One Show, Eighteen Feeds: Apple's Duplicate Content Rules

Logosofia no Dia a Dia · Oct 11, 2026 · 21m

Daniel wants to submit eighteen topic-channel RSS feeds of a single podcast to Apple and Spotify. The problem: Apple's data model has shows and episodes, nothing in between — so eighteen feeds isn't eighteen views of one show, it's eighteen shows. This episode walks through Apple's duplicate content guidelines (1.9, 1.4, 4.2), the RSS requirements that make duplicate enclosure URLs silently ignored, and the fork where both paths — shared GUIDs or fresh ones — lead to failure. We also look at why the industry standard runs the opposite direction (network aggregation feeds like Captivate's…