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Acast
Who runs Acast, what it tracks and what it costs, and the 20 closest podcast hosting and advertising alternatives.
- Who’s behind it
- Not stated
- Online since
- Unknown
- Trackers
- Prices
- No pricing page
- Last price change
- –
- Closest alternative
- ART19
Measured from Acast’s own pages, the Internet Archive and public records. Hover a dotted value for its source and date.
Visit Acast01 · Who’s behind it
Who runs Acast
Acast acast.com
Acast helps podcasters earn more. As the leading podcast monetization platform, we connect creators with premium advertisers to drive reliable revenue.
Wikidata: Swedish podcasting company
- Company
- No imprint we could read
- Online since
- Not in the Internet Archive
- Audience
- In English
02 · Privacy
What Acast tracks
What the homepage loads before you accept or decline cookies. A cookie banner should hold most of it back until you agree, and a tag manager can load more that we don’t see.
trackers that follow visitors
4 of the 15 alternatives below have fewer, 5 have more.
Privacy-friendly alternatives →- Cookie banner
- OneTrust
- US company
- 4 tools
Visitor analytics
Counts and follows visits, usually with cookies.
Tag manager
Loads further tracking scripts, which we can’t always see.
Third-party embeds
Videos, maps or fonts from other companies, which receive the visitor’s IP address.
03 · Alternatives
Alternatives to Acast
Thumbs up if it’s a real alternative to Acast, thumbs down if it isn’t.
- 01
ART19
American podcasting company
Very close - 02 Simplecast simplecast.com
podcast hosting and distribution platform
Very close - 03
The Best Podcast Hosting Platform | Libsyn
The best podcast hosting, distribution & monetization platform. Detailed stats | Excellent service | Start for free
Very close - 04
podcast hosting service
Very close - 05 Captivate captivate.fm
London-based podcast marketing, hosting, analytics and monetization platform
Very close - 06
Free Podcast hosting and Monetizing Platform | Podbean
Podbean podcast hosting and monetizing platform helps you start a podcast. All the tools you need to create, promote and monetize your podcast.
Very close - 07
Spreaker
Discover a world of captivating podcasts and immersive audio experiences on Spreaker. Dive in and elevate your listening journey today!
Very close - 08
Host Unlimited Shows • Best Audio and Video Podcast Hosting • Transistor
Upload once and distribute your video and audio podcast to Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, and more. Unlimited shows, detailed analytics, free podcast website, and real human support.
Very close - 09
Home - AdsWizz
Publisher Solutions We have created a comprehensive technology stack that includes dynamic ad insertion, campaign management, yield optimization and a programmatic selling platform. We enable publishers to optimize revenue and manage multiple demand sources, all while preserving a relevant, positive listening experience.https://www.linkedin.com/company/adswizz-com/
Very close - 10
Triton Digital | Leader for Digital Audio Advertising Solutions
Maximize revenue and audience reach with Triton Digital, the leader in digital audio advertising solutions for podcasters, broadcasters, and music services.
Very close - 11
Podtrac - Podtrac Home
Podtrac provides industry standard podcast measurement data for podcast publishers and advertisers.
Very close - 12 Very close
- 13
FeedPress – RSS Analytics and Podcast Hosting, Done Right
The most trusted solution for bloggers and podcasters to manage, track, and grow their RSS feeds with powerful analytics and seamless hosting.
Very close - 14
Substack
Substack is the app for independent voices: a free newsletter, video, and podcast hosting platform with paid subscriptions built in.
Very close - 15
Monumetric - Home
Measure What Matters Grow your business through Full-Service Digital Advertising Technology Management. Empowered advertising done right.
Very close - 16
Raptive — Powering creator independence
CafeMedia and AdThrive are now Raptive, a new kind of company transforming creators into global brands and lasting businesses.
Very close - 17
Homepage - Mediavine
Smarter Monetization Starts Here Mediavine powers digital businesses with technology and data engineered to outperform. Our platform delivers cleaner delivery, stronger revenue, and long-term performance for publishers building what’s next. Trusted by 20,000+ publishers, built on technology proven to perform One Platform Built to Outperform Mediavine gives digital publishers a competitive advantage with technology designed...
Very close - 18
OpenWeb - The Community Engine of the Open Internet
OpenWeb powers communities across the Open Internet, turning real participation into direct audience relationships, actionable insights, and revenue.
