Radionomy was founded in September 2007 by four Belgian entrepreneurs: Alexandre Saboundjian, Gilles Bindels, Cedric van Kan and Yves Baudechon.
2008 • 17 January Radionomy held a press conference at the
Eiffel Tower in
Paris, and announced the public launch of the planned business April 17, 2008. • Late February the alpha version of the Radio Manager is broadcast from a community of beta testers selected based on their radio project. This is the beginning of the beta test. • 17 April the Radionomy site opens to the Belgian and French public, allowing visitors to listen to Internet radio stations created on the platform. • 17 June Radionomy has released its beta.
2010 • Unknown after several beta waves, live function is incorporated into all web radios, whatever the creation date and the number of radio listeners.
2011 • February 15 opening of the feature "Play the radio" allowing all producers radios can have a website pre-designed. • March the launch of the advertising Adionomy that allows advertisers to broadcast their advertising on the web radios targeting listeners. • 30 May Radionomy invests in Hotmixradio.
2012 • June 28 Radionomy announces the signing of an agreement with the US digital advertising platform Targetspot. • August 29 Adionomy board was launched, new governance in the world of digital radio in France. • 5 September Radionomy announces the opening of its US headquarters in San Francisco. • 18 September Radionomy launched G2, the new version of the platform. This includes updates to the site radionomy.com, and the release of the Radio Manager Online online platform which replaced the older Radio Manager desktop application. Facebook, iPhone, and iPad applications were also released. • late October Alexander Saboundjian, CEO of Radionomy, became manager of Hotmixradio, instead of its founder Olivier Riou.
2013 • 18 September Radionomy won the award "International Excellence in Online Audio" awarded at the RAIN Summit in Orlando, Florida. • December 16 Radionomy acquired U.S.-based advertising Targetspot.
2014 • 17 January Radionomy formalizes the acquisition of
Winamp and
SHOUTcast from
AOL. However,
TechCrunch has reported that the sale of Winamp and Shoutcast is worth between $5 and $10
million, with AOL taking a 12% stake (a financial, not strategic, investment) in Radionomy in the process.
2015 On 17 December 2015,
Vivendi acquired a 64.4% majority stake in Radionomy. Its shareholders including its employees and a U.S based investment company
Union Square Ventures, retained its stake in the company.
2016 • 26 February In a lawsuit filed at a California federal court, a group of
Sony brands – including
Arista Records,
LaFace Records and
Sony Music Entertainment – accused Radionomy of copyright infringement. The case was settled out of court shortly thereafter.
2017 •
AudioValley acquired a majority stake in Radionomy. "In August 2017, AudioValley acquired the 64.4% stake held by Vivendi in Radionomy Group BV. AudioValley now owns 98.53% of the company's capital."
2020 • On 1 January, Radionomy shut down its streaming service and migrated towards the Shoutcast platform. This move was part of the group's wish to offer all digital radio producers new professional-quality tools to better meet their needs.
2022 • 5 July AudioValley renames itself to Targetspot, with its focus shifting to its digital audio monetisation business. • 22 November -
Azerion Group N.V. acquires Radionomy Group B.V. and all of its subsidiaries (Targetspot and Shoutcast) from Targetspot SA.
2023 • February - Targetspot SA rebrands to Llama Group, based on its remaining Winamp subsidiary consisting of Bridger, Hotmix,
Jamendo and Winamp.
2025 • 23 October - Llama Group SA rebrands to Winamp Group SA. ==List of properties formerly owned by Radionomy==