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Live365 makes licensing deal with entire Global Music Rights catalog for non-interactive streaming

Posted on April 18, 2023 by Brad Hill

From NAB Show: Live365, the webcasting platform within SoundStack, announces a deal with performance rights management company Global Music Rights, enabling webcasters to stream GMR music in a royalty-included plan. This means the webcasters are not liable for royalty payments to GMR-represented creators. GMR reps 142 songwriters in a catalog of 81,000 works which includes over 100 Billboard Hot 100 number-one songs. Click for more details. Continue Reading →

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“We were not surprised.” Jon Stephenson, head of Live365, on the new CRB royalty rates

Posted on June 15, 2021 by Brad Hill

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 →

Live365 launches full-site redesign; we review the wide array of resources

Posted on June 8, 2021 by Brad Hill

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 →

Live365 reaches distribution agreement with iHeartRadio, placing internet radio stations

Posted on May 3, 2021 by Brad Hill

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 introduces Amazon Alexa voice skill

Posted on May 14, 2019 by Anna Washenko

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 →

Live365 opens UK market with overseas licensing deals

Posted on October 29, 2018 by Brad Hill

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 →

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Live365 crosses border to Canada: “This is only the beginning of our expansion”

Posted on June 1, 2018 by Brad Hill

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 →

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Audio holding company Media Creek launches, with Live365 and EmpireStreaming under its umbrella

Posted on February 20, 2018 by Anna Washenko

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 →

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Live365 is back for real, emerging into public webcaster sign-up

Posted on May 17, 2017 by Brad Hill

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 →

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Live365 returns, one year after going silent

Posted on January 2, 2017 by Brad Hill

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 →

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Live365 set to return: Big news for small webcasters

Posted on August 15, 2016 by Brad Hill

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 →

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“Seventeen sweet years ago” — Live365 pulls the plug

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Brad Hill

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 →

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