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Production

Music production for advertising

Music in advertising used to just “play in the background”. Today it often decides whether a brand is remembered or lost in the noise. That is why advertising music production stopped being a post-production step.

Music production for advertising

Basics

What is audio branding and a brand's Audio DNA?

Sight is overloaded. Hearing is still underrated. Audio branding is not “nice music in an ad”, it is a system: from sound strategy to the Audio DNA that makes every composition sound like the same company.

What is audio branding and a brand's Audio DNA?

Basics

A company jingle - what is it?

Most companies only think about sound when they are editing the ad. Yet a well-designed jingle is not decoration - it is one of the shortest tools there is for building brand recognition.

A company jingle - what is it?

Distribution

How can a company get onto a Spotify playlist?

Unlike ads, playlists do not get skipped. A brand can enter streaming not as an advertiser but as a co-producer of real tracks - and stay there for years.

How can a company get onto a Spotify playlist?

Basics

What is audio branding? Brands that sound!

On mature markets, marketers understood long ago that knowing how a brand looks is not enough. You also have to deliberately design how it sounds. Sonic branding is a system, not a single track.

What is audio branding? Brands that sound!

Sales

Sound that sells. More and more companies are investing in audio branding

The answer to whether music in advertising really works does not lie in intuition or taste, but in neuropsychology. Sound influences buying decisions faster than image and deeper than the written word.

Sound that sells. More and more companies are investing in audio branding

Strategy

Superhero: Audio Branding. Sound in marketing and in sales

If visual identity is the superhero's costume, then sound is the superpower. Quiet but powerful - it builds recognition where other formats no longer reach.

Superhero: Audio Branding. Sound in marketing and in sales

Trends

An audio-first world: brands have to start sounding

85% of internet users regularly consume audio content, and ads with sonic elements are 8.5 times more effective at building brand awareness. Audio-first is not a trend - it is a structural shift.

An audio-first world: brands have to start sounding

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