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What an audio studio actually costs to run
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Founder Spotlight
Northern Europe
Henrik Sørensen
Co-founder & CEO, Fjord & Fable Studios
Henrik Sørensen co-founded Fjord & Fable Studios after a decade engineering radio drama for Danish public broadcasting. He now runs a studio group producing original audio fiction for listeners in Europe, North America and Asia.
Audio productionScaling operationsOwned IP & licensing
Featured company
Fjord & Fable Studios
Fjord & Fable Studios produces original audio drama and premium audiobook productions, operating out of Copenhagen with satellite teams in Toronto and Seoul.
View the Fjord & Fable Studios company page- Founded
- 2016
- Team
- 48 people
- Headquarters
- Copenhagen
- Website
- fjordandfable.dk
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continents
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Inside Fjord & Fable Studios
On the record
Key challenges
- 01
Escaping work-for-hire
Client work paid the bills but capped the upside. The three-year transition plan to an owned catalogue.
- 02
Hiring ahead of revenue
Two winters of negative cash flow caused by building a team for contracts that hadn't landed yet.
- 03
Operating across time zones
Handover rituals, asset pipelines and the production tooling that made three continents workable.
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Next on air: Fri 4 Sep · 10:00 GMT
9 Feb
Selling audio fiction to a sceptical market
The first commissioned season, its disappointing launch, and the marketing rebuild that followed.
36 min16.8k