Very close - 19
Playwire | Ad Monetization Solutions for Publishers
Maximizing ad revenue for publishers with the most publisher-friendly AdTech platform in the world — where performance is real, and trust is built into every impression.
Very close - 20
Publisher monetization company
Very close
Closest first, by how much each site’s offer resembles Acast’s. Trackers are counted the same way as above. Highlighted technologies are ones Acast uses too. Votes and comments come from visitors and don’t change the order.
04 · History
What changed
Price and policy history →No changes yet. Each new crawl is compared with the last one, and what Acast adds, drops or rewrites shows up here.
05 · Details
How we measure
Alternatives are matched by what sites actually offer, from their homepages, Wikidata and a summary by Claude, in any language. Trackers and the rest of the stack come from the homepage’s code and DNS records.
The full technology stack, the competitor map and search numbers · 27 technologies
- Neighbours
- k = 20
- Sites searched
- 9,192
- Vector
- 384-d
- Query
- 52 ms
Competitor map
Each alternative by how close its vector is to Acast’s (x) and how much traffic it gets, how much of the stack it shares, or where it sits in the embedding space itself (y). Hover for the numbers, click to jump to it in the list.
similarity × popularity
Built with
- Website builders
- Webflow meta generator: Webflow
- Fonts
- Google Fonts asset https://fonts.googleapis.com/
- Analytics
- Mixpanel page source: cdn.mxpnl.com
- Tag managers
- Google Tag Manager page source: googletagmanager.com/gtm.js
- Live chat & support
- Intercom page source: widget.intercom.io
- Cookie consent
- OneTrust page source: cdn.cookielaw.org
- Payments
- Stripe TXT stripe-verification=442B17F086B8BF39753196CC97526BF8916DAB3C013A00303…
- Security
- reCAPTCHA page source: google.com/recaptcha/api.js
- CDN
- cdnjs asset https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/howler/2.2.3/howler.min.js
- Cloudflare header cf-ray: a5631d8c4cc97510-HAM
- jsDelivr asset https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@flowbase-co/boosters-carousel-ticker@1.3.0/dist/carousel-ti…
- Video
- Vimeo page source: player.vimeo.com/video
- Email hosting
- Google Workspace MX aspmx.l.google.com
- Microsoft 365 TXT MS=ms94013143
- Email delivery
- Mailchimp Transactional TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.google.com include:_s…
- Mailgun TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.google.com include:_s…
- DNS hosting
- Amazon Route 53 NS ns-126.awsdns-15.com
- SaaS tools (verified in DNS)
- Adobe TXT adobe-idp-site-verification=9aa478c5a8b6fd026031a48d44173d4c5c2d5455d…
- Apple Business TXT apple-domain-verification=QPRqOAmImL3s8U9w
- DocuSign TXT docusign=483b7036-2630-40dc-bdd4-6be0a94b086f
- Google Search Console meta google-site-verification: -PG-yqtaUol9uUZ2Xa8MjEGLlAQBWNXbHRw9drWrgMo
- Miro TXT miro-verification=b2d94481793681d5b13c82235e18c07459e6f34c
- Notion TXT notion-domain-verification=hkV3LWiEOklZWHf3gd1ooKQnZ3mCpjLg9XNzLFI8Ngm
- OpenAI TXT openai-domain-verification=dv-IY8IgNoSu1qjpNCzRfmWPY53
- Salesforce TXT v=spf1 include:spf.mandrillapp.com include:_spf.google.com include:_s…
- Slack TXT slack-domain-verification=wzZ3JDL5HGrjRcDK8RiG3Ty4zHJUURQb3nEjOf1o
- Zoom TXT ZOOM_verify_jJ6v191JbOKc1X4lcyXmUI
What competitors use
Across the 20 closest sites.
- Google Search Console 19/20
- Google Workspace 16/20
- HubSpot · not on acast.com 10/20
- Cloudflare 9/20
- Amazon Route 53 8/20
- jQuery · not on acast.com 7/20
- Google Tag Manager 7/20
- Microsoft 365 6/20
- Zendesk · not on acast.com 6/20
- Atlassian · not on acast.com 6/20
- Google Analytics · not on acast.com 6/20
- Google Fonts 6/20
- PHP · not on acast.com 6/20
- WordPress · not on acast.com 6/20
- Cloudflare DNS · not on acast.com 6/20
- OneTrust 5/20