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Art19

Acquiredby Amazon Music ยท June 2021

Podcast hosting, distribution and ad monetization for publishers

  • Content
  • Entertainment
  • Marketing

About

ART19 is a podcast hosting and monetization platform for professional publishers. It hosts and distributes shows to every listening app, inserts ads dynamically so publishers can sell and target campaigns across their back catalogue, and gives publishers and advertisers the analytics to run audio as a business, a principle it calls Audiotonomy: full control over the listening experience for both sides.

Sean Carr and podcast producer Matt Belknap founded ART19 in 2011. Amazon acquired it in 2021, and it now operates as ART19, an Amazon company.

Array invested in ART19's $7.5M Series A in August 2017, led by 1745 Ventures and DCM.

Record

Stage
Series A
Category
Content
Location
San Francisco, California
Team
51-100
Total raised
$7.5M
Array came in at
Series A, 2017

Founders

  • Sean Carr

    Co-founder & CEO

    Led ART19 as founder and CEO from 2011 through its acquisition and four years inside Amazon, after earlier roles running Wave Machine and Gallo Digital.

  • Matt Belknap

    Co-founder & SVP

    Producer of the podcasts Never Not Funny and Doug Loves Movies and of comedy records at his label aspecialthing.

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