The latest from our daily newsletter at podnews.net with Magellan AI. 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.
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.
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. And this podcast is sponsored by Magellan AI. Red Circle partnered with Magellan AI to fuel data-driven campaigns for brands and creators. You can read more from Magellan AI. There's a link in the show notes. And that's the latest from our newsletter. To read all the stories and subscribe for free, we're at podnews.net.