In a continuing follow-up to Friday’s CRB (Copyright Royalty Board) ruling on non-interactive music streaming royalty rates (called Web V), we spoke to Jon Stephenson, CEO of Media Creek, the parent company of webcasting platform Live365. Good planning and a big platform are easing the transition into a new royalty-rate period. Continue Reading
Internet radio aggregator and podcasting resource Live365 blasted out a note today about a full-site redesign. We took advantage of the review opportunity to update our understanding of business details. Click through for screenshots and a rundown of features. Continue Reading
Internet radio station provider and listening platform Live365 has announced that some of its stations will be carried on iHeartRadio starting this week. Six stations to start, and more added from Live365’s 3,000-plus webcasters. Live365 promises more distribution expansions to come. Click for history of this venerable venture. Continue Reading
Live365 has launched its own skill for use with the Amazon Alexa voice assistant. This integration will allow listeners to access lean-back listening to hundreds of music genres and thousands of stations. Continue Reading
Streaming radio host Live365 has announced licensing agreements which open its internet radio streams to audiences in the U.K. This opens a new market of listeners for the recently revived iconic internet radio brand, and also UK broadcasters and pureplay webcasters. Continue Reading
Live365, the venerable internet radio platform for webcasters at all levels, is now streaming in Canada. Licensing from SOCAN and Re:Sound enables the company to distribute in the U.S. neighbor. “This is only the beginning of our expansion,” says CEO Jon Stephenson. Continue Reading
Three audio industry experts have banded together for the launch of holding company Media Creek. The new operation will focus on businesses in audio. Media Creek is starting operation with the announcement that it is now the parent company of both Live365 and EmpireStreaming. Continue Reading
Iconic webcasting platform Live365, which went out of business in January, 2016, and reemerged under new ownership in August, has announced that the platform is now open to webcaster sign-ups following a limited roll-out that began in January. Continue Reading
Almost exactly one year after Live365 went dark, sending thousands of small webcasters scrambling for new platforms or giving up their stations, Live365 is back. Details are scarce, but this is what we know now. Continue Reading
Live365, the internet radio host which catastrophically unplugged its service in January, has resurfaced and is planning to re-open. The re-emergence of a mainstay resource for internet radio stations will come as a shock of good news to small webcasters which have struggled to survive since January, or which have not survived. But the news is full of yet-unanswered questions. Continue Reading
As forewarned, the venerable webcasting platform Live365 came to an end tonight. The abrupt collapse of a pioneer in online radio is connected to the five-year cycle of music licensing royalties. The webcast landscape has been thinned of its vigor, entrepreneurism, and musical diversity. Continue Reading
Live365 has informed at least some of its webcasters that it will be shutting down at the end of the month. The Internet radio hosting platform laid off the bulk of its staff and left its offices at the end of December, shortly after the Copyright Royalty Board decision about new rates, and the expiration of a law protecting small webcasters, sent shockwaves through the webcasting community. Continue Reading