Welcome to the Radio Creative Resources Directory. We’ve compiled a list of Radio production companies and studios in response to numerous requests from advertisers and agencies who want to find companies that specialize in writing, casting and producing GREAT Radio spots. Our current edition contains over 60 companies, including many Radio-Mercury Award winners. We have indicated those companies that have won Mercury Awards, either directly or as part of a team with an agency, by listing “Radio-Mercury Awards Winner(s),” Companies who were the primary winners of a Grand prize Award are noted as such.
Our goal is to keep the directory as up-to-date as possible. If you notice an error in a listing, please notify us. If you want to have your Radio production company or studio listed, please contact Meghan Buonocore at 212-681-7207 or email mercury@rab.com.
This directory has been compiled by the Radio-Mercury Awards with the support of the Radio Advertising Bureau, a sponsor of the Radio-Mercury Awards.
Operated by a former major market production talent and radio station manager. Two studios with 24/7 access. High quality work, quick turnaround, competitive pricing, just outside of NYC. Don’t pay exorbitant prices for someone to fetch the latte! Audio Demo Reel on CD, or go to our website, go to “portfolio” and click on “Broadcast.”
Air Korman
Making Aural History
New York, NY
Jess Korman 212-734-2620
Air Korman is a creative services resource specializing in Radio and Television concepts and production. Creative director and president is ad man Jess Korman, who has directed and produced Radio campaigns for Ford, Kodak, American Express, Procter & Gamble, Burger King, Hardees and dozens of blue chip national and local retail clients. Talk to Jess.
Want a Radio commercial that has the same brand-smart strategic thinking and creative/ production values you’d expect from a worldwide ad agency? Visit our website to hear some samples.
Audio Engine is an audio postproduction boutique, formed in 2002 by NYC’s leading audio mixers. Our studio, awash with light wood and sunlight in a loft-like production environment, brings together the best talent in the business with four state-of-the-art audio mixing studios
At Audio Image Marketing (AIM), we know standing out takes more than a cookie-cutter solution. Our alliance of marketing professionals, creative writers and professional musicians create Radio spots and jingles that hit the target.
Owned by Mike McGuire, from the Grammy award winning country music group SHENANDOAH, 'Audio Logoz' works with your sales staff and uses jingle production as a tool to help you write more business to the tune of $75,000 - $100,000.
Musical images, audio logoz, singing commercials - Call them what you like.... but "jingles" are a time-tested way of making a radio advertiser's commercials more effective. We accomplish every radio advertiser's goal: more TRAFFIC... more SALES... and ultimately more PROFITS
Babble-On is an award-winning, digital audio recording studio in (of all place) downtown Minneapolis. Really. We offer audio production services for radio with worldwide ISDN connectivity, voiceover recording, sound design, blah, blah, blah. We’re proud to have toiled on Radio-Mercury Award-winning spots with some of the best people in the industry. In a nutshell, we’re really good at finding ways to help you say what you want to say clearly.
Baker Sound
Philadelphia, PA
Gary Moskowitz, Ellen Kancer 215-567-0400 www.bakersound.com
Baker Sound provides a casting service called Voicelink. The only way these voices can be on the Voicelink website is by previous client satisfaction. This service reprents national talent: www.bakersound.com/voicelink/voicelinkhtml.
Rumor has it Bar1 owner Joe Barone is a direct descendent of Guglielmo Marconi. However, at Bar1 we’re not claiming that we invented radio. We simply reinvented it. We’re also pretty adept with anything that makes a sound (music, sound design, casting, copywriting etc.). By the way, we did invent sound.
With a diverse clientele such as The Kroger Company and NPR’s “Weekend Edition,” Baran Productions has a proven real-world track record of successful creative Radio production that gets results! Let us create an “emotional bullet” for you that pierces through all the noise and resonates with your target marketing. Our new state-of-the-art production facility, nationally recognized custom music, vocal/narrative talent and SFX gives you the edge. Complete turnkey Radio-ready services. Call or email us for our free “Over the Top” demo CD.
