Agència Catalana de Notícies

What Agència Catalana de Notícies does

Agència Catalana de Notícies (ACN) is a public Catalan-language news agency founded in 1999 in Girona, now headquartered in Barcelona and operated through its legal parent INTRACATALÒNIA SAU. ACN runs a decentralized newsroom staffed by approximately 60 journalists covering all Catalan territories, supplemented by delegation offices in Madrid and Brussels, producing more than 3,000 content items per day across text, photo, audio, and video formats. The agency operates under a public mandate: INTRACATALÒNIA SAU has been 70% owned by the Generalitat de Catalunya (Catalan regional government) and 30% by the Corporació Catalana de Mitjans Audiovisuals (CCMA), the Catalan public broadcaster, since 2006, positioning ACN as the institutional reference for independent Catalan journalism.

ACN's product portfolio centers on the Subscripció full-access subscription for 200+ subscribed media outlets, public institutions, and enterprises, complemented by a set of modular add-on services: per-unit content purchase (Compra de continguts per unitat) via a self-serve portal, Línia directa for automated API-style system integration with filtering, Hemeroteca archive access since 1999, Encàrrecs custom event filming, Clipping personalized email digests, Alertes and Alertes personalitzades for Telegram and keyword-based email alerts, Previsions daily coverage forecasts, Comunicats press release distribution, and Bàners advertising. The Pool service provides free shared photo, audio, video, and text content to subscribers with attribution. ACN also operates Catalan News, a wholly-owned English-language sub-brand targeting foreign residents and international audiences.

Revenue is generated through a mix of recurring monthly subscriptions (quote-based), per-unit content licensing, recurring Direct Line feeds, recurring clipping/alert subscriptions, transactional press release distribution fees, and project-based custom filming. GTM is sales-led via a dedicated commercial team reachable by phone and email, with an inside-sales self-serve portal for non-subscription buyers. The company does not publicly disclose pricing, operates with 51–100 employees, and reports commercial product-and-service revenue above €1.5M.

Name

Agència Catalana de Notícies

Legal name

INTRACATALÒNIA SAU

Website

https://acn.cat

Company type

Private

Founded year

1999

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Short description

Agència Catalana de Notícies is a publicly mandated Catalan-language news agency (founded 1999, Barcelona) producing 3,000+ daily multi-format items for 200+ media outlets, institutions, and enterprises via subscription, per-unit, and alert services.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

News Wire Service

NAICS

Information (51), Broadcasting and Content Providers (516)

akta.pro primary industry

PR, Reputation Management & Earned Media Platforms (BPAMALAO)

Keywords

• Wire service
• News content
• Media subscription
• Press release distribution
• Photo video archive

Headquarters

HQ city

Barcelona

HQ country

Spain

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Subscription Services: Unlimited access subscriptions to all ACN news content across all formats, available to media, institutions, and enterprises.
2. Per-Unit Content Sales: Individual purchase of videos and photographs from the archive, including daily updated content, without requiring a subscription.
3. Direct Line Feed: Automated content delivery via direct line with filtering options, available in text, photo, audio, and video formats.
4. Clipping and Alerts: Personalized daily email with relevant news and Telegram-based real-time alerts for breaking news and custom keyword-based email notifications.
5. Press Release Distribution: Communication service for companies and PR agencies to distribute press releases through ACN channels.
6. Custom Content Commissions: Event filming and production services delivering finished video content to order.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels5 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

Ag\u00e8ncia Catalana de Not\u00edcies (ACN) is a Catalan public news agency that produces and distributes multi-format news content (text, photo, audio, and video) to media outlets, public institutions, and enterprises. Core offerings include unlimited-access subscriptions, per-unit content purchases, automated direct line feeds with filtering options, a shared media pool service, and a digital archive (Hemeroteca) of content dating back to 1999. The agency produces 3,000+ content items daily and serves 200+ subscribed media outlets.

Product overview

Agència Catalana de Notícies operates a portfolio of news content products and services built around its core subscription and Pool (media sharing) offerings. The primary products include Subscripció (full-access subscription) and Pool (shared media pool), complemented by modular add-on services: Compra de continguts per unitat (per-unit content purchase), Línia directa (automated system integration), Hemeroteca (archive access since 1999), Encàrrecs (custom event filming), Clipping (personalized news digest), Alertes and Alertes personalitzades (Telegram and email alerts), Comunicats (press release distribution), Previsions (coverage forecasts), and Bàners (advertising). The company also operates Catalan News, an English-language sub-brand targeting international audiences. All content is delivered in multiple formats: text, photo, audio, and video.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Catalan News: English-language news portal in English that explains the most relevant current events happening in Catalonia, with articles, videos, podcasts, newsletters and social media. Targets foreign citizens living in Catalonia and people worldwide interested in what happens in the country.

