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Did you know that Securenet Systems provides so many radio streaming features to make your life easier? Our Song Wizard is one of the more useful and utilized features. Our Song Wizard allows you to embed your playlist in your website, complete with album art, artist info, time of play, as well as links to…

New research shows that the online listening market is still growing at measurable rates. According to our latest numbers, more and more traditional AM/FM listeners are shifting their listening habits to take advantage of the ability to listen online at work and on the go, via the huge proliferation of smartphones and mobile player apps.…

Securenet Systems' Ad Delivery Network automatically delivers advertising to your players and mobile apps from a vast network of national and international advertisers and mobile content providers. We take over your player ad display ability, add you to our inventory, and video, audio and rich-media banner ads are automatically delivered to your listeners.   Our…

Royalty-Paid Music for Your Site Hey, did you know that you can now add royalty-paid music streams to your site as additional streams and automatically monetize them with our Ad Delivery Network?     The Soundify.Us system can be utilized by terrestrial and internet broadcasters to add one or more of our royalty-paid channels to your…

Are you using a customized skin? Why not? It's simple and easy to do. Just go to your Control Panel, click on "Skins" and follow the simple instructions and you can easily customize your player background. When uploading a skin, keep in mind that the skin will resize itself, depending on whether or not you…

1 - Make sure that you are streaming in the latest formats that are acceptable to virtually all desktops and mobile devices. The latest compression format is AAC+ (Ver 2), and is twice the quality of MP3, at the same encoding bit rate.   2 - Have your streaming link in prominent view at the…

The proliferation of radio streaming to cars, devices, desktops and mobile phones has certainly added to the overwhelming global demand for IP numbers. That and the huge growth of mobile streaming apps, ad delivery networks, hosting platforms and social media sites and blogs, have helped to use up all the IPv4 numbers at a far…

As the world of online radio streaming continues to grow, more and more broadcasters are keeping a keen eye on the shift to other means and methods of listening to their traditional AM/FM programming. I have recently written about the fact that most traditional terrestrial listeners are still listening, just at different times of day,…

You can make money right now from our Ad Delivery Network by simply opting-in when you sign up with our radio streaming plans. You can run your own ads if you'd like, and fill in the rest of your ROS with our ads. Our leverage in the impression-based media market allows you to get more…

With the latest and greatest gadgets, you can easily transform your car radio into an internet radio. So many cars are latching onto the idea of streaming radio devices. Ford, BMW, and other major car manufacturers are making cars that have internet streaming already integrated to the radio consoles. And for older cars, or cars…

The latest mobile stats are in from Q2, and it looks like Android is gaining against iPhone and the others. Nielsen’s latest report shows the market shares for the major players, with Android now at 39%, and the iPhone at 28%. However, Apple owns the hardware market on that front with the iPhone, iTouch, and…

Well, the first thing you have to do, is be streaming right? That’s like the first step to winning the lotto….you have to be in it to win it! So now you are streaming and your broadcast is spinning out over the web and listeners can hear you online. But, are you streaming in AAC+?…

Did you know that by 2015, 70% of all mobile ads will be locally geo-targeted? This is just how radio operates today; by targeting the local market. The days of ‘play-based’ tracking are over as the entire online streaming world moves to ‘impression-based’ advertising with the ability to target specific listeners in specific DMAs. Did…

Over the last couple of years of streaming, there has been a noticeable shift in terrestrial listeners to alternative modes of listening; namely, desktops and mobile devices. The facts show that most of what terrestrial broadcasters have feared is not happening; that they were losing market share to internet streamers. In fact, it is just…

Do you ever notice the overhead music playing in grocery stores, department stores, and doctor offices? The music playing probably isn’t your favorite genre, but it keeps you entertained as your browse through aisles or wait in a waiting room for your appointment. Sitting in silence is no fun, which is why stores and offices…

Mobile ad spending is growing. . . and it has local advertising to thank. Over the next few years, we will see a large increase in mobile ad spending, with numbers close to $4 billion by 2015 – from just $790 million in 2010, according to the latest projections by BIA/Kelsey. But a key driver…

There has been a lot of talk in the radio industry about how the growth of mobile device streaming is going to be stifled by over-demand and the lack of internet provisioning. The fact is, all of the major bandwidth companies are gearing up for this huge explosion in user demand by constantly building out…

In reading a recent story about an old-school radio station operator and his statements that “online streaming is simply a fad that is going to die out”, I couldn’t help but think about the old buggy whip analogy from the movie OPM, with Danny Devito. As a matter of fact, by the year 1890, there…

The great thing about streaming your broadcast online is, anyone, anywhere can listen. With the tremendous number of listener sites, Pandora, competing stations, etc., you can’t expect your listeners to always remember they can listen to your broadcast online or on-the-go, so you have to constantly remind them. It’s just like anything else; you have…

Some recent online growth statistics make it hard to refute that as a broadcaster, you shouldn’t be taking your online streaming seriously. It’s just not streaming anymore . . . it’s mission-critical. Listeners have come to rely on their ability to access quality, uninterrupted radio streams from anywhere in the world, via their desktop or…