Keeping a consistent sound in how you present your company really is the "hidden gem" of marketing. But audio or sonic branding influences us in many different ways and in many different places within our lives. Education is key! I explore that here, both with my own observations and by interviewing knowledgeable professionals in the field of advertising, marketing, music, technology and science. Want to be a guest on Audio Branding? Do you contribute something unique to the world of sound? ...
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Audio is quickly taking the marketing world by storm. Branded podcasts, social audio, microcasts and more. However, finding the right audio marketing strategy to grow your business can be a challenge. Listen to our conversations with brands and experts, as we explore the best strategies, tools and techniques for using audio to grow our business, and yours. Brought to you by Rumble Studio.
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Beyond the Microphone is a podcast about podcasters and the stories of how their shows came together, grew, and what they discovered along the way. Whether you got into podcasting out of a personal passion or you're using podcasting to monetize your business, the shared experience of creating your podcast concept, planning your launch, and working to grow your podcast is something we can all relate to as podcasters. Listen in and discover the stories behind the podcasts, find out from experi ...
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Learning Leadership Communication: A Conversation with David Tyler - Part 2
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26:17“There’s three groups of people. When there’s a crisis, there are three people you need to talk to, including your employees, your stakeholders, your suppliers, whatever, and the public… You’ve got to get out there and tell your employees it’s okay, you’re going to be safe, and you need to tell the managers beneath you that, hey, you’re going to be…
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Does Sound Affect Communication? A Conversation with David Tyler - Part 1
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33:54“Communicating is something at surface level: we’re communicating, here’s the words, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. Okay, go, see it. That’s the message, right? But what you want is meaningful interaction. There’s a quote in my book, and I could read it for you in a minute, but the idea is to shift from transaction to transformation. I could give yo…
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Effective Leadership Through Sound Connections: A Conversation with Jem Fuller - Part 2
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28:57“And to bring it back to sound, I find this is also fascinating, when we put things on vibration. So yes, your thoughts are powerful. And when you think something, but you also speak it or sing it, when you put it on vibration, you bring it into the physical world amplified, and word is powerful. If you ask the Indigenous Australians, the Aborigina…
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The Power of Communication and Sound: A Conversation with Jem Fuller- Part 1
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28:54“When I’m in there working with leaders, it’s around communication, and how do they communicate initially with themselves? What’s that like? And then with the people around them, because without communication, communication underpins our ability to be successful in anything that we do. When I say successful, I mean to, you know, to get the results …
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Strategies for Captivating Your Podcast Audience: A Conversation with Arielle Nissenblatt - Part 2
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26:13“I am a huge advocate for trailers for podcasts for a number of reasons. I can talk about the marketing aspects of it, but first, let’s do the content. So, I think they should be short. And the reason I say I think, even though I claim to be an authority on this topic, is because there is no right and there is no wrong. You can do whatever the hell…
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The Journey from Radio to Podcasting: A Conversation with Arielle Nissenblatt - Part 1
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31:14“Yeah, for me personally, I love anything that tells me... I find myself drawn to shows that are like, ‘We’re gonna make something interesting that’s not interesting at all.’ And then they’re like, ‘Let’s talk about broccoli.’ And then they’re like, ‘Let’s talk about cement.’ And then the next episode is, ‘Let’s talk about neon.’ And I just love th…
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Making a Difference with Operation Smile: A Conversation with Mark Climie-Elliott - Part 2
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28:09“Sound is probably one of the most prevalent things that we focus on with our children at Operation Smile. And you know, they’re so thankful that they have, they work as hard on their homework for speech therapy as they do in school, right? And, you know, as both of us sort of being maybe teased and bullied in school, maybe we were actually, excite…
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The Impact of Operation Smile’s Global Mission: A Conversation with Mark Climie-Elliott - Part 1
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30:27“Anyone who needs surgery around the world will be able to do it and get it and survive from it. And we’re making significant impacts by delivering cleft surgery care and by educating and training more and more people each week. The numbers just increase and we’re about to... launch something very special as this podcast is being aired, where we’re…
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Uncanny Audio: Is AI-generated Content Music to Our Ears?
