Built for broadcasters

priced for bean counters

$1 a day

$USD per station

$1/day gets you everything you need to stream your station, and all of it at your fingertips

  • 1 stream (AAC, HE-AAC, HE-AAC v2 or MP3)
  • bitrates from 32-320 kbps
  • 1,500 GB of bandwidth 
  • Stream monitoring with dashboard alerts
  • Footer and/or popup player
  • Comprehensive Streaming analytics
  • Podcast CMS / RSS
  • Geo-blocking at the country level
  • Hive dashboard with
    • Windows, Mac and Ubuntu OS support
    • unlimited users
    • permission management
    • 2FA default
    • control of all streamB services*
    • knowledge base
    • support portal
    • The streamB team
More

Pro+
Enhancements and additional services
for power users

Additional streams: $0.50 per stream / day
Alerting: $0.04 per station / day
Encoder:  $0.14 per encoder / day
Additional Bandwidth: $0.07 /GB per day
Blackout Scheduler: $0.05 per station / day
Performance Reports: $12.17 per station / month
Dynamic Ads: $30 / per station /month

For $1 a day we provide a solid, standard suite of services for a station looking for professional broadcaster-quality streaming services at the lowest cost.

That standard station is a platform upon which you can also build a more sophisticated streaming solution with full redundancy, add additional streams tailored to the distribution platform, execute targeted multi-platform digital marketing campaigns… and much more.

All of it under your control in one dashboard in the Hive audio streaming control center.

We’ve got everything you need to stream from the smallest to the biggest radio stations in the world, with complete control, flexibility, reliability and the streamB team, who are on a mission to bring sophisticated streaming solutions to your nearest phone, laptop or tablet at the click of a button.

Additional streams are used to provision the most effective codec for the distribution platform: for example provide an HE-AAC for your desktop player but MP3 for Tunein.

Adding an additional stream also adds another 750 GB of monthly bandwidth to your station plan, for a total of 2,250 GB monthly for a single station with 2 or more streams!

Adding e-mail and/or text alerts for offline alerts will ensure that you, and any Hive user you’ve added to the distribution list, is notified by text and/or e-mail should an offline state be reported for any of streams, wherever you are.

The streamB software encoder is multi-channel and available for Windows, iOS and Ubuntu operating systems. You’ll always see two streams in the encoder for each stream you add, because we add a backup stream by default to feed our backup entry point.

The streamB encoder can be downloaded from the Services tab in the Hive.

Please note that streamB works with a number of 3rd party encoders, it is not a requirement that a streamB encoder be used.

Each streamB station comes with 1,000 GB of bandwidth per month. Current bandwidth consumption (month-to-previous-day) is reported in the Billing tab.

Bandwidth is offered in aggregate by customer, so if you have 3 stations, you have up to 3,000 GB / mnth of bandwidth available, not 1,000 for each of 3 stations. That means if one of your stations uses 2,000 GB a month and your other 2 stations use 150 GB each, you’re still going to still be well within the free limit (2,000 GB + 150 GB + 150 GB = 2,300 GB).

What does 1,000 GB a month get me? On average, based on our experience with hundreds of radio stations, 1,000 GB provides between 20,000-40,000 listening sessions and 35,000-60,000 hours of tuning each month. Why so wide a range? The actual number will depend on things like the chosen bit rate of your stream, the number of listeners and the average session length.

What if I go over my monthly bandwidth allocation? Overage fees are charged as follows:

  • the next 10,000 GB @ $0.07 / GB
  • The next 25,000 GB @$0.063 / GB
  • additional volume breaks available on request.

 

Server-side ad insertion means you can target dynamic ads to anyone who listens to your stream, no matter where they are listening.

And we use silent audio tones to trigger ad replacement, making set-up easy. Simply embed a starting tone in the first commercial to be replaced and a stop tone in the last one (detailed instructions in our Knowledge Base article) and you’re done!

Fees for use of the Dynamic Ads are charged by impressions delivered at a rate of $0.43 CPM.

streamB dynamic ads can also include companion ads (display) triggered to display when an audio ad plays, for customers using the leanStream player.

Dynamic Ads comes with 60,000 audio and 60,000 display impressions each month (pro-rated to the start date).

 

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