We built this for the person holding the tablet
Audiominutes is a service from Comquat Ltd, a UK software company that has been streaming public meetings for local government for over a decade.
Webcasting arrived in local government as a video problem with a video budget. Cameras, operators, contracts. Plenty of councils looked at the numbers and quietly decided transparency could wait.
We took the other route: get the meeting online at a price a parish council can approve, make the archive genuinely usable, and keep the operating burden close to zero. Councils that started with audio now stream video through the same system when it suits them.
Everything is designed around one test. Could the clerk run it on their own, on a busy night, without a rehearsal?
The archive is where most of the listening happens. Of the 2,063 recordings people listened to in 2025, only 509 were published that year. Around three quarters of all listening was to meetings that had already taken place, some of them years earlier.
The audience is real, too. On the busiest day the service has had, 2,597 people listened to their council. On an average day in 2025, 196 did, every day of the year.
Streaming public meetings
Meetings broadcast
Listener sessions since 2022
Audio and video delivered
Listeners on the busiest single day
With verified off-site back-up
Who runs it
Comquat Ltd is a software company based in Cambridge. Matt Paradis is its director.
Matt holds a PhD from the University of York, where he is an Honorary Research Associate, and co-chairs the W3C Audio Working Group, the international standards group responsible for the Web Audio API. Personalised, Immersive, Interactive and Accessible audio have been the threads running through his research for most of his career