The Creative Jungle
A podcast exploring the creative process and the people that have the creative courage to find their fascinating.
Formerly The Video Jungle Podcast, Animus Studios co-founders Arty Gold and Justin Andrews are on a mission to uncover what it really takes to conceptualize and execute creative ideas from weekly guests who are doing extraordinary work in their respective fields.
Animus Studios is a video-first, marketing and strategy agency. Our mission is to lead your brand to winning ideas that fuel your creative juices, inspire your team, and move your audiences. Consider us your partner in crime on the journey to find your fascinating.
- Update frequency
- every 5 days
- Average duration
- 33 minutes
- Episodes
- 102
- Years Active
- 2018 - 2021
Lions Gotta Eat: Out Of This World Pitch Decks
Take your treatments and pitch decks to the next level with The Moon Unit, a collective of anonymous pros stationed all over the world helping creatives bring their ideas to life. They even work unde…
Lions Gotta Eat: Storytelling Marketing
Our guest this week is Tom Gerace, co-author and partner of the worldwide seminar Storynomics with storytelling guru Robert McKee. As the CEO of Skyword Inc. Tom believes marketers need to become sto…
The Mane Attraction Part 2: Tim White's Last Good Heist
It's a mob story in Part 2 of our talk with award winning investigative reporter Tim White. Tim talks writing and reporting on the mafia for his co-authored book The Last Good Heist, detailing the le…
The Mane Attraction Part 1: Breaking News With Video
Tim White, award winning investigative reporter and author delivers an outstanding interview we had to break up into 2 parts! In this episode Tim talks about his career origins, how video can make a …
Lions Gotta Eat: Mike Michalowicz Runs Like Clockwork
Acclaimed business author and entrepreneur Mike Michalowicz is here to teach all of us lions how to eat better with his newest book, Clockwork. You're going to hear how Mike develops his philosophies…
The Mane Attraction: Capturing Lightning In A Bottle
Mike Olbinski, award winning filmmaker, photographer and storm chasing expert transforms the fury of Mother Nature into beautiful works of art. Mike chases storm systems around the country capturing …
Lions Gotta Eat: Millennials Revealed With Tru Pettigrew
Tru Pettigrew, author of Millennials Revealed, is an award winning marketing executive, speaker, and writer who's here to help marketers understand this generation of digital natives. Using his backg…
The Mane Attraction: Video Campaigns That Sparkle
Swarovski is a global brand known to millions. From fabulous jewelry and relationships with celebrity designers to adorning Broadway or The Academy Awards stage with their brilliant crystals, Swarovs…
The Video Village: Remember Video Stores?
Roy Power, lead editor at Animus Studios, is in the guest chair talking about his journey into the Director's chair for several Animus passion projects including his short film "Memory Video" about t…
The Mane Attraction: Nick Palmisciano From West Point To Hollywood
Ranger Up founder Nick Palmisciano gives us the behind the scenes story of how he and the veteran community defied the odds to write, produce and distribute the action/comedy film, Range 15, by crowd…
The Video Village: A Passion Project That Has Heart
Has Heart is a non profit organization partnering a military veteran with a graphic designer in all 50 states of the country to tell the veteran's story through art. Animus Studios co-founder Scott B…
The Mane Attraction: Video Helps The Radio Star
Bob Walker, the Vice President of Programming at Hall Communications is a career radio personality and program director who believes in adapting to the latest digital media trends to promote his comp…
The Video Village: Make Your Videos Sizzle
Scott Beer, Co-Founder and Director of Photography of Animus Studios is bringing you a wealth of knowledge from behind the camera and in the edit room. Besides having the best last name in the busine…
The Mane Attraction: Tyler and Ryan Falcoa With Mitch Francis
Build your social media audience with YouTube stars Tyler and Ryan Falcoa. Tyler and Ryan have quickly built international recognition with over 118,000 subscribers consuming their music and videos. …
Lion's Gotta Eat: A Soapbox To Stand Loud and Proud On
Video Strategist Phil Nottingham joins the podcast to talk about the video platform company Wistia and their groundbreaking software Soapbox every marketer and business should be using! Besides expla…
The Video Village: Andy Drachman Director of Photography
Director of Photography Andy Drachman is center stage in this installment of The Video Village. Andy's traveled all over the country capturing stunning video that makes an Animus Studios project shin…
Lions Gotta Eat: Sales Tips From Meatballs To Relationships
CEO of Beltone New England Michael Andreozzi joins us for this Lion's Gotta Eat segment and he's feeding us the marketing and sales techniques that took his family hearing aid business from 3 locatio…
The Mane Attraction: Tim O'Donnell Documentary Filmmaker
Award winning documentary filmmaker Tim O'Donnell is our Mane Attraction. Arty and John are thrilled to learn how Tim went from an art teacher and wrestling coach to the co-founder of the emmy-nomin…
The Video Village: Justin Andrews Co-Founder Animus Studios
This Video Village segment pulls Animus Studios Co-Founder Justin Andrews away from his keynotes and pitch decks to talk about his philosophies for video marketing, best practices for client relation…
The Mane Attraction: Mark Hellendrung CEO Narragansett Brewing Company
Narragansett Brewing Company CEO Mark Hellendrung joins The Video Jungle podcast in our Mane Attraction segment. Mark tells us how he brought the struggling brand back from the brink of extinction wh…