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DMG Media has launched a new true crime podcast subscription,
The Crime Desk,
calling itself 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.
We're a media partner and we've a full list of who's involved.
If you use the code podnews10, you might save 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.
But this is what Evan Davis had to say.
Evan Davis: I'm a BBC employee.
I take their shilling.
They dictate the rules.
They know they have to try and keep their presenters out of
areas of public controversy and they have decided.
Heat pumps can be controversial.
So they've asked me not to be involved.
James Cridland: A story about hot air.
Whatever next?
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 open street map feature in there.
And if supported, it could unlock some amazing experiences I've
written on the podcast namespace website, which we'll link to
today.
Orphonic 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.
Podcast One announced four new shows, including the acquisition
of a popular show launched in 2019.
The network now has 203 podcasts.
Analytics and inventory tool Flight Path has partnered with
podcast network Podcast One.
The tool will help Podcast One to deliver real-time inventory
forecasting, unified revenue insights and data transparency.
Albi=y'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 around
US$1,000.
Alby has mostly walked away from supporting individual users,
causing a significant slowdown in support for podcasters.
And Descript, or is it Descript, has released version 113.
And in podcast news, it's times like these you learn to live
again.
New today is Foo's Files, a Foo Fighter podcast, of course,
exploring the popularity and influence of the legendary US rock
band.
Pave Studios unveiled a new slate of Crime House original video
shows back in early February.
And a new crime podcast, Clues, with Morgan Absher and Kaylin
Moore, goes live today with a look into the murder of Lacey
Peterson in 2002.
Before TikTok and YouTube shorts, there was Vine.
Vine, six seconds that changed the world, is new today from
Global, the story of the social media app that changed the face
of the internet before it crashed and burned in just three short
years.
Benedict Townsend looks at the layers of genius, chaos and
betrayal that drove Vine's spectacular rise and its even more
sudden collapse.
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