How to Get Your Radio Station Listed on TuneIn, Radio Garden, Radio Browser and More

Published 17 October 2026

Listeners find a station through the apps and directories they already use: TuneIn, Radio Garden, smart speakers, car dashboards, and the many apps built on the open Radio Browser directory. None of them finds a new station on its own; each has its own way in. This guide covers the main ones, what each asks for, and what to have ready first.

Before you submit anywhere

Every directory asks for much the same things, so gather them once:

• A stream that is on air around the clock, at a public address that plays without a login. This is the direct link to the audio, not your website. How to find a station's stream URL explains the difference.
• Your website, with the stream playing on it. Some directories look there to check that the stream is yours.
• A square logo, your city and country, the language you broadcast in, and a few genre words.
• A short description of the station: what it plays and who it is for.

Radio Browser: open to everyone, and feeds many apps

Radio Browser is a free, open directory that anyone can add a station to, with no account. Its add form asks for the station's name, the stream address, your website, and optionally a logo, country, region, languages, tags and the location on a map. What you enter is released into the public domain, and the directory asks you to check that the station is not listed already.

A listing there travels further than one website. Many apps read the directory: 72FM does, as do add-ons for Kodi and Home Assistant and a long list of radio apps. On 72FM, a station in the directory turns up in search straight away, and in its country's lists as it gathers votes.

TuneIn

TuneIn is behind the radio menus of many smart speakers, cars and streamers, so a listing there reaches a lot of devices. TuneIn's broadcaster page sends stations outside the United States to a free self-service portal to request a listing, and stations in the United States to TuneIn On Air, a paid yearly programme. TuneIn's help article links the portal.

Radio Garden

Radio Garden places stations on a globe. In its app or website, open Settings, then Submit a Radio Station, which leads to its station submission form; the same form is used to correct an existing listing.

Smart speakers: Alexa and Google

Speakers do not keep their own list of every station. They play radio through services such as TuneIn, so being listed there is the usual way to become playable by voice. A station can also build its own voice app, which takes more work and its own approval.

iHeartRadio and other big apps

We could not find an open submission form from iHeartRadio for internet-only stations; guides from streaming hosts describe it as taking mainly licensed broadcast stations. Check with iHeartRadio directly. Many other directories and apps have their own forms; look for a link such as "add a station" or "for broadcasters" on their sites.

Help listeners find you once you are listed

• Put a player on your own site. The free 72FM radio widget puts your stream on any page with one snippet, and for broadcasters covers the options. Adding a radio player to your website shows it on WordPress, Wix, Squarespace and more.
• Ask listeners to vote. Radio Browser counts votes and plays, and apps built on it, 72FM included, use them to order their lists.
• Keep the stream address stable. Every listing points to it; a change means updating each directory.

Starting from scratch? How to start an internet radio station covers the steps before any of this.