It’s that time of year again – the time of year where we get our face plastered amongst the pages of Billboard magazine. And being the shy, bashful company that we are, we almost kept this amazing accomplishment to ourselves… But alas, the opportunity for shameless self-promotion got the better of us, so we’ve taken to shouting it from the mountain tops!
In this, the latest issue, Billboard tapped Jingle Jared to provide some helpful advice and key insight into placing your music in advertising, television and film. We feel very honored that we’ve become one of the leading voices in this industry, and proud to help influence the careers of many independent artists – and also just a little thrilled to see our name printed up in a big fancy magazine.
You can see a clipping of the article below and if you’d like to read it just check it out here.
As some of you may remember (those who follow our tweets and facebook shenanigans), a few weeks back a writer from Brazil asked to do a story on Jingle Punks Music for a magazine called PEGN, which is akin to the Business Week of Brazil. Little did we know this story was going to be epic and feature pictures of Dan and I jumping through the air like David Lee Roth and Sammy Hagar on crack. There’s mention of “Milionaria” in the title too, which is worth a laugh (and some raised eyebrows from our girlfriends!).
I still don’t know exactly what the article actually says but I’m a shallow guy and it looks cool, so its good enough for me. For anyone that wants to know what is the meat of the story I can tell you only what I told the writer.
Once upon a time Dan and I went to concert, got really watsed, threw drinks on one another and the next day we started a company. OK, there is a little more to it than that, like the 120 hour work weeks we put in, our empty bank accounts, the constant travelling, the never seeing our loved ones and other boring things the kids may not want to read about…
Oh, and any Brazilian readers out there how can get a hold of a copy and let us know what it says… we’d appreciate it.
Minor note… we have a new Jingle Video blog coming live this week, so stay tuned.
Jingle Punks is having one of our best weeks so far. Variety Magazine printed a really nice article about us in this weeks issue and we want to share this with our friends and clients.
Please take a moment to check this out. We don’t really even have a PR person so any press we get is always a nice surprise.
Thanks again to all our acts and clients who have made this possible and special thanks to Carson Vaughan who wrote the piece based on a cold call I made to him.
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.
Jingle Punks has a deal in place with the History Channel and as part of this deal we get to put some rocking tunes behind some really cool content. This promo is a tie in with a show called Gangland which is frightening show (it literally makes me pee when I watch it)…so I guess this ties in nicely with the new Brad Pitt film called Inglorious Basterds which also looks pretty disturbing, and was directed by none other than Quentin Tarrantino. This film has been in the works for a while and the buzz around it is huge. We are happy to have been part of this promo.
This promo features one of Jingle Punks favorite sons “Cortez the Killer”. These guys are making some major waves these days so I suggest you check em out before you they get too huge to personally befriend you on Facebook.
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.
Yes. It’s an age old question. What would you do for a Klondike Bar? Jingle Punks digs deep and tries to answer this question in a series of new spots for Klondike which we have heard are airing on Comedy Central in conjunction with Michael Ian Black and Michael Showalter’s new series. You can check out the first of 4 here.
Jingle Punks provides the music for this series of Klondike ads hosted by Michael Ian Black.
So this week has already started with a bang. First off. Jingle Punks has finally moved into our new office. We are so excited to now have a space where we can meet clients, compose music and hang out with all our Jingle bands when they swing through town. We also just put the finishing touches on our first ever compilation of Jingle Punks key tracks for the month of July. If you are on our mailing list you will be getting a link to this shortly.
As well, Jingle Punks has been busy working on some really cool new projects. MTV recently asked us to do some pitches for a new show and to make these songs extra awesome we brought in some hired guns. Check out the below video and enjoy.
That’s all for now. Stay tuned as our next Jingle Blog is going to feature some behind the scenes shenanigans from our epic move.
Well, for some time now our friends and even some of our clients, Mom’s and Dad’s have been asking Dan and I to document some of our day to day activities so they could get a sense of what it is we actually do here at Jingle Punks all day.
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…
Jingle Punks was profiled today in Business Week in an ongoing series about America’s Most promising startups. We were very excited to get some coverage and hope that our friends, clients and composers will continue to help spread the word about what we are up to.
We have a growing list of new projects and networks that we have been making deals with (we hope we will be able to make some formal announcements within the week.)
As usual, we are always looking for more music and more interesting projects. So keep em coming!!!
