ShoutOmatic Brings Voice and Sound to Social Media

ShoutOmatic Brings Voice and Sound to Social Media

Digital Audio Voice Ad - SponsoredShout

They say that “suggestions” and “recommendations” of products or services from within your inner-circle of “friends” in social media is the new holy grail for advertising. We typically trust the opinion of our friends. Statistics show that over 90% of us respond favorably to the recommendation of what is said to us by someone we friend and follow. That is a stark contrast to the statistics that say that less than .5 % of one percent of us actually click on a “display ad” within our social networking experience.

The new ShoutOmatic “SponsoredShouts” platform is now available to Brands to address and exploit this new Holy Grail of “word of mouth” advertising.

Three ways for Brands to use the power of ShoutOmatic:

For Brands that already have their existing roster of Celebrity endorsers for current campaigns and projects, we SUGGEST the use of ShoutOmatic to be used by the Celebrities when posting your “endorsement messages” to their Twitter and Facebook streams. If you have built into your contracts that the Celebrity must do a certain amount of Tweets and Facebook status updates, we suggest the use of ShoutOmatic to accomplish that so their Fans and Followers can hear the celebrities actual Voice adding authenticity, sincerity and tonality that is not possible with 140 characters of text
While ShoutOmatic is a FREE platform for the use of recording and broadcasting audible voice tweets and Facebook status updates, we can also, at your desire, offer you special “branded” landing pages for each of the Celebrities’ Shouts for a nominal fee; with choices of skinned background design and display banners.
TIP: If you are going to have a Celebrity to do a Voice Endorsement Shout that gets posted to the celebrities Twitter and social networks, you need to add text to the title to state that it is a paid endorsement. This is easily accomplished by simply putting (ad) at the end or beginning of the text.
We have a growing roster of talent that is available to you for what we call “SponsoredShouts” (Voice Endorsement Shouts) where you would select one or more Celebrities to do ala carte campaigns or full ongoing projects. You have access to our continuouisly growing roster of celebrities found here: http://shoutomatic.com/sponsored-shouts/find-talent/
Plus! You also have available to bid on Voice Endorsement Shouts from the full roster of The Disney Music Group which includes all artists on the Hollywood Records Label.
Please email if we can be of any help or assistance, or to request quotes for a celebrity: brands@shoutomatic.com

Shouting into your Blog, so you can be heard! Via ShoutOmatic

PersonalShout from a celebrity

One of the coolest things about ShoutOmatic, aside from being able to add my voice to my social networks so my friends can hear me every now and then, is to be able to purchase a PersonalShout from a Celebrity that I have followed and seen my whole life. I have ALWAYS been a big fan of Danny Bonaduce. He is funny, entertaining and yes, most importantly he has red hair just like me. I guess only red heads would understand what it is like to have red hair when you are a kid. Carrot top, your hair is on fire and on and on and on, I heard them my whole childhood. I was always able to look at Danny Bonaduce as a role model of sorts. He was famous and on TV and HAD red hair (and freckles of course).

Now I am in my 40's and I had the opportunity to ask Danny Bonaduce to say something directly to me and I am able to keep this forever. It is Danny talking to me. Check it out:




There is no other place besides ShoutOmatic.com where you can get such a personal message from a Celebrity. We are working on building a larger roster of Celebrities, but we have a nice cross section of Celebs right now.

http://shoutomatic.com/shoutmarket/fan-shouts/

So buy a PersonalShout for yourself or buy one as a gift.

American Idol fans can buy one from Bo Bice.
Twilight fans can buy an InstantShout from Chaske Spencer.
Hip Hop fans can buy one from Iyaz or Mann.
Rap fans can buy one from DMC or Flavor Flav
Crazy fans can buy one from Andy Dick or Turtle Calls (both are very funny)
Football fans can buy one from James Ihedigbo (#44 NY Jets)
How about one from Jackie Mason?
The list goes on and on and keeps growing, so check back in every now and then if you don't see anyone you want a Shout from.

Intro to ShoutOmatic

ShoutOmatic is the brainchild of Norm Levy, Jim Robert, Michael Levy and Bob Schuon.

ShoutOmatic is a privately-held start-up. If interested in learning more, or possibly investing please contact me at mlevy@shoutomatic.com

As this young Team mastered the aggregating of digital photos, music, videos and text with their acclaimed “LifeGoRound” platform (LifeGoRound was presented and demonstrated by Sheryl Sandberg, COO of Facebook at a Walter Mossberg Tech Conference), that streams the content to Digital Photo Frames, they had an “Aha” moment as they discovered and uncovered a method to allow your actual Voice to be “heard” in all social, web and blog spaces.

Think of each Shout as an “audible status update”. Rather than typing a 140 character text message, ShoutOmatic allows you to record and broadcast audible Shouts so your actual voice can be heard within your Twitter and Facebook feeds, as well as across all social networks and web spaces. Using ShoutOmatic adds authenticity, emotion and tonality that is not possible with 140 characters of text alone.

Please listen to Norm Levy explain ShoutOmatic with his voice:

TechCrunch Disrupt: Tales from Startup Alley: ShoutOmatic

The Technoverse Blog: Drawing the links between telecom, social media, and public policy. Tales from Startup Alley: Shoutomatic If tweets are the short form of a blog post, then what’s the audio equivalent of a podcast? I found the answer at Shoutomatic’s booth talking to its co-founder and COO Michael Levy. The idea is simple: why not give give the people the power to quickly record short audio messages or shouts, and tweet out the embedded link or post it onto a FaceBook wall? There are other, more cumbersome ways to do this kind of thing in the Web world. Shoutomatic, though, is its owns ecosystem and social network—profiles, real-time shout stream, follow-follower model, etc. Please read the FULL STORY: http://technoverseblog.com/2011/05/tales-from-startup-alley-shoutomatic/

My first attempt to blog, with my Voice via ShoutOmatic