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How Brands Could Use Sound Better

Here's a good lesson for our agency friends and our production and programming staff on the best ways to use sound.

For an industry based on the audio medium, we too often ignore the power that's right in front of our ears.

From author and marketing/branding guru Martin Lindstrom.

2 Comments;
  • http://www.jeff-schmidt.com Jeff Schmidt

    Nice share thanks Mark!
    It’s tip of the iceberg IMO.
    Radio is largely a by gut, wing it medium. And I don’t think we’re the better for it.
    We don’t seem to take most of what we do on the product side very seriously. At least seriously enough to invest in becoming experts at it.
    How many of our “copywriters” churning out hundreds of spots a month could test out of a Copywriting 101 class?
    How many of our Marketing and Promotions people have studied Game Design and theory?
    How many of our “talent” have actually studied comedy, entertainment and creative writing?
    How many of our production people have studied the aesthetics and emotional impact of sound?
    And how many of our managers are afraid of training their people in these areas for fear they might get “too skilled” for radio and leave?
    From my perspective – not enough for the first 4 – and too many of the last.

  • http://wiseassvoiceactor.com Mike Hanson

    What Jeff said…too true.

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MRM President Mark Ramsey has worked with innumerable television and radio broadcasters over his career, including all the biggest names, from Clear Channel, CBS, Bonneville, Sirius XM...

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