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A great way to integrate your station(s) with Facebook
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Hey fellow broadcasters,
I thought that I would let you all know about this app on Facebook called IWIPA. It's awesome for creating a space for your Facebook followers to tune in directly from your page (without violating the TOS with LC).
You basically can create a "Listen" tab which can include multiple pages. Also, the really cool feature is that you can choose to make it so that users need to "like" the fan page in order to view its contents. I can't really explain all that it can do for you, but I would highly recommend looking into it if you want to leverage Facebook.
Check out how the Kosher Metal Facebook page is setup at http://www.facebook.com/KosherMetalOfficial - that might give you an idea of how the integration works. I have no affiliation with IWIPA at all, I just wanted to share the knowledge with you guys.
Horns up \m/ -
I did that as well, click on the Now Playing tab on the IWIPA box. They don't allow iFrame's on the "Home" page of the app (per Facebook TOS). I suppose I could change the link on first tab to go to the LC page directly, but I did it the way it is now so the user knew that we actually had a website as well. One could just as easily click the Now Playing tab to see what we're playing now and then click out to the LC page.
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looks cool
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Doc, do you have an existing Fan page for a business or is it a personal page?
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@Doc It might work on a personal page, and you might be able to choose to require "non-friends" to be friends in order to listen, but that's up to you. I'm not entirely sure it will work on a personal page though. Personally, I would start up a fan page (page for business) as a radio station and do a Facebook ad campaign for the page in addition to suggesting the page to all your friends (I have a java code that will select all your friends at once to avoid repetitive clicking). Ads are REALLY cheap too if you go CPM and not CPC. For example 1000 impressions for 45-60 cents, but usually cheaper. My last campaign avg'd .19 cents per 1000 impressions.
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Thanks pal...this is what I have now:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Classic-Hits-Radio-Canada-Commercial-Free-Internet-Radio/192971684048124 -
@Doc You're already set up with a Fan page. As long as it's something you can "like" then you can fully integrate IWIPA. Just go to the app section under Edit Page and search for IWIPA. It may take a few mins to really get familiar with it's features and work out the kinks of your page, but once you're done it's a killer feature!
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This is a nice find. I finally figured out how to use their editor. What's nice is if you don't have hosting, you can just upload images to their server. Anyway, this is what I came up with, just click on tune in in the menu on the left:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Party-Hitz-Radio/136986349686736?sk=wall -
Right on reaper! I noticed you didn't make it so that the user had to be a fan to see the page though. Personally, I think that's one of the strongest features of the app. But it's looks good!
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Leo, make sure your links in your page editor are listed as HTTP in all caps. It may not be related to what Doc is saying, but that can sometimes cause issues if the user is using Facebook using https.
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@koshermetal I forgot to mention, nice job on your website.
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Hmmm...perhaps it IS an international thing. I'm going to look into it when I get to a comp. Might be some issues with IWIPA. Everything was working fine for me earlier on Reapers site.
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Oh ok...thanks guys.
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I did the same thing on my 80's station:
http://www.facebook.com/pages/80s-Party-Machine/135414166510417 -
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