Daily Mail launches premium true crime podcasts

• DMG Media has launched a new true crime podcast subscription, The Crime Desk (“the home of arresting podcasts” - we see what they did there), which launches today from the owner of the Daily Mail. In a pre-launch period, it’s gained subscriptions “well into the thousands”; the team has eight full-time staff and another dozen freelancers. (It uses Supporting Cast).

• Global and iHeart Podcasts have been unveiled as headline partners of The Podcast Show London next month. Podnews is a media partner; and we’ve a full list of who’s involved - the code PODNEWS10 saves money on selected passes.

• Evan Davis, a BBC radio presenter, has been asked by the BBC to stop hosting The Happy Heat Pump Podcast. The BBC is a complicated beast - we’ve written a full story to explain why.

• The podcast:location feature in the new podcast namespace will shortly be able to list where a podcaster is, as well as the place an episode is all about. There’s an OpenStreetMap feature in there, and - if supported - it could unlock some amazing experiences, our Editor writes on the Podcast Namespace website. Imagine a website capable of showing podcasts made about wineries near Adelaide - or cathedrals in France…

• Auphonic has optimised its automated filler-word removal for podcasts in Greek, Romanian and Hungarian.

• The AIB’s 2025 are open for entry. Suggested to be the world’s premier awards for factual journalism and production across audio, video, and digital platforms, the awards have been operating for more than two decades.

• PodcastOne announced four new shows, including the acquisition of a popular show launched in 2019. The network now has 203 podcasts.

• Analytics and inventory tool Flightpath has partnered with podcast network PodcastOne. The tool will help PodcastOne to deliver real-time inventory forecasting, unified revenue insights, and data transparency.

• Alby’s Saturn, an analysis tool for streaming payments using Podcasting 2.0, is looking for funding and will close if it isn’t able to get monthly revenue of a million sats (currently $941). Alby has mostly walked away from supporting individual users, causing a significant slowdown in support for podcasters.

• Descript has released version 113.

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• Think AI tools can cook up a better show? In his latest blog, Hindenburg founder Nick Dunkerley reflects on the seductive ease of AI-driven production, and the risk of never learning to truly cook.

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