Uncompromising Vision: Director Ian Pons Jewell on Finding Your Style and Building a Visual Language

Ian Pons Jewell isn’t someone to mince words. As you’ll see right from the beginning of our conversation, he’ll say…

A Documentary Director Shares How to Use Music With Intentionality

In a film, music can either be a life raft or the tip of the iceberg: something that sits on…

Case Study: Using Musicbed to Soundtrack a Hulu Documentary

Director Phil Wall works across the commercial and narrative space, with films like The Book Keepers, The Passing Game, and…

Lucky Generals’ Creative Director Danny Hunt on Making Great Work

Ego is a strange thing in advertising, or any creative field for that matter. In one way, it seems to…

9 Ads Where Music Made the Difference

It’s easy to think of an ad’s soundtrack as something that enhances the emotional moments or simply fills out the…

Case Study: Using a Musicbed Artist to Set the Tone for a Network Series

At Musicbed, we preach the importance of music every day, but sometimes we don’t have to preach at all. There…

Squarespace’s VP of Creative Ben Hughes on Balancing Business Acumen and Creativity

There’s a myth that being a business person and a creative person are mutually exclusive, that they exist in different…

10 Tips from Oscar-Nominated (and Winning) Filmmakers

We talk to a lot of talented filmmakers at Musicbed, but not all of them win Oscars. And we all…

Global Creative Producer Kaki Orr on Producing Stories and Results for The North Face

Whether you’re on the creative team or production team, you need to master the art of compromise. Someone is going…

Case Study: Musicbed’s Custom Work on Nike’s “You Can’t Stop Us” Spot

Sometimes a project is bigger than music or film, and we’re proud that Musicbed was able to contribute to the…