The AI analysis of audio automates removal of unwanted content, generally ads, from the user’s listening experience. Our technology seamlessly transitions between content types, hence the name “fader,” which references the cross-fader toggle on the mixing board, a staple piece of equipment in the DJ-ing world.

There’s no limit to the content faidr can deliver if users request it. What we can deliver to users in faidr ad-break spaces is almost unlimited. We are currently adding multiple sources of news, weather and new music audio updates, but we’ll certainly continue to expand these options. If there’s any interest in leveraging your stations’ evergreen content, please reach out to our team, and we can discuss opportunities. Please email us at broadcasters@faidr.zendesk.com.

Although our current partnership program does not include “internet only” stations, we are developing this channel for late 2022.

Please reference your station group, station names and station call letters.

We’ve done a series of consumer surveys and polls, and the data strongly suggests people want the ability to discover new music. We’ve prioritized adding new music discovery, through partnerships with independent artists and record labels. And finally, we’ll soon add the ability for users to curate their own content, as well as generate and publish content through talk segments, making playlists, etc.

Faidr engages in very limited streaming of sound recordings and the musical works embodied in those sound recordings. But when faidr does engage in streaming that results in public performances, it does so pursuant to licenses set forth in the United States Copyright Act (for digital streaming of sound recordings) and pursuant to licenses from performing rights organizations.

Faidr is actually not removing advertising from a broadcast transmission. Rather, faidr detects the presence of content that faidr believes is advertising and it provides the consumer with a functionality that allows the user to avoid listening to advertising. All we are doing is giving the consumer control. Consumers can choose to listen to a broadcast as provided by a station, or they can control their listening experience by requesting that alternative programming be provided during commercial breaks. These decisions are made by the consumer and not faidr, and there is no legal obligation for a consumer to listen to a station stream without modification. In fact, consumers do this all the time when they switch to another station as soon as they hear an advertisement on the station they were listening to.

Faidr does not offer radio station transmissions on a subscription basis. In fact, all radio station transmissions are available through faidr for free. When a user subscribes to faidr, what the user receives is the right to listen to other content during a station’s commercial breaks, not the station’s original transmission. Faidr does not believe this functionality given to the consumer converts a station’s non-subscription transmission into a subscription transmission.

Faidr shares revenue with stations that enter into agreements with faidr. If a station chooses not to enter into an agreement with faidr, no sharing of subscription revenue will be shared with a station, even if a station’s transmissions are freely available through the faidr app.

Faidr is not the entity that is choosing to make copies of sound recordings, and the musical works embodied therein, in the faidr app. Any copies are made at the direction of a user, who must elect to have the faidr app make any local copies of received content. When a user elects to time-shift broadcast content on their local device for personal use, the Supreme Court of the United States has held that such time-shifting is a fair use.

Yes. Just because a radio station’s transmissions are accessible through the faidr app does not mean a station is relieved of its obligation to comply with its existing licenses and pay royalties to the representatives or rights owners. Transmissions received through the faidr app should still show up as transmissions by the radio station and should be reported to SoundExchange and applicable PROs, as if the transmissions were received through a station’s own website or mobile application. No functionality offered by faidr interferes with the ability of a radio station to track the number of public performances made by a station.