Acast AB (publ) (ACAST) Q1 2026 Earnings Call

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Good morning, and welcome to ACAST's earnings call for the Q1 twenty twenty six interim report. Joining us today are our CEO, Greg Glenday and CFO, Anders Hague. You're welcome to submit questions throughout the presentation using the form next to the stream, and we will raise the questions during the q and a held after the presentation. I'd now like to start by handing over to our CEO, Greg Glenday. Greg, the floor is yours. Thank you, LP. Welcome, and thank you all for joining us today. I'm here with Anders, our CFO, now four months in and fully hitting his stride. In my section, I'll cover our high level performance and momentum, and then Anders will take you through the numbers. We have been very excited about the momentum our strategic approach is generating in the marketplace. We've been working on this vital infrastructure for more than a decade, and it is now paying off. At ACAST, we strive to be the best place for creators. Great creators bring very valuable audiences. Valuable audiences attract brand revenue. Once we have the brand revenue, that attracts and motivates creators and so on. You can see how this becomes a self fulfilling flywheel with ACAST at the center. We like to think of Acast as the engine room in the middle of this infrastructure. We have talented people around the world. We have industry leading innovation and technology, and we have the best data around podcasting. All of that together powers this flywheel. We want to create an unencumbered relationship between creators and their audiences and advertisers. Creator choice, open ecosystem, no real editorial point of view, we let creators create. We focus on brand safety. Those are the principles underlying everything we do at ACAST. So when I say the best place for creators, I mean everyt...