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Sound Branding Agencies

Sound Branding Agencies

Originally focused on visual symbols, branding has evolved to include Sound Branding, reflecting a brand’s identity through auditory elements, with more companies adopting this approach and specialised firms emerging.

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Sound Branding Agencies

Everyone knows what a brand is but maybe they are not so familiar with the verb to “brand”.


It means to burn in a mark on something to show identify it, usualy showing ownership. This mark can be charged with meaning so as to steer perception. It can convey images, reputations, and perceptions regarding quality and other attributes. But it was pretty much a visually affair until Sound Branding came along. Not all brands have a Sound Identity but the numbers are rapidly growing. And in parallel, the number of Sound Branding companies are growing.


Here is a non-exclusive list containing some of the international companies we have identified:

Department of Noise GmbH

Location: Zürich, Switzerland

Employees: 4

Founded: 2012

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, Brand Web Radio

Client Industries: Financial Services, Cosmetics, Energy

Efterklang Ltd

Location: Stockholm, Sweden

Employees: 10

Founded: 2009

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, Market Research

Client Industries: Advertising, Apparel, Accessories, Financial Services

Elias Audio Branding LLC/GmbH

Location: New York, NY, USA

Employees: 7

Founded: 1980

Services: Audio Branding, Branded Music Libraries, Functional Sounds

Client Industries: Banking, Agriculture, Apparel

Indigo Lda

Location: Lisbon, Portugal

Employees: 3

Founded: 1996

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, POS Music

Client Industries: Automotive, Financial Services, Broadcasting

oSuonoMio s.r.l

Location: Trento, Italy

Employees: 3

Founded: 2015

Services: Concepts, Music Production, Composition

Client Industries: Apparel, Financial Services, Charity

The Sound Agency Ltd

Location: London, UK

Employees: 5

Founded: 2003

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, Market Research

Client Industries: Banking, Hotels, Retail

ULTRA NORDIC Ltd

Location: Helsinki, Finland

Employees: 4

Founded: 2014

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, Brand Web Radio

Client Industries: Apparel, Banking, Broadcasting

WESOUND network Ltd

Location: Hamburg, Germany

Employees: 13

Founded: 2011

Services: Acoustic Design, Audio Branding, Brand Web Radio

Client Industries: Advertising, Agriculture, Apparel

The Intel Sound Logo

The Intel Sound Logo

By some estimates, it’s played once every five minutes somewhere in the world. A simple five-note mnemonic tune composed 20 years ago that, with the help of a clever marketing slogan, helped Intel become one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

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Five Perfect Notes

Walter Werzowa is the man who made the five perfect notes.


“The sound needed to convey reliability, innovation and trust,” Werzowa said. He says the “Intel Inside” tagline triggered a melody in his head, and those were the notes that became the Intel bong sound: D flat, D flat, G flat, D flat, A flat. The rhythm, he says, was inspired by the syllables of the tagline.


Werzowa then spent the following weeks refining the five-note sequence into the jingle that’s since become so recognizable. Each of the five tones is a blend of various synthesizers – mostly a lot of xylophone and marimba.


Interestingly, Werzowa and Intel discovered that the sound of the notes was at least as important as the melody itself. Among a 60-person focus group, researchers found only 80 percent of participants recognized the correct melody played on a violin, but 100 percent recognized it with the proper sound – even when an incorrect note was added.

A bong by any other sound (How did a jingle become a bong?)

Since the original jingle premiered in 1994, Werzowa says he’s updated it every two to three years. Now that the sound is globally recognizable, Intel is much more hands-on. The chipmaker’s in-house creatives, marketing team and legal counsel all provide input before any changes can be made.


It’s hard to count how many versions the bong sound has gone through over 20 years, but while the visuals have changed and some bass has been added, the essential five-note sequence remains the same.


Even will.i.am’s brief tenure as Intel’s director of creative innovation hasn’t had much impact, although the Black Eyed Peas frontman sampled the jingle for his 2013 track “Geekin.”


Perhaps the most creative iteration so far is from a group of Intel engineers in Finland, who turned themselves into human cannonballs, and launched into a giant row of chimes – likely with the aid of some video-editing wizardry.


While Intel has brought in a new chief marketing officer to revamp its brand image and marketing programs, it’s not clear whether the tune will change, go away, or morph into something new. Whatever the jingle might sound like in the future, Werzowa says one thing is certain in his mind: It’s not likely to be phased out any time soon.


“I cannot imagine that. The Sonic Mnemonic is worth millions of dollars,” he said.

“Nobody was going to run a 30-second ad with the logo there the whole time, it would look stupid. An audio component seemed like it would work really well,” Carter said.


That audio component would become what might be the most iconic three seconds of branded audio ever recorded: the Intel bong sound.

Musicians build up barricades – noise protection in the orchestra pit

Musicians build up barricades – noise protection in the orchestra pit

In order to minimise the health risk for orchestral musicians, noise protection walls made out of Plexiglass are being tested.

Plexiglass Protection

To minimise the health risk for orchestral musicians, the academy of music in Detmold / Germany is testing noise protection walls made out of Plexiglass. In contrast to workers in road construction and industry, the musicians can not wear head phones or ear plugs to protect their ears. The noise level however often exceeds the maximum tolerable limit of 120 decibel – which is louder than an pneumatic hammer or disco music.


