What Broadcastify.com does

Broadcastify.com is the radio communications industry's largest platform for streaming live audio feeds of public safety, aircraft, rail, and marine communications, operating as a privately held company under parent RadioReference.com LLC and founded by CEO Lindsay C. Blanton III, who has led the platform since its 2012 spin-off from RadioReference.com (originally founded in 1998). The platform hosts over 7,209 live audio feeds supplied largely by volunteer feed providers, served to a community of more than 1.8 million members across the parent ecosystem, with concurrent listenership reported at over 34,000 at time of data capture. Its technology stack centers on a live audio streaming infrastructure with 365-day rolling archives across all feeds, an advanced talkgroup monitoring layer branded Broadcastify Calls deployed across more than 600 nodes, custom dashboards with vox-style scanning, and a developer API surface (Calls API, Audio Feed Catalog, Feed Owner API) accessible via bcfy.io; it also publishes a Raspberry Pi Image to lower the barrier for new feed providers.

The company's revenue model is a freemium subscription product. Free listening is offered across 7,000+ streams to drive adoption; premium subscriptions are priced at $15 for six months, $30 for one year, or $60 for two years, unlocking 365-day archives, Broadcastify Calls playlists and archives, custom dashboards, ad-free browsing, MyBCFY personalization, and bundled RadioReference.com Premium access. Distribution is digital-first and self-serve via the web, official iOS and Android applications (released 2015), and APIs. Customer segments are primarily scanner hobbyists and enthusiasts, news media/journalists, and the general public, with government agencies (e.g., Indianapolis Metropolitan Police Department, FDNY, LA County Fire, Dallas Fire/Rescue) participating as content providers via the Broadcastify Connect / Official Providers program rather than as paying customers. In January 2026 the company introduced Project Radiant Glow and Incident Source, an AI-powered real-time incident intelligence product layered on its live audio archive, marking its first move into enterprise-adjacent public safety analytics.

Name

Broadcastify.com

Legal name

Broadcastify

Website

https://broadcastify.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2012

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

Broadcastify.com is the largest live-audio streaming platform for police, fire, EMS, aircraft, rail, and marine radio communications, serving scanner hobbyists, journalists, and the public with over 7,000 feeds and a 1.8 million-member parent community.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Live Audio Streaming and Radio Communications Platform

NAICS

Radio Broadcasting Stations (51611)

SIC

Radio Broadcasting Stations (4832)

akta.pro primary industry

Radio Streaming & Catch-Up Audio Platforms (MPAIADAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Podcast Hosting, Distribution & Listening Platforms (BPAMAJAD)

Keywords

• Live audio streaming
• Scanner radio feeds
• Public safety audio
• Radio communications platform
• Talkgroup monitoring

Headquarters

HQ city

San Antonio

HQ country

United States

HQ region

North America

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Infrastructure, Technology or R&D, Operations, Personnel, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Premium Subscription: Annual subscription model providing 365-day archives, Broadcastify Calls playlists, Custom Dashboards, ad-free browsing, MyBCFY features, and RadioReference.com Premium access. Offered at $15 for 6 months, $30 for 1 year, or $60 for 2 years.
2. Freemium - Free Listening: Free access to 7000+ live audio streams for listeners. Revenue is converted through premium upgrades. Feed broadcasting is also free for providers.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion3 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels3 records

Core offering

Broadcastify operates the radio communications industry's largest live audio streaming platform, broadcasting over 7,000 real-time police, fire, EMS, aircraft, rail, and marine feeds with concurrent listener counts above 34,000. Its offering includes Broadcastify Calls (multi-system talkgroup monitoring across 600+ nodes), 365-day audio archives, custom dashboards, AI-powered incident intelligence, developer APIs, and mobile applications, sold via a freemium model with annual premium subscriptions.

