The Internet Radio Awards has been set up to provide a place where internet radio stations can compete against others to reach the coveted award titles. Each year, the listeners will vote for their favourite internet radio station and help that station reach the top spot. The top spot creates a lot of opportunities for internet radio stations around the world! Such as an increased listener base, an increased station reputation and most importantly, an increased advertising revenue.

Well, the team behind the Internet Radio Awards have all been massively involved in, or have previously owned stations. We all know how hard it is to maintain the station, find the right content, pick up the listeners and most importantly create a revenue. We figured that if there was an award available for the stations that have put the most they can into their station, that this award would be a massive advantage when looking to source new advertisers, and secure new revenue streams.

The internet radio awards is owned by The Carter Group, who are well established in the audio, web and visual internet industry. The team that work for the Internet Radio Awards are experienced broadcasters from all over the world, who have worked on commercial terrestrial radio and internet radio. They know what to listen out for, and the secrets to what makes an excellent internet radio station.

Once a station signs up, they get access to their promotion control panel, which contains voting buttons, promotional banners and audio advertisements. Listeners get one vote per week, to vote for their favourite internet radio station. The reason for this, is that they may hear one station, enjoy it, then vote for that station. A week later, they find another station which they like. It's basically to balance the voting.

We monitor the amount of hits each station gets to it's website, and log all the votes. We then create a conversion ratio of hits to votes. When the voting closes, our team pick stations out of the list at random and rate the quality of their broadcast, and where applicable, award more points.