Review (July 2025)
Live365 is the easiest and least expensive way to create a legal internet radio station as well as the best place to discover and listen to thousands of free stations from every genre of music and talk.
30M
Estimated Revenue
797.64k
Website Visitors
2.4/5
Trustpilot Score
What do we know about Live365?
Estimated Revenue (2020)
$30M
Total Employees
62
Founded
1999
Industry
Internet
Location
Pittsburgh, United States
About
Live365: Live365 is the easiest and least expensive way to create a legal internet radio station as well as the best place to discover and listen to thousands of free stations from every genre of music and talk .
What is Live365's Revenue?
Live365's estimated revenue for 2024 is $30M.
What does Live365 do?
Live365 is a pioneer in internet radio and broadcasting services, going back to 1999. The Live365 radio network reaches listeners all over the United States, offering greater breadth and depth of high-quality streaming music, talk, and audio than any other network. Featuring 260+ genres of music produced by hundreds of broadcasters, Live365 boasts a large roster of artists and radio producers, commercial and public radio stations, and individual DJs who program stations in every musical style. In short, Live365 is programmed by real people with a deep passion for music. Live365's end-to-end broadcast platform empowers individuals and organizations alike by giving them a "voice" to reach audiences across the nation. Through easy-to-use tools and services as well as royalty coverage, anyone with a computer and internet connection can create his or her own internet radio station and reach a national audience with minimal cost and effort. Led by a small, dedicated team of talented individuals, Live365 has succeeded in a highly competitive market thanks to a diversified business model that includes broadcasting subscriptions and advertising revenues. Working for Live365 means having a voice in the company's decisions and a chance to have impacts on its performance. You will also be a part of a community that has a real mission—giving a voice to the individual and providing a venue for all kinds of music and audio content, not just "commercially viable" artists and genres. Based in western Pennsylvania, Live365 pays royalties to labels, artists, songwriters, and publishers through established royalty collection organizations including ASCAP, BMI, SESAC, and SoundExchange.
What are the monthly traffic metrics for Live365?
6/mo Traffic Growth
-21.90%
All Time Traffic Growth
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Monthly Hits
798k
Time on Site
9.3Mins
Pages per Visit
8.0
Bounce Rate
65%
How fast is Live365 growing?
Live365 has grown by -5.2% in the last 6 months according to SimilarWeb.
How do people interact with Live365?
Last month, Live365 received 798k visitors who spent an average of 9.3 minutes on the website and visited 8.0 different pages per session. Overall, 65% of people bounce on the first visit.
How do people find Live365?
430.4k people (54%) visit Live365 directly. 275.3k (35%) people search for them in Google. Whereas, 57.8k (7%) discover Live365 through Facebook, Reddit, and YouTube. 4.8k (1%) visitors come from Live365's email newsletters. Finally, 468.3 (0.1%) people come from affiliates and or paid referrals.
Who uses Live365?
Live365's top market is the United States and they receive 559.8k (70.2%) people.Then the 2nd is United Kingdom with 87.7k (11.0%).The 3rd is is Canada with 20.1k (2.5%).
Traffic Growth (last 6 months)
What do Live365's customers say about them?
Review Score
2.4/5
Total Reviews
10
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Kwc Rob
My experience couldn't be worse!
Reviewed on 2021-03-27T02:24:16
My experience with Live365 has been short and very unhappy. I've only been with them for maybe 6 weeks,but they have been 6 of the longest weeks of my life! I've had nothing but trouble with my station's stream since signing up. It glitches, it sounds like another station is stepping on it, like a weak FM signal. For more than a week after I opened my support ticket they wasted time trying to push the issue on me and my gear. I have a high-end studio, and have checked it up and down and it's clean. Plus I am streaming the signal to another service and that stream is clean! They finally noted that there was a problem and their response was that they were too busy with rolling out a new feature to work on it! Imagine a paying customer being told that? Shocking to me. How about fix what is basic before you look to roll out new features??? I got so fed up with their finger pointing so I decided to turn on AutoDJ and stop broadcasting from my studio. Amazing, the issue is STILL there! I left it on AutoDJ for 3-4 days for them to fix. Communication is terrible. Now today is Friday, and the station has been sounding horrible all week because their AutoDJ is terrible, and no processing, etc. So I switched it back to Live this afternoon, and the same issue still exists. My last two emails went completely unanswered, So I logged into the portal to see if I could get an update on the support ticket itself. I got an update alright. THEY CLOSED THE TICKET 4 DAYS AGO! No resolution, no response, NOTHING!
