Podcast music

Podcast music that lands in the first ten seconds.

A custom podcast intro, a recurring show theme, and cleared ad-read cues — drafted against your brief, signed off by a composer, and licenced for the platforms you publish on. Built for independent podcasters who want a sound that is theirs, not stock.

Custom intros · recurring themes · ad-read cleared · split-sheet friendly

Identity

Custom podcast intro music

The first ten seconds decide whether a listener stays. ScoreDesk writes a custom podcast intro against your brief — your host's energy, your format, your audience — so the cue that opens the show sounds like the show, not a licence clearance chase. Drafted by AI, then read and signed off by a composer before it ever lands in your DAW.

Every intro is built to your duration cap (typically up to 60 seconds for the main theme), mastered to podcast-standard LUFS, and delivered with cut-downs for video and reel use so the same identity carries across YouTube clips, socials, and guest-promo posts.

Recurring cues

Recurring show theme for podcasters

A show needs more than an intro — it needs a vocabulary. ScoreDesk builds the main theme plus four transition stings and a loopable underlying bed, so the signature sound carries from cold open to mid-roll sponsor read without repeating itself. Segment ID bumpers sit alongside for ad-break, guest-intro, and listener-mail moments.

Going into season two with a new direction? The recurring theme ships with variations baked in — alternate moods, tempo flips, and acoustic-versus-produced takes — so the cue grows with the show instead of going stale.

Sponsor reads

Podcast ad-read music licensing

Mid-roll sponsor reads are a revenue line — and a clearance headache if the bed underneath the read is a stock track another brand is already running. ScoreDesk writes the bed, the stings, and the bumper to your show, then bundles a licence that covers the platforms you publish on (broadcast, web, CTV, and in-store where the sponsor needs it). No second licence fee on top of the invoice, no separate clearance chase the week before launch.

When a sponsor asks “is this cleared?” the answer is in the delivery folder — not in a sync agent's inbox. The cue is registered to your project, the stems delivered are the stems produced for it, and the licence travels with the WAV.

Clearance

Split-sheet friendly podcast cues

Co-host credits, guest features, sponsor-owned jingles — modern podcasts share authorship across more people than a single “composer” line can cover. ScoreDesk registers every cue to the project, not to a shared library, and supplies the split-sheet paperwork so the cue ownership is unambiguous the day a sponsor or a network asks.

Every cue is bespoke and registered to your show — there is no overlap risk with another podcast running the same sync tag, and no sub-licence of a track someone else already cleared. The composer signs off, the cue ships clean, and the credit rolls correctly on day one.

Podcast Cue · TIER-01 · standard deliverables

What lands in your timeline.

Identity you can hear in the first ten seconds.

  • Main theme + 4 transition stings
  • Loopable underlying bed (per episode)
  • Segment ID bumpers, podcast-standard LUFS
  • Cut-downs for video / reel use
Duration cap
Up to 60s main theme · 30s stings
Revisions
2 revision rounds
Turnaround
~7 working days

Open the studio

Send the brief. The composer reads it back.

Tell ScoreDesk about the show — format, host energy, sponsor mix, the platforms you publish on — and the studio comes back with a podcast theme, a recurring cue set, and a licence that covers the read.

Start a podcast brief

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