For radio stations
A ready-made feature your listeners will love
Get your own version of our hugely popular music quiz and engage, entertain and enlarge your audience.
Already built, ready to add to your station.
For radio stations
Get your own version of our hugely popular music quiz and engage, entertain and enlarge your audience.
Already built, ready to add to your station.
It's brilliantly simple...
See the game in action by playing today's challenge at CrypticDJ.com - then imagine it with your station's identity, ready to share across your website and socials, or even use as an on-air feature.
Cryptic DJ has been serving up new challenges every day for over 18 months. The questions are tested, the format refined, the technology stable.
40,000
sessions played
500+
challenges ready-built
We're offering access to this proven format - created, hosted and managed by us - branded to your station, refreshed weekly, with nothing to build and nothing to maintain on your side.
Your station's brand, your colours, your 'Listen Live' button. Every time someone shares the game, they share your station.
No long-term contracts. No setup fees. Pick the version that fits your station.
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Standalone Get it live anywhere - no website required £30 + VAT per month |
Website Embed Everything in Standalone, plus it lives on your own website £49 + VAT per month |
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| Branded game screen - your station's branding, colours, logo, "Listen Live" button | ✓ | ✓ |
| Fresh content - a new challenge every week, refreshed automatically, nothing for your team to maintain | ✓ | ✓ |
| Shareable link + QR code - post it on socials, print it for events, include it in emails - the link takes them straight to your game, no website needed | ✓ | ✓ |
| 🎁 Branded on-air trail - sign up before 31st October and get a broadcast-ready 60-second trail free, professionally voiced, ready for your playout system | ✓ | ✓ |
| No long-term contract - cancel any time, nothing to sign, nothing to get out of | ✓ | ✓ |
| Embed it on your own website - one line of code, keeping the game traffic on your website and exposing your other content | - | ✓ |
| Sponsor-ready - a ready-made way to sell a branded slot to a local advertiser (see below) | - | ✓ |
Want additional games? Bespoke challenges? Access to our question bank? Are you part of a network? - let's talk
The game screen isn't just yours to brand - in the premium version there's a slot you can repurpose.
Sell the space to a local business, plug a festival, promote an event: it sits on a screen that gets traffic and shares every day. We'll customise the screen and refresh it once a month as part of the service, so you can rotate advertisers or events as they come up.
Selling this high profile screen real estate can easily cover the subscription outright - the advertiser pays, the station gets the game for free... and maybe even makes a bit on top.
🎁 Limited time offer - Sign up before 31st October and we'll produce a branded on-air trail at no extra cost - professionally voiced, with your station name already in it, ready to drop straight into your playout system.
This is what a branded Cryptic DJ trail could sound like, tailored your station.
Click any panel to find out more.
Listener engagement
Audience retention
Website traffic
Social sharing
A fun competition
New listener discovery
An out-of-the-box feature
Branded to be your own
We host the game, create the questions, brand it to your station, and refresh the challenge every week automatically.
Embed in your website
No website? No problem.
Want it on-air too?
Every station has its own sound - Cryptic DJ can adapt to suit. The connections are always clever, and the songs are always ones your listeners actually know and love.
We can also create bespoke custom challenges - connections themed around your local area, current news, seasonal events, or anything that makes the feature feel entirely native to your station.
Cryptic DJ was created by Dave Jenkins, a music fan, word geek and quiz addict.
The format grew out of years of running live music quiz nights at venues - watching audiences light up when a clever connection landed. That energy is what Cryptic DJ bottles.
The daily online game launched in January 2025 as a personal project. No marketing budget, no development team - just a passion and a format that worked - a question bank built one puzzle at a time, and an audience that kept growing because they kept telling their friends.
40,000 plays later, it's a daily habit for players across the UK, Australia, the US and beyond. Radio syndication is a natural progression because the format was always made for audio first.
When you get in touch, you'll be talking to me directly. I'll set up your station personally, answer your questions, and make sure the feature works for your audience. There aren't helpdesk tickets - there are conversations with the person who built it and wants it to thrive on your station.
Economies of scale. We've already built the engine and we're simply licensing access to it, with customisation included - you're white-labelling our proven infrastructure, on subscription.
Not at all, we handle all of the game creation and refreshing, branding and hosting. You receive a line of code to drop into your website and the weekly games refresh automatically. And if you don't have a website, you can use the weblink and QR code - your listeners click or scan it, and they're in.
As a radio station we assume that you have the necessary broadcast licences already in place, and Cryptic DJ is offered as a form of web player under those licences.
Weekly, automatically. A fresh challenge appears for your listeners every week without you lifting a finger. Talk to us if you'd like new challenges more frequently.
We can tailor the questions to your station's format and audience. Tell us who your listeners are and we'll make sure every challenge uses songs they'll know and love.
Yes - we can provide bespoke, localised or themed challenges and love to be creative with words in music. For example, we recently produced a version that featured local landmarks for a town's cultural event.
We think you'll want your logo and a link to your live stream (if you have one), and with the premium version we'll also provide a customisable panel that you can sell as advertising space, promote events, or anything else you want to get in front of your audience. Think of the game screen as a web page that people have a reason to revisit and share.
Yes, and it works brilliantly that way - if you're broadcasting live, play 4 songs over an hour and get the listeners to call or text their link guess.
There's no long-term tie-in on the monthly plan, you can cancel any time with no fuss. The six-month plan is discounted in exchange for the commitment.
Tell us a little about your station - your format, your audience - and we'll come back to you within 24 hours.