Strategic Sound Experience Design · Born in Helsinki

Be heard.
Not just seen.

Ultra Nordic is an internationally awarded, independent sound branding house from Finland. We design the sound your brand owns — and is recognized by — and tie it to results you can measure.

ISA AwardsMost awarded worldwide · 2018
ABAAccredited methodology
ABSSociety member
100+projects delivered
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Why sound

Your most under-used brand asset is also your most effective.

You've invested heavily in how your brand looks. But audio is processed faster and felt more deeply than anything on a screen — and it reaches where screens can't: voice, podcasts, retail floors, in-car, social audio.

Only about 8% of brands use a distinctive sound. The ones that do own the single most effective asset there is. High impact, almost no competition — a rare combination.

Left to chance, your sound drifts generic. At worst, your current sound is quietly working against you.

Source: Ipsos, "The Power of You" (2020)

~8%
of brands use a distinctive sonic cue
8.5×
more likely to drive top-performing work
generic sound is now free — distinctiveness isn't
×n
paid once, an owned sound only appreciates
Results

Designed sound, measurable outcomes.

Brand-awareness lift for a brand at a key international market.
Sales uplift in retail pilot stores, year on year.
Halved
Customer complaints at a high-traffic international passenger port.
M
Sales-uplift potential identified for a single centrally located retail site.

A selection of outcomes from our work and what strategic sound can do — and over 250,000 people have experienced one of our sound projects firsthand. Figures are intentionally untied to specific brands; results vary by brand, scope and market.

Selected clients

100+ projects. 15+ industries. From aviation to retail to healthcare.

Finnair · Volvo · Carlsberg · Lumene · Nokia · OP Group · Ford · VICE · K-Citymarket · K-Supermarket · K-Rauta · Pirkka · Liverpool · Stockmann · Outokumpu · Vaisala · Valtra · Mattel · YLE · Nestlé · ORAL · Barings · Aalto University · Eckerö Line · Helsinki Festival · Pohjola Terveys · Kamppi · Werksta

A selection of brands our team members have worked with.

Why Ultra Nordic

Three reasons brands choose us.

01

Only sound. Nothing to up-sell.

We're an independent specialist — not a media house or agency with airtime or production to sell you. Sound is all we do, so the recommendation is always what's right for your brand, not what's profitable to bolt on. And every project is staffed the Hollywood way: a hand-picked team of the best specialists assembled for your brief — whatever the style or scale.

02

A method that's been judged — and won.

Our SXD™ approach is accredited by the Audio Branding Academy and brought home the most awards in the world from the 2018 International Sound Awards — the Oscars of sound branding. You hire a tested, repeatable process and a track record — not a one-off creative gamble.

03

Sound that's yours. Everywhere.

Most brands stop at a sound logo — and sound generic everywhere else. We build the complete, ownable kit behind it: flexible signature elements and clear rules, ready to deploy across any touchpoint, anytime. And it compounds — growing more valuable every time it's used.

AI is making sounds free.
It can't make a sound yours.

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Where does your brand stand, sonically?

Take our free Sound Check: a 3-minute assessment that reveals where your sonic brand is strong, where it's exposed, and where the biggest opportunities lie.

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Let's make your brand unmistakable.

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Suomenlinna B 43
00190 Helsinki, Finland
International Sound Awards 2018 — most awards worldwide Audio Branding Academy accredited Audio Branding Society member