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Saturday, September 27th, 2025

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Unable to update podcast with new episodes

Is anyone else having issues with adding new episodes to your shows? I run the Math Science History Podcast and have tried numerous times to add new episodes, but they keep being rejected and then declined. It is odd, because we already have five seasons listed. We are now on season seven, but are unable to indicate this on IMDb.

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Hello MSHatIMDb Can you help us posting the 18-digits submission reference number for the rejections? in order to take a look for you! You can find the submission history in your Contribution History page: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/contribution-history/G2BYV38VYPXM5L4F?ref_=helpsrall#

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Thank you for replying! Yes, here they are. We noticed this started once we began adding season 6 episodes. The reasons for decline are: Does not meet eligibility criteria. We are trying to figure out what eligibility criteria, since we've been using the same criteria for years. #250919-013025-363000 #250919-034514-706000 #250919-034951-663000 #250919-035338-631000 #250919-040245-710000 #250919-040446-144000 #250919-040726-858000 #250919-040949-877000 #250919-041207-963000 #250919-041436-094000 #250919-041855-249000 #250919-042201-245000 #250927-002351-785000 #250927-002444-570000 #250927-002600-987000

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Hi Fran: I hate to be a nuisance. I wanted to see if anything was discovered about our podcast submission declinations. Thank you for your help.

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Hi MSHatIMDb - I reviewed several of the declined new podcast episode submissions and I believe the issue is that the word "stem" was capitalized. Please resubmit these episodes ensuring that the episode title texts align with our capitalization rules (e.g., "Stem" is correct vs. "STEM" which is incorrect). For more information about our title capitalization rules please see the "Capitalization and character sets" section on our Help Guide: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/title-formatting/G56U5ERK7YY47CQB?ref_=helpsrall# Once resubmitted our staff will take another look at these episodes. I hope this helps!

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Thank you. We will give it a go and will circle back.

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Hi Michelle: We tried it with one podcast and it still did not work. This was our response, which sounds like circular reasoning. So, we are befuddled. "Your contribution has been declined.Your data referred to another item which has been declined or deleted, and this means that your data will not appear on the site. If you also submitted the original item and believe that it still warrants inclusion, please review the submission guide and resubmit." We still can't update the podcast, which is now missing two new seasons. :/