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.