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We produced work for a bunch of great companies.
We Assist with:
development
production
delivery
consultancy
Sound Motives studio began in 2017, producing podcasts and series for The Guardian, The Economist, The Telegraph, EY, Scuderia Alpha Tauri and WeTransfer.
We’ve developed podcasts and pilots for The Guardian, Apple Music and Spotify.
We’ve led innovative audio tech projects for The Financial Times/Microsoft and The Guardian/Google.
We’ve helped existing podcasts uplift their productions, improve production workflows, and align purpose with the needs of the audience.
And we can it for you too.
– Dave O’Donnell, Founder
If you'd like to get in touch, please do.
Tauri Talk – Alpha Tauri Formula 1 team Podcast
In August we were approached by Red Bull to consult on a recently launch podcast for the Scuderia Alpha Tauri Formula 1 team, formerly Toro Rosso. With a considerable audience under 25, through liaising with Alpha Tauri admin and host Josh Kruse, we distilled the...
We Are Europe 2020
I'm very excited to have been asked to be part of the We Are Europe activities for 2020 alongside a number of people whose work I really admire. We Are Europe, the European cooperation project that was launched in 2015 is embarking a new 3-year cycle (2019-2021)...
Public Health England & The FA – Every Mind Matters / Heads Up Campaign
In December, Sound Motives Studio worked with Freuds / Atomized Studios to deliver an audio advert, promoting Public Health England's Every Mind Matters and The FA's Heads Up mental health campaigns. The advert features HRH The Duke of Cambridge alongside a number of...
Best of 2019 List
Having really enjoyed other people's end of year lists, I thought I'd put a list together that runs through some of the discoveries I've made, or moments I've enjoyed in 2019. It's a list of everything from podcasts, to music, to videos. If you find something...
BBC Voice & AI
In October I began working with the team at BBC Voice & AI, helping them with their forthcoming beeb voice assistant. It's been fascinating contributing to this process of shaping the assistant's persona, as the team develop their remarkably ambitious project. The...
The Economist – The Intelligence Podcast Production
I'm currently helping the team who make the daily flagship podcast, The Intelligence with podcast production. It's fascinating to see how the team work together with their journalists from around the globe, to make a 20+ minute podcast with 3 different stories per...
The Guardian – Politics Weekly
Off the back of the Guardian Voice Lab project, as well as doing some development work on a forthcoming series due in the autumn, I had the opportunity to produce Politics Weekly for the month of May. Here are a couple of highlight episodes for me, from the four-week...
The Voice Lab – Guardian Briefing
We launched our second project at The Guardian Voice Lab this week! It's a flash briefing that combined human and synthetic voice, which was a lot of fun work on. Working with SSML was a new experience for me, and although working in code was daunting initially, it's...
The Guardian Voice Lab – Articles
One of our responsibilities on The Voice Lab has been to write weekly blog posts about our progress. As Editorial Lead within the team, my posts have approached the meeting point that exists in voice between software developers and editorial/content creators, from the...