Welcome back to the Casey Adams Show. Today we are joined by a very special guest, Greg Glenday, the CEO of ACAST. Greg, thank you so much for coming to show today. Thanks for having me and vice versa. So thanks for hosting me and we're hosting you in our new studios. Of course. Thanks for being here. Absolutely. I mean, huge congrats on the new studio. We're here in New York City and I'm grateful to be here. Yep. So thank you for that.

Glad to be here, too.

The hardest part in New York City, and I'm grateful to be here. Yep. So thank you for that.

Glad to be here, too. The hardest part in New York City is the soundproofing, and I think we're above a subway and we're next to a hospital. So those two things make a podcast studio very difficult to build. For sure. Well, thank you so much. I'm glad we want to, you know, break it in and get the show on the road. Yeah. So, you know, I've followed the ACAS journey for quite some time. You know, I've had my own podcast for about eight years now.

And as a founder that's also now building technology in the space, I so value and appreciate your just mindset and context around all things podcasting and super excited to dive into it today.

And I know I already said this on LinkedIn, but congrats on stepping into the CEO role recently.

That was back in June, I believe.

Yep. Yep. You were just over 100 days.

And for the listeners, before we jump in, you know, ACAS is a company that's paid out more than half a billion dollars to creators since the lifetime of its

inception. And as someone that has had such a background in media and entertainment from, you know,

being the chief revenue officer of Shazam prior to the Apple acquisition, to now stepping into this

role in the ever-evolving podcast industry, how has it been so far the last couple months as

CEO? And what have you learned so

far by stepping into this role? Yeah, thank you. And by the way, congrats to you on eight years of doing this. And, you know, eight years ago, nobody was thinking about this kind of thing. So I think it's really cool that you've done that so consistently. And I'm honored to be. It's been a great list of best you've had so I'm honored to be here. You know for me I was I was here for you

know two and a half three years. And I'm honored to be. It's been a great list of guests you've had, so I'm honored to be here.

You know, for me, I was here for two and a half, three years as chief business officer before

becoming the CEO.

So it's not a complete new set of eyes, you know, let's change everything.

I probably had maybe two-thirds of the company between content and sales and the managing

directors around the world rolling into me.

So this was really a little bit easier because it was just sort of opening the tent

and having product and engineering.

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