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11:02Artificial intelligence has come a long way over just the past few years. It can hold conversations and manage social media, it can create art and edit videos, and it can even write blogs (though not this one). Every aspect of our lives has been touched by AI in one way or another, and that’s particularly true for sound. While many podcasters, incl…
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Exploring Sound’s Emotional Connection to Marketing: A Conversation with Lowry Olafson - Part 2
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19:49“It’s interesting that you say that because, you know, you’re back to what we were talking about a second ago with why people don’t have their own song brand or why they don’t do that, because all of my clients are early adopters. It takes courage, right? Even back in the days when I was doing it, I called it the theme shop, where we would come in …
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Empowerment Through Music and Branding: A Conversation with Lowry Olafson - Part 1
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24:55“Yeah, so I started writing songs for speakers to walk on stage to their own song, and then when they had their sizzle reel, people would hear their song again. And then if they went to a training, you know, they would hear the song again. And so there was this audio consistency that also had the effect of lifting the person, the speaker themselves…
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The Hidden Influence of Sound in Marketing: A Conversation with Joe Sauer - Part 2
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36:17“Don’t just produce a single ad, produce three or four ads that are all related to each other in a campaign, because you get that familiarity, you get that consistency, you get that storytelling narrative that spans a single spot and starts to reach across the entire campaign, and it’s consistent across touchpoints. But then when it comes to the so…
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Sonic Branding, AI, and the Power of Sound: A Conversation with Joe Sauer - Part 1
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34:25“Does that sound like a robot or does that sound like AI? Does that sound synthetic? Does that sound human? When we think about it, we can’t tell. But when we rely more on those primal, very basic human responses, we can tell. And what’s fascinating to me is even after we told people which voice was which, they still couldn’t tell the difference be…
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The Future of Sound Design in Electric Vehicles: A Conversation with Johannes Luckemeier - Part 2
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21:45“What I did is also in the beginning with my prototypes, I did those science-fiction sounds. I watched all the science-fiction shows and I was like, yeah, let’s get those spaceships in there, I need to do spaceships. And it was fun, I’ll be honest. My wife hated it. When she was in the car with me, she was like, ‘Hey, everybody’s looking, please. N…
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How Sound Can Shape Your Driving Experience: A Conversation with Johannes Luckemeier - Part 1
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25:44“There are a few perspectives from which you can see this. One would be you pay a premium price for a premium car or premium product in general. So basically, if you just look at the numbers, you pay for people like me at BMW, now doing this. But then also what you mentioned, you’re buying a premium product, you’re expecting a premium experience. A…
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How Sound Affects Modern Media: A Conversation with Sherene Strausberg - Part 2
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28:33“It’s just the way music is consumed. My kids went to summer camp, and they wanted to, like, bring music with them. But they’re not allowed to have electronic devices, like, they can’t bring a phone. And my son was, like, ‘Oh, I’ll just take my phone.’ And I’m like, ‘No, you don’t understand, like, you’re not going to have internet.’ And they’re li…
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The Journey from Film Scoring to AI and Music: A Conversation with Sherene Strausberg - Part 1
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27:12“I can go back to when I was sixteen, and I was at a movie theater and I was watching a really great scene in a movie where the violinist was, like, moving his bows, you know, the camera was like panning around him. And I got to the end of that scene, and, like, he lifts his bow up, and I started clapping in the theater. And I realized that that fi…
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The Psychology of Sound in Marketing: A Conversation with Howard Lim - Part 2
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25:14“So what we found out about the Flying Dutchman, for example, they’ve been in business for forty years and they simply didn’t know how to grow. But one thing I’d found out when I went to the original Flying Dutchman store is that people like to gather there, but they didn’t have anywhere inside the store to gather and sit down. Everyone sat down on…
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Influencing Branding Through Sound: A Conversation with Howard Lim - Part 1
