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LIBRARY

What we’ve published

A running stream of news, insights, and case studies, plus every edition of the Sound Effects series, updated as new content is published.

THE STREAM

Reading Room

Science of sound

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Insights

Music Rewrites Memories

Music can change how we remember something that happened before it played. What might that mean for the way people remember your brand?

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Media coverage

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News

What Does Australia Sound Like?

Mumbrella on how Smith & Western built a three-second sound for a whole country. We ran the testing behind it.

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Austrade

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Case Study

Australia’s Nation Brand

Three candidate sonic logos tested with consumer and enterprise audiences across seven markets. The chosen logo delivered a significant lift in emotional appeal.

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Sonic branding

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Insights

The Composer Decision

How to decide which composer to use for your sonic branding project.

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Media coverage

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News

New Book: The Currencies of Wellness

Every brand makes sound, deliberately or not. Tricia Nichols’ new book uses our work to show how that sound turns liking a brand into wanting it.

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Measurement

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Insights

Is Your Sonic Identity Working?

Liking and recognition tell you about the asset. A 2026 study of toothpaste brands points at what to measure instead.

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RIWI

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Case Study

When Sound Meets Science

Eight everyday sounds, from a baby’s laugh to a scream, used to prove the instrument measures what it claims.

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Speaking

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News

The State of Sonic Branding

Ad Infinitum traces sonic branding from street-vendor calls to the Intel chime, with us on how sound reaches memory.

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Media coverage

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News

The Hidden Costs of Retail Noise

Unmanaged store noise costs retailers in turnover and lost sales. The Robin Report quotes us on sound as the unseen architecture of retail.

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Media coverage

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News

New Book: Brand Desire

Kevin Perlmutter's book on sparking customer interest, drawing on methodology and client work we developed together.

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Speaking

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News

The Hidden Influence of Sound in Marketing

Part two with Jodi Krangle on adapting AT&T's audio logo across markets, and why familiarity is not the same as fit.

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Speaking

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News

Sonic Branding, AI, and the Power of Sound

Part one with Jodi Krangle on the Audio Branding Podcast, on how sound works on the brain and what AI changes about making it.

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Nissan

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Case Study

Nissan Canto

The first engineered soundscape for electric vehicles. Winner of the 19th Annual EXPLOR Award.

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Speaking

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News

Understanding Consumer Behavior

Kevin Perlmutter's Let's Talk Limbic Sparks, recorded during the Songtradr years, on the emotional and rational drivers behind a brand decision.

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THE FLAGSHIP SERIES

Sound Effects

Sonic branding measured market by market, each edition published in English and the market’s own language.

Sound Effects · Edition 1

Sound Effects: Saudi Arabia

The study that started the series: implicit response to sonic branding in the Saudi market.

Report · EN

Sound Effects · Edition 2

Sound Effects: Italy

An implicit study of how 16 bespoke and stock sonic logos shape Italian brands, through the cultural lenses of Made in Italy and campanilismo.

Report · EN

Sound Effects · Edition 3

Sound Effects: Finland

Bespoke versus AI-generated sonic logos, tested across 16 Finnish brands.

Report · EN

Agencies interested in producing a Sound Effects study for their own market should get in touch

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