Sizzer

26/07/2024

All about why Gen Z goes “brat for president” and how come you’ve been invited to 3 different running clubs just this past week in the new edition of the Trend Report up on our Substack! 🍏

The Bratification of Kamala Harris, a dive into The Great Exhaustion and more!

01/07/2024

Fun is back, music AI goes ethical, and Netflix goes back to malls!
The new edition of our monthly trend report is up on Substack - from raves to lawsuits, we dive into the zeitgeist of the past couple of weeks.

Welcome to Sizzer’s substack. Culture moves quickly these days and if you don’t know where it’s at or where it’s headed there’s a chance you’ll get left behind. We’re here to help you stay alert and maybe find a few new favourite things along the way.

26/06/2024

Still basking in the afterglow of our Cannes party, we thought it would be nice to leave a little thank you note. This year’s edition was absolutely bonkers and you - our close friends - were the main ingredient pour cette fête!
A shoutout to each and all of you, everyone performing, everyone who made this possible and an extra loud shoutout to our very close friend Precise.ai - à la prochaine 🥂 Stay close!

13/06/2024

Attention, prêtez une oreille attentive!
Confirmations for our Close Friends RSVP have been sent out, make sure to check your mail to ensure you're in - meaning you are invited to come pick up your actual ticket at our wristband-event on Wednesday! No wristband = no close friend 🌚
La douce France here we come! See you there! 👀🎵🔆

04/06/2024

Sharing is caring - we can't just keep our masters of music production to ourselves! That's why we've decided to send one of our assets out into the open as a Talent Tuner at the Buma Music in Motion Special.
Want to know what the fuzz is about? Go check out our beloved Mees van der Velde tomorrow and ask him about all the tricks of the trade. 🎼

03/06/2024

If you so happen to need a sandy, gritty, foot-stomping type of groove for your Australian un**es ad, we so happen to have your back!
Very proud to have provided a suitable soundtrack for this new BONDS film, which calls for a toast if you ask me - a big SO to Nice Rights for this fun collaboration, Miss Mary Ann & the Ragtime Wranglers for the tune, and to everyone else involved.
Give it a burl!

31/05/2024

Never content to just watch from the sidelines, our multi-talented team here at Sizzer have added another feather to their caps in the form of trend reporting.
We’re out there, on the mean streets of the internet, finding out what’s happening in music and culture and we’re excited to have launched our very own Substack where you too can follow along and find out who’s who and what’s what on a monthly basis.
Check it out -

Keeping you in the loop

23/05/2024

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Presented by Sizzer x Precise - RSVP NOW: https://mailchi.mp/sizzer/precise-close-friends-cannes-2024

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20th June 2024
22.00 - 05.00
Bisous Bisous, 1 Bd de la Croisette, Cannes

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Artwork designed by: https://www.mrboonstra.com/
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We've teamed up with our beloved fellows Precise.AI to roll out Bisou Bisou's red carpet at the Cannes Lions 2024.

07/05/2024

Incoming call!
The power of powering off called for this good-hooked theme of the phone-absorbed.
For this early 2000's throwback-styled Heineken x Bodega collab we've supplied the ultimate earworm.
A toast to re-embracing social life and a big cheer to LePub and everyone else involved! 📞🍸

23/04/2024

What better way to limelight our beloved CEO Sander Van Maarschalkerweerd than to send him to the brightest city on the planet?
That's right! This year he'll be representing our reputation of refined taste in Vegas as part of the London International Awards jury!
Cheers to keeping it luminous 🥂

19/04/2024

Sometimes it's something small that makes the beauty emerge.
Very happy to have contributed our little twist to this great OREO campaign. A big cheer to LePub and everyone else involved.
C is for cookie 🍪

05/04/2024

The provocative irony of putting Marilyn Manson's 'The Beautiful People' under a film portraying mankind destroying earth, is something we loved being part of.
WWF Italia's We Are The Panda won bronze in the Licensed Music category at CLIO Awards and that calls for a toast to Accenture in Italia, Think Cattleya, Wolfberg, and everyone else involved. For a living planet 🐼🥂

29/03/2024

We had a blast making this - anything-but-square - score for the long standing advocates for challenging the standardized ways of working and living Toblerone.
Shoutout to LePub for bringing us along on this mischievous adventure and cheers to seeing the world from a different angle, but never square! 🍫

26/03/2024

If it was about the outfits or the music tonight, we would say Germany - Netherlands 1:0. 👀
All kinds of questions left unanswered at the Sizzer HQ today while we wait for the match, trying to figure out where our allegiances lie. ⚽
adidas x DFB-Team AWAY film with the best partners-in-crime Jesper Gadeberg Jung von Matt Sanjay De Silva ANORAK Film

21/03/2024

If you're asked to come up with a potential anthem to score the new adidas campaign for der Frauen- and Männernationalmannschaft for the EURO 2024 Germany featuring major players - Kommissar Rex among others 🐶 - from the past to the present, you have to be Völlig losgelöst von der Erde not to wanna nail it!
We're are intensely stoked having made this eclectic, yet banging, cover medley of the epic sing-along classic Major Tom by Peter Schilling.
Big shoutout to Jesper Gadeberg for the fantastic collaboration, our partners Jung von Matt Sanjay De Silva ANORAK Film, and everyone else who joined our Raumschiff.
Prost - see you at the penalties ⚽🇩🇪

20/03/2024

We recently laid out the welcome mat to two new interns, allow us to briefly introduce you to: Bea, our new transatlantic production asset, shredding the bass and hoping to one day popularise Dream Trap under her moniker Honeybea AND Ula, our very first research intern! Having zigzagged her way from Lithuania past France and Australia to Groningen, she now applies the knowledge of her psychology study to the field of making and exploring music.
A big cheer to the both of you 🍻 Bienvenue!