Small & large market jingles, custom music and “on the edge” ad production since 1993. We push the creative envelope and hit more Home Runs. With studios in LA, San Francisco and Scottsdale, AZ our talent pool is unsurpassed from writing to performance to production. See what others are saying. Hear a variety of samples and compare.
BENMARadio was created in 1987 as a comprehensive creative services company, offering radio stations around the world the finest in agency-quality copy and production, along with professional consultation designed to better build and maintain revenue.
Bert Berdis & Co.
"A Full Service Radio Commercial Production Company"
We do it all. Write, cast, produce, talent direction, music and sound design, talent con-tracts and payments. And more awards than everybody. 89 Clios, 14 London Internationals, 4 Mercury Awards and a box filled with One-Show Pencils, Addys, Tellys, Mobius Awards, New York Festival Awards, even an Emmy.
BG Casting and Production
"From Casting to Talent Payment"
Big Science is an award inning music and sound design creative facility, from hip humor to “theater of the mind” drama. Original Music & Sound-Design for Radio, two full-service audio studios, 3D2, digital spot transmission, voice casting, ADR. We’ve produced the internationally acclaimed public Radio show “Everyday Science” since its inception six years ago. Email or call for a current Radio demo CD.
It doesn't matter if a company is "locally owned & operated." No one really cares that the owner & his sister "have 19 years combined experience." Phrases like that don't answer the ONLY question a potential client truly asks of you: "What's in it for ME?" BigMouthAudio WANTS to tell your story. YOU are great at what you do the same way we are great at what we do: creating STRATEGY based CAMPAIGNS. Producing AWARD WINNING commercials. Getting RESULTS. And making YOU look BRILLIANT! If you're happy with "for all your _____ needs", then we're not for you. However, we're betting you're ready to Say Something Important. We're your newest bestest buddy in the world: BigMouthAudio.com!
Terming the new service Five Star Radio Production, the New York City "gourmet" sound house will included its signature "dishes" - creative spot development, producing and directing, versioning, music development, voice casting care of the top talent agencies in the city, and the highest quality editing and mixing services as part of the package deal clients can ask for by name.
Client List: Tiffany & Co., Mike and Ike, Hot Tamales, and Babies 'R Us.
Cashman Commercials
"Sounds Almost Too Good to Be True"
Cashman Commercials is an award-winning advertising production company that writes and produces copy and music for Radio commercials. Over the past 15 years we’ve won over 150 local, regional, national and international advertising awards, producing hundreds of commercials for scores of agencies throughout the U.S., all at an extraordinarily affordable cost. We say, “Our Clio-winning productions sound great, but once you hear our prices, they sound unbelievable.”
We’re the “creative ad tool” for results-oriented Radio advertising. Our name actually means “tool,” so strap Cats paw on to your tool belt and let’s go! We create and produce hard-hitting, hilarious or heart-warming commercials. We do everything from scripting and sweetening to original music and sound design to duplication and spot trafficking. Catspaw created one of IBA’s “Radio commercials of the Millennium.” Big job or small, folks have come to depend on the “cats” at Catspaw to get the Radio job done.
Dab-Row Radio is a full-service broadcast advertising agency. We’re the foremost successful automotive and direct response, “call to action” agency in the country today. Our philosophy in approaching an advertising campaign is to focus on Radio, the “theater of the mind.” And we have our talent who become synonymous with each account, giving us the synchronicity among multimedia campaigns.
Dan O'Day
“Radio advertising is not an exerise in creativity. It's Mass Salesmanship"
Yeah, if you offer him enough money Dan O’Day will create a results-producing radio campaign for you. But O’Day also offers something you just can’t find elsewhere: Strategic consulting on how you can use radio most effectively. He also will invade your town and whip the entire business community into a radio frenzy when you sponsor his “How To Make Money With Your Radio Advertising” seminar.
David Prince Productions
"Soup to Nuts: Copy/ Casting/ Direction/ Production/ Sound Design/ Media"
Award-winning Radio commercial producer David Prince has teamed up with a network of award-winning Radio writers to meet all your Radio needs, including a top media buying service and sound designers. Whether it’s product-only or creative you need, we can put it all together with the best talent available.
