Artwork not being fetched from RSS for pod eps.

Hi, just wondering why our episode specific artwork is not populating in Apple?


Here's an exampe: From Trees to Truth: Next-Gen … - The Wildlife Works Podcast - Apple Podcasts


It's just pulling the overarching podcast image not the one needed.


Thanks



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Posted on Sep 17, 2025 6:52 PM

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Posted on Sep 18, 2025 8:14 AM

Looking at the code for the episode in question, you do not have a tag for an episode image. This would be between the <item> and </item> tage and would take the form:


<itunes:image href="URL OF IMAGE"/>


This is specified in Apple's information at https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390


It used to be the case that you could do this by embedding an image in the actual MP3 file: I don't know whether this is still the case but in any event you don't have such an embedded image.


Since you are not writing the code yourself you will have to take this up with Podbean.

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Sep 18, 2025 8:14 AM in response to NatalieStein

Looking at the code for the episode in question, you do not have a tag for an episode image. This would be between the <item> and </item> tage and would take the form:


<itunes:image href="URL OF IMAGE"/>


This is specified in Apple's information at https://help.apple.com/itc/podcasts_connect/#/itcb54353390


It used to be the case that you could do this by embedding an image in the actual MP3 file: I don't know whether this is still the case but in any event you don't have such an embedded image.


Since you are not writing the code yourself you will have to take this up with Podbean.

Artwork not being fetched from RSS for pod eps.

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