Our mission is to expand the free and open distribution of radio to any mobile device. A public with easier access to more information is empowered to make better choices. Fact: Over 80% of the public does not access data services and relies on standard mobile phones.

Extremely reliable. AudioNow was developed and designed by one of the top telecommunications engineering groups in the industry. We utilize proprietary technology that undergoes constant testing and refinement to ensure a near perfect experience for your listeners. We operate and manage our own data servers for constant quality and performance monitoring.

We only work with recognized and well funded (established) radio stations that have ownership of their content and have qualified to be part of the AudioNow network. We are adding stations and listeners regularly and work with broadcasters that share our commitment to free and open media access on any mobile device. Please note: we only connect broadcasters that are broadcasting their content on a live basis and are in compliance with all royalty and DRM conventions in the US and abroad. For more detailed information or to view the Terms of Service Agreement, contact info@audionow.com.

Stations that meet our criteria pay an initial one-time connection and programming fee of $200. stations must meet certain internal thresholds to qualify for participation. We carefully review the listener data and other factors that you submit to AudioNow and will notify you within 48 hours of submission if your request is approved.. broadcasters that do not promote or cannot maintain continuous listeners may be requested to consider alternative arrangements.

If your station is currently in the AudioNow network simply fill out this support form and our Technical Support Team will respond to you as within hours.

Complete the broadcaster registration information in its entirety including acceptance of the broadcaster Agreement. We will promptly review your station's information and contact you with any additional verification information.

We require an MP3 stream of your live broadcasts. In addition, you will need to send us a brief 10 second or less "station identification" and welcome notice that listeners will hear as soon as their call is connected. In the event you can't provide an MP3 stream, our technical team may be able to assist. Please contact us for further details.

Can’t stream in MP3? No problem. AudioNow supports the leading multiple stream formats. You can use the excellent free Edcast encoder to provide us an MP3 stream. Please contact us for further details.

It’s up to you to let listeners know that they can hear your broadcast through AudioNow. You will need to place the AudioNow® icon and access number we assign to you, on your home page and wherever your station promotes itself on social networks. You will need to submit a brief marketing plan on a form we provide that describes how you will promote the service, as well as a press release which we must approve. For more information, please contact publicaffairs@AudioNow.com for marketing ideas.

There is simply no more effective way than to mention the service on the air at regular intervals, email your registered listener list, and place the AudioNow® icon on your home page and social networks. Many of our stations will contact their listeners via Facebook/Twitter as well.

Yes. Unlike Satellite radio or cable/satellite TV, AudioNow is a resource for broadcasters allowing the broadcasters to offer free radio over the air or over streaming radio. AudioNow does not charge listeners for access to our service. Mobile callers should check their plan for any per minute charges.

Registered broadcasters can access a report page where they can view usage statistics.

From the time we receive your MP3 stream and gateway station identification audio clip, most stations are up and running in days. Before going live, we will require the broadcaster to place the AudioNow® icon on their home page and social networks with the unique phone number we assign and take the necessary steps to let listeners know they can hear your broadcast on any phone.

Unfortunately, no. We rely on national telecom operators that assign unique access numbers for AudioNow listeners.

We do not make toll free numbers available given their significant per minute costs. stations that have a local or toll free number they wish to use can sometimes “port” or transfer the number to AudioNow. For information on porting or transferring an existing number to AudioNow, contact your local telecom provider and complete the Technical Support Request under the broadcaster tab.

No problem. AudioNow allows you to expand distribution of the broadcast content you are generating to listeners in the USA, provided you meet the requirements on our Registration page.

Yes. Because of our scale, we are able to maintain cooperation agreements with telecoms in many countries where our international patents are enforced and the broadcaster has a strong market position. To determine whether AudioNow is available in your country contact marketing@AudioNow.com. As the world's fastest growing provider of broadcast content over mobile voice networks, we are constantly expanding around the globe.

Yes. AudioNow is an ad-supported service.

Yes.Subject to certain minimum call volumes, revenues for ads played just prior to the stream are shared equally with our broadcasters.

We provide a very valuable service to our broadcasters at no cost to them. Our business model relies on playing gateway ads.

We understand that each broadcaster has different audiences. We strive to play only family-friendly advertising. If, for whatever reason, you find the advertising we play in any way objectionable, please contact us and we will do everything we can to rectify the situation. For a description of our advertising guidelines, please see AudioNow’s Advertising Guidelines and Standards.

No, but it’s preferable. U.S. bank accounts have lower transfer fees. For more information, see our methods of payment.

We pay our broadcasters via check (U.S. only), ACH transfer (U.S. only), wire transfer, or Pay Pal.

We will deduct a $25 money transfer fee from the payment to be disbursed to the broadcaster. It is the responsibility of the broadcasters to choose the best payment method for them.

No. The gateway clips are solely for the purpose of identifying the station. Interesting in running ads on your stream? Contact marketing@AudioNow.com.

We will only run ads prior to the start of your broadcast. The ads will be limited to one ad per call and will not exceed 15 seconds in length.

You will receive monthly reports with the amounts you have earned. These reports will be accessible on your account page.

Our service is free to you, the broadcaster, only because we are able to recuperate our costs via advertising that we play at the start of each call. If you insist on not running the gateway ad, please contact us to make alternative arrangements that will cover our costs associated with your station’s call volume.

