Has anyone experience with Openstream.co?

[heathcliff]

I'm curious if someone is using their service to monetize their radio?

[LStratmann]

I'd be interested too.

[heathcliff]

I am in direct contact with them and I am a bit skeptic because I can't find no traces of people talking about them (such as complaints or questions on twitter) and you can't learn much from their FB page knowing that they joined Twitter in 2015 so they have been there for a while.

Their offer is $2 - $10 per 1,000 impressions. I find that too good to be true to be honest.

Who are they partnered with?

Just too many questions which is just not good.

[LStratmann]

I'm actually thinking about going to them myself.

[heathcliff]

You can give it a try but keep your eyes open.

[heathcliff]

I've learned something interesting.

When you assign your stream a bot makes constant connection.

I discovered this because I use a station identifier(short audio clip the moment you tune-in) and that is being skipped due to constant connection.

I stick with Targetspot.

[LStratmann]

If you need an alternative, contact me. I could offer you another one.

[heathcliff]

Send you a D.M.

[roth]

A little bit strange, to ask this here, but is here anybody, who streams with openstream, and who can tell me, if he already got the January payment? I did not receive anything yet and it never took this long before.

[yimago]

A little bit strange, to ask this here, but is here anybody, who streams with openstream, and who can tell me, if he already got the January payment? I did not receive anything yet and it never took this long before.

I have been with them for almost two years now. Always paid early in the month. I am also waiting for the Jan 2021 payment. Although in their FAQ they say: "We send payments four months and a couple of weeks later, usually during the last week of the month".

[djanthonystyles]

I have been with them for almost two years now. Always paid early in the month. I am also waiting for the Jan 2021 payment. Although in their FAQ they say: "We send payments four months and a couple of weeks later, usually during the last week of the month".

This is true, they do pay and you can see the payout in realtime. I've switched over about a year ago to openstream. They also respond within 6-8 hours with an answer.

[roth]

Yep, but this month no payment yet. Already ~ 15 days later than normal. You're right. In their FAQ it says, they pay after four month, during the last week of the month, so this would be in a week.

But I have been with them for 2 and a half years, and they never paid this late. I have contavt to Olivier vrom openstream. And on Jnuary 5th he told me, they have delays because of christmas holidays, and last week he told me, they had a technical difficulty which causes a further delay for a "few" days.

He told me that on january 14t. Thats already 5 days ago, and no payment yet... I hope, everything is finde with them.

[roth]

This is true, they do pay and you can see the payout in realtime. I've switched over about a year ago to openstream. They also respond within 6-8 hours with an answer.

Do you have some more information, than I got from Olivier? (See my post above)

[MRGrp]

Hello,
We are working with OpenStream.co since November 2020.

At the beginning Olivier and his colleague were replying to our emails within ours.... now they do not reply … At All. Not good.

The huge limitation is that, having to use their link (and their not so good player, with cover-art not refreshing or not coming at all) you cannot deliver their advertisements to the biggest chunk of your listeners.
As we know, the biggest % of listeners comes from iTunes/Apple (where IF you are "IN", you cannot edit your stream info anymore) and other platforms where you can't/don't want to go and replace your streaming link with the one belonging to OpenStream.co.

The dashboard offered by OpenStream.co is nice, showing you the live income.. not showing the listeners of all your radio stations, if you have more than 5 radio stations.

Yes, you can see how much money you are doing thanks to the Live report, but as said the income (at least for us) risible, because is the income based ONLY on listeners using our own website and IOS/Android App, where we updated the stream links with theirs.
You all know that the biggest part of listeners comes from somewhere else...how many hundreds of apps and websites are using our streams to put their advertisements :-) ?? ).

A Good thing is that, their stream comes "secured" , I mean HTTPS, so if you are like us upset about Chrome stopping http streams and playing only https, in this case you solved a problem having OpenStream.co taking care of it.

We did not get a payment yet.

The most concerning or irritating thing is the "nobody home" feeling (no more replies to email messages), which is the same feeling you get from the 4 shoutcast/targetspot fellas, which I know they RECEIVE our email messages, but do not bother answering... also said "they don't give a Sh..".

This is all what we can say so far.

[oyeandres]

Good morning, I am working with Digital Radio, two years ago I stopped using Targetspot. When I contacted them they were clear, about the payment they take 4 months to pay but they are constant, they have not been delayed, the earnings program with them is 30% Digital Radio. 70% users .. Compared to TargetSpot and Open Stream I saw a big difference in terms of earnings ..

Targetspot pays only 50%, Digital Radio pays 70%

They do not have live earnings statistics, on the 10th of each month they send the earnings report for last month.


Presenting the ads is something like TargetSpot with Metadata. I've noticed that they sometimes put up pre-roll ads.

In general I am satisfied with the service