No longer possible to publish a feed in iTunes U and in the podcast store

Thanks for Info Erik. I think I also vaguely remember hearing something from Apple along those lines or perhaps it was that iTunesU is only for pedagogical content. In practice many Universities ourselves included do not use the distance learning capabilities of iTunesU and instead use it primarily for marketing and external comms. As such I think it's a bit late for Apple to be enforcing rules which effectively force content contributors choose between the podcast store or iTunesU.

It presents us with a dilemma as most of our iTunesU content is not pedagogical and much of it is more suited to the podcast store (and we get much more traffic from the podcast store) but internally our content contributors are keen to also have the content featured on iTunesU. I guess we'll have to use the work-around of using a different feed URL and slightly different feed title.

Since my original post I have received a reply from podcastsupport@apple.com and they have confirmed that if you want to submit your feed to iTunesU and the iTunes podcast store the feed URL and feed title for each must be unique.