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Audio Streaming

With our fully managed service and advanced automation, effortlessly create live streams and podcasts to reach new audiences and advertisers.

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Simplify your IP transition, with fully managed support

Reach new audiences on their favourite platforms

Automatically reach national and international audiences on the platforms where they listen.

Access new advertisers and ad revenue opportunities

Maximise the value of your content with new audiences and advertisers through dynamic ad insertion and access to programmatic ad exchanges.

Consolidate your DAB and online listening capacity

Bring your DAB and online listening capacity together with Arqiva, a leading UK provider in national and local multiplexes.

Arqiva Audio Streaming

Go from airwaves to anywhere

As listener habits fragment across traditional radio, streaming platforms and podcasts, keeping up can feel like a challenge. Audio Streaming makes it simple. By combining deep radio expertise, 24/7 managed service support, and cutting-edge automation, Audio Streaming effortlessly distribute your linear over-the-air broadcasts, livestreams, and podcasts. So, you can reach new audiences and capitalise on new advertising opportunities.

Create new live streams for new revenue streams

Deliver uninterrupted audio experiences to your listeners with seamless, scalable streaming – powered by a private CDN and backed by redundant enterprise-grade infrastructure.

Open your media enterprise to a world of new advertising opportunities through an open, independent programmatic ad exchange compatible with multiple supply side sources and ad servers.

Automatically serve ads across all your streams and downloads, and measure performance with precision by creative, market area, daypart, and listener engagement.

Gain powerful insights into your streaming and podcast performance from a single, easy-to-use dashboard. Capture listener data to better understand your audience and optimise content distribution.

Enjoy peace of mind with around-the-clock management and monitoring by Arqiva, digital audio experts with more than 100 years of professional broadcast experience.

Simplify your audio distribution – across broadcast, streaming, and podcasts

Seamlessly manage both over-the-air and streaming broadcasts with Arqiva’s unified DAB and audio streaming solution.

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What we offer, sounds like no one else

Arqiva’s comprehensive Audio Streaming solution does more for your broadcast content than any other single provider can.

Independent insights

As an independent operator, we provide impartial insights into your listeners’ habits and preferences, while ensuring your data stays secure and confidential.

Unique audio expertise

Arqiva combines more than a century of radio broadcast experience with cutting-edge technology and collaborations with best-of-breed digital audio partners.

Capacity consolidation

Gain efficiency by managing your DAB and online listening capacity together. Arqiva is a leading UK provider with two national multiplexes and multiple local multiplexes nationwide.

Supreme security

Arqiva is an ISO 27001- certified Critical National Infrastructure provider, equipped to ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of your—and your customers’—data.

Performance guarantees

Enjoy total peace of mind with SLAs that guarantee exceptional uptime standards and comprehensive performance insights from one end of your operation to the other.

24/7 monitoring

With Arqiva managed service, your content is monitored around the clock by dedicated and highly trained audio streaming experts.

Content monetisation

A world of advertising opportunities

Connect your content with new advertisers. With seamless integration into an open, independent programmatic exchange and dynamic ad insertion, you can automatically serve ads tailored by context, such as creative, location, time of day, and audience behaviour.

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Seamless integration

Just hit play

Automatically create on-demand audio podcasts from your broadcast content that are compatible with all of the most popular audio platforms.

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Independent and agnostic

Powered by independence

Independent and unaffiliated with media groups or global technology giants, we’re committed to supporting a thriving, balanced UK radio ecosystem. Just as we’ve stood alongside broadcasts through every major shift in radio’s history, we’re here to help a diverse range of creators and stations succeed in today’s evolving audio landscape.

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Private CDN

Scintillating sound

Get outstanding quality and total reliability with Arqiva’s Audio Streaming, powered by a private CDN and fully redundant enterprise-grade infrastructure that scales without limits or fees. Your streams are intelligently routed around network congestion to deliver high-quality, uninterrupted listening experiences, so your audience stays connected no matter where they are.

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Advanced audience intelligence

Insights without limits

Access real-time insights into your listeners – no RAJAR analytics required. See how your content resonates across devices and platforms from one location. Track ad performance by creative, market area, device, daypart and listen-through rate.

For your streaming needs, we’re all ears

Speak with an Arqiva Media Services expert to find out how our Audio Streaming solution can help modernise and monetise your traditional audio content.