SurroundStories helps you explore and produce an array of media tools and tactics to reach every audience that’s important to your strategy and vision.
Tell stories they'll remember.
Different ways to storytell with SurroundStories
Immersive Audio Productions
Audio is among the fastest growing media channels used to reach audiences and deliver memorable, shareable content — from micro-length shorts, to snackable short stories, to documentary-length podcasts.
Multi-Media Experiences
Build a library of different multi-media content and formats that audiences can access and experience anytime. Pair audio interviews with journalistically-inspired photography, articles, video and other media. Offer creative ways to share your stories using online gallery platforms.
Written Content
From evocative short-stories and perspective pieces to feature-length profiles, written content can be leveraged and deployed any number of ways — via social media postings and blogs, magazines, annual reports and other channels.
Live Event Content
Leverage the stories you produce by featuring them in presentations, conference openers or company-wide meetings. Showcase them across your office environment, trade show booths, and other physical spaces.
Self-guided tours
Creatively share anecdotes, facts and stories about your physical locations, facilities or other environments through self-paced, mobile-friendly audio/visual formats. Use this format to:
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engage, inform and educate recruits, new hires, students, customers, and other audiences.
More storytelling formats from SurroundStories
Micro-length content
Deliver messages in short, commercial-style formats to engage audiences. Use this format to:
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feature brief “trailers” about your stories.
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promote your stories via web/social media channels.
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deliver key announcements and calls to action.
Story series
Build ongoing relationships with audiences by delivering engaging content and theme-driven stories over time. Use this format to:
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support broader branding initiatives with multiple stories, interviews and content.
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create an established channel for telling and sharing stories.
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showcase original content that key partners may underwrite.
New business pitches
Complement traditional written business plans and presentations by sharing revealing perspectives and real-life stories about your business or idea. Use this format to:
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creatively reach potential investors, business partners and other influencers.
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humanize your new business idea or concept.
English as a Second Language (ESL) productions
Allow employees and other audiences not fluent in English to access and experience your stories and content in their language. Use this format to:
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translate your stories to reach ESL audiences in informative and engaging ways.
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leverage your stories by broadening the audiences that can access them.
Existing content, reimagined
Leverage your existing written and static digital content assets by reproducing them in immersive audio, visual, multi-media or other forms. Use this format to:
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turn existing articles, blog content, presentations and more into engaging and highly shareable content.
Video/Motion Media
Original video and motion graphics continue to serve as compelling ways to tell stories and connect with audiences — from trailer-length video shorts and hi-concept motion graphics, to snackable-length profiles and mini-documentary style stories.