The sample basic feed below shows where this tag appears (you may need
to scroll down to see it). If you want
to use just the top-level category the entry should look like this:
<itunes:category text="Arts"/>
If you want to use a subcategory the entry should look like this:
You should choose the category and sub-category from Apple's list. Note that if the category includes
an ampersand, e.g. "Religion & Spirituality" you must enclode the ampersand thus
"Religion & Spirituality" - if you include an ampersand by
itself you will render the entire
feed unreadable as it indicates the beginning of a code sequence.
<?xml
version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <rss
xmlns:itunes="http://www.itunes.com/dtds/podcast-1.0.dtd"
version="2.0"> <channel> <title>THE NAME OF YOUR
PODCAST</title> <link>THE URL OF THE WEB
PAGE ABOUT YOUR PODCAST</link> <language>en-us</language> <copyright>℗
& © YEAR, AND YOUR NAME (OPTIONAL)</copyright> <itunes:subtitle>A
SUBTITLE</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:author>YOUR
NAME</itunes:author> <itunes:summary>A
PARAGRAPH DESCRIBING THE SUBJECT OF YOUR PODCAST</itunes:summary> <description>A BRIEF
SENTENCE ABOUT YOUR PODCAST</description> <itunes:owner> <itunes:name>YOUR
NAME</itunes:name> <itunes:email>AN EMAIL
ADDRESS FOR VISITORS (OPTIONAL)</itunes:email> </itunes:owner> <itunes:image href="URL OF
AN IMAGE FOR THE PODCAST" />
<itunes:category text="CHOOSE
A CATEGORY FROM THE APPLE LIST">
<itunes:category text="CHOOSE
A CATEGORY SUBTITLE"/>
</itunes:category>
<itunes:category text="ANOTHER
CATEGORY (OPTIONAL)"/> <item> <title>TITLE OF THE
EPISODE</title> <itunes:author>YOUR
NAME</itunes:author> <itunes:subtitle>A
SUBTITLE FOR THE EPISODE</itunes:subtitle> <itunes:summary>A
DESCRIPTION OF THE CONTENTS OF YOUR EPISODE</itunes:summary> <enclosure url="THE FULL
URL OF THE MEDIA FILE FOR THE EPISODE" length="FILE SIZE IN BYTES"
type="FOR AN MP3 FILE - audio/mpeg" /> <guid>THE FULL URL OF
THE MEDIA FILE FOR THE EPISODE</guid> <pubDate>DATE, E.G. Wed,
15 Jun 2005 19:00:00 GMT</pubDate> <itunes:duration>DURATION
H:MM:SS</itunes:duration> <itunes:keywords>ENTER
KEYWORDS FOR SEARCHING</itunes:keywords> <itunes:explicit>yes IF
CONTAINS ADULT MATERIAL, OTHERWISE no</itunes:explicit> </item> </channel> </rss>