Products and services

• Subscripci\u00f3 (Subscription) Full access subscription to all ACN informational content, available anytime and anywhere, in multiple formats (text, photo, audio, and video). Targeted at media outlets, institutions, and enterprises requiring comprehensive news content access.
• Compra de continguts per unitat (Per-unit Content Purchase) Per-unit content purchase service allowing users to buy individual videos and photographs as needed, with access to the full archive updated daily, without requiring a subscription. Available through self-serve registration portal.
• L\u00ednia directa (Direct Line Feed) Direct line service providing unlimited, automatic delivery of content in multiple formats (text, photo, audio, video) integrated directly into customer systems, with filtering options for automated content processing.
• Hemeroteca (Archive) Archive service providing access to all ACN content published since 1999, available through the hemeroteca service for historical news research and content retrieval.
• Enc\u00e0rrecs (Custom Commissions) Custom event filming service where ACN records specific events and delivers the finished product. Targeted at companies and organizations needing professional event coverage delivered as finished video content.
• Clipping Daily personalized email service delivering news stories matching user-defined interests. Provides customized news monitoring for businesses and professionals.
• Alertes (Alerts) Real-time alert service delivering the most important news via Telegram channel (t.me/acncat) as it happens, providing breaking news notifications to subscribers.
• Alertes personalitzades (Custom Alerts) Custom email alert service where users create keyword-based tag lists and receive emails for each news item containing their specified terms. Provides targeted news monitoring based on individual keyword preferences.
• Comunicats (Press Release Distribution) Press release distribution service for companies and communication agencies to publicize their clients' activities through ACN's distribution channels.
• Previsions (Coverage Forecasts) Forecast email service providing daily coverage plans of events the ACN editorial team will cover the next day, enabling subscribers to plan their own editorial workflows.
• B\u00e0ners (Advertising Banners) Advertising banner service offered on the ACN portal and Catalan News platform, enabling advertisers to reach ACN's media and institutional audience.
• Pool (Shared Media Pool) Shared media pool service offering free-use photos, audio (MP3), video (MP4), and text content (TXT) from the Catalan News Agency for subscribers, with attribution required to ACN as the source.
• Catalan News English-language news portal owned by INTRACATAL\u00d2NIA SAU, providing articles, videos, podcasts, newsletters, and social media content covering the most relevant current events in Catalonia, targeting foreign residents in Catalonia and international audiences interested in Catalan current affairs.

Quantifiable outcome

• Serves 200+ subscribed media outlets
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators4 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Broad incumbents

• Cision: Global leader in PR distribution (PR Newswire), earned media and media intelligence (Cision Communications Cloud). Overlaps with ACN's Comunicats press release distribution and Clipping media monitoring products, but operates at much larger global scale across multiple languages.
• Reuters: Global news and information division of Thomson Reuters providing wire services, multimedia content and media intelligence to outlets worldwide. Comparable in wire service and media distribution mechanics to ACN, with a global and far broader scope.
• PR Newswire (Cision): Global press release distribution network owned by Cision, distributing corporate communications to media outlets worldwide. Directly comparable to ACN's Comunicats service in business model and target buyer (corporations and PR agencies), but at far larger international scale.
• Agence France-Presse (AFP): Global French-headquartered wire service operating in multiple languages across nearly every country. Comparable to ACN in wire service business model and multi-format distribution, but operates at vastly larger global scale as a broader incumbent.
• Associated Press (AP): U.S. global wire cooperative providing news, photo, video and data feeds to member outlets. Similar business model to ACN (multi-format B2B wire distribution with subscription revenue), but operates as a broad global incumbent rather than a regional specialist.

Direct peers

• Europa Press: Spanish private news agency distributing news content and press releases to Spanish media. Comparable to ACN in offering multi-format news feeds and corporate communications distribution, with a broader Spain-wide focus versus ACN's Catalan-language specialization.
• Agencia EFE: Spain's national wire service offering text, photo, audio and video news distribution to media outlets in Spanish and across Latin America. Closest direct comparable to ACN in business model (B2B wire service with subscriptions, per-unit sales and press release distribution), differing mainly in geographic and linguistic scope (national vs. regional).
• ANSA: Italy's leading wire service distributing news across Italian-language media. Highly comparable to ACN in regional/national wire service role with multi-format distribution and government-backed heritage.
• Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa): German national wire service providing text, photo, audio and video to German-language media. Closely comparable to ACN as a national/regional wire service with similar multi-format B2B distribution model, differing in German vs. Catalan linguistic and geographic focus.
• PA Media (Press Association): UK national news agency supplying text, images, video and data to British and Irish media. Comparable to ACN in B2B wire distribution with subscription and per-unit pricing, differing primarily in UK/English-language market versus Catalan-language focus.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/agenciaacn
• Facebookfacebook.com/agenciaacn
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/agenciacatalanadenoticies

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles6 records

Subsidiaries1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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