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Support for <itunes:block> in Publish #511

Open debenedictis opened 6 years ago

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

When a producer submits a feed to the iTunes Store podcast directory it goes through a review process that takes an undefined amount of time. That means that marketing cannot coordinate the appearance in the iTunes Store podcast directory with other marketing events.

Apple's proposed solution is to submit the feed with the tag. That will allow the feed to be reviewed, and accepted, without also appearing in the iTunes Store podcast directory. Furthermore, Apple has said that changes to are reflected in the directory within 24 hours.

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

FYI iTunes Site Manager User Guide (see page 9, Removing Podcasts)

sandikbarr commented 6 years ago

Looks like this is supported at both the feed and the item level. @debenedictis are we only looking to add support for this at the feed level?

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

@sandikbarr iTunes supports <itunes:block> at both the feed/channel and item levels. My understanding is that marketing has only requested this at the feed/channel level. There is a meeting to discuss this tomorrow (Wednesday) at 10:30 am EST. I've asked @palomao to invite you.

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

@kookster @sandikbarr @pkarman I added this to Horatio, if that is not correct, please move it to Ingrid.

sandikbarr commented 6 years ago

Looks like this was pushed out further in the sprint planning. @debenedictis I thought this was wanted by the end of the month but I can't recall for sure. When is it needed for those show launches?

palomao commented 6 years ago

@sandikbarr the shows are being submitted on different dates to iTunes. ZZ needs to be submitted this week with the tag which will then need to be removed on May 23 so the feed can appear for a secret announcement on May 25. We plan to submit EiA on Monday, May 21st (although we can move this to May 22nd)with the tag and remove the tag on May 29.

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

@sandikbarr I think the plan is that that tech team will manually add/remove the tag as needed if there is not support for this in the UI. @palomao Is that your understanding?

sandikbarr commented 6 years ago

Hmm... I'm not sure that we've verified feeder will support this at the feed level in order to add/remove the tag manually. I'm not incredibly familiar with the feeder project, so this is a guess looking through the code, but it looks to me like blocked is supported at the episode level but not the podcast level.

debenedictis commented 6 years ago

@sandikbarr Thank you for looking into this. It sounds like your concern is that feeder will not support a manually added <itunes:block> tag at the feed/channel level. When can you verify that?

kookster commented 6 years ago

feeder has been updated in production with block tags, and the 2 new rdtp shows have been updated to have the itunes:block tag as Yes.