iono.fm blog

Podcasting 2.x

Embracing community standards to reach new audiences. We are happy to announce support for the Podcasting 2.0 standard is now available to all our podcast packages. This greatly enhances the data available to syndication platforms and apps, making it easy to be discovered in the open podcast eco system.

Analytics 2024

The best-in-class audio analytics, now even better. Our podcast and stream analytics was already widely regarded as one of the best in the market for radio stations and podcasters to understand their audiences. But we still wanted to deliver "more" to our customers. More features, more insights. After

Product improvement release

Product improvement release

Improvements to our podcast, stream and mobile app products. Podcast A combination of changes enables a much better user experience and faster publishing times for podcast episodes: * Background audio upload. The audio upload interface allows uploads to take place while editing the episode details. * Multiple regions. File uploads use a

Website update

A massive rework of the iono.fm website delivers a much-improved experience for our publishers and listeners.

Billing & admin update

Billing & admin update

New integrated account & billing management interface, with additional improvements to our publisher's admin features.

Podcast auto-publish via FTP

Podcast auto-publish via FTP

Our platform now allows podcast episodes to be published automatically by uploading audio files to an FTP location. Radio customers often have a large variety of broadcast content they wish to make available as podcasts. Some of this content, for example news, traffic and weather updates happen frequently throughout the

New Analytics dashboard

New Analytics dashboard

We are excited to announce our new analytics dashboard! We now provide deeper insights into a publisher's audience, while adopting industry standard metrics.

Automated podcast transcripts

Automated podcast transcripts

Our platform now allows podcasters to take advantage of Google's Speech-to-Text technology to produce automated transcripts.

Online archive available for live-streams

Online archive available for live-streams

Capture your radio stream audio to cloud storage and access it anytime via our online dashboard.

Current song metadata support for Zetta & Jazler

Current song metadata support for Zetta & Jazler

Our live streaming platform can now receive "Now Playing" song information directly from an RCS Zetta or Jazler RadioStar automation system.

Secondary input available for live streams

Secondary input available for live streams

High availability is crucial to building and retaining an online listenership. Frequent outages quickly leads to user frustration and can reduce traffic to your live stream.

Automated downtime and silent alerts for live-streams

Automated downtime and silent alerts for live-streams

High availability is key to building a strong online listenership. Our new automated monitoring system sends email or Slack alerts when a live stream goes offline or silent.

Song & ad recognition service available

Song & ad recognition service available

Automated recognition of songs and other audio clips enables cost-effective 24x7 analysis of stream content. We have integrated a recognition service into our platform that can use acoustic fingerprint technology to track songs and ads played in an online audio or video stream. How does it work ? Over the past

Addressing brand safety through podcasting advertising

Podcast hosting providers have specifically catered for brand safety by enabling advertisers and their agencies with the capability of including or excluding channels, providers, and specific episodes.

77% of podcast listeners don’t skip through ads

77% of podcast listeners don’t skip through ads

In digital advertising in 2018, one can’t go far before bumping in to the thorny issue of ad viewability.

Significant commercial advertising revenue opportunity for podcasts

Significant commercial advertising revenue opportunity for podcasts

Ad revenues from podcasts grew at a compound quarterly 19% in 2017. Dynamic ad insertion offers the best model for podcast monetisation.

Join a growing medium

Join a growing medium

Streaming radio and podcast listenership has grown by a massive 300% from Jan 2017 to March 2018, according to iono.fm, which hosts the lion’s share of podcasts serving listeners in South Africa.

Web player UI update

Web player UI update

We've released an updated embedded web player that greatly improves the user experience for listeners.

Usage reports update

Usage reports update

A visual rework of our podcast and streaming reports that includes new information along with usability features.

New syndication features

New syndication features

Listeners should be able to quickly and easily follow podcast content, on our platform or via syndication platforms like iTunes. We've deployed an update to enhance this functionality for our publishers and listeners.

Updated stream usage pricing

Updated stream usage pricing

Based on feedback from our customers, we've reduced the block size of concurrent listeners we invoice for from 500 to 100.

New podcast features

New podcast features

We're proud to announce one of our largest feature updates yet. Besides a refreshed look for our entire site, this release focusses on an enhanced experience for our podcast publishers.