Start your own radio station. Go live from your phone.

Not to start. Every new account begins in free mode — no card needed — with a real station on air, so you can upload music, go live and hear your stream before you decide. When you want a real audience, pick a plan: you are billed when you subscribe, and every plan carries a 7-day money-back guarantee. Cancel within 7 days from your dashboard and you get every cent back.

A stream is one station — one live signal your listeners tune into. Every plan includes one, and you can add more. A listening hour is one listener, listening for one hour: ten people tuning in for a two-hour show is 20 listening hours. The Starter plan includes 20,000 a month, which is about 27 people listening around the clock, every day — far more than most new stations use in their first year. You are never cut off mid-show; if you outgrow a plan we tell you and you move up.

No — you bring your own licence, the same as with every streaming host. In the US that usually means SoundExchange for the recordings plus the PROs (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC) for the songwriting. If the music is your own — your recordings, your label, tracks you made — mark them “I own this recording” and none of that applies. What Nobex does is keep your automation inside the rules: AutoDJ enforces the performance complement (no more than four tracks by the same artist or three from the same album in a rolling three hours) so your playout never quietly puts you offside overnight, and you can export a SoundExchange-ready Report of Use for any date range. We are not lawyers and this is not legal advice.

It is internet radio, not FM — there is no transmitter, no licence from the FCC and no range limit. Anyone in the world with a phone or a computer can listen: through your station’s own listen page, the player you embed on your website, the free Nobex listener app, and Alexa. You share one link and that is your station. Nothing to download for your listeners, no account needed.

That’s the whole idea. Sign in to the Nobex app on iOS or Android and you go on air in one tap using your phone’s mic — from anywhere with signal. AutoDJ ducks the music under your voice while you talk and takes back over the moment you stop. The app is free on every plan. Prefer your desk? The browser does the same job in one click.

Yes. Any Icecast-compatible encoder points straight at your station — Virtual DJ, OBS, BUTT, Mixxx, RadioDJ, SAM — and there is a Nobex desktop agent for Mac, Windows and Linux if you want a full local studio. Your existing setup plugs in and AutoDJ covers the hours you are not live. But you never need any of it: the phone app and the browser cover everything out of the box.

Yes, on every plan. Give us the address of your news feed — most hourly bulletins are published as a podcast feed — and we collect the newest bulletin every hour and play it at the top of the hour, ahead of the music. If the feed stops publishing we take it off air rather than pass old news off as new, and we email you. You can also just record your own bulletin and upload it. The one thing we cannot do is cut away to another station’s live news feed on the hour: that needs a contract with the news provider.

Because a social live ends when you stop talking. A radio station plays 24/7 whether you are there or not, your listeners do not need an account or an app to tune in, and it is yours — your link, your player on your own site, your listing on Alexa — not a feed the algorithm decides to show. Tips, paid memberships and sponsor spots are built in, so the station can pay for itself. Most people keep doing their social lives and point them at the station.

Yes. Support lives inside your dashboard as a chat, and a real person picks up anything the assistant cannot answer. Tell us what you want — “my morning show, 8 to 10, Monday to Friday” — and we set the schedule up with you. There is no encoder to configure and nothing to install, so there is very little that can go wrong in the first place.

Yes. Upgrade any time and you only pay the prorated difference; downgrade and it takes effect at the end of your billing period so your stream never drops. Cancel in one click from your dashboard, whenever you like, and every paid plan carries a 7-day money-back guarantee.

From Pro upwards your station can record itself — automatically when you go live, on a schedule, or for a specific show — and publish recordings as a podcast with a proper RSS feed. Pro also checks your Alexa listing against everything Amazon checks so it goes through first time, and includes Co-host Live, where two stations or a remote guest join one show from any phone browser. Business adds more streams and, through our sister platform Nobex Partners, a native iOS and Android app under your own name.