11/03/2024

To provide an anthem that playfully represents all the potential sides to the legendary Jürgen Klopp, is a challenging - yet fun - responsibility to say the least. We're very stoked having created a sincere modern-day crooner for Deutsche Vermögensberatung AG - DVAG and would like to give a big shoutout to WIRZ, Zauberberg Productions, and all involved.
Here's to you, prost!

01/03/2024

Our Music Researcher Jasper AKA Nothing Toulouse is back on track with the platters that matter!
In his attempt at breaking laws of algorithm in the age of streaming, here's a new episode of Sizzer's Digital Renaissance.
Comfortably sunken in the world of mellow, slowly floating to a world less quiet, here comes an homage to the world of Easy Listening, Elevator Music and much more: Tales From The Conversation Pit.
Assyez-vous!

Little Black Book, Volume VI of Sizzer's musical exploration led by researcher Jasper AKA Nothing Toulouse takes us on an 'Easy Listening' tour of the conversation pit

28/02/2024

We all know the psalm of hope sang by Aileen Quinn in the ever-classic 1982 cut Annie. To cover an iconic statue of a song like 'Tomorrow' for the dreamy world of Mulino Bianco is - I was about to say 'a tough cookie' - a real challenge.
We're proud of the result and would hereby love to raise the glass to LePub and the rest of our all-star cast for this one. A santé 🍪🥂

16/02/2024

Preserving our sterling reputation for good taste and sharp vision, our spokeswoman and beloved colleague Mai Jammeh will defend our fondness for creativity, as part of the jury for The Gerety Awards 2024!
Very stoked to have her aboard and to that we raise our glass 🥂
Salut!

13/02/2024

We are still on the lookout for our new Senior Music Producer - a seasoned wizard in the world of high-paced advertising.
Do you feel qualified to join our family as our main crackerjack of all trades in the field of music production?
Apply below -

At Sizzer we're looking for a Senior Music Producer to join our team.

09/02/2024

THANK YOU to our awesome neighbours-in-crime Studio Studio and everyone who joined last Thursday for the official party-baptism of our new office in Amsterdam Noord!
Cheers to friends, old and new, and shoutout to Suntory ROKU GIN & Courvoisier for keeping the glasses full through the night!
📸 by Aisté Schaus

06/02/2024

The awards season is upon us and this year’s best creative work is in good hands with our very own Nordin Cornelia on the Music, Audio Editing & Sound Design Jury of ADCN's Dutch Creativity Awards!
Proud of Nordin and excited to see this year’s crème de la crème! 🏹

25/01/2024

For this aesthetically wonderful Google film, we were asked to create a dynamic soundtrack to support the Director's Cut - and we love what has turned out to be a soulful blend!
To Anomaly, BWGTBLD, Paul Herrmann, and everyone else involved: cheers, the choir sang in unison 🍸

19/01/2024

On this sunny Friday our Creative Director Michiel Marsman is off to Utah for the premiere of Krazy House - a 90s American religious sitcom turned dark horror extravaganza, for which Michiel has dreamt up a fitting score. A delightfully naive ear-worm of a sitcom tune that sounds like an old classic, alongside a thick church organ, Russian male choir, pulsating synthesizer arpeggios, and furious guitar - all for the audience of Sundance Film Festival to enjoy the coming week.
We couldn’t be prouder, raising a glass from across the ocean to everyone involved Steffen & Flip, Maarten Swart, Kaap Holland Film! 🍷

10/01/2024

On a cold winter day, it's sometimes good to cast one's mind back to a colourful situation. Today brought us on reminiscing about the rather groovy score we did for Fanta's campaign.
A whole series of unconventional, yet charming shorts - a nice purple-splattered dive into retro futurism!
Here's to Hogarth Worldwide Ltd , Simon & Paul, and everyone else involved 🔮

19/12/2023

Although we've been in our new shack a little while already, we feel like we've skipped the inauguration to our new neighbourhood in Amsterdam Noord. As it's never too late to mend, we would hereby like to invite you to bless our northern soul - in cooperation with our beloved neighbours we are throwing a block party to reminisce about last year and celebrate the new one! Come raise your glass with us and bust some moves while you're at it.

Event details //
Thursday 1st of February 2024
From 6pm till late
Spijkerkade 3, Amsterdam

RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScDv8R6LjBzMmctaFobCyx8b70TcCT1vB1sX2k83XjM3pIhig/viewform

15/12/2023

Every 1’s a Winner! Regardless of how these might be words of wisdom, we are proud to announce that our founding father and beloved CEO Sander Van Maarschalkerweerd is going to be one of this year's guardian angels of the creative industry.
For the upcoming CLIO Awards he will justly praise those who inspire, being part of their 2024 jury.
Rooting for you all!