Our deal with Bravo was announced in todays Billboard Magazine in the business section section. Here is a link to the article which explains all the juicy details. This deal coincides with Jingle Punks being part of this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta which begins airing next week. We are very excited to be part of this show and the Bravo brand and feel like this will create some amazing opportunities for our artists to get placed in some of the most talked about programming on TV today.
Sometimes Jingle Punks gets in the press for one reason or another. In this case we were interviewed for Velvet Rope.com which is a web site dedicated to the behind the scenes action of the music industry. For one reason or another they seemed to know a lot about my shady past playing in rock bands and being featured in really strange music videos. This interview is a must read if you really want to learn more about the Yin and Yang of Jingle Punks founders…myself and Jingle Dan. Read on and enjoy!
Congrats to our Jingle Punk artist Quitzow who got one of her cues in a HP spot. To hear her amazing music click below. She was one of the first artists to link up with us and we are happy that her music will be heard in this and several new MTV shows slated for the fall.
She doth rock!
Last night was our final day of shooting our IFC series, “Funnel of Darkness” in Oklahoma and the scene called for a super awesome party. So we got a 400 acre farm overlooking a river, with wild horses, set a huge bonfire, got 200 beers, several bottles of whiskey, tons of meat to grill, a large amount of fireworks, some guitars, and a gaggle of cute girls. In between scenes, right before the reverse shot that I was supposed to be in, I decided to pee off the edge of the farm above the river. I was pretty drunk at this point. The ledge of the farm was dirt, and it was pretty clear that over time, chunks of it had fallen into the river. I walked to about 5 feet from the edge, beer in hand, and started to undo my belt, while the party raged in the background. Right before I could get my jeans unbuttoned, the earth gave way and I tumbled, head over foot, thirty feet down the cliff, landing just before the water. while I was falling, I remember thinking to myself that it was pretty awesome, and when I landed at the bottom, conscious, I yelled out in victory. Also, my beer remained in my hand the whole time. Now, nobody knew that I fell off the edge, so I had to yell a few times before my boys came to the rescue. They helped me up the cliff, my body and face covered in blood and dirt, and I couldn’t stop yammering about how totally sweet the fall was. In the end, I got some cute girl to take care of me and feed me drinks, while fireworks went off in the background. I couldn’t shoot my last scene.
So now my back and arms are scabbed up, and my face looks like I got in a fight. I also fucked up my ankle pretty good. But in the end it was worth it, cause now I know nothing can kill me.
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Jingle Punks was chosen by Sharp Entertainment (the people who brought us The Fabulous Life series) to do a theme song for a new show on Animal Planet. (see press release and show open below)
There’s nothing more heartbreaking than looking into the sad, helpless eyes of an abandoned stray dog that hasn’t been adopted from a shelter. Animal Planet’s new series UNDERDOG TO WONDERDOG takes that same stray shelter pup and turns its four-legged life completely around. Our very own Doggie Wonder Team comes to the rescue when they snatch that dog from its formerly miserable existence and transplant it into its very own Cinderella fairytale!
Each stray will be rescued and rehabilitated, trained, primped, pampered and finally placed into a loving home that’s been specifically designed and decorated to fit its personal doggie needs—including a custom-designed dog house from our Canine Carpenter!
UNDERDOG TO WONDERDOG is taking the pet makeover to unbelievable new heights and going to the ultimate limits to help these down-on-their-luck pups hit the lottery with total life-changing makeovers from head to tail.
Underdog to Wonderdog- Show Open from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.
Woke up this morning and got a call from one of new clients at RGA. They were using our Jingle Player to find some music for a pet hair remover ad…They found it all via our keyword search tool. We saved them some money on the music licensing fee and all parties were happy.
Stay tuned for the clip once we get a copy of it. In the meantime check out some music we are doing for a kids DVD series with Al Roker called Get Down With Nouns. All the music provided in this set of DVD’s will be archived and licensable in our database starting in 2009.
Juke Box from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.
Busy, busy and busy. Past few weeks can only be described as that.
Thursday night we had Jingle Punks first ever “meeting of the minds”. Some of our guests included Ethan Goldman (ex-development exec at MTV), Miranda Johnson (MTV Producer of Sweet 16), Jason Ryan (veteran MTV producer), Athony Martini (Crush Management who rep Fall Out Boy and Gym Class Heroes), Dave Sandford (KSM Management who’s primary client is Sting), Justin Fanstasia (veteran editor that worked with me in my dot.com days and Kal D. from Muze. We batted around ideas over Cranberry Martini’s at Orchard bar (which is pretty manly). We also had special guests pop in and out during the course of the night (including a PR guru who will remain un-named). Was a fun time and turned out to be the makings of what Dan and I like to call our “dream team”. We feel lucky to be keeping company with such smart and talented people and hope we can continue our momentum into the holiday season.
In the new year we will get even more music ingested into the Jingle Player, find more places to place our music and come up with a solid business strategy to implement. In the meantime, we are logging cues by the thousands and trying to make our database look and feel right.
I look forward to everyone coming together in 09 to help us launch this amazing service.
In the meantime here is a quick how to video I put together this week.
Jingle Player Demo #1 from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.
