Acast operates a two-sided marketplace for podcast advertising, spanning 140,000+ shows and one billion quarterly listens across any audio platform. The tech stack reveals a data-forward operator: BigQuery, dbt, Airflow, and Looker anchor analytics and campaign attribution, while DV360, The Trade Desk, and Google Ad Manager power programmatic buying. Hiring skews heavily sales and marketing (11 of 20 active roles), with pain points centered on scaling ELT pipelines and automating campaign planning—signals of a platform hitting the limits of manual operations as advertiser volume and complexity grow.
Notable leadership hires: Business Director, Brand Partnership Director
Acast is a public, Stockholm-headquartered podcast platform that brokers relationships between advertisers and podcast creators. The marketplace handles monetization across 140,000+ shows, facilitating targeted ad placement, brand safety controls, and performance measurement. The company serves mid-market and enterprise advertisers seeking reach within engaged podcast audiences, as well as podcast networks and independent creators seeking income diversification. Operationally, Acast is a sales-led, geographically distributed organization (hiring across seven countries including Australia, US, Sweden, Norway, Germany, UK, and Canada), with core revenue from programmatic and direct-sold advertising placements.
Analytics and data: BigQuery, dbt, Apache Airflow, Looker. Frontend: Node.js, TypeScript, React. Advertising infrastructure: DV360, The Trade Desk, Google Ad Manager, Magnite. Business systems: Salesforce, NetSuite, Monday.com, Notion.
Stockholm, Sweden. The company is a public company listed on Nasdaq Stockholm (ACAST) and operates in seven hiring markets across Europe, North America, and Australia.
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