Philadelphia’s most award-winning radio shop. Full-service creative and production for Sony, Spencer Gifts, Fashion Bug and umpteen others over the past ten years. We’ve even completely embarrassed the Ad Club by wining a “Best of Radio” ADDY for a strip club. Hear why at our website, then call us and let us get our clothes back on for you.
Client List: Sony, Spencer Gifts, Fashion Bug and umpteen others
Davis * Glick Productions
"State of the Art Entertainment Advertising and Promotion
You are a busy Creative/Marketing Director. We are TV’s hottest Radio producer. Seinfeld, Frasier, Star Trek Voyager, Baywatch and you. Together we can make great Radio.
Donna Reed
"Voiceovers for Radio, TV, Film & Corporate"
Donna is one of North America's premiere voice talents, providing clients worldwide with voiceover and narration services. . Credible, smooth, warm delivery. Immediate voiceover delivery via ISDN and MP3 for radio commercials, documentaries, news promos, corporate and multimedia projects.
Client List: ABC TV, First COM Music/One Music, HBO/Cinemax, Radio Disney and The Sundance Channel.
Evan Stark has won 2 Andy Awards for best Television Campaign (Mobil and Alka-Seltzer), but he loves to create radio spots because he finds it more challenging to break through the clutter without the aid of a picture. In addition to writing the scripts, he has sometimes been the voice in the commercials he creates and has even written music for a few of them, but he doesn’t do windows.
Client List: He has been the radio voice for Slugger Simms, Rocky Noggin and Homer Mittens for Gillette, Poppa Kinder for S. Kinder restaurants, the Delicious Finlandia Swiss Cheese Man for the afore-mentioned cheese and Murray Lender for Lender’s Bagels. Demo CD is yours for the asking, so ask.
Fearless Music is an award-winning music company and recording studio specializing in composing, arranging, and recording music for Radio and television advertising. We have won Radio-Mercury Awards., Clios, Addys, Omni, Creativity and D & AD awards in various categories.
We write and produce Radio commercials that make people want to run out and buy stuff. We’ve won Clio’s, the International Radio Festival of New York, the London Advertising Festival, Andy’s, Addy’s and more. Much more. So much more it’s not even funny. If you want, we can put siren sound effects in your spot, so drive time listeners will think they’re being followed by the cops.
Funny Bone Radio
"Hard-Sell Humo - It Can Brand Any Product in Just 60 Seconds
We’re a radio production company that creates “Hard Sell Humor” radio spots. Humor that comes from the strategic positioning of the product. Humor that always makes the product hero. Humor that breaks through the clutter. Humor that creates a quick top-of-mind awareness. But not everything we create is funny; our hilarious demo ahs a serious twist. Check out our national and local spots online. Get spots that sell like crazy written by our award-winning creative team. “Hard Sell Humor” can brand any product in 60 seconds. Let us put our money where our mouth is: we’ll create the first script for free!
Funny Farm Radio Hollywood
"Oh My God Did Anyone Call The Radio People ?!"
Funny Farm Radio creates, casts and produces award-winning Radio spots. With clients ranging from blue chip to cow chip, the budgets remain reasonable, and the work is fast and full-ranged. Ad Age calls Funny Farm creative director Sandy Kaye one of today’s experts in Radio creation and production. We just call her “sir.” Log on to our site and check us out. Awards: Clio’s, SCBAs, London Internationals, Rockies, New York Internationals, TOPS, LULUs.
Client List: National clients include Pepsi, Kraft, Southwest Air, Universal and the United Paramount Network
GMS Productions is a full-service Radio production company. Our services include creative commercials, original jingles, parody songs, talent and long-format programs. GMS is a six-time “Gabby” award winner from the Georgia Association of Broadcasters, and a two-time national finalist in the Silver Microphone Awards.