Product overview

Broadcastify is the radio communications industry's largest platform for streaming live audio, offering a unified platform with multiple integrated products. The core offering includes Live Audio Feeds (7,000+ streams) and Broadcastify Calls (real-time talkgroup monitoring). Premium add-ons include Custom Dashboards, MyBCFY personal feed aggregator, and 365-day audio archives. A developer API product enables third-party integrations. The platform also offers a Raspberry Pi Image for hardware deployments and a Connect program for official agency providers.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Live Audio Feeds Real-time streaming of police, fire, EMS, aircraft, rail, and marine scanner audio feeds from over 7,000 sources worldwide, with concurrent listener counts exceeding 34,000. Free to listen.
• Broadcastify Calls Multi-system talkgroup monitoring platform providing real-time and archived call data across 600+ nodes, enabling users to monitor multiple talkgroups and systems simultaneously.
• Audio Feed Archives 365-day rolling archive storage for all live audio feeds, allowing users to listen back to historical transmissions. Premium subscribers also receive 365-day Broadcastify Calls archives.
• Broadcastify Developer APIs Full-featured APIs including the Calls API (real-time and archived call data) and the Audio Feed Catalog API (infrastructure applications), with documentation available at support.broadcastify.com and a developer portal at bcfy.io.
• Broadcastify Mobile Apps Official mobile applications for iOS (App Store) and Android (Google Play) that provide access to the full Broadcastify platform including live feeds, archives, dashboards, and Broadcastify Calls on mobile devices.
• Broadcastify Raspberry Pi Image Pre-configured software image for Raspberry Pi hardware that enables individuals to broadcast scanner audio to the Broadcastify platform as feed providers.
• Broadcastify Connect (Official Providers Program) Program that connects government and public safety agencies directly to the public through official feed provisioning and management tools on the Broadcastify platform.
• Project Radiant Glow (Incident Source) AI-powered product that processes live audio streams and call data from public safety communications to deliver real-time incident detection, analysis, and intelligence.

Named customers3 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles4 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

Yes

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

AI capability4 records

Feature6 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• RadioReference.com LLCcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerRadioReference.com is the parent company and the world's largest radio communications data provider. Broadcastify is a spin-off of RadioReference.com's live audio platform. The CEO and Founder Lindsay C. Blanton III leads both companies. Premium subscriptions work across both platforms.

Scale indicators5 records

Recent moves8 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Emerging players

• OpenMHz: OpenMHz is a smaller platform for streaming public safety radio communications, focused on archive playback and regional coverage. It is a niche emerging peer with overlapping scanner-audio streaming functionality but a much smaller feed catalog than Broadcastify.
• Citizen: Citizen (formerly Vigilante) delivers real-time public safety alerts and incident monitoring to consumers. It targets a similar audience to Broadcastify's news media and general public segments but uses a different delivery model (push alerts and crowdsourced video rather than live audio feeds).
• Zello: Zello is a push-to-talk app that turns mobile devices into walkie-talkies and is widely used for emergency coordination and community channels. It is an emerging player with adjacent public-safety communications use cases and a similar hobbyist/responder listener persona.
• PulsePoint: PulsePoint provides a mobile app that surfaces nearby emergency calls and AED locations by integrating with public safety CAD systems. It is an emerging player in the public safety communications space with overlapping audiences (citizens, news media) but focuses on alerting rather than continuous audio streaming.

Others

• Broadcastify Calls (internal): Broadcastify Calls is Broadcastify's own multi-system talkgroup monitoring product. Listed here only to acknowledge that the parent company operates an adjacent platform product rather than as an external peer.

Direct peers

• Scanner Radio (gSoftware): Scanner Radio is a popular mobile scanner-streaming app that aggregates police, fire, and EMS feeds. It competes directly with Broadcastify's mobile apps and serves the same hobbyist scanner listener persona.
• LiveATC.net: LiveATC streams live air traffic control audio from airports worldwide. It is a direct competitor within Broadcastify's aviation vertical and shares the same scanner-audio streaming category, volunteer provider model, and enthusiast listener base.
• TuneIn: TuneIn is a large internet audio streaming platform aggregating live radio, news, sports, and podcasts. It competes directly with Broadcastify for listener attention in live audio streaming and offers a comparable freemium subscription model for premium listening features.

Broad incumbents

• iHeartMedia: iHeartMedia is the largest U.S. radio broadcaster with the iHeartRadio streaming platform. It is a broad incumbent competing for live audio listening time and ad-supported streaming share, though its content is professional radio rather than public safety scanner audio.
• Audacy (Radio.com): Audacy operates a major U.S. radio broadcast network and the Radio.com streaming platform. As a broad incumbent it overlaps with Broadcastify's audio streaming and listener monetization model but focuses on professional radio content rather than scanner feeds.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

• YouTubeyoutube.com/@bcfylb
• Xx.com/broadcastify
• Facebookfacebook.com/broadcastify
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/broadcastify

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

Funding detail is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

M&A

Investments

M&A and investment is available on the Subscription and Enterprise plan.Contact sales →

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