Yes, provided that you complete and execute the proper tax documents and meet all the requirements that we have specified in our Addendum (also available on our registration page).

No. AudioNow is not a broadcaster, but a technology bridge allowing mobile phone users to access participating broadcaster streams. Definitions and licensing requirements for broadcaster categories in the U.S. can be found at http://transition.fcc.gov/licenses.html. The FCC provides a link to the NTIA Manual of Regulations and Procedures for Federal Radio Frequency Management glossary of telecommunications terms, which further defines a broadcasting service.

AudioNow’s position is that the FCC's prohibition against advertising applies only to non-commercial educational ("NCE") broadcasters licensed by the FCC. AudioNow is not a broadcaster as defined by the FCC. AudioNow may insert advertising before connecting a caller to any radio station’s broadcast content, even when the broadcaster is a public or non-profit community radio station. Broadcasters should seek their own counsel.

Yes. AudioNow proudly underwrites and supports public and non-profit community radio through monetary contributions to the station, based on the station's participation in AudioNow’s Revenue Share Program. AudioNow is aware that NCEs may not broadcast advertisements for remuneration that “contain comparative or qualitative descriptions, price information, calls to action, or inducements to buy, sell, rent or lease” goods, products, or services. AudioNow is flexible in the type and frequency of promotional announcements a station is required to air in order to qualify for the Revenue Share Program. The announcements commonly aired by NCEs to acknowledge sponsors, underwriters, or contributors are sufficient to qualify the station for the Revenue Share program. Specifically, note this excerpt from the FCC website at http://transition.fcc.gov/mb/audio/nature.html: [The FCC] reiterates that acknowledgements should be made for identification purposes only and should not promote the contributor's products, services, or company. For example, logos or logograms used by corporations or businesses are permitted so long as they do not contain comparative or qualitative descriptions of the donor's products or services. Similarly, company slogans which contain general product-line descriptions are acceptable if not designed to be promotional in nature. We also believe that the inclusion of a telephone number in an acknowledgement is within these general guidelines and, therefore permissible." A logo or on-air announcement of the AudioNow brand name, along with a simple slogan and the assigned cell number are sufficient to qualify the station for the Revenue Share Program.

Yes. Section 399(b) allows NCEs to promote their own services and facilities. It states: "[E]ach public broadcast station shall be authorized to engage in the offering of services, facilities, or products in exchange for remuneration." To the extent that informing callers of the option to listen to the station via cell phone is promoting the station's own service offering, the NCE may freely encourage listeners to access the station through the AudioNow access number. Each NCE may determine for itself how to best inform its listening public about the availability of the NCE's broadcast content via the AudioNow infrastructure, in keeping with its FCC licensing status.

AudioNow® does not account for music royalty payments either through a cellular/telephone service connecting end-user devices or through its streaming service platform connecting end-user devices to radio station internet streams (the AudioNow platform) because (i) AudioNow is a mere conduit for Broadcaster content whether the Broadcaster content is delivered to end-user devices through the AudioNow platform as digital streaming content or as telephonic signals, and (ii) AudioNow delivers content to end-user devices based on the actions of individual recipients, not to public forums. The AudioNow platform connects the Broadcaster content to end-user devices such that no public performance of the content occurs. See United States of America v. American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers, 09 Civ. 7074, U.S. District Court, Southern District of New York, 2009. Under 17 U.S.C. Section 106 (4), there is no copyright violation since no copyrighted work, if any, in the Broadcaster content is performed publicly as defined in 17 U.S.C. Section 101. Therefore, no public performance licensing fees are due based on AudioNow connecting end-user devices to Broadcaster content, and AudioNow is neither directly or secondarily liable for any royalty fees. In the event that any royalties are due for or copyrights applicable to any Broadcaster content received at the AudioNow platform, such as mechanical rights, performance rights, digital webcasting rights, etc., Broadcaster retains all responsibility for the policing of copyright and payment of such royalties.
Furthermore, the AudioNow platform is excluded from copyright infringement and/or payment of royalties under 17 U.S.C. §512(a) because its transmission of Broadcaster content is performed as a “transitory digital network communication” in that (i) the transmission of the material is initiated by or at the direction of Broadcaster, a person or entity other than AudioNow, the service provider; (ii) the transmission, routing, provision of connections, or storage of Broadcaster content is carried out through an automatic technical process without selection of the material by AudioNow, the service provider; (iii) AudioNow, the service provider, does not select the recipients of the material except as an automatic response to the request of another person, namely each individual end user; (iv) no copy of the material made by the service provider in the course of such intermediate or transient storage is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to anyone other than anticipated recipients, and no such copy is maintained on the system or network in a manner ordinarily accessible to such anticipated recipients for a longer period than is reasonably necessary for the transmission, routing, or provision of connections; and (v) the material is transmitted through the AudioNow platform without modification of its content.
In addition, connecting the Broadcaster content through the AudioNow platform to end-user devices, and listening to the content on the\ end-user device, falls under the copyright exemption of performances under 17 U.S.C. §110 (5)(A) for a "communication of a transmission embodying a performance or display of a work by the public reception of the transmission on a single receiving apparatus of a kind commonly used in private homes” because (i) a direct charge is not made by the individual user to see or hear the transmission; and (ii) the transmission thus received by the individual user is not further transmitted to the public.