Audacia Audio produces multilingual ads using AI

Global audio advertising marketplace Audacia Audio has partnered with AI creative audio studio Wondercraft to scale international audio ad production for its APAC clients using AI.

Founded by former Spotify Director Kym Treasure in 2022, Singapore-based Audacia Audio connects publishers, advertisers and customers across premium audio environments, supporting brands to produce and implement audio ads, and publishers to monetise their inventory.

To date, Audacia has supported over 30 APAC clients to produce and monetise powerful audio advertising campaigns in over 10 markets, a process which typically takes 10 days or more. Now, Audacia is using Wondercraft’s digital Ad Studio to speed up the production process and empower clients to connect with new audiences by rapidly translating ads for multiple markets using AI.

What is Wondercraft?

Co-founded by former COO at Acast and early Spotify employee Oskar Serrander and Palantir engineers Dimitris Nikolaou and Youssef Rizk, Wondercraft’s AI Ad Studio enables brands and creative teams to script, voice, produce and translate studio-quality audio adverts in any language, simply by typing.

Dubbed “Canva for Audio” for its ability to radically simplify audio production, the Wondercraft platform features hyper-realistic AI voices which can be directed with absolute precision, seamless music and sound mixing, a versatile AI script- and ad copy assistant, and powerful audio translation tools.

Reducing average production time from three weeks to three days

Audacia started working with Wondercraft to produce audio creative in February 2024. Since then, the Singapore-based audio marketplace has produced dozens of slick audio campaigns using the technology for high-profile clients in the finance, entertainment and travel sectors, driving Listen Through Rates of up to 99%.

For one client, Audacia used the platform to create and rapidly translate four audio adverts from English into Italian, Mandarin and Vietnamese for multiple markets.

The technology has enabled Audacia to reduce average production time and scale its creative output.

Kym Treasure, co-founder at Audacia Audio, comments -

"At Audacia Audio we’ve found Wondercraft to be an indispensable partner in our audio advertising campaigns. Their intuitive interface simplifies the process of crafting professional audio adverts in any language. From copywriting to voice cloning, translation and background music selection, their tools provide unparalleled flexibility and quality. The technology has enabled us to create a quantity and quality of audio ads for clients we could not have come close to otherwise, so our clients can focus their energy and budgets on marketing and monetisation. Our clients have been excited and receptive to the power of this new technology to drive fast audio ad production and iteration for multiple international markets and customer segments.”

Oskar Serrander, former Acast COO and co-founder at Wondercraft, comments -

“We’re obsessed about making audio production more accessible to the marketing and ad industry. What normally eats away at the media budget, takes weeks of feedback ping-pong, and only leaves the brand with a few ads to show for can now be done in a matter of minutes and hours and leave you with endless variations of copy, voices, music and languages to deploy your ad campaigns in multiple markets, tailored to multiple target audiences.

“I’m excited to enable brands and agencies to invest their time in developing amazing, creative concepts that drive results and help them with the rest: a fast, affordable, friction-free, studio-quality platform to make those ideas come alive. Audacia Audio was one of our earliest enterprise users and true pioneers in adopting AI to service their clients. We’re super impressed by Kym and her team’s work and excited to see the impact Wondercraft is having on their business and services.”

Wondercraft came out of Beta in February this year and is already being used by more than 40,000 storytellers, creatives, audio ad producers and brands, including world leading podcast company Acast and Steven Bartlett of Diary of a CEO. It launched its end-to-end

The platform has been designed for both creators and creative teams, with a suite of team collaboration tools making it easy for creative teams at ad agencies and publishers to work together on audio projects with colleagues, clients and stakeholders.

In February 2024, Wondercraft announced a $3m Seed round led by Will Ventures, Y Combinator, ElevenLabs, Steven Bartlett and other angels.