Grace Broadcast Sales
"Sound Ideas for Building Business
GBS create vignettes and commercials that connect immediately and meaningfully with listeners. One of our specialties is client-voiced advertising. (No prima donnas here!) Our commercials get attention and produce bankable results for our clients – both advertisers and radio stations. Rod Schwartz has been writing and producing radio advertising on a daily basis since 1973. The GBS talent pool consists of a small cadre of gifted professionals, chosen for their ability to deliver the quality presentation for which the company is known. Give us a call and let's see if we can't do something special for you!
We write, cast and produce world-class radio spots and promos – in English and Spanish. Very memorable, highly effective, award-winning commercials for advertisers, ad agencies, broadcast networks and cable channels who appreciate that kind of thing – whether it’s at the national, regional or local level Contact us for a demo CD. Or visit our website for even more blatant hype and propaganda: www.greatdayradio.com
Great Spot Company
Advertising COSTS money, effective advertising MAKES money… We’ll make YOUR advertising effective
National Award Winning Copywriters, over 50 Professional Voice Actors and an amazing custom jingles division. Our founder has spoken about the power of advertising to thousands of business owners on each coast and many places in between. We have a track record for getting results right away! Many of our clients report getting results the VERY FIRST DAY the ads are put on the radio.
Full service radio production. Scripting/Casting/ISDN/Original or library music/Extensive SFX library servers/Mix/Ship/Talent Payment.
All in one beautiful new facility.
Client List: BMW, Clinique, Wendy's, Mastercard, Lancome, Trojan, Levi's, Johnson & Johnson, Court TV ,Bounty, Clinique, Pepsi, Verizon.
A hot team of Radio visionaries, including a nationwide network of writers, producers, directors, engineers, studios, voice talent, composers, arrangers, musicians and singers. Clients in 44 states. 700+ awards. Scripting from scratch, creative massaging of your scripts or just great production. Nationwide talent pool of over 6,000 voices. Original music and sound design. Huge SFX and music libraries. Digital and analog studios. Engineers who are producers/directors. Free demos. Seminars on how to create radio commercials that gets results and wins awards. Fun!!
Why go across the Atlantic to get great Radio? Because Tony Hertz is one of the few Radio specialists who’s also a highly experienced international, award-winning agency Creative Director with a deep understanding of brands and strategy. Because he has a reel of Radio award winners that’ll knock your socks off. Because he’s Anglo-American and also speaks French and Japanese. Because there are tons of U.S. voice talent in London. And because - thanks to technology - you don’t have to go anywhere!
Hill, Holliday Radio, part of Hill, Holliday Advertising, is a team of dedicated Radio writers who have all been recognized nationally at the Radio Mercury Awards for work that is serious, or funny, or smart. We enjoy working with clients who understand that a Radio spot has to cut through the clutter, and that it must work for the entire 60 seconds. Please call Kelly and ask for a reel.
HSR, the exciting new Radio and casting division of NY’s premiere recording facility, Howard Schwartz Recording, owned by Howard Schwartz, was formed in early 1996 with Julia Wesley, Creative Partner/ Executive Producer at its helm. HSR specializes in creating innovative and effective Radio spots - from writing through casting, direction, sound design, producing, recording and mixing.For our latest (and highly entertaining) Radio reel, please call Lauren.
Client List: American Express, IBM, Miller Genuine Draft, Heineken, Chase, US West and Maxwell House
Jetset Media Workshop is a team of Creative Writers, Producers, Voices, Actors, Singers and Salespeople that know how to "Close the Deal" using Creative SPEC Spots! By using a Customized Sales System called Ready! Jetset! Go!, Radio Station Owners, Managers and Sales Representatives can have access to all of the Jetset Tools and SPEC Spots that they choose to use. Everyone has their own style and comfort level during the prospecting and closing phase of a sale, so we have created several different documents that you can review and implement into your own day-to-day routine.
Jim Kirby & Company
"GreatRadio creation and production at exorbitant fees"
We are an award-winning (12 Clio’s, mucho IBA’S, Andy’s, Beldings, etc) production company recently relocated to the Boston area (back to our roots, and the Red Sox) after 25 years in Los Angeles.
