About
Who publishes this, and how it is paid for
World Radio Player is a small product made by a small company. This page says where the data comes from, the rules the directory is published under, and how the money works, because all three are questions worth a straight answer.
- Published byMomentumLab AI Pty Ltd, Sydney, Australia
- Editorial contactadmin@momentumlab.ai
- Also makesWorld Radio Player for Chrome
- Station dataradio-browser.info, snapshot 2026-10-04
The publisher
World Radio Player is published by MomentumLab AI Pty Ltd, an Australian company based in Sydney. It publishes a small portfolio of apps and websites; the rest of it is at momentumlab.ai. We make the player and this website. We did not make the station directory behind them, which is the first thing worth knowing about anything on this site.
The product, and its two doors
World Radio is a live radio player. On Chrome it has been on the Web Store since 2024, and version 2.0 is a complete rebuild: a new interface built as a hi-fi deck, a spectrum visualizer driven by the real audio, the whole directory on infinite scroll, curated shelves, a sleep timer and a wake to radio alarm.
The same product is open in a browser with no install at all: every country page and every language shelf on this site carries the same player, drawing on the same directory and the same design system, and it works the same on a laptop, a tablet or a phone.
Those are the two doors, and they are not the same door with different paint. The Chrome extension lives in the toolbar, keeps playing while you work, and stores your saved stations on your own machine. The web player has nothing to install, nothing to sign into, and nothing it can remember about you between visits. Neither one is a trial of the other.
Where the stations come from
The directory is radio-browser.info, an open community database of radio stations that anybody can correct. We did not build it and we do not own it. What we built is the player, the way the directory is organised inside it, and the deck.
The 30,390 unique playable streams counted for the 180 country pages and 30 language shelves on this site come from a snapshot of that directory, taken when the site is built. 14,425 individual stations have a page of their own here.
What we do to that snapshot between fetching it and printing it is not a detail, and it is written down rather than described in adjectives: how this directory is built sets out the four stages, the honest numbers at each one, and every rule that excludes a station from a page.
The standard this directory is published under
A directory is only worth reading if you know what it refuses to do. These are the rules, with the reasoning left in, because a standard a publisher will not spell out is a standard nobody can hold them to. Every one of them is enforced in the build rather than promised here.
- 01
The claim is fixed. The data is counted.
The station figure in our marketing copy is one deliberately conservative constant, typed once, and it is 20,000+ everywhere on this site. Every other number here is counted from the directory snapshot at build time and says which snapshot it came from. The extension once shipped three different station figures in three months because the number was retyped wherever it was needed; that is why the two are kept apart.
- 02
A station that dies keeps its page.
When a station falls out of the directory its page does not become a 404. It keeps its URL, loses its play button, says plainly that the stream is gone and is marked noindex. Death is a status here, not a deletion, because somebody has already linked and crawled that address.
- 03
A page is earned, never generated to fill a gap.
A country with too few playable stations gets no page rather than a one row table, and a language the directory cannot name gets no shelf. That is why 211 countries appear in the data and 180 have a page. The rules that exclude a station are published in full rather than left implied.
- 04
A row we cannot link is not a link.
A station listed on a country or language page becomes a link only when it has a page of its own. Every other row stays plain text, because sending a reader to a 404 to make a table look uniform is the cheapest kind of dishonesty and the easiest to avoid.
- 05
The directory is not ours, and we say so.
The catalogue is an open community database anybody can correct. We did not build it and we do not own it, so it will never sit behind a paywall here, and any broadcaster who wants their listing corrected or removed gets that without an argument about it.
- 06
Nothing on this site is invented.
No listener quotes we did not receive, no install counts, and no animation presented as measurement. The spectrum wall on these pages is drawn unlit, which is what the deck actually looks like with nothing playing, because a web page has no audio to read and a moving one would be claiming otherwise.
How it is paid for
Two answers, because there are two things here and they are paid for differently. The product first. The free version of the extension carries a small bar promoting our own apps, and on Chrome there is an optional one time unlock called World Radio Pro that removes it and unlocks a handful of extras, priced on the store listing. There is no advertising network inside the product, no data is collected or sold, and there is nothing to subscribe to.
Then this website, which is a different thing with a different answer. It counts its visits with Google Analytics, and This website has applied to carry Google ads and is under review, so the AdSense loader is on the page and no ad unit is. That is stated here rather than only in the small print, and the website privacy policy names both services, prints the measurement id, and says which cookies each one sets and how to switch them off.
We decided early that the catalogue itself would never be the thing we charge for. A public directory is not ours to put behind a paywall, and a radio app that hides most of the radio is a defective radio app. We sell the things we made.
Corrections, and how to reach us
Corrections are genuinely welcome, particularly to anything numerical or to a station's listing. Every figure on this site is computed from one data layer, so a fault in one page is usually a fault in all of them and worth finding.
For anything at all, including a bug, a refund or a question about privacy, write to admin@momentumlab.ai. A person reads it.
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