Why put your podcast on Samsung Bixby?

Samsung Bixby is the latest and possibly greatest voice assistant to be released by a major tech firm, if you’re an audio content producer you’re going to want to have your work available on the platform.

Samsung plan to Bixby-enable all their consumer electronic devices by 2022, which means your content will be available on hundreds of millions of new phones, smart TVs, watches, and even fridges.

Bixby is very new, and at the time of writing only has a few hundred capsules in their marketplace. This means there’s very little competition, however the feature set is still rapidly developing. So while podcasts listed on Apple Podcasts are now automatically indexed by Google Assistant and Amazon Alexa, with Samsung you need to create a basic voice application (termed a ‘capsule’) to enable users to access the audio in your RSS feed. This is very easily done thanks to a template provided by the Viv Labs team (whose technology Samsung uses), and the excellent integrated development environment (IDE) they offer developers.

Learning to build capsules for Bixby is a worthy pursuit in and of itself, so by the end of this tutorial you’ll not only have made your podcast available to a huge new audience, but you’ll have some acquired some pretty tasty skills. The instructions are super easy to follow and require no programming experience whatsoever. Credit to Bradley Metrock of Score Publishing for the original PDF guide.

So, are you convinced? Great, let’s get started then!