Radio does not give listeners an opportunity for rewind, and the shows cannot be saved for later since they offer zero pictures. That means listeners have one chance and one chance only to catch certain information. With radio, conversational ease is lost. Think driving on country roads. Listeners will miss information regardless, even if you are only driving at a slow pace, so the copy has to engage on partial attention or not at all.
This makes radio the least forgiving format to write for. It is where one single strong line does the most work, because in this format there is nothing on screen to compete with a line for the listeners’ attention.
You need a reason to draw a listener’s attention. Sound does a better job at that than words. It could be that specific noise, an abrupt change in voice, silence for two seconds. Copy that relies on the assumption that a listener’s attention starts at full and stays that way will be tuned out halfway through the second sentence usually while the announcer is still saying your company name.
Generating radio copy is like writing for the eye. It captures that visual component of radio genre and is able to set up a visual joke with the clean image it uses in forty-five seconds. It comes with a thirty-second buy. It also gives out the phone number once at the end, in a sentence nobody can write in thirty seconds.
The thirty second written script normally has about seventy-five words, so the first draft is done to the clock. The rest is negotiated, so each draft can be a little longer. Sound effects and music get written as instructions; they are not just decorations. The call to action is positioned in the script to the driver’s position as a cue to act when the driver can.
This covers costs of studio hours. On the check before a session, you’ll find a line that you can’t read in the time allotted, a phone number that you will have to say twice and appears once, and an unfamiliar name with no phonetic spelling. We also ensure that legal wording is not paraphrased.
One rate, whatever the format: $10 per 100 words. You are paying for the writer’s time and judgement, so the price scales with the words rather than with a package tier.
| Typical radio script | Words | Writing | Fee (1%) | You pay |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Radio spot (30 sec) | 100 | $10 | $0.10 | $10.10 |
| Sponsored read (60 sec) | 180 | $18 | $0.18 | $18.18 |
| Segment script (5 min) | 700 | $70 | $0.70 | $70.70 |
The writer receives 100% of the writing price. Our 1% fee is added on top of it, and 0.5% is donated to tree planting. Full pricing breakdown.
Yes. Send the template, a previous example, or the structure you are required to use, and the writer works inside it. If a required section does not fit the material honestly, they will flag it rather than pad it out.
Ask on the contact page and a person will answer, usually the same working day. For a live order, reply to your confirmation email and it reaches whoever is handling it.
Yes, that is correct. It does differ from a produced spot. A live read has to sound like it’s the presenter’s own opinion, so it has short and concise sentences along with no music cues and space for ad-libbing around one main point. You can send an aircheck if you have one.
Rather than naming a library track, we write cues describing what each sound needs to do and when they come in. As a studio selects the actual sound, this helps where a producer swaps one effect for another they already own.
Completely. Copyright transfers to you on delivery, with no attribution requirement and no licence back to us. Nothing written for you is resold, repurposed or republished.
Reviews from completed, paid orders in this category.
Our audience left before 40 seconds because it was too slow. The section after the two minute mark is very good. A colder open was requested and we delivered and the drop off on the retention graph finally flattened where it use to be a steady decline.
I gave them 4 rambling paragraphs about my brother and a list of private jokes. They came back with a script that I can now say without getting sweaty. Two of the jokes were personal favorites. The other one I wrote, but that one didn’t land. — Keyword-only responses will result in a zero and notification to your instructor. Responses which do not discuss the assigned text will result in a zero and notification to your instructor.
I published my second novel, but my own blurb gave away the ending. Theirs ends on the question the book actually is about. It’s 140 words and it took someone who read the manuscript, not skimmed it.
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