If it wasn’t enough trouble to come up with the right string of words to describe your brand, now you gotta worry about what your brand sounds like. That’s right. You need an audio logo for your podcast. What’s your cue music, your sign off… and those little bits in between, like NPR radio uses between segments? MarketingSherpa writes here and here about what’s involved in developing their theme song for podcasting.
Check out Podcastinglogos.com to hear snippets of music used by the New England Journal of Medicine, the Baseball Network and other organizations for their podcasts. The site was just launched by independent film score composer Michael Whalen.
Whalen helpfully poses 10 key questions you should consider before commissioning an audio logo. Here are the first five:
- How is your company perceived in the marketplace? (big, small, cool, traditional, fun, forward thinking, etc.)
- How do YOU perceive your company? Is it the same as your answer to #1?
- Do you think your audio ID should support or work against this impression(s)?
- Who is your ‘typical’ audience member or customer? (demographically, sense of their tastes, etc.)
- Should the audio ID appeal to your audience’s taste or should it only support your company’s image? (see question #1)
Follow this link and click on Pricing and Suggestions in the left-hand column to get the rest. (This site is designed in frames… bad idea as I can’t give you a direct link!)
Woman’s marketing author Andrea Learned recently wrote a piece on IF about using music to enhance brand experience called ‘”Branding For The Multi-Sensory Women’s Market” here.
Comment by Piers Fawkes — August 30, 2005 @ 5:32 am