To learn about why we did this…go here.

Get your crunchy groove on the video below. We assure you, this was for a good reason.

A lot of people have been asking us for more video updates because our first ones were watched by a whopping 98 people….c’mon you gotta re-tweet this if you want us to take the time to make some videos.

Anyways, if a picture is worth 1000 words than this video is worth at least 10,000 words. So on that note. No more words. Just click to watch.

The night begins

Jingle Punks should feel proud today.  We were lucky enough to have our music in this season of Real Housewives of Atlanta. Ethan, Dan and I went to MPE to watch the first episode with the folks who created the show. The party was pretty fun, we drank some champagne and got laughed at because our new business cards have um…our pics on em… which some people found creepy and other folks found hilarious.  Either way it was a great ice breaker and we met some really cool folks.  Check out some of the snaps from this night.

Having some civilized drinks with the EP of Real Housewives of Atlanta

We took it to the Jane street hotel for some post housewives nightcaps.

After jingle schmingling for a few hours we watched the first episode which was amazing.  Ep #1 ended with a classic scene about how customer service these days is a dying trend.  We hope we never have a scene like this in our offices and we learned a great lesson by watching how not to run a company.

This clip is classic. Enjoy!

Whatever happened to customer service?

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.