Forget about radio services, this is THE WORST company I've ever dealt with, hands down. They are unresponsive, provide substandard services and expect you to pay full price for all this with a smile! Any company can experience issues, it's technology, and things go wrong, I completely understand that, but Live365 has proven that they don't care! No one has reached out to me to make good on the issue, instead emails go unanswered. I've made several suggestions to them about moving my station to another server unless this is completely system wide, they don't even acknowledge anything I say. When they answer it's in short sentences mean to appease me, but it just angers me more. The only reason I am still there is the licensing part. If/when I figure out how to do music reporting on my own, I'll cut them as fast as I can.
They are a terrible company. I'm not sure music reporting is more painful than this horrendous experience. Find another way to broadcast your station!!
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Randy Parker Sr.
Where Is The Love?
Reviewed on 2021-03-05T15:39:46
When listeners hear a song they like on a broadcaster's stream and "click or tap" the shopping cart to buy that song,it should hyper-link that listener to the broadcaster's Amazon or Apple affiliate account so they can receive the credit for that purchase, not Live365.
It appears Live365.com currently has the buy now button linked to someone's Apple affiliate account, making extra money off hardworking radio programmers as if the subscriptions paid by broadcasters are not enough.
It's not fair, and this needs to change. It is already harmful the cap placed on a broadcaster's stream account, which makes it difficult for radio programmers on the Live365 network to earn money or credits towards their monthly subscription fee with Live365's monetization program, which this broadcaster has elected to be a part of since 2009 and this my station has not made a penny from Live365's monetization program.
Next, there is the subject of promotion, and I am not talking about Live365.com's spotlight featured stations that you have to request through Live365.com's marketing department. As a broadcaster, I am concerned about the first thing a website visitor will see when they visit live365.com. When you visit the Live365.com website, the landing page shows various broadcaster logos that should randomly display different station logos each time their landing page reloads, but this rarely is the case which appears that Live365.com has its favorites.
It's those stations that you continuously see receiving the most hits to their streams and those stations that enjoy the most listeners. I have brought this issue to Live365 management a few times by creating a support ticket over the last twelve years since I have been a customer. The emailed response that I get back is always the same without addressing the real issue on the Live365.com landing page. Look, here's the thing, there needs to be equal opportunity for all broadcasters on the Live365.com network, not just a select few.
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Michael Connors
NOT Reliable
Reviewed on 2021-01-20T19:36:52
Their payment link did not work. Reach out, no answer. They wasted no time shutting down my station though.I did eventually get the payment button to work but my station is STILL disabled and not broadcasting after over 7 hours. Time to shop for a more reliable alternative.
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Shaun
Not a Good service if your online station airs alot of Syndicated programming
Reviewed on 2020-09-01T20:10:43
I was all set to get my Part 15 FM station streamed online but come to find out you cannot air syndicatedprograms and the only handle royalties for when you station is in automation with just a playlist of music BUT they do not handle royalties for songs played on Syndicated programming. IMPLEMENT A FEATURE LIVE365 TO ALLOW SYNDICATED PROGRAMS NOT A GOOD BUSINESS MODEL MIGHT NOT USE THEM AGAIN
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Suzie
Does not work!
Reviewed on 2015-05-08T04:36:46
The experience with this company was unacceptable. Our station never worked/played and continued to be delisted regardless of all the measures we took to correct any problems.Hours of effort wasted. Service never delivered as promised. And technical support never assisted. Stay away and save your money!
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Michael Saya
Would give 0 stars if i could.
Reviewed on 2012-12-24T19:29:17
Emailed them for technical assistance. No phone support. It had now been 16 days and no response.They have a history of taking forever to answer emails. I stopped my broadcast, blocked my credit card and moved to shoutcast. This company is a complete joke!!!!!
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Cuban Vacations
They do not even know what they are missing
Reviewed on 2012-07-21T21:53:18
For a good while I had a station w Live 365. The product is good, but they are a perfect example of company that does not want to work for its money.They want everything automated and on their terms. Sad to see a good product miss out on many sales simple because of arrogance. I had someone hack into my bank acct and needed to wait on a new debit card no. TWO different people sent me different messages, one saying it's OK, we will wait a week to bill, the other saying, your acct is being cancelled.
So my acct got cancelled, 2 days later the new card came in the mail...but I WANTED TO ASK QUESTIONS about UPGRADING to a bigger package...they HAVE NO PHONE SUPPORT, I do not have time to go back/forth for 3 days while all my questions are asked/answered. The problem is that the Income Statement does not show SALES MISSED. They could be doing a lot more business. Another example of technology getting in the way of business.
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Monami Basu
Awesome free Radio Channel
Reviewed on 2012-04-28T21:05:52
A great variety in genres !! One of the best online radio sites
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