Todd Elbrink

Good things get buried. I build the way back to them.

Strategy, audio, advertising, and AI.

Based in Houston.

Todd Elbrink

I lead strategy and performance at Oxford Road, an audio and influencer marketing agency. Before that, I spent more than twenty years leading media sales teams in Nashville, Chicago, and beyond.

The problem I keep coming back to: something valuable, buried too deep to use. More than fifteen years of live music nobody could find. A record collection where the same few albums got every play. I start with that real problem, cut whatever doesn't earn its place, test it on a real phone, and ship. AI writes the code. I make the calls.

Progressive Bluegrass
A bluegrass podcast and more than fifteen years of live footage, on a site that runs itself.
Trevor Shaw's archive got so big that finding a 2007 show took him close to an hour. Now it takes a search box, and the site keeps itself current.
Live
Elbrink's Crate
A vinyl app built on one rule: every record plays once before any record plays twice.
I kept playing the same few records while the rest sat on the shelf. Crate shuffles in cycles so every record gets its turn. Now friends run their own.
LiveInvite-only
Elbrink's Tapes
Fan-taped shows from the Internet Archive's Live Music Archive, in a player built to honor the tapers. Umphrey's McGee, STS9, The String Cheese Incident, Yonder Mountain String Band, Billy Strings, The Infamous Stringdusters, and The Disco Biscuits.
More than a thousand tapers recorded these shows, and the archive has kept them for more than twenty years. Now every show, song, and venue has its own page, and the music flows through every segue, even on a locked phone.
Live

Always up for a good build conversation.