ button to open the ‘Media File’ or podcast manage section.
3. Select the file that you want to publish for this episode.
4. Select the file type and then click the ‘Auto Detect’ button. This is an optional step that helps podcatchers identify the length of your posted media file.
5. Click the ‘Publish’ button and your podcast is live online, and remember if you would like to add any pictures etc. you can but do it prior to publishing.

Adding your own link to sidebar is as simple as:

1. Create your personalized text or image link under menu: Layout->Sidebar Links, you may also classify your links by different link categories.
2. Drag and drop your link widgets to sidebar through menu: Layout->Sidebar Widgets

Scheduling a Podcast allows you the podcaster to set the time and day for your publications to be published. For instance, let us say that you write daily posts and have done so for many months. You are going away on annual leave for a week and would still like to post daily, how can you possibly do this when you will be hundred’s of miles away from your laptop? By using Podcast scheduling of course and this is as simple as following these instructions.

1) After you have written you post go to the top right hand side of the ‘Write Post’ page and click on the + sign of the ‘Schedulling Podcast’ tab.

2) Check the ‘Edit Timestamp’ box and then enter the month that you wish to publish you post in.

3) Enter the time and date and then close the box, before clicking on ‘Publish’ located at the bottom of your ‘Write Post’ page.

Your post is now scheduled for publication at this time and date.

Please note that this feature only available for paid account users.