Jared Gutstadt

"Jingle" Jared Gutstadt is the CEO and founder of Audio Up. He is the former founder and CEO of Jingle Punks. Jared is a writer, producer, content creator and inventor (*Jared created the technology known as the Jingle player which was the bedrock of his previous business and he holds several technology patents for music discovery.) His first podcast Bear and a Banjo was a major disruptive within the Podcast realm and was listed by Variety as one of the best music podcasts of 2019. Fast Co. called it one of the most innovative ideas in advertising. As a music producer and song writer Jared has collaborated with multiple-Grammy Award winner Jason "Poo Bear" Boyd, Miranda Lambert, Brad Paisley Bob Dylan, Lil Wayne, Steven Tyler, Trippie Redd, Machine Gun Kelly, 24kGoldn, T Bone Burnett, Nicky Jam and DJ Khaled. He is a two time Emmy nominee and three time Cannes Lions winner, he is one of ASCAP's most synced TV composers of all time and one of the most decorated musicians in TV and film. Jared created Audio Up as an ecosystem of premium entertainment content within the music and audio space. From fictional scripted podcasts, which include musicals where the records themselves become the story foundation, to unfiltered interview series, Audio Up's goal is to create a new and innovative form of IP. In 2020 "Jingle" Jared Gutstadt joined NYU Tisch as Chief Collaborator-in-Residence, helping students to work together across industries and invent real-world, disruptive products. Since its 2009 launch, Jingle Punks has revolutionized the commercial music industry, launching innovative partnerships, creating new aesthetics in custom composition, and developing patent-pending proprietary technology that became the envy of the industry. Along the way, Jingle Punks has become the largest independent music publisher in the film & TV space and with 60+ employees, has created a tin pan alley for a new generation of composers looking to make their mark.