We're The Guard Dogs of Your Attention
A human-centered social media service that protects your creative mind from burnout and algorithm anxiety.
We'd love to talk to you.
email here: team@dogtown.studio
WHO:
Guard Dog Podcast Studio is a service for creators who hold these two conflicting understandings in their heads, and are struggling with the friction between them:
understanding #1: Social media fragments my attention. I can feel it affecting my mental health and influencing what/how I create, and I want to get rid of it.
understanding #2: Like it or not, social media is still the main way most people find out about anything. It’s where opportunities and connections get made, and where ideas get spread to new people… It’s an important outlet to get my work into the world.
You’re right to be noticing how your brain is being affected, and you’re right to be taking it seriously. Your attention is your most valuable resource. It is the raw material that you use to create art, sustain relationships, and pursue meaning in your life. If you value any of these these things- and we’re guessing you do- then you’ve probably already learned that their health requires you to intentionally step up to take ownership over how your attention is being allocated… and more importantly, WHO it is doing that allocation.
Are you making those choices? Or is someone else making them for you? Because you can’t have autonomy over your own attention if Meta has its grips on your brain’s dopamine pathways.
WHAT:
We’re a social media agency that takes a radically different approach.
Normal social media agencies chase “growth” in the shallow sense of the term: chasing metrics like your follower count and view count, but ignoring metrics like your feelings… especially regarding integrity or burnout.
They’ll usher you through the content casino daily, chasing virality, and encouraging you to compromise here and there: saying things you’d never say and making content you’d never make, just because they claim that it’s “what’s working right now” with the algorithm.
We do the opposite- we measure our success by our ability to support your creative mental health and help you regain autonomy over your own attention. We prioritize the consistency that can be found when you’re in right alignment in these areas. And the growth that comes from that consistency is growth in the true sense. And as you can imagine, it naturally translates into growth of your audience as well, but from a much different place.
We’re called Guard Dog Podcast Studio because we’re the Guard Dogs of your attention and your creative inner voice.
HOW:
We work with you to co-create a system that feels true to your voice and sustainable for your creative process. Once that system is in place, we handle your social media for you in a human-centered way, so you get to focus on being the creator.
That’s right, you finally get to JUST be a creator… not a marketer, trend analyzer, algorithm expert, and all the other hats you’ve been forced to wear. We provide you beautiful, tasteful, authentic, human-made content… AND we post it for you, so you can officially boot instagram from your brain for good. We’re excited for you to see what that feels like.
OUR GOAL: More artists who get to be artists. More people entering into positive, upward creativity spirals. More people reconnecting with their process, and devoting their full capacities to their calling, and finally getting to see what can happen when that’s possible.
You don’t have to choose between staying visible and staying sane.
Let’s make some stuff together.
Check Out Our Work!
Here’s a video I made for Dean Spade. This video is made using a combination of hand-drawn animation in a program called Procreate Dreams, as well as motion graphics animation in Adobe After Effects.
