Thank you so much for your patience and support during the month of April.  Jingle Punks hit some great strides with our library, getting through a ton of music and addressing the need for all of your music to be listened to and tagged properly.

First off, we can’t say thank you enough to everyone that has logged into our Support site and voiced your issues, concerns and questions — we’re listening and appreciate everyone’s input.

Once again, it is very important to us that your music be processed efficiently and tagged accurately so that both you and client receive the maximum benefit. We’ve heard on the forums that some of your tracks have been pending for much longer than we ever anticipated… and we want to fix that.

To address this issue / concern, we will continue to allow artists to upload 15 tracks at a time, but we will now take this one step further.  After an artist submits tracks and schedule A’s them, the artist will be able to submit tracks again one (1) week after the date your previous uploads were processed.  This will allow Jingle Punks to spread out the intake of new music, and hopefully, create a better flow for the people in-house tagging music, so that we do not get backlogged ever again.

Example:  You the artists submit 15 new tracks to be listened to today, May 2nd.  Your tracks will be processed by or within 10 days from that time.  After this pause in submission, your account will open up again and you will be able to submit more music.  The idea is that once you submit your Schedule A, you’ve taken your place in line for ingestion.  From that point on, you will have to wait about 10 days before you can get back in line and submit again.

Some of you may not be happy with this change — especially those who submit a lot of music to us — but we believe this will help us spread out the ingestion queue evenly to all of our artists, whether you intend to submit 100 tracks or 10 tracks.

As promised, our development team has created a few new updates to the artist site.  The first is the ability to delete tracks from your account.  The only rule that’s applied here is that you must not have Schedule A’ed the cue to be able to delete it.  Once, you Schedule A the cue, it is in our system and must be removed by the contractual route (written request).  This is because it may have been included on a client delivery.

We’ve also changed the cue form a bit to include multiple instruments and removed the “TV Shows” and “Scenes” section.   Later this week we’ll roll in the new fields that we’re using as Admins and allow you as Artists to edit them.   The final update coming this week is the ability to edit cues that have already been Schedule A’ed and ingested.  We’re almost there on this, but didn’t want to keep uploading closed while we tested.  Stay tuned for this by the end of the week.

We appreciate your patience during the past month.  At Jingle Punks we’re trying more than ever to provide honest feedback and updates as we grow and shape this company with you and the community.   Please let us know your thoughts (constructively, we hope!) and we will do our best to address them.  We’re excited to see the new processes in action and hear the great music you’ve been working on during the time off!

Word,

The Jingle Punks Team

Jingle Punks = iTunes + Pandora for the Production Music World.

We have almost 15,000 tracks of indie rock, hip hop, punk, funk, orchestral and various types of production music which is searchable in our proprietary search engine, “The Jingle Player,” specialized technology which has several patents pending.

We are the first music database to allow producers, editors and PA’s to find music using musical and non-musical terms.  You are just as likely to find a track you need by typing in the word Green Day, Coldplay or Snoop as you are by typing cultural references such as “Oceans 11″ , “Juno” or “Wes Anderson.”  One click and one fee gives producers access to the most cost effective way of scoring original content.

In addition to the library, we have also custom composed numerous music packages (theme song, featured promos and more) for shows including “The Real Housewives of Atlanta” on Bravo, “Pawn Stars” on History and “Engaged & Underage” on MTV.  By crowd-sourcing composer services, Jingle Punks acts as a bridge between many of todays hottest composers and productions looking for a cost effective solution to their music needs.

One of the most important aspects of Jingle Punks is our technology. In 2010 we are rolling out our several amazing enhancements that will make searching for music, using music in media and administering music much easier. The system that will save productions companies time and money.

One final note: Our unique blend of services and content have garnered us some great press in various industry trades and business publications including Variety and Business Week.

Business Week Link:

http://images.businessweek.com/ss/08/06/0627_fresh_entrepreneurs/12.htm

Variety Link:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118007641.html?categoryid=14&cs=1

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?

These first videos will not make anything clear except for the fact that everyday is completely different for us.

Some days we are recording with street musicians in Brooklyn…

Other days we are in LA taking rapid fire meetings to get our roster of artists placed in shows…

It started off with news that a promo we did for History Channel had gone to air, featuring Ryan Star of Warner Music.

Next up, was music for the MTV Movie Awards which airs this weekend.  We are psyched to be part of this because rumor has it that this year its going to be a really good one with some much needed comedy infused antics from Andy Samberg.

By the time I was ready for lunch I had already squeezed so much music into my day that was spent.  Before I could get my lunch down I noticed in my ical I had 20 minutes to be in Brooklyn to record at Shabby Road studios for an HBO project.  This project turned out to be the highlight of my day, if not the year thus far.  I was asked to make some authentic Mexican music for a show open and was struggling to get that authentic sound.  Then, last week, as I was about to give up, I found a Mexican folk band busking on the street and got their info.  They agreed to come do an impromptu session of traditional folk songs for this and I would in turn produce a CD of music for them to keep. The deal was pretty sweet for all involved and I am very happy with the music we recorded and the overall vibe of the day.

Here are some pics and various recordings we made.

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Jingle Jared and the band.

Recording at Shabby Road with a Mexican folk band.

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.

Check out these fine clips:

The Hills Live Finale feat. Tiff Randol from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.

The Hills Live Finale feat. The Izzys from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.

MTV’s Live Hills Finale feat. The Glass from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.

Oladipo Omishore on The Hills Live Finale from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.

Crooked Looks on The Hills Finale from Jared Gutstadt on Vimeo.