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25:15“For example, like, even commercials, there’s that one commercial for the Indian casinos. And my wife loves the song, and she knows it’s actually a singer that’s produced it. And she always thinks about that casino, you know, she doesn’t gamble, but every time she hears that song, it goes back to that feeling like, oh yeah, it’s about the good time…
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Podcasting, Podfest, and Public Speaking: A Conversation with Chris Krimitsos - Part 2
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23:37“It’s one of the rare things. I know, Jodi, you know it ‘cause you’re, you’re literally like an ambassador of Podfest, but, um, it’s unusual when you share it with people like, ‘hey, the education could be some of the best you’ve ever seen.’ And they’re like, ‘Oh, okay. I hear that all the time.’ It’s like, no, no, no. People prepare all year to sh…
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The Evolution of Audio Media: A Conversation with Chris Krimitsos - Part 1
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22:55“So I got involved in YouTube first, uh, in ‘06, and then audio, I got involved in 2012. I started, like, paying attention in 2013, um, the summer of 2013. I really got heavily in podcasting ‘cause I saw the opportunity and what it could do for people. And like you said, I love voice. It’s a much more nuanced form of communication, but it’s so prof…
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Crafting a Memorable Sound Identity: A Conversation with Jon Brennan - Part 2
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25:26“All right, so this happens a lot is that brands will be, especially in agencies, they’ll be coming up on a new campaign and they’ll think, ‘Oh well, you know what, this campaign is going to launch at such date, I’ll throw some audio branding on there.’ And then, from the get-go, then they’re thinking about the audio brand as part of the campaign’s…
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Create an Effective Sonic Branding Strategy: A Conversation with Jon Brennan - Part 1
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28:38“That’s right, yeah, and to me, that’s one of the most important steps in the whole process is this research, brand assessment. And then you bring that research and assessment to life in the mood board, and that is what allows you to create something that is so customized to this brand, that it only works for this brand.” – Jon Brennan This week’s …
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Elevating Brands Through Podcasting: A Conversation with Traci DeForge - Part 2
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28:43“It’s got to look good, sound good, look good if it is video, but it’s got to sound good, good quality audio, good editing, and it’s got to have enough interesting information that people want to talk about what they heard or they have a pivotal moment or an a-ha or it changes their life. So, and that again is why I am so incredibly passionate abou…
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Engaging Listeners with Creative Audio Strategies: A Conversation with Traci DeForge - Part 1
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27:06“I really believe in developing the power of an audio brand as the Nike swoosh, as the Amazon arrow smile. Your audio brand should be as recognizable to your personal brand, to your business brand, however you’re leveraging your audio platform. It should be as good a quality, and people should invest in, and not have it be an afterthought. If you t…
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The Hidden Power of Music Therapy: A Conversation with Noel Anderson - Part 2
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22:16“So put on some good music, especially music with a very steady beat. Every time you have focus, yeah, every time that beat goes, it drips a little bit of dopamine. So that’s another reason why we also can support people with, with their gait, like with walking because we need that little bit of drip of dopamine when we walk. It actually naturally …
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Finding Healing Through Melody: A Conversation with Noel Anderson - Part 1
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22:25“I had a client in the practice that they, well, what they said is, ‘I am disabled because of mental health and PTSD symptoms, and music therapy’s helping me work through many issues very directly in a way that years of talk therapy hasn’t been able to touch.’ For this individual, they had been through years of talk therapy, and for some people, th…
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In the Clubhouse: AI in Podcasting – Part 2
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33:04“I agree that humans will always want to work with humans and that we’re gonna always favor it in a lot of ways, especially because of the spontaneity, the creativity, the vibe. Kids love to use the word vibe, but we want the vibe and AI doesn’t have the vibe. Kids are really good at detecting AI, really good at it…. They pick it out way before the…
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In the Clubhouse: AI in Podcasting – Part 1
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37:19“With AI coming along, I sort of look at more things being added into the workflow over the last year or so. A lot of it is, like, transcription, but also, ‘how are we gonna title the podcast?’ Show notes being written, I’m a little bit leery of, but it is used to assist in the process to write better show notes. So, I think for a long time, a lot …
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How Sound and Music Influence Nature and Behavior: A Conversation with Pavle Marinkovic - Part 2
