FRQNCY Media Co.

03/06/2023

📣 We're hiring! 📣

We are on the lookout for a Creative Brand Strategist to join our team! Are you a creative thinker with an eye for design and a passion for all things digital? Do you have the ability to create visually engaging content that resonates with audiences on social media, websites, and newsletters? If so, we want YOU!

As our new Creative Brand Strategist, you'll work closely with the marketing team to develop innovative campaigns that effectively communicate our brand messaging and drive engagement with our target audiences. You will play a key role in finding and overseeing freelancers for different creative projects and providing them with clear instructions and feedback to ensure that their work meets our expectations.

So, if you have a Scorpio-like eye for detail with Virgo-level organizational skills, have experience leading and mentoring a team of creative professionals, and have a portfolio of creative work that demonstrates your ability to develop innovative and effective visuals for campaigns, we want to hear from you! Click the link below to apply. 🚀🎨

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12/01/2022

Get your Amazon carts ready, it's time for FRQNCY's Podcast Gift Guide! 🎁

This guide features gear and tools we use when working on our own productions and wholeheartedly recommend. These gifts are perfect for the podcaster in your life (or yourself). 🎙

Check out our complete guide on podcast equipment for more holiday gift ideas! Link in bio🔗

11/18/2022

We are still pinching ourselves over meeting Dr. Jane Goodall IRL after almost 2 years of working together completely virtually (and across continents)!

Our CEO & Founder Michelle Khouri (), Lead Content Strategist Jessica Olivier (), and Supervising Producer Enna Garkusha () met with the team at Fernbank museum in Atlanta last month and we still can't get over it.

It has been our joy to work on The Jane Goodall Hopecast for the past 2 years, spreading messages of hope and action against climate change, and protecting Jane's legacy. To spend in-person time with Jane after sharing so much virtual studio time with her was a dream!

11/08/2022

How does audio support movements? It can spur change, amplify voices, and stand against injustice. In our most recent blog post, we take a look at how the power of audio has done exactly that in the fight for freedom in Iran and the surprising ways audio has supported this movement.

FRQNCY Media stands in solidarity with the Iranian and Kurdish people in their fight for freedom and liberation. We’re sharing our support by uplifting their voices on our platform with the power of audio.

Iranian women have been at the forefront of this liberation movement after a 22-year-old woman from the country’s Kurdish region, Jina “Mahsa” Amini, was beaten to death by police in September for allegedly not wearing her hijab properly.

On this U.S. election day, we stand with the transnational fight for bodily and reproductive autonomy.

FRQNCY Media stands in solidarity with the voices of Iran and Kurdistan fighting for liberation and justice with the power of audio.

11/07/2022

Meet our Sound Engineering Team! You can thank this small but mighty team for the seamless dialogue editing, the immersive sound design, and on-location recordings of FRQNCY productions.

✨ Matt Filler () - Lead Audio Engineer

✨ DonTaé Hodge () - Audio Engineer

✨ Claire Bidigare-Curtis () - Sound Designer

✨ Sidney Evans () - Audio Editor

Get to know this bad ass team of artists on our website. Link in bio!

10/25/2022

❤️ We’re so excited to introduce you to Becca Godwin (), our Project Manager and Executive Assistant—truly the glue holding FRQNCY together.

🌟 No one else has the same bird’s-eye view across every project and every team. As Executive Assistant she advises and supports FRQNCY CEO ; as Project Manager, she keeps the ship afloat while juggling a smorgasbord of clients and spreadsheets and chat groups and boards; and as a lovely, empathetic human she brings all of us closer into community as we collaborate.

✍️ She brings her background as a writer and a journalist to her work, and her experience with Empathy Lab into every digital conversation.

🔗 Click the link in our bio to learn more about this powerhouse.

09/15/2022

🌟New FRQNCY production alert! 🌟

We’re thrilled to announce that FRQNCY is co-producing the third season of A Matter Of Degrees! A Matter of Degrees is a climate podcast that’s received praise from The New York Times, Variety, Wired, Grist, Gizmodo, and The Sunday Post. In each episode, co-hosts Dr. Katharine Wilkinson and Dr. Leah Stokes join forces with high-profile climate leaders to tell important climate solution stories.

