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Download The  Audio Intelligence Infographic or go to thesonictruth.com and download from the episode description.  Bite-sized, shareable content. By the time you’re hearing this today you’ve probably already shared three Tiktoks. But sometimes short-form content can solve a real business challenge. Take the packaging of spoken-word content. How do you get a podcast, for example, in front of [&#82...

Download The  Audio Intelligence Infographic or go to thesonictruth.com and download from the episode description.  In this episode, we meet at the intersection of art and science with Nellie Rajabi, former Music Supervisor at Google, who has since moved to Apple, and J Bonilla, founder of The Elements Music. Where is music for brands headed? Will it all […] The post...

Download The  Audio Intelligence Infographic or go to thesonictruth.com and download from the episode description.  In this episode we talk voice with one of the most recognizable voices in advertising, Rishad Tobaccowala. We dive deep on everything from how voice has enabled some of the biggest technological changes in the past few years, to why it’s finally having its time […] The post Par...

Download The  Audio Intelligence Infographic. In this episode we talk voice with one of the most recognizable voices in advertising, Rishad Tobaccowala. We dive deep on everything from how voice has enabled some of the biggest technological changes in the past few years, to why it’s finally having its time in the limelight now, to simply why […] The post Part 1: The 9 Innings...

Tony Mennuto is the President of the creative and consulting agency Wordsworth and Booth, which creates award-winning audio advertising for clients like Burger King, Pepsi, Fiat, and more. On this latest episode of The Sonic Truth, Tony sits down with Veritonic’s Scott Simonelli to discuss their creative approach, including a look at recent work they […] The post Getting Creative With...

For Part Two of our attribution series we bring you Andy Pellett, Co-Founder of Podsights, a cross-platform attribution solution for podcasting. Andy and Scott discuss the irony that one of the hottest mediums for advertisers right now is still feeling some growing pains when it comes to measurement, and what leaders like Podsights are doing […] The post Hearing What Works: Audio Attribution...

Jo Piazza is a best selling author, journalist, and (why we’re most excited to have her), a multi-podcast host. Jo saw the opportunity in audio, its ability to reach a diverse and curious audience, and decided to go all in. She now hosts the podcast, Committed, with two additional podcasts to be released this year […] The post Audio Storytelling With Jo Piazza appeared first on The Sonic Tru...

In an increasingly-complex media landscape, figuring out which stops along the customer journey signal advertising success has never been more challenging…or more critical. The art and science of attribution is the solution. In part 1 of our two-part series on the subject, LeadsRx co-founder AJ Brown sits down with Veritonic’s Scott Simonelli to discuss what […] The post Hearing What W...

There are lots of professional distributors and platforms in the podcasting space, and yet discoverability has become harder than ever. Most listeners access shows through Apple Podcasts, but many are turning to alternative platforms like Spotify, and Stitcher – where Erik Diehn is CEO. With so much content available, just choosing what to listen to […] The post Stitcher’s Erik Diehn O...

Evan Lang, VP & GM of Audio at Vox Media was approached internally and asked how they could turn podcasting into a real business at the company. After just two years, they’ve seen real success with shows The Weeds, the Ezra Klein Show, Today, Explained, and Recode Decode. He shared Vox’s approach. The post How Vox Created Its Podcast Business appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

If you’ve bought tickets for a live entertainment or sports event in recent years, chances are, you’ve at some point got your tickets from SeatGeek. What you might be less aware of though is that SeatGeek is also a pioneer of podcast advertising, spending on shows like The Bill Simmons podcast as early as 2015. […] The post Going Off Script With SeatGeek appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

We caught up Korri Kolesa, previously chief revenue officer at Stitcher about Art19’s future direction, including the challenge of gaining a deeper understanding of listeners. The post Podcasting Through the Eyes of Art19 appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

When it comes to radio the way you make people feel when they tune in is everything. As EVP of Content at Alpha Media, Phil Becker breaks down different approaches to building unique local radio brands across Alpha’s portfolio of 100’s of local stations. The post Differentiation Through Sound: Radio appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

A few years ago on a turbulent flight, Steve Milton heard a noise he associated with entering the “gates of hell”. It was actually the sound from the cockpit to signal he had reached cruising altitude. Milton wondered who made the decision to use that sound, and more importantly: why. Today, Steve Milton runs a successful […] The post Tales of Turbulence and Other Sonic Branding Stories...