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30:11“We typically think about music as a listening experience, playing an instrument, dancing. And I think that’s like a narrow view of seeing, of looking at this concept of music. And that was one of the inspirations. What I wanted to do in this book was to show that there’s another way of thinking about music that’s completely different from this, le…
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How Music Shapes Taste: A Conversation with Pavle Marinkovic - Part 1
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33:37“When I started researching how music affected all these different parts of the food life cycle, I stumbled upon research about how it changed our perception of taste, how it can make beer taste more bitter or wine have a more full body. So I said, well, I love chocolate, and I stumbled across a food chocolate factory in the middle of Madrid. And I…
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How to Make a Profit From Licensing Your Music: A Conversation with Nismah Osman - Part 2
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25:06“Essentially, what musicians really need to understand is that the power to find success in sync is extremely accessible, and it’s right there in front of them as long as they’re willing to go and get it. There is no gate, right? There’s no gatekeeper. There’s nothing that you have to do or have, and there’s no one you have to know. It’s really jus…
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A Musical Journey From Emotion to Production: A Conversation with Nismah Osman - Part 1
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26:17“I think people just kind of were, like, ‘Oh, hi,’ you know. They were supportive, they were nice, and, you know, they could tell I was a kid who had no idea what I was doing but was obviously passionate about music. I do remember one guy, though, telling me to make sure I went to college for something other than music and, at the time, I was like,…
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The Role of Audio in Branding: A Conversation with Simon Kringel - Part 2
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37:44“That’s the big problem. That’s the whole thing. You know, if it’s not done right, then it will definitely not be sustainable, it’ll just end up in some drawer after two weeks. And we’ve seen that a thousand times, how these great sounds are made, and then, after a few months, a week, it’s kind of like what happened? It’s just disappeared.’” – Simo…
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How to Use Sonic Branding in Your Marketing: A Conversation with Simon Kringel - Part 1
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34:00“I think we’ve all experienced how sound is kind of a last-minute decision in many creative projects or creative processes... That was actually the whole reason why we formed Unmute, because we thought, ‘Okay, we need to be the adults here and help brands understand the importance of this and the impact it has.’" – Simon Kringel This episode’s gues…
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How To Use AI in Modern Audio Branding: A Conversation with Steve Keller - Part 2
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33:04“AI, at least right now, is really adept at iteration, but not so adept at innovation. So I think it’s really good at augmenting the creative process, yeah, inspiring, but not necessarily great at coming up with something with all the nuances that, again, at a subconscious level, we might pick up on.” -- Steve Keller This episode is the second half…
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How Audio Diversity Impacts Branding: A Conversation with Steve Keller - Part 1
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38:28“We should be hearing diverse voices. As I like to say, if the only time we’re hearing voices of color is in advertising to those segments, then we’ve not just segmented those voices, we’ve actually segregated them. So let’s lean into sonic diversity. You’ll create better representation and a better relationship for your brands with those communiti…
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Connecting Through Sound, Content, and Branding: A Conversation with Micah Thomas - Part 2
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24:11“For all of us, we are gaining our trust, our stability, our hope, our aspirations, our inspirations, all come to us through the medium of sound. Video is important, right? But FDR was able to keep a country from going mad on the brink of fear and concern and anxiety by fireside chats over the radio during the war. And we still look to our presiden…
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Audio Dramas and Accessibility: A Conversation with Micah Thomas - Part 1
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25:17“Early on in that we noticed that there are so many people in the blind and visually impaired community that are underrepresented in the respect of entertainment, both as an entertainer and as the consumer. The only products they have are descriptive videos on Netflix or something like that. And so they can’t get the exact same experience as the si…
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Music, Voice and the Healing Connection: A Conversation with Anna Bohuslavska - Part 2
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22:31“It’s definitely an important aspect of our lives, and we can start with a small thing, just, like, when you feel that something’s odd, just pause for a second and ask yourself what exactly is off. Is it the music? Is it the feeling? Is it, is there a physical need? Like, literally just pause it for a second and ask yourself this question. And it’s…
