Guest blog, written by Mark Malekpour | Content Manager, Beatsuite.com Music Library Music licensing commonly refers to ‘royalty free music‘ or ‘production music’. This is music that has been written and produced with the sole purpose of being used in another project. Anyone can then license this music for a fee, to use in their…
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Mobile Advertising Outweighs TV
In a report published by WARC recently, it found that in the 3rd quarter of 2017, mobile advertising in its various forms outweighed traditional TV advertising for the first time ever; with almost one in four pounds spent on advertising going to mobile. That’s quite big news! Now of course, they do go on to state…
Seeing Past VO Jobs Get Good Views
After doing some meandering on YouTube the other day, I spotted in the ‘up next’ scroll on the right hand side, a voice over I recorded a year or so ago for a mattress company named Bruno. I hadn’t seen the video since the job was completed and had it sent through to me ahead…
Canva – The Documentary
As many of you will probably know due to previous blog posts of mine, I’m a massive fan of Canva, the online graphic design tool. It’s managed to help people with zero (like me) graphic design skills, create good looking visual content very quickly and easily. I heard about a documentary they were featuring in…
Voice Replication via AI – Time To Start Worrying?
Yesterday I stumbled across a tweet mentioning a website called Lyrebird. It appears to be an artificial intelligence (A.I.) service that can replicate or clone the human voice; enabling you to make a voice say whatever you want it to. It’s not long ago something like this would be completely in the realms of science…
Time For A Spring Clean – Camera For Sale
Having had a spring clean, and to also avoid the dreaded fees of eBay, I thought I’d try selling the below through my social channels first, as they’re often the best way to get word out anyway! So without further ado, I have my trusty old Fuji DSLR that could do with a new home…
What The BEEP
The other night, one of the hottest of the year so far, I had my bedroom window wide open. Like most people. Airflow was crucial to a comfortable night’s sleep. At around 4:45am I was awoken by the sound of loud beeping; having woken up startled, realised it was the smoke alarm, which went off…
Visiting Bletchley Park – Home Of The Codebreakers
A few weeks ago I had the chance to visit Bletchley Park. It’s a place I’ve been wanting to visit for a long time, even before it became über well-known, thanks to the fantastic film ‘The Imitation Game’ that starred Benedict Cumberbatch. It’s a location that seems as though it’s barely changed in 60+ years –…
Top 7 Apps To Get You Through Your Workday
The sheer choice of apps, websites and online productivity tools of various sorts designed to help us with our daily tasks, is immense. So it’s unsurprising to find that it can be a little overwhelming to work out which are the best to use. So I’ve decided to compile a short list of my favourites; the ones I tend to use…
When You Know You’re Too Used To Technology
Something odd happened the other day. Be it the beginning stages of already reaching ‘a certain age’, or just being a bit weird; the jury’s out. I was writing up some notes (pencil and paper style) whilst on a phone call with a client; the usual – noting down project lengths, word counts, initial rough pricing…