We’ve previously featured Globe Telecom, Alibaba, and VNG. And now the next series of the 1 Up Media podcast Empires is out. This time around, Grab (which is sometimes called the “Uber of Southeast Asia”), is in the spotlight. Also notable for this series: both Luis and Claire are providing narration and other voices.
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Feature: Empires – VNG
We’ve featured Globe Telecom and Alibaba, and I narrated both of these series for the 1 Up Media podcast Empires. For our third series, we go to Vietnam, where we explore the rapid rise of a company often referred to as the “Tencent of Vietnam,” VNG Corporation. This ride is a four-part journey, with a interview to cap things off on the fifth episode.
If this sounds like something you’d like to journey you’d like to go on, please feel free to click through. Enjoy the ride!
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I previously posted about the series on Globe Telecom I narrated for the 1 Up Media podcast Empires, and now I’m sharing the next one – this time about Alibaba. It’s a five-part series this time around, with an interview after to bring the count to six.
As usual, I’m very critical of my own work, but I won’t dwell on that here. Let’s just say I started finding my footing sometime during the production of this series. I can still find things to nitpick about (and I don’t think that’ll ever change regardless of what I do), but I can promise you that the writing is superb, and the sound design creates a pretty damn immersive listening experience.
That’s it! Please click through to listen to the series, and I hope you enjoy the ride.
Continue readingFeature: Empires – Globe Telecom
I (not so) recently started doing narration for a show by 1 Up Media called Empires, which is “an immersive storytelling that dives deep into the history of the most successful businesses in Asia.” This led to more work, specifically narrating for their other channels on YouTube and TikTok, but that’s a different story. Here, I’m sharing the series of episodes we did on Globe Telecom, which spans four episodes, plus two interviews that followed.
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