Sonic Sunday — 01/16/2022

Here are a few items on matters sonic -- voice, sound and audio -- that I hope you will find interesting. As always, we would love to hear from you.  To sign up for a free Witlingo account, please go here.

1. Announcements:

• Microcasts: If you are a podcaster, newsletter editor, or a Marketer with an audience that you are always looking for new ways to engage, consider launching a microcast.  What is a microcast and why should you launch one? To find out, go here.
• Audio NFTs: If you are interested in starting to use the new Audio NFT minting feature, please apply here.

2. Worth a read:

• 5 PR trends to incorporate into your 2022 planning
• Journalism, media, and technology trends and predictions 2022

3. Worth listening to: Part Two of Jodi Krangle's interview of Witlingo's Ahmed Bouzid on her Audio Branding: The Hidden Gem of Marketing podcast.

4. Worth watching: The latest episode of Lingofest.  This week, it's Part One if our interview with Hassan Sawaf, Founder and CEO at aiXplain, and former executive at Facebook, Amazon, eBay, and SAIC.  For previous episodes of Lingofest, please go here.

5. Interesting fact: "In terms of audience-facing innovation, most of the effort this year [within mainstream media organizations] will go into podcasts and other digital audio (80%), followed by building and revamping newsletters (70%) and developing digital video formats (63%)."  For more, go here.

Guess the movie: And now for some fun! Can you tell what movie this is just from the audio? Go here and try it out.

• The answer to last week's movie is: Ferris Bueller's Day Off. The winner is  Gildie Nazari, Senior UX Designer at NGEN Communications. This is Gildie's second time winning the context.  Gildie also gave a Lingofest presentation earlier this year.  You can watch it here.

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