Kamen Entertainment Group is an award-winning audio, video, music, and live entertainment Production Company, privately owned and operated by Marina and Roy Kamen. We’ve had our own 11,000 square foot facility in the heart of Times Square since 1987, where we produce award-winning Radio commercials, hit records and exciting live club, trade and sports event shows. We were part of the 2002 $100,000 Radio-Mercury Awards Grand Prize Winning team.
Lake Michigan Media devolops creative copywriting specifically for Radio advertisements. Our creativity makes us unique. Our experience makes us the best
Little Radio writes and produces abnormally good Radio commercials that act as listener rewards. Our specialty is humor, and our spots are always strategic, fresh and distinctive. Plus, we do everything from script development to casting to production.
Client List: Orkin Pest Control, the U.S. Marines, Mrs. Smith’s Pies, the Georgia Lottery, and numerous local ret
Maja Audio Group is a both a high-end audio production facility and a music & sound design creative group responsible for numerous award winning national spots. Voice casting services are available, drawing on a national pool of top talent.
We create effective, attention-getting Radio commericals for clients who wantto be the next McDonald's. Craetive Director Steve mcKenzie is a two-time winne rof the Radio-Mercury Awards Radio Station produced category
No Soap creates and produces Radio Commercials, Original Music and Sound Design for Radio. When we work with your scripts, we are to Radio what a great film house is to TV. When we write Radio, we’re part of your Creative Department. Our Voice casting division casts for all media, both off-camera and on-camera. Our digital studio has all the necessary peripherals (sound effects, library music, and full stereo ISDN capability), and we get the best bagels in New York!
Oink Ink writes and/or produces spots for both agencies and advertisers directly. We have won all the requisite radio advertising awards, you know, if you're into that kind of thing. We're not. But if we were it's right about here where we would brag about them and say something to the effect of it being hard to see in our offices because of the light that reflects off the innumerable golden statues.
Oink Ink writes and/or produces spots for both agencies and advertisers directly. We have won all the requisite radio advertising awards, you know, if you're into that kind of thing. We're not. But if we were it's right about here where we would brag about them and say something to the effect of it being hard to see in our offices because of the light that reflects off the innumerable golden statues.
Outer Planet
"Honest, We'll Make the Logo As Big As You Want"
Voiceover facility specializing in the digital delivery of CD-quality audio via ISDN with worldwide connectivity. Analog phone patch also available. Pro-Tools digital audio post-production for Radio. Digital music and SFX libraries. Clio, IBA, Mobius, Etc.
Pictures In Sound
"The Best Radio You'll Ever 'See'!"
Los Angeles, CA
Buddy Weiss 310-589-9405
The best Radio you’ll ever “see”! That’s right, see, because Pictures in Sound turns Radio into a life-size, 3-D, full-color medium. With our unique approach to creating and producing commercials, listeners can almost see, taste, touch, and even test your products. Take a look at our current reel and competitive price list. We guarantee you’ll like what you see.
Pond Radio Entertainment is your creative and production resource for award-winning Radio advertising, the kind of entertaining Radio spots people actually call in and request. We believe Radio is a wonderful medium for telling stories, inspiring laughter and, above all, instigating response. And so should its advertising. Sam Pond has garnered a national reputation over the years, having been honored with hundreds of awards, primarily in Radio: Radio-Mercury Awards, the One Show, Clios, Obies, Communication Arts, San Francisco Show, Addys and the prestigious Howard Gossage Award for Copywriting
Radio Concepts USA is the nation’s leading creator and producer of original music imagery (“jingles”) for broadcast advertisers and agencies. With worldwide capability (we also work for Spanish and Portuguese-language advertisers), no other broadcast advertising resource can deliver as much music, measure up to our quality level or beat our price.
Radio Creek Ads create funny, effective and ready-to-air Radio commericals in the "Donut" model. Audiences pay attention. Priced for small and medium markets.
Radio Free Anxiety brings its clients every aspect of creative and production under one roof: creative and casting through music, sound design, editing, mixing and trafficking. We’ll write and produce creative for you or we’ll fully produce creative you bring to us. We’ve got three complete digital studios with every recording gizmo imaginable. We’ve got writers and music and sound design composers on staff.
