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Podcast Producer & Audio Storyteller

Narrative you build in sound

Audio is a writer's medium wearing different clothes: structure, story, voice and rhythm, just heard rather than read. Producing podcasts, your own or for brands and media, lets you build narratives, interview, and shape an audience. Stockholm, home of Acast and a deep public-radio tradition, is unusually good ground for it.

Demand 2026-2036
Growing
Branded podcasts pay; own-show economics are hard.
Competition
Fierce
Salary, Stockholm
38-58k/mo / freelance
indicative, gross per month, mid to senior

What you already bring

the cards from your core that transfer straight in
What you can do
Tell
Listen
Structure
Create
Communicate
Idea development
How you think
Storytelling
Communication
Creativity
Curiosity
Worlds you know
Music
Journalism
Communication & PR

The gap

what you would need to build

The craft and the kit: audio production and editing, interviewing, story structure for the ear, and the business of distribution, sponsorship or branded-podcast clients. Patience for a slow-building audience.

How to get there

  1. Make one short series end to end, learning recording, editing and story structure as you go.
  2. Study the form (narrative podcasts, the public-radio storytelling tradition) and reverse-engineer episodes you love.
  3. Decide the model: your own show, or producing branded podcasts for clients (the faster paid route).

Your first move

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Produce one tight fifteen-minute episode, start to finish, and publish it.

In Stockholm

Acast was born here and the branded-podcast market is mature; Sveriges Radio sets a high storytelling bar. Production studios and media houses hire, and freelance branded-podcast work is plentiful.

Ask yourself

three prompts from the professional development deck to pressure-test this move