Are you a Netflix fan?
Then you are very familiar with the "Ta Dum" sound when activating the streaming platform - but it almost turned into a bit of a bitch.
Netflix,
as one of the largest paid streaming platforms worldwide, has made binge-watching popular - watching several episodes of a television series at a time.
Most
Netflix
subscribers are very familiar with: The sound at the beginning, an unmistakable short "Ta Dum".
But Todd Yellin, as product manager at
Netflix
, originally had other plans:
He wanted to establish a kind of goat bleating as the characteristic Netflix sound
- but this starting sound was not implemented for a specific reason.
Don't have the sound of
Netflix
starting up in your
head right now?
We'll help you on the jumps: It's a short “Ta Dum” sound that was created by sound designer Lon Bender.
It is said to have originated from his wedding ring falling on the bedside table and a subsequent guitar sound entitled "The Blossom
":
But it was a long way to go before this short soundtrack was adopted.
At the beginning there were several noises in the running, such as the opening of a door, underwater bubbles or the ticking of a clock.
One of the responsible Netflix employees, Todd Yellin, was particularly taken with it, but made a completely different, somewhat idiosyncratic sound
.
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.
Netflix: Goat bleating did not go down well with respondents
So every time you activate
Netflix you
would hear a goat bleating - if it had been up to Todd Yellin.
Dailygame.de reported why Yellin is so fond of the noise:
He would have a weakness for the company logo of the US film production and distribution company Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
- the world-famous roaring lion.
At Netflix, a goat bleating should remind of this kind of intro - but whether a goat should have appeared in the typical golden ring remains unanswered.
In any case, Yellin's wish never came true and that was largely related to the opinion of potential Netflix viewers.
Yellin's team asked thousands of people which start sound they preferred - without knowing what the sound was intended for.
The goat noise could not prevail here: Most of the respondents voted for the "Ta Dum" sound, which now rings in the end of the working day in thousands of households.
(jg)
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