Acast AB (publ) (ACAST) Q2 2026 Earnings Call

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Hello, and welcome to ACAST earnings call for the Q2 twenty twenty six interim report. Joining us today are our CEO, Greg Glenday from New York and CFO, Anders Hague from Stockholm. 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 would now like to start by handing over to our CEO, Greg Glenday. Greg, the floor is yours. Thank you, Lizzie. Welcome, and thanks for joining us today. In my section, I'll cover off our high level performance and momentum, and then Anders will take you through the numbers. ACAST is the world's largest independent pure play podcast company. We build the infrastructure that allows creators to monetize and advertisers to reach audiences through podcasts across audio, video, and beyond. We continue to be very excited about the momentum our strategic approach is generating. We've been working on this for more than a decade, and it's very rewarding to see this payoff. We strive to be the best place for creators. Great creators bring more valuable audiences. Valuable audiences attract advertising revenue. Advertiser revenue attracts and motivates creators and so on. So we have created this infrastructure flywheel for podcasting. Acast is the engine room at the center of all of this. Talented people around the world and industry leading innovation, technology, and data. We wanna create an unencumbered relationship between creators, their audiences, and advertisers. Creator choice, open ecosystem, no editorial point of view, brand safety, those are the principles underlying everything we do. We believe podcasters aren't defined by audio or video. They're defined by their relationship with their audience, and we're excit...