Everyone at FRQNCY was thrilled to contribute to this groundbreaking, inspirational, and educational podcast that seeks to save the world. The Strategy team scripted and researched each episode. The Production team storyboarded episodes, booked studio time, and managed recording sessions. Finally, our Post-Production team handled editing, mixing, and mastering all audio.

A Matter of Degrees tells stories for the climate curious. Tune in wherever you listen to podcasts. New episodes out today, Sept 15th!

Give up your climate guilt. Sharpen your curiosity. Join Dr. Leah Stokes and Dr. Katharine Wilkinson as they tell stories about the powerful forces behind climate change — and the tools we have to fix it. This show makes sense of big climate questions and critical topics. Our episodes are filled w...

07/18/2022

We got Best Podcast from Digiday!!

In 2021, we got a call from Vox to make something very special: a rich, narrative podcast for StraightTalk Wireless meant to push the bounds of branded content by centering the stories of real people, instead of the brand's story. FRQNCY was handed the original vision and guests who had been identified, so that we could transform the broad idea into a tangible concept. Our Strategy and Production teams developed an innovative storytelling structure built to draw in, immerse, and surprise listeners while honoring one person's story of courage and triumph.

The result is "More Than This," concepted, written, produced, recorded on location, engineered, and scored by FRQNCY Media Co.'s mega-talented FRQs, hosted by Danielle Prescod, envisioned Vox Creative, and powered by Straight Talk.

What an extraordinary effort with a result that speaks volumes about possibility. About struggle. About multitudes.

We are so proud of this work and of the friends we made along the way whose stories we had the privilege of bringing to audio.

Cheers to everyone whose hearts and souls went into making this work a reality! And HUGE congrats to StraightTalk Wireless for this award!

CREDITS
Host: Danielle Prescod
Executive Producer: Michelle Khouri (FRQ)
Supervising Producer: Annu Subramanian (Vox)
Producers: Enna Garkusha(FRQ) + Martha Daniel (Vox)
Production Coordinator: Taylor Henry (Vox)
Writers (FRQ): Becca Godwin + Isabel Moncloa Daly + Jessica Olivier + Michelle Khouri.
On-location Engineer (FRQ): DonTae Hodge + Matt Filler
Sound design, mixing, and original scoring (FRQ): Matthew Ernest Filler.
Dialogue Editor (FRQ): Sidney Evans

https://digiday.com/the-2022-digiday-media-awards-virtual-winners-announcement/

07/06/2022

📈 Brands are stepping up their podcast game...

🎧 Branded podcasts are booming in popularity as more and more brands realize their benefits. Think about it this way – if a brand makes a commercial (yawn 🥱), that’s less than a minute of engagement. Also… super boring.

💡But if a brand makes an entertaining season of top-notch storytelling with an innovative approach, that’s hours of promotion that create a loyal community and engaged audience.

🔗 Click the link below to read about 6 of our favorite examples of brands that are taking an innovative approach to podcasts.

Here are 6 brands taking their audio strategy to the next level, incorporating innovative genres, formats, and content.

06/30/2022

We see it all the time: A brand is debating whether or not to start a podcast, but is wondering how they can convince their current fervent followers to become loyal listeners.

We've worked with brands like TurboTax, The Coca-Cola Company, and the Jane Goodall Institute to do exactly that.

Check out our latest blog post on the best ways to turn your engaged audience into podcast listeners.

Creating cross-platform content for your podcast helps convert your fervent followers into loyal listeners.

06/24/2022

📣 HIRING ALERT 📣

We are looking for a podcast associate producer with 1+ years of experience with project management and maintaining workflows for media productions. Experience in audio production strongly preferred.

Click the link in our bio for the full deets and to apply!

05/13/2022

A branded podcast shouldn’t be a shameless plug for your brand. At the end of the day, it isn't even about you - it's about your listener and what they need.

Here are 6 branded podcasts doing it right. (Spoiler: they all have one thing in common -- adding value to the listener!)

Click the link below to read the full article on our blog ⬇️

Here are 6 examples of brands that are slaying the game with their podcasts that expand reach, build community, and drive conversions.