For the first time in history, the spoken word has the same reach and arguably as much power as the written word. For most people, speech is the easiest and most obvious way to communicate. But for virtually all of history, the spoken word hasn’t been scalable. Pete Jimison is the founder of audio agency […] The post Making dynamic audio creative for hundreds of markets appeared first on The...

Storefront Music is a full service music production company based in New York specializing in original composition, sound design and music supervision. We spoke to one of its founding partners, John “Scrapper” Sneider, who has written music for over 500 commercials on projects with Apple, Netflix, American Express, Chevy, AT&T, Nike, CITI and IBM. The post Storefront Music on Writing for Comme...

NPR – National Public Radio is famous for shows like Fresh Air with Terry Gross, How I Built This and Planet Money. Launching new shows used to be simple. The NPR name and distribution mechanism alone meant a million eager, regular listeners. But with new podcast content coming out by the minute, NPR and other […] The post NPR on Podcasting appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

Audio gets a bad deal when it comes to adding disclaimers at the end of ads. Why? Other media channels are cleverly able to hide it, but audio, radio specifically, is forced to place it at the end. Many people claim disclaimers ruin radio ads, but no one has ever looked at what the data […] The post Terms and Conditions Apply: Disclaimers appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

The more time spent thinking about functional sounds, the more you realise just how important they are to the products and objects you use every single day. We were joined by Dexter Garcia from Audio Branding agency Audio UX to put his knowledge to the test and learn just how important earcons or functional sounds really […] The post Functional Sounds appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

Scott Simonelli was joined by Megaphone’s Ken Lagana to unpack best practices around host-read versus announcer read podcast advertising. The commonly-accepted narrative is well-known at this point: host-reads, by nature, should be more effective. But what does the data say? Listen below, or read the article here. The post Megaphone: Host-read or Announcer-read? Let the Data Decide. appeared first...

Audioboom is a podcast network that hosts, distributes, and monetizes podcasts through a number of different platforms. Scott was joined by two of its executives, Oli Walters and Mike Newman to talk about the industry, and some of the reasons why people and brands are really listening. The post Audioboom Talks Podcasting appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

Gary Vaynerchuk’s VaynerMedia was an early adopter of using video as a way for brands to message their wares on social. In early 2018 he opened VaynerSmart as he looked to make a name for the media businesses in a new, emerging category: voice. The agency has since built Amazon Alexa skills for brands like […] The post VaynerSmart’s Voice appeared first on The Sonic Truth .

On this episode of The Sonic Truth podcast, we invited David Horowitz, ECD at creative agency Mekanism, to dive deep on the mechanics of audio for a client whose audio signature not only will many of you have heard, but will also anticipate an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm after hearing. David spoke with Scott […] The post Live from Advertising Week: Sounds Like HBO appeared first on The S...

Scott was joined by one of the world’s foremost creatives – Jeff Benjamin, ECD at New York based agency Barton F. Graf and former Chief Creative Officer at JWT North America. We covered everything from how he uses sound in advertising spots, to functional sounds, and got a peek into his bag of sonic surprises. […] The post Live from Advertising Week: Creativity and Sound With Jeff Benj...

Listen to an audio ad — on the radio, a digital audio platform — wherever. The voiceover you hear is, almost 75% of the time, spoken by a man. Whether that reality is based on some long-held misconception that the male voice carries more gravitas or is more convincing — or it’s simply “just the way […] The post Audio Marketing, I Don’t Love You Just The Way You Are appeared first on The...