How Audiowave Works
Audiowave is a place where you can own a piece of the airwaves — bid on a channel, broadcast your own audio to everyone listening, and pass it on when someone outbids you.
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Channels are yours to lease, not buy forever
Every channel on Audiowave has an owner — but never a permanent one. Ownership works on a 10-day lease. While you own a channel, you can:
- Upload recordings for anyone tuned in to hear
- Set the channel’s name, description, and banner
- Make it truly yours for the length of your lease
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When a lease ends, the channel goes up for auction
Once your 10 days are up, the channel opens to a 24-hour public auction. Anyone — including you — can bid to win the next lease. The highest bid when the clock runs out takes over as the new owner.
Bidding tip: if a bid comes in during the final few minutes, the clock gets a short extension — so a last-second snipe won’t unfairly cut off other bidders. - 3
What happens to your money when you bid
- If you win, your bid is split: half goes to the previous owner (a real payout, sent directly to their account), and half supports the platform.
- If you don’t win, you don’t lose your bid — it comes back to you as Audiowave credit, which you can use on any future bid, on any channel. Credit is good for 30 days.
Think of a losing bid less like spending money and more like moving it to a different channel’s auction.
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No dead air
Before your lease ends, we’ll ask you to upload a short recording to play during the 24-hour auction window — so listeners always hear something, even while ownership is changing hands. If you don’t get around to it, we’ll just keep playing your most recent upload.
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Starting your own channel
Audiowave has a limited number of channels — never more than 50 at a time. If there’s room, anyone can start a brand-new channel for a one-time $5 claim fee, giving you an instant 10-day lease to build something from scratch.
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Getting paid
When you win an auction and later lose the channel to someone else, your share of their winning bid is paid out directly to you — you’ll just need to complete a quick, one-time verification step (handled securely by our payment partner) so we know where to send it.
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Keeping it clean
We review uploaded content and reserve the right to remove anything that violates our guidelines, to keep Audiowave a place worth listening to.
Have more questions? Check our Terms of Service for the full details.