Welcome to the ultimate guide for the Nobex Partners platform! This comprehensive manual is designed to help radio station owners and managers navigate the platform with ease and confidence. Whether you're setting up your station’s mobile app for the first time or looking to optimize your existing app, this guide covers everything you need to know.
From registering developer accounts to customizing your app’s appearance and integrating social media and podcast feeds, we’ve got you covered. Dive in to discover how Nobex Partners can help you create a captivating, user-friendly app that keeps your listeners engaged and coming back for more.
Pick Your Path
Our apps can be designed to support audio apps for all scales - whether you're a hobbyist taking the next step, a local LPFM station, or a major network - we can support your mobile app needs. But we do offer different paths forward to get you started.
For Web Radios & Small Creators, we'll get you started in no time and you can customize your app as you go!
For larger scale networks and creators, you can request an Enterprise Demo and let our team tailor a package specifically for you.
Web Radios & Small Creators Path
When building your app, we'll guide you through the customization and ask you to provide a few details. The following guide below will explain the process.
Firstly, choose the option that best describes the kind of content creation that describes you:
Basic Station Information
To create your radio dashboard, we need to gather some essential information about your radio station, such as the station’s name, slogan, location, and more. This data helps us integrate your station’s info into the Nobex database. The more information you provide, the better we can assist with your station's specific needs. Don’t worry if any details change later—you can always update your information. Simply contact us at staff@nobexinc.com to make any edits.
Stream URL
If your station is already live, having a working stream URL is essential for your future radio app to provide a livestream and gather data on listener interactions with your playlist. The link you provide should lead directly to the livestream audio file. Other links, such as your website URL or side player, won’t be compatible with our system.
Knowledge Center
If you have any issues regarding your Steam URL, some of these posts might help you find the solution! You can also contact us at staff@nobexinc.com if you haven’t found any answer.
Station Image
At this stage, you'll also need to provide us with your station logo, which will serve as the app logo in the future. The logo should have a 1:1 (square) proportion, and the recommended size is 512x512 pixels to ensure high-quality appearance for your listeners.
Pro-Tip
To maximize the appeal of your app, it's important to make it visually enticing for potential users. Take a look at the apps on your phone - notice that they typically have simple, bright logos with minimal or no text, focusing on the graphic part of their logo. Your listeners won't be able to read text on a small screen, so aim for a logo that is simple, recognizable, and aesthetically pleasing.
The next step involves selecting a dominant color for your app. This color will serve as the overlay for your app menu and will be visible to users in Light Mode. For your convenience, you can input the color as a color code or choose it from a color scheme that matches your logo branding. This ensures a cohesive and visually appealing app interface that aligns with your station's identity.
Social Media Integration
Connecting your station’s social media profiles enhances your app by incorporating their content directly into it. By linking your Facebook, Instagram, or X (Twitter) accounts, your app will feature a new “Activity” tab displaying all your posts. Connecting your YouTube account will add a “Videos” tab with similar functionality.
Additionally, you can integrate recent social media publications into your app’s homepage, making it easier for users to engage with your content. This feature helps keep your audience connected and updated with your latest activities and announcements.
Knowledge Center
If you’re facing troubles with connecting or reconnecting your social media accounts to the dashboard, read this information.
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Want to have a deep dive into how various social media profiles might help your radio station gain even more traction? Read this blogpost!
On Demand RSS Feed
If your radio station hosts its own podcasts or republishes radio episodes, you can seamlessly integrate them into your app during the registration process. At this stage, you’ll need to provide your main On Demand Feed - you’ll be able to add more feeds and content later. For now, if you don't need to complete this step, simply skip it by pressing the Next button. For more details on adding On Demand content, refer to the Integration Manager.
App Customization
Now that you have provided a few basic assets, you can take a few moments to add some additional customization to the appearance and layout of your app. Don't worry if you don't already have an App Icon or Splash Screen image design, you can use our AI tools to automatically create great looking graphics right away.
When you're ready - click Build App to get a demo version of your app underway:
Enterprise Demo Path
Do you represent a large scale station, network or major content creator? Let our team create a professional demonstration of what Nobex Partners has to offer you. We'll setup an introductory meeting and discuss your specific app needs and provide you with a fully customized demo app for you and your team to review and provide you with materials to present internally to decision makers.
