What You Need to Know About Getting Your WordPress Feed on Apple News
It turns out that Apple is going to release their own news platform for iOS devices. With that being said, Apple realizes that most writers use the WordPress platform for publishing posts. They have set up their Apple News system so that writers can submit their WordPress feeds, with the potential of being picked up by Apple News. Let’s take a look at the upcoming Apple News platform, and how it adds another possible avenue of income for writers.
To get started you have to log into your Apple iCloud account. There’s a new section on their called Apple News publisher. Here you can set up a publisher account for your blog and upload your feed. You’ll have to fill out all of your information, as well as information about your site.
What I like about this new publishing platform is that you can create a publisher account for each of your WordPress sites. This keeps everything separate, helping you to stay organized. You can upload the feed to each of your WordPress sites separately, making it easy to submit different types of news to Apple’s publishing platform.
iAds
Along with the Apple News platform, they are going to be rolling out an advertising system called iAds. This will be a new way for writers to monetize their content. You’ll get paid based on the amount of views your content is getting. You can either receive 100% the revenue for selling ads yourself, or you can receive 70% of the revenue for having the iAds team sell the advertising space for you.
This Excites Me
This new advertising avenue excites me, because it gives us a new way to get paid for serving the same content. It’s like content syndication, without any additional work. Millions of people use iOS devices, and your news can end up on every one of those devices.
What do you think?
Are you excited about the new Apple News publishing platform? Do you think it will be as easy as it seems to get your content picked up and published on iOS devices around the world? If Apple does this right, it has the potential to be huge. I’d love to know your thoughts on this. Please leave your thoughts in the comments section below.