Read the complete article here (in German):

https://www.scribd.com/doc/95137022/PDF-Orchestermusiker-schutzen-sich-n-tv  



The Intel Sound Logo

By some estimates, it’s played once every five minutes somewhere in the world. A simple five-note mnemonic tune composed 20 years ago that, with the help of a clever marketing slogan, helped Intel become one of the most recognizable brands in the world.

“Nobody was going to run a 30-second ad with the logo there the whole time, it would look stupid. An audio component seemed like it would work really well,” Carter said.

That audio component would become what might be the most iconic three seconds of branded audio ever recorded: the Intel bong sound.

Five perfect notes
Walter Werzowa is the man who made the five perfect notes.

“The sound needed to convey reliability, innovation and trust,” Werzowa said. He says the “Intel Inside” tagline triggered a melody in his head, and those were the notes that became the Intel bong sound: D flat, D flat, G flat, D flat, A flat. The rhythm, he says, was inspired by the syllables of the tagline.

Werzowa then spent the following weeks refining the five-note sequence into the jingle that’s since become so recognizable. Each of the five tones is a blend of various synthesizers – mostly a lot of xylophone and marimba.

Interestingly, Werzowa and Intel discovered that the sound of the notes was at least as important as the melody itself. Among a 60-person focus group, researchers found only 80 percent of participants recognized the correct melody played on a violin, but 100 percent recognized it with the proper sound – even when an incorrect note was added.

A bong by any other sound (How did a jingle become a bong?)

Since the original jingle premiered in 1994, Werzowa says he’s updated it every two to three years. Now that the sound is globally recognizable, Intel is much more hands-on. The chipmaker’s in-house creatives, marketing team and legal counsel all provide input before any changes can be made.

It’s hard to count how many versions the bong sound has gone through over 20 years, but while the visuals have changed and some bass has been added, the essential five-note sequence remains the same.

Even will.i.am’s brief tenure as Intel’s director of creative innovation hasn’t had much impact, although the Black Eyed Peas frontman sampled the jingle for his 2013 track “Geekin.”

Perhaps the most creative iteration so far is from a group of Intel engineers in Finland, who turned themselves into human cannonballs, and launched into a giant row of chimes – likely with the aid of some video-editing wizardry.

While Intel has brought in a new chief marketing officer to revamp its brand image and marketing programs, it’s not clear whether the tune will change, go away, or morph into something new. Whatever the jingle might sound like in the future, Werzowa says one thing is certain in his mind: It’s not likely to be phased out any time soon.

“I cannot imagine that. The Sonic Mnemonic is worth millions of dollars,” he said.

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IAA 2015 – Sound Branding für die Automobilindustrie

Beim „Automotive Breakfast“ lernten die Zuhörer viel von Experten. Vor allem aber ging es um das Führen und die Vertrauensbildung sowie die akustische Identität einer Marke.

Einem neuen Thema widmete sich das „Automotive Breakfast“ der FrankfurtRheinMain GmbH, das jedes Jahr bei der Internationalen Automobilausstellung ist: dem Marketing.

Das Frühstück, das in Kooperation mit dem vom Kreis Groß-Gerau mitinitiierten und unter der Schirmherrschaft von Landrat Thomas Will stehenden Automotive Cluster RheinMainNeckar organisiert wird, bewegte sich damit überraschend weit weg von den klassischen Automotive- und Technikthemen und dafür mehr hin zu einer modernen Aufgabe der Branche, auf die ein verstärktes Augenmerk fällt.

Martin Proba, Geschäftsbereichsleiter der IHK Darmstadt, legte in seiner Eröffnungsansprache die Bedeutung der Automobilindustrie für die Region Frankfurt/Rhein-Main dar und betonte die Unerlässlichkeit von nationalem sowie internationalem Networking. Untrennbar damit verbunden sei das „Branding“, sprich: der Aufbau und die Pflege einer Marke – worauf der erste Referent des Tages, Nils Seib, Direktor einer in Hamburg ansässigen PR- Agentur, in seinem Vortrag einging. Seiner Erfahrung nach ist dies die zukünftige Aufgabe in der Automobilindustrie sowie die richtige Begegnung mit Kundenerwartungen.

„Es geht um Bedeutung und Innovation“, erklärte der PR-Experte. „Kunden wollen den Marken vertrauen. Sie wollen in Prozesse eingebunden werden und wünschen sich mehr Transparenz der Hersteller.“ Verantwortung, Einbindung und Überzeugung seien die drei Grundpfeiler der Zukunft, so Seib. Innovationen kämen zu schnell. Laut Seib könnten die Kunden kein Vertrauen in ständig neue Innovationen aufbauen, da nie genug Informationen vorhanden seien. Erst erarbeitetes Vertrauen und glaubwürdige Erfahrungsberichte würden Innovation erfolgreich machen.

Das Thema Branding griff auch ein weiterer Referent, John Groves, auf. Der Direktor eines „Sound Branding“-Unternehmens erklärte die Wichtigkeit der Werbe-Jingles, deren Längen von einer halben Minute bis hin zu unter einer Sekunde reichen könnten. Sie seien der sogenannte „Turbo des Brandings“, da die kurzen Musikstücke zu einer schnelleren Informationsaufnahme führten. Auch hier folgte die Überleitung zur Branche: Egal ob Marken wie Audi, BMW, KIA oder Renault – wichtig sei allen ein individueller, einprägsamer, flexibler, prägnanter und zur Marke passender Sound.

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