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

Yes — you bring your own, the same as with any streaming host. In the US that usually means SoundExchange plus the PROs (ASCAP, BMI, SESAC). What we do is keep your automation inside the rules: Cloud AutoDJ enforces the sound-recording performance complement automatically — no more than four tracks by the same artist or three from the same album in a rolling three-hour window — so your playout doesn’t quietly put you offside while you’re asleep. We’re not lawyers and this isn’t legal advice, but most hosts leave this entirely to you and we don’t.

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

Not for the first 7 days. You start a free trial on Starter or Pro, and you are charged $0 today. We do ask for a card up front so your station doesn’t drop off air the moment the trial ends — cancel before day 7 from your dashboard and you are never billed. If you do get billed and change your mind, the 7-day money-back guarantee still applies.

No. Everything runs in the cloud. Upload your music, set a schedule, and your station streams 24/7 with nothing on your computer. Going live is a tap in the app or a click in your browser. Desktop and encoder options exist for people who want them — they are entirely optional.

Most stations are live within five minutes: sign up, name your station, drag in a few tracks. Cloud AutoDJ starts streaming on its own — no server setup, no encoder configuration, no waiting on approval.

Cloud AutoDJ takes over instantly and your listeners hear music, not silence. When you reconnect you take the mic back. The same thing happens the moment you end a show normally.

Yes, if you want to. Any Icecast-compatible encoder points at Nobex, and there’s a Nobex desktop agent for Mac, Windows and Linux if you want a full local studio. But you never need any of it — the phone app and the browser cover everything out of the box.

Yes, from Pro upwards. Your station can record itself three ways: automatically when you go live, on a standing schedule, or for a specific show every time it airs. Recordings appear in your dashboard ready to play, download or publish — and publishing turns one into a podcast episode with a proper RSS feed you can submit to Apple Podcasts, Spotify and the rest. One thing to know up front: your streaming licence covers the live broadcast but not on-demand distribution, so anything you publish with music in it needs separate rights. Most stations start with their talk shows, where that isn’t an issue.

You pay for what listeners actually download, and nothing else. Podcast hosting is off until you switch it on, and switching it off takes your episodes down and stops the charges the same day — there is no monthly fee sitting there whether anyone listens or not, and no storage or download cap to bump into. Because it is billed on real usage, switching it on needs a card on file; a station whose episodes nobody has downloaded yet is billed nothing. Your dashboard shows the running total, what it cost us to deliver, and the cost per thousand downloads, so there is never a surprise at the end of the month.

Yes, and it’s free — Amazon doesn’t charge for it and neither do we. Your stream already meets their technical requirements. What trips stations up is the paperwork: a missing city or a logo that isn’t square gets the submission rejected, and you only find out a week later. From Pro we check every detail Amazon checks and give you the exact values to paste into their console, so it goes through first time. Amazon requires the station owner to submit, so that last step is yours — but it takes about five minutes.

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 whenever you like, and every paid plan carries a 7-day money-back guarantee.

Yes — through our sister platform Nobex Partners, which thousands of radio stations already use, you can have a native iOS and Android app under your own name, with your logo, your colours and push notifications to bring listeners back for every show. Worth doing once your station has an audience to notify.