Global acquires The Fellas Studios

• In the UK, Global has acquired The Fellas Studios, a creator network that includes the Edison top 10 UK show Saving Grace. No terms were given: the new brand “Global Studios” will be the home to Global’s expanded podcast slate. (The Fellas Studios had been with Acast).

• In Kyiv, Ukraine, the winners of Ukraine’s podcast prize ceremony, the fifth Slushno Awards, were announced. The Grand Prix prize went to Теракт біля Палацу спорту (“The Terrorist Attack Near the Sports Palace”), a true crime podcast from Suspilne Kharkiv about the 2015 Kharkiv bombing, when Russian terrorists killed four Ukranians.

• Podcast content workflow platform Northflow has announced three advisors: Ana Xavier from The Podcast Space, podcaster and entrepreneur Daniel J Lewis, and Podnews editor James Cridland. (Disclosures)

• Podcastpage has a new name, and a wider remit. A new brand - Beamly - marks the platform’s expansion beyond podcast websites, the company says, to a full suite of publishing and monetisation tools.

• Last month in the UK, the Press Gazette announced the winners of the Future of Media Awards. Winning Podcast of the Year were The Times and The Sunday Times with Cocaine Inc; and Criminally Queer: The Bolton 7 from Reduced Listening and the BBC. (Criminally Queer also won last week in the British Podcast Awards).

• Want to see a CNN podcast being recorded, live? CNN’s Dr. Sanjay Gupta will interview Apple’s Vice President of Health, Dr. Sumbul Desai - tomorrow night at 7pm Eastern at The Paley Museum in NYC.

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For your Signal Award consideration: History Dispatches for Best Individual Episode in History. On each episode of History Dispatches, father/son duo Matt and McKinley Breen cover people, places, events and even objects from throughout history.

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The Glue Factory Podcast has joined the Lock It In network - and starts a new season today. The comedy show was nominated for Best Podcast at the 2025 Chortle Awards, and sees the regular hosts joined by celebrity guests to discuss eclectic topics and share absurd stories from their “addled minds”

Beyond Voting returns for a second series today. Host Emily Williams speaks with Karen Attiah, the founding global opinion editor for The Washington Post, who was dismissed after speaking out against “political violence, racial double standards, and America’s apathy toward gun culture” following the death of right-wing media personality Charlie Kirk.

This One Time in Kankakee has launched its first three episodes, featuring true stories — the wild, the heartfelt, and the hilarious — that define the greater Kankakee, IL area. In the second episode, a Bourbonnais bank robber listens to a local radio report of his heist: and decides to call in to the radio station to tell his side of the story. The show is from the WVLI Podcast Network.

Decoding Taylor Swift has signed with Realm for distribution and sales, and launched its new season - with a promise to decode Taylor Swift’s entire new album, track by track, over the coming months. As cohost Joe Romm notes, “Taylor boldly promised that these 12 songs would be ‘fitting together like a perfect puzzle’. Antonia and I have already figured out the puzzle.”