Culturele vacatures

What Culturele vacatures does

Culturele vacatures operates an online job board dedicated exclusively to the Dutch cultural sector, serving employers such as museums (Nieuwe Instituut, Eye Filmmuseum), theaters and performing-arts institutions (Internationaal Theater Amsterdam, Bergen Muziek), public broadcasters (AVROTROS), music and cultural education providers (Codarts Rotterdam), and library and cultural-services organizations (BplusC). Founded in 2007 and headquartered in 's-Hertogenbosch, the company maintains an audience of more than 100,000 unique monthly visitors, a 20,000+ subscriber email list, and a combined social-media following exceeding 145,000 across multiple platforms, including Bluesky. The platform supports bilingual Dutch/English postings and operates alongside an editorial section covering cultural-sector news and career topics.

The underlying technology stack is conventional rather than differentiated: the platform is built on WordPress, with no public API, no third-party ATS or HR-system integrations, and no disclosed AI/ML components. Employer self-service is manual and form-based, with optional Word/PDF submission. The business model is transactional classified-style listing revenue. Pricing is tiered at €125 ex VAT per standard vacancy posting, €150 for Word/PDF submissions, €95 for reposts, plus €10–€90 add-ons for visibility enhancements such as highlighting and top placement. There is no evidence of subscription contracts, enterprise agreements, or recurring SaaS line items. Distribution is driven by organic search, the email newsletter, and the social-media footprint.

Operating with a small team of six employees and no disclosed external funding, M&A activity, or parent company, the business is structured as a self-sustaining, niche vertical classifieds platform. Its competitive position rests on the depth of its cultural-sector specialization, the size of its candidate-facing audience relative to the narrow Dutch market, and the institutional recognition accumulated across nearly two decades of continuous operation.

Name

Culturele vacatures

Legal name

Culturele vacatures

Website

https://culturele-vacatures.nl

Company type

Private

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Culturele vacatures is a Dutch online job board founded in 2007 that lists vacancies exclusively in the cultural sector, serving museums, theaters, broadcasters, music institutions, and cultural educational organizations across the Netherlands.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Online Job Board / Recruitment Marketplace

SIC

Services-Employment Agencies (7361)

akta.pro primary industry

Casting & Talent Placement (Sessions, Bands, Touring Musicians) (MPAIAGAM)

Keywords

• Cultural sector job board
• Vacancy listing platform
• Dutch arts recruitment
• Job posting marketplace
• Arts and culture jobs

Headquarters

HQ city

's-Hertogenbosch

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Digital Commerce or Content

Cost components

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

Revenue model

1. Vacancy Listing Fees: Primary revenue stream from charging cultural organizations to publish job listings on the platform. Standard placement costs €125 ex VAT per vacancy. Additional premium services (featured images, social media promotion, extended duration) available at extra cost.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Culturele vacatures is a Dutch online job board marketplace dedicated to the cultural sector. It enables employers (museums, theaters, concert halls, archives, festivals, libraries, media organizations, and art schools) to publish vacancy listings for a fee, while job seekers browse, search, and apply to these vacancies for free. The platform aggregates listings from third-party employers and distributes them via the website, an opt-in mailing list, and social media channels.

Product overview

Culturele vacatures is a single, unified job board platform for the Dutch cultural sector. The core product is the standard vacancy posting service, which employers use to publish cultural sector job openings that reach over 100,000 monthly visitors and 20,000 mailing subscribers. The platform operates on a modular add-on model where base postings can be enhanced with optional features including: social media promotion packages (quote messages, repeated mentions, closing date alerts), featured image placements, bilingual posting capabilities, scheduled date publishing, extended duration, and priority positioning in daily email mailings. Additional premium options include selection listings that aggregate all vacancies from a single employer on a dedicated branded page. The platform integrates with social media channels (Facebook, X, LinkedIn, Instagram) for vacancy distribution but does not offer a public API for third-party integrations.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Standard Vacancy Posting
• Word/PDF Submission Service
• Vacancy Reposting Service
• Selection Listing (Employer Profile Page)

Named customers10 records

Segments2 records

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Emerging players

• Adzuna Nederland: Job aggregator with salary and trend features. Comparable as a data-driven Dutch job platform; competes by layering market-intelligence features on top of listings that Culturele vacatures' WordPress-based product cannot easily match.
• Stage.nl: Dutch internship-focused platform. Adjacent vertical player for the learning/internship segment that Culturele vacatures also serves, competing for the same cultural-organisation stage postings and student-candidate audience.

Broad incumbents

• Nationale Vacaturebank: Leading Dutch generalist job board. Comparable as the dominant horizontal competitor in the same Dutch recruitment market; Culturele vacatures competes for cultural-sector employer budgets against this much broader-reach incumbent.
• Indeed Nederland: Global job aggregator with strong Netherlands presence. Competitor as a free or low-cost generalist channel that employers often run in parallel with the cultural-vertical offering, eroding pricing leverage.
• Jobbird: Dutch generalist job board with broad SME reach. Adjacent competitor for SMB cultural employers who may choose a single generalist posting over a vertical-board subscription, particularly for non-specialist roles.
• LinkedIn (Netherlands): Global professional network with jobs. The dominant platform employers use alongside vertical boards; its scale, free postings, and professional-graph data make it the most important competitive substitute for Culturele vacatures.

Direct peers

• NYFA Classifieds (New York Foundation for the Arts): US cultural-sector job and opportunity board. Direct peer as a nonprofit/affiliated marketplace aggregating arts, museum, and creative-industry listings for a national cultural workforce, validating the cultural-job-board category model outside the Netherlands.
• AcademicTransfer: Dutch vertical job board specialised in academic and research positions. Comparable as another category-specific Dutch job marketplace operating on a per-listing model with employer self-service, similar in audience-targeting logic to Culturele vacatures.
• ArtsJobs (Arts Council England): UK cultural-sector job board operated as the official recruitment channel for the arts in Britain. Direct vertical analogue: serves museums, theaters, performing arts, and heritage employers, monetising through listings targeted at a specialist cultural workforce.

Regional players

• Werk.nl: Dutch government employment service platform. Regional-scale comparator operating in the same Dutch labour market with publicly funded listings; less product-overlap but competes for cultural-organisation job-ad budgets.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• Xx.com/cultvacatures
• Facebookfacebook.com/CultureleVacatures
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/culturele-vacatures
• Instagraminstagram.com/culturele_vacatures

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

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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