Podcasts Connect Does Not Work

Hi everyone. I had the same problem. I contacted apple support and they told me I needed to enable my apple id. Attached is a screenshot of the email I received from support. Apparently mine had not yet been enabled. It seemed to solve my issue and I have been able to log in to podcasts connect ever since. Hope this helps!

Hello Everyone,

We had this issue as well. I solved by signing into iTunes on my phone. The desktop doesn't recognize you as an official iTunes user, you must do this on your phone if you have an iPhone. Once you log in with your podcast information, it will verify it and validate it. Then you'll have access to Podcast Connect. I hope it works for everyone. Good luck!

"Log into iTunes" on your phone? What do you mean? The iTunes Store App? I'm already logged in - so I goto Settings > iTunes & App Store, sign out of my Apple ID, sign back in, and open iTunes Store app. Nothing changes. Is that what you did?

I have the same problem except I manage a podcast and our new episode today did not post. I visited the Podcasts Connect link to login and check on it and I was rerouted to iTunes Connect.

Very frustrating!!!

Im having the same problem. Im trying to upload my first episode to podcastconnect and we are getting re-routed to itunesconnect instead. We have cleared cache, refreshed the page and made multiple attempts to login. Not sure what to do at this point.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I am having the same problems. I have several podcasts that I maintain and cannot access them via the normal dashboard that should be available when logging into podcast connect. Frustrating - and Apple is showing no help for this. Hey - this is affecting my work and cannot perform a task that even the podcasting guides tell us to do. Apple support please let us know and fix.

I'm not sure if this is the solution but I tried to access the podcast connect dashboard via an incognito window using Chrome -- and this worked. I wonder if there is somesort of caching happening that redirecting the podcast connect dashboard to the iTunes connect page. I would suggest trying a different browser to log into.

I figured out my issue. The rerouting to iTunes Connect isn't the problem. For me it was that iTunes did not have a Credit Card for the Apple ID I was using on file at iTunes Store. Once I did that suddenly what I was seeing when I logged in was completely different and looked like what all of the how-to articles and people here say they are used to seeing. Hope this helps some of you!

I have had a ticket open with Apple since Feb 3 and they are unable or unwilling to fix it. Apparently there's been a ticket opened with engineering but absolute radio silence from them. Pretty frustrating. I'll report back if I hear anything positive.

For the record, I have had the same credit card associated with my iTunes account for years and it still works, so that's not an issue (initial troubleshooting requested I remove my CC info and re-add in iTunes on the mac. That was impossible given I have active subscriptions (AMusic, for one)). Also signed out and signed back into iTunes/App Store on my iPhone. Still no joy.

So, interesting followup/resolution here:

I just called used the apple support website to have them call me, I waited on hold for 3 minutes, talked to the Apple support rep, and then tried it from my wife's phone.

It worked.

It worked! For the first time since I can remember! After WEEKS of tinkering.

Here's the really interesting part. The support rep told me that I was the FIFTH caller today who had the same thing happen; they called for the same issue, and the second they got on the phone with him, it started working. He didn't make a single change.

This makes me think that something in Apple's system "touches" or "fixes" corrupt data on my AppleID profile when a support case is initiated against my AppleID. Who knows. I'm going to keep an eye on it closely over the next few days, but for now, we're set!

If all else fails, call Apple and pray!

Same problem!

Exactly the same issue.

Confused as to why apple have not rectified this or provided a solution?

This is the most frustrating hurtle. I tried using the incognito window and it hasn't done anything.

I tried this and was still redirected to iTunes Connect which does not have a Podcasts option. Has anybody else figured this out?

This works. (You have to finish registration on your Phone (or presumably through iTunes)