On June 15, 2026, Netflix and iHeartMedia announced an expansion of their exclusive video podcast partnership, highlighting My Favorite Murder as a cornerstone of the deal. The corporate push to bring the true-crime giant to video screens contrasts sharply with the intimate, often bizarre relationship the show maintains with its core audience.
On their own feed, hosts Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark continue to lean into the community's eccentricities. During a recent minisode of My Favorite Murder, Kilgariff toasted, "To My Favorite Murder", before diving into listener mail that highlights just how deeply embedded the show is in its fans' daily lives.
Rather than focusing on high-level media partnerships, the show's actual content remains resolutely grassroots and strange. Kilgariff read a letter from a listener who wrote, "Hey, to all the pets and people at My Favorite Murder. Firstly, I'd like to say how much your podcast has helped, uh, with some of the hardest times in my life. I now listen while making ashes jewelry," referring to the literal cremations of people and pets.
As My Favorite Murder prepares for its glossy, high-production video era under the new Netflix and iHeartMedia deal, the challenge will be preserving this exact brand of morbid, highly personal listener intimacy that built their empire in the first place.