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Analytics metrics & API access

More visibility into listening hours, improved charts and direct API access. Better audience data helps publishers make stronger programming decisions and demonstrate the value of their digital listenership to advertisers. The latest feature update to our best-in-class analytics dashboard delivers more ways to gain audience insights. Key metrics

New publisher dashboard

A unified interface for managing all publisher functions.

Stream improvements

New archive-to-podcast features, self-managed fallback audio and support for TuneIn Now Playing metadata.

Realtime & dark mode for analytics

Realtime data for stream and podcast, with additional display features. Customers now have access to a realtime view of their listeners, useful for display purposes. Our portal provides quick insights into: * How many sessions are "currently" connected * A sample of live session activity * Details of most recently connected

Releases

New web player

Our new web player delivers a cleaner design with less user distraction, while supporting many new features.

Releases

Podcasting 2.x

Support for the Podcasting 2.0 standard is now available to all our podcast packages.

Releases

Analytics 2024

The best-in-class audio analytics, now even better.

Development

Product improvement release

Podcast upload & import improvements, new locations for stream input and small mobile app updates.

Development

Website update

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

Releases

Billing & admin update

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

Podcasts

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

Releases

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.

Podcasts

Automated podcast transcripts

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

Streaming

Online archive available for live-streams

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

Streaming

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.

Streaming

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.

Streaming

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.

Streaming

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

Advertising

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.

Advertising

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.

Advertising

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.

Streaming

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.

Releases

Web player UI update

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

Releases

Usage reports update

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

Releases

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.