How it Works
Audience Engine is a new open-source suite of
community-building, fundraising and publishing tools.
Publishers use their own content to build community,
and then marshal that community to keep themselves up and running.
It’s a new model for independent media sustainability in the digital age.
Increase your traffic
Engage with your audience
Crowdfund around your content
Survive and thrive in the digital age
Flexible Options
A ONE-STOP REVENUE GENERATION SHOP
We offer a hosted platform for radio stations, news websites, digital libraries, videomakers, galleries, bands and artists who want to use their content to build and engage their audience, and thereby raise enough money to survive and thrive.
MODULAR TOOLS TO PLUG RIGHT IN
There’s no need to abandon your existing platform! Our a-la-carte selection of cross-platform, network agnostic tools will work in conjunction with your existing site, and if you have an IT brainiac on the premises, the tools are free to install, use and customize!
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Introducing Audience Engine’s crowdfunding module
Fundraising on your own terms, right alongside your content. Why send your audience off-site to contribute?
Deputize your staff and fan communities to help you meet your goals.
Watch Ken Freedman introduce Mynte at Audience Engine’s November 2015 launch event:
FUNDRAISING
- Crowdfunding
- One-Click Donations
- Gift Inventory
- Mini-Goals–>Overall Goal
- On and Off-Site Donation Widgets
- Peer to Peer Campaigns
DONOR MANAGEMENT
- CRM functionality
- E-mail Engagement
- Tracking and Analytics
- Major Gift Research
GIFT FULFILLMENT
- Packing Slips
- Postal Codes
- Gift Inventory
- IRS Tax Letters
- Customer Service
Tools on Deck
Coming soon: Audience Engine social tools, resources for journalists and radio stations.
Foster a positive, active community around your content on your own site.
Facilitate meaningful conversations and build loyalty that will pay back at fundraising time.
Be your audience’s first and second screen.
RADIO
- Audio Archive Management
- Live Interactive Playlists
- SoundExchange reporting
- Traffic Control: Program & spot scheduling
- Support for Podcasts, Video & Images
- Per-Program Crowdfunding
ENGAGEMENT
- User registration, profiles, favorites, analytics
- Cross-organizational search (opt-in audience sharing)
- Chat, annotations, commenting
- Crowd enrichment of content
- Metrics on your community: Learn what they like and tailor your fundraising accordingly
Watch Kenyatta Cheese, Co-founder of Everybody At Once, discuss the importance of engaging fan communities:
JOURNALISM
- Responsively Designed: Publish once, appear everywhere
- Landing pages for writers and beats
- Crowd enrichment of content
- Crowdfunding Embeddable into Content
- Support for secure communication / PGP
Quinn Norton, tech activist and journalist, demonstrates the importance of protecting your audience’s online privacy and security:
In the future…
VIDEO
- Support for both individual filmmakers and collectives
- Viewer annotation of videos
- Clips and feature Management
- Live controlled chat for live events
- Crowdfund from existing catalogue for future productions
PUBLISHING
- Responsive Design: Write once, publish everywhere
- Neat and Clean, both front end and back
- Make your content embeddable everywhere
- API hooks for every aspect of your operation
- Customizable templates
LIBRARIES
- Build audience by item, collection, exhibit
- Better search and access to your collection
- Public engagement with your collection
- Improve sharability and embedability of your collection
- Crowdfund around your assets and your mission
Our Services
Audience Engine’s open-source code is free to use, and we also offer affordable packages to get you up and running faster.
Hosting solutions
Perfect for organizations lacking a full-time IT staff.
Customization
We’ll help build out our tools to suit your unique needs.
Implementation assistance & Training
We’ll get you up and running with Audience Engine in no time.
Donation administration
Manage and grow online donations (includes a small transaction fee).
Public Benefit Corporation
(aka Auricle Communications), a 501(c)3 not-for-profit corporation.