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How Music Affects Behaviors and Emotions: A Conversation with Anna Bohuslavska - Part 1
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23:48“If you play on an instrument for a while, for example, every day for a week, for example, or something like that, you will start noticing that you have your own melody that you will play over and over again. And it could be that the melody changes while your emotion changes. It can be that, just the speed of the melody will change. But basically, …
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In the Clubhouse: Sound in Social Media - Part 2
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30:21“Social media, if you want to be on all of the places, it’s a best practice to have your voice be represented in those places. But, also, the content is representative for that place. People go to Instagram with an expectation, they go to YouTube with an expectation, they open up your audio podcast with an expectation of a more immersive experience…
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In the Clubhouse: Sound in Social Media - Part 1
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34:58“People either have a vision of a Utopian wonderland out there, that we’re going to create all this amazing stuff with AI, or, on the flip side, everybody thinks it’s going to be a dystopian wasteland when we start using AI, and everybody’s going to be out of work, and the robots are going to take over... And it’s very difficult to find anybody tha…
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AI and its Impact on Audio Quality: A Conversation with Jamie Muffett - Part 2
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29:12“Specifically as it relates to voiceover, that was, the whole industry has shifted hugely, as you know, and it has democratized the industry a huge amount, which is, you know, I appreciate. You know, some people made a lot of claims about their studio when COVID first happened, and it wasn’t true. And so they would go on to live sessions, and there…
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The Journey from Music to Voiceover to Podcasting: A Conversation with Jamie Muffett - Part 1
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30:57“There was one we did a few years ago. This was while COVID was going on and it was with Nicolas Cage. And he was such a surprising guy. I mean, we all know, kind of… He’s an unusual fella. His films run the gamut really, and stylistically and genre. But he showed up early to get the tech right. He was super chatty. I always gauge, like, how someon…
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How to Improve Your Podcast Audio to Engage Listeners: A Conversation with Chris Stone - Part 2
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30:43“People are actually tuning in from their phones or, like, listening on Spotify or whatever while they’re shopping. And they actually measured how conscious people were of what they were spending. So yeah, it’s just really fascinating. It influences us in so many ways that I don’t even think we’re conscious of.” “Oh, absolutely. I totally agree wit…
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Why Podcast Sound Quality Matters and How to Improve Yours: A Conversation with Chris Stone - Part 1
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31:59“An intro video needs to let people know, ‘Hey, this is who the show’s for, and this is what you’re about to see, what you’re about to witness.’ And that audio is a huge component of it. It has to really, just, it has to just feel right. There’s really not a way to explain it, even though that’s kind of my job here on a podcast is to explain it. Bu…
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Sell Your Brand with Effective Storytelling: A Conversation with Mark Wonderlin - Part 2
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31:56“I think the biggest mistake most people, most businesses make when they go into that project is they think it’s a story about them, but the reality is it’s a story about your customer and how you help them in their story. And that’s the way we try to frame it. With the narration, with the visuals, with the music, from the story. It’s really trying…
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Audio Branding and its Impact on Consumer Recall: A Conversation with Mark Wonderlin - Part 1
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25:10“I think a part of that is because, you know, 75% of people, like, on Facebook, will not listen to sound, so they don’t really equate it as much, or they don’t understand the value of it. However, sound is very, like, people are very unforgiving when it comes to sound. So people take in 50% of the experience through sound and that’s a combination o…
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The Power of Healing Through Music: A Conversation with Jonathan Taylor - Part 2
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24:01“The piano is the same way. The piano has a hammer that goes like that on the string. The harpsichord has a pintrip that is plucked, all right? What do you do on the guitar? You actually pluck the string or hit it like a hammer in a way. So, in a certain way of thinking, the guitar is not the stringed instrument that everyone thinks it is. On the o…
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