A jingle people hum on the way out.

Three things: the name, sung clearly and more than once; the promise in one line (fresh every morning, open till late, the podcast about bad movies); and a hook — a melody short enough to remember after one listen. Everything else is optional. The classic shape is name, promise, name; eight to twelve seconds of hook that can repeat.

Octa generates full-length tracks, so ask for a jingle structure explicitly: “short, hook first, repeats the name three times, no long verses”. Then cut the best fifteen seconds. The full track doubles as the intro music, the outro and the on-hold loop.

Name, promise, name. If they can hum it in the car park, it worked.

The engine sings what it reads. For a business name that could be pronounced two ways, add a phonetic spelling in brackets: “Lumea [loo-MAY-ah] Coffee”. Spell out numbers (“Seven Seas Diving”, not “7 Seas”) and avoid ampersands in the sung line. Test the pronunciation in the first run; if it is off, adjust the spelling and run again — a new run costs one credit and takes about a minute.

• catchy jingle for Lumea Coffee, bright acoustic pop, female vocal, hook first, sings “Lumea, fresh every morning” three times, short, no long verses
• radio jingle for Ray’s Auto Repair, classic rock, male vocal, “honest work, fair price”, name repeated in the hook, 90 seconds feel, punchy
• podcast intro jingle for “Bad Movie Night”, retro synthwave, mixed vocals, the name sung twice, 20-second hook then instrumental bed
• YouTube channel jingle for GreenThumb Gardening, ukulele and whistling, cheerful female vocal, “grow something today”, kid-friendly
• jingle for Bella Pizza delivery, Italian-style swing, male vocal, “hot in thirty or it’s free”, name in every line of the hook
• instrumental sting for a real-estate agency, warm piano and strings, confident, 10-second rise into a clean ending, no vocals

Listen for the hook — usually the first chorus — and note the seconds. Download the MP3 from your library and trim it in any editor (your phone’s video app will do), fading out over the last second. If the hook needs a different line, use the section editor in the Android app to regenerate just that six-to-sixty-second slice with new words, or the extend tool to add an instrumental tail for voice-overs. For ads that need a longer bed, ask for an instrumental version of the same prompt.

Songs generated from your own prompts and lyrics are yours to use under the app’s terms, including in your own advertising, videos, podcasts and social posts. Octa writes original melodies and screens covers of protected recordings, so a jingle from your prompt is not a copy of someone else’s song. As with any brand asset, check that the name and tagline you sing are yours to use; we do not give legal advice.