So here’s the scoop. I apologize that it will be long winded, and I hate making posts like these but it is necessary at this point.

As you probably know, radio reddit is a community founded, funded, and operated project. We allow independent reddit musicians to upload their music, and we play it on our streams while users vote on the songs. All for free. More popular songs are played more and vice versa. We also have talk radio for non music lovers. On the operational side of things, we have for the most part two people. Octatone, and myself (we still get tons of help from everyone). We do what we do 100% as volunteers and have never received any financial compensation (in fact we started with our own money).

That being said we are currently hurting very badly right now as far as project funding goes. At first it was easy and we just covered it out of pocket for the fun of it. Over the past few years our project has grown exponentially in size causing of course, increased costs. We’ve outgrown multiple servers and bandwidth agreements. Luckily we’ve had the nice guys over at Voxel take care of us by giving us a good rate, but a dedicated server is not exactly cheap even with the discounts. The bottom line is that we currently are closing in on having 0 operational revenue and this is we, as lovers of independent music and musicians, asking for help.

It seems only fair to give a rundown of our current costs. We’ve always been transparent about our operations.

Per month we currently pay between $100 - $150 USD per month for our main server that runs our transcoding and website. The fluctuation is because sometimes we have overages. As it stands this is our only monthly recurring cost, however we have a number of yearly costs to keep ourselves legit, and our artists and ourselves protected.

This includes:

• $100 for DMCA compliance

• $350 or so to make us a legal entity

• $100 or so for business registrations

• $46 quarterly for a PO Box

• $99 yearly for an apple dev account to sell the iphone apps (of which we are currently lapsed)

• Various nickel and diming throughout the year

This comes to roughly $2,000 USD per year.

Our income comes in the form of:

• Ad revenue (you’d be surprised how little we make from this. I think last month we did about 15 bucks. Some months we do only a few dollars

• Sponsorships from listeners

• Revenue from iphone apps (of which we still owe a percentage of to the awesome developer, and will pay off, mind you)

I’m trying really hard to keep this from being a begging post, because that is not the intent. We will get through this. As of this month we are about $120 dollars behind to have this month’s server cost covered and our apple developer account reinstated.

Here is how you can help:

• You can put a dollar or two towards a radio reddit sponsorship

• You can help us get the word out there. We need to let people outside of reddit know what we are doing for independent musicians.

• You can come up with a way to volunteer. We need help with various things, from social media people to street team coordinators, etc. We’ve come this far on this foundation.

• Ideas. We love ideas. Have a good one? Join with us and let's make it happen.

If you’ve made it this far, thank you for reading. We feel that independent musicians need to be heard. They need feedback and support just like everyone else. We think that listeners need to be in control of what they hear. Don’t like a song? Downvote it. Our stream will adapt and you’ll hear less of it. If you like what we’re trying to accomplish, please consider giving us a helping hand. To all of those that say radio reddit is "shitty" and "sucks", we encourage you to begin voting on what you don't like to build the ultimate stream that is a reflection of what everyone as a whole likes hearing.

If you are not familiar as a listener, please check out the random stream.

Edit: You guys are great. Thank you so much.