Radio Advertising, copywiring and radio production specialists creating effective, award winning radio commercials. Visit www.radioloungeusa.com to read articles, listen to podcast interviews and our online Radio station, and sign up for our free e-newsletter or RSS feed. RADIO LOUNGE helps agencies, direct advertisers, podcasters and broadcasters create memorable messages so that their clients stand out in the roar of the crowd.
Client List: The Houston Texans, Princeton Review, ePerks.com, Pulte Homes
Radio Savant Productions
"We do great Radio. Other than that, we're idiots"
At Radio Savant Productions, we’re confident enough about our work that we don’t go flaunting our accomplishments. We don’t gush about our 1997 $100,000 Radio-Mercury Awards Grand Prize, or the Clios or the One Show or Cannes. We don’t brag about the 1997 Andys (the first time Radio ever took the Grand Prize). We’d never drop names like Nissan, Jack in the Box, Ortho, Everready or Glendale Federal Banks. And we’re not about to quote that ADWEEK piece that said, “April Winchell has almost single-handedly reinvented Radio as a red-hot genre.” Because, frankly, that would be immature. And we have no patience for immaturity. And if you have a problem with that, well, you’re a doody-head.
If you’re interested in seeing our awards, drop by and visit our moms anytime (call first). However, if you’re actually more interested in our work — or in talking about how our funny Radio spots have built powerful brand awareness for clients. Custom Radio advertising and production in English and Spanish. Radio works. We make it work better.
Client List: like Administaff, Jiffy Lube, Slick 50 and Heinz 57 Sauce, call John Brejot at Radio Works.
Award-winning LA Radio creative and production. Full-service LA creative and production. Need creative? We'll create it. Got scripts? We'll cast, direct, edit and mix 'em. Got a career-defining epic crammed with "I-can't-believe-it's-needle-drop" scoring and mind-bending sound design? You can't go anywhere else. Need proof? Visit our website: or call for the CD.
Radioland frequently collaborates with agencies, working from creative briefs, storyboards or scribbled notes, to create, write, present, cast and produce Radio commercials that fit with an existing campaign. Or, we create brand-new campaigns from scratch.
Client List: . Agency clients include Wieden & Kennedy, The Pearlstein Group, DDB, Bates, J. Walter Thompson. D
I write and produce Radio commercials and A/V sound tracks. While I am most frequently asked to integrate humor with client’s products or services, I can do serious stuff, too. You’ve probably heard my slogan, “How the hell do we solve this one?”
Think of us as a crack team of Radio pros. We write stimulating copy, create all our own music, play well with others and laugh in the face of deadlines. We don’t do rip-and-real, tell clients “you’ll sound great on the Radio,” or jack up our prices for agencies. If you need all the bells & whistles, we’ve got those, too. We’re Right Turn, Inc.: full service creative agency & studio, Radio commercials, jingles & custom music beds. (Nationwide.)
Rocket Surgery (formerly Radio In The Nude) is one of the country’s leading resources for Radio creative, casting, and production. With some of the best advertising and production talent available, we create funny, award-winning commercials. We’ve earned a reputation for creating some of the most offbeat and effective commercials in advertising. For a sample of our most recent work and more information, call or go to www.rocketsurgery.com
Client List: HP, Disney, Gatorade and The US Postal Service.
Silvertree is a full-service Radio production company that specializes in the production of Jingles, Postscores, TV News Themes, Radio Spots and Multi-media sound tracks that sound like they were produced in New York, Chicago or Los Angeles...but at much, much more affordable rates.
We write, cast and produce award-winning radio spots that make all the right numbers go up. We’ve got loads of national brands under our belt. Our staff has their names splattered on such awards as Radio Mercury, Clio, Hatch and BDA. We believe it shouldn’t cost a fortune to come up with a great idea and produce it flawlessly. We also care so much about our clients we could spit. Please call or e-mail for a reel.
Client List: Volkswagen, McDonalds, Nextel, and Very Fine just to name a few.
