We do not manipulate what you see.
The Dial shows you things in the order they happened. Your communities first, then what's live, then the world. Nothing is bumped because someone paid for it, nothing is buried because it underperformed. If we ever show you promoted content, it is labeled FEATURED and you can turn it off.
We will never A/B test your feed without your knowledge, and we will never apply retention tricks that override your choices. The order you see is the order things happened.
COMMITMENT Chronological by default. No ranking, no shadow-ranking, no feed resets.
You own your data — and we never sell it or train on it without asking.
Your music, your listeners, your community relationships, your transaction history — they belong to you. We're a platform, not a landlord. We don't sell your listening habits or your membership or your purchases to advertisers or anyone else. And we will never use your data to train AI without your explicit opt-in. We make money when you make money. That's the whole model.
COMMITMENT Your data is yours. We don't sell it, and we don't train on it without your say-so.
You can leave, and take everything with you.
There's no lock-in. Export your library, your subscriber list, your financials, your broadcast archive — anytime, no waiting period, no exit fee. The export button always works. If you move your station elsewhere, we'll even help. And if The Dial itself ever shuts down, you get 90 days' notice and a full export before anything goes dark.
A platform that makes leaving hard is one that doesn't trust its own value. We trust ours.
COMMITMENT Full export, always available. You can walk out the door with everything.
The money: honest, and mostly yours.
Here's exactly what we take:
- Tips and pledge drives: 0%. Every cent your supporters send is yours.
- Subscriptions, Handshake sales, and tickets: 10%. Not 10% plus a "creator fee," not 10% that creeps to 15% after year one. Ten percent, flat — shown before every transaction and broken out on every payout.
And the part most platforms quietly pass to you: moving money costs a card-processing fee, and we pay it — you don't. On most platforms that fee comes out of the creator's pocket, so a $1 tip lands as about 62¢. On The Dial, we absorb it, so the whole dollar reaches you. We'd rather make less and mean it.
If we ever add a new way to earn revenue, we'll tell you here, in plain language — never buried in a terms update.
COMMITMENT 0% on tips and pledges. 10% on everything else. We pay the card fee, not you.
Ghost DJ is honest about what it is.
When Ghost DJ is running your station, listeners know they're hearing an AI host. We don't let the AI impersonate a live human presence. If a listener wants to know whether someone's actually there, the station page shows it plainly.
COMMITMENT AI is always labeled as AI. No fake presence, ever.
We tell you when things break.
If there's an outage, we post it. If a scraper fails and your tracks don't import, we tell you why. If we find a bug that touched your data, you hear from us within 24 hours. We don't hide incidents.
COMMITMENT Problems get disclosed, not buried.
The community is the point.
The Dial exists because streaming killed the DJ and handed everyone infinite content with zero connection. We built this to reverse that. Every decision — the Green Room, Ghost DJ, Handshake, standing — serves real relationships between real people. When a feature stops doing that, we remove it.
COMMITMENT Real people, real time, real relationships. That's the whole reason.