By: Ioana Havsfrid “Quality is so important that it can’t be outsourced to one person alone.” We strongly believe in a culture of software quality at Acast, and we depend on this high quality to achieve our goals and move as fast as we need to. This is why we…

By Jonas Björk Background In early 2018 we reorganised from small, functional teams, into purpose-driven, autonomous product teams. There were several driving factors. Autonomy and purpose are two core principles of intrinsic motivation for individuals, and have proven to be effective for teams as well, so we wanted to make that…

By: Daniel Grefberg, Thomas Darr, and Aysin Oruz Acast offers the most sophisticated tools in the podcast industry, to all content creators large and small. We’re aiming to be pioneers in the podcast space by gathering, analyzing and utilizing data at scale, but this means we face a wide variety…

By Mariusz Strzelecki Being a Data Engineer at Acast is not only about developing information pipelines and maintaining data processes. It’s also about understanding data flow and looking for patterns that allow the business to grow — turning that data into knowledge to quickly respond to clients’ needs. We collect…

By Mariusz Strzelecki Amazon Web Services (AWS), with its S3 storage and instantly-available computing power, is a great environment to run data processing workloads. When you Google “how to run Apache Spark in AWS” you’re most likely to be pointed to Elastic Map Reduce service (AWS EMR), but this isn’t…

By Antoine Lehurt As a company grows, so does the number of different products. This introduces a level of fragmentation in both the overall user experience and in visual consistency. UI components, libraries, guidelines and documentation are usually classed as a ‘nice to have’, aside from the quarter and sprint…

By Aysin Oruz and Sofia Hellsten One of the biggest challenges facing product and service development is that, historically, women have been shut out of the process. The results is that, across almost every industry, half the global population’s needs and desires have not been sufficiently fulfilled. And that includes…

By Christian Milz and Jonas Björk An introduction to podcast currencies and measurement standards Podcasting is evolving rapidly. And, when it comes to measurement, it’s not just inheriting methods from more traditional media like radio and the web — it’s also inventing its own. We use the term ‘podcast currency’, which essentially defines the number of impressions the…

By Katie Rogers and Jonas Björk Real-world examples of using data to deal with growth and change in podcasting. What? At Acast, we have always put accurate data at the forefront of our efforts to help grow a mature podcast marketplace. …