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Ascend Your Story - Science, Tech and Research Podcast

Ascend Your Story celebrates the people who bring a new lens to science, tech and research.
Check out all our episodes on Youtube, Spotify and Apple Podcast.
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Ascend Your Story

For over 20 years, Ascent Media has been telling the stories of amazing experts, researchers, scientists, start-ups, engineers, business leaders and more. The Ascend Your Story podcast celebrates different guests from science, tech and research each episode.

Ascend Your Story is for people:

  • Curious about science, tech and research
  • Wanting to pursue a career in these fields
  • Leading in science communication
  • Who love the human stories behind smart, interesting people
  • Interested in learning how to translate their expertise for others

You can check it out on YouTube, Spotify or Apple Podcasts – or view the episodes above.

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Head to our Contact page here for enquiries.

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The team at Ascent Media are incredibly professional and have on countless occasions assisted in hosting hybrid work events. Their commitment to seamlessly putting together production elements to ensure both in person and live streaming events are run smoothly. They are reliable, friendly and consistently deliver high-quality media productions. I highly recommend Ascent Media.
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Natalie FaheyVictorian Department of Transport and Planning
We’ve been using Ascent Media over a number of years and they are fantastic to work with, delivering high quality images and video for our marketing needs. Friendly, professional and flexible while being able to easily adapt to help us achieve the best results and capture everything we needed. Ascent Media delivered underwater photography and video for us recently with amazing results!! HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
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Andrew JonesDeakin University
Ascent media has provided me with impeccable service in all things AV for several years now. Services they've provided me with include photography, videography, web broadcasts, video production, sound engineering, voice talent and more. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!
Robert Asselmann
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Ascent Media were fantastic to deal with during the whole project, supporting capturing stills during a TVC shoot, they were professional, constantly capturing everything we needed and worked tremendously well with the crew over the two days.
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Adam RennAussie Broadband
There's nothing this team can't do! What I enjoy most about Ascent is they genuinely understand and care about the importance of the story you want to tell - they take time to ask the right questions and get to the core of your organisation's objectives. Sometimes, this will even lead to something different (and much better) than what was planned. Their advice is always sound. Their work is technically expert, creatively stunning, and they're also just bloody fun to work with! I can't recommend them highly enough!
Chelsea AylingVCOSS/Department of Health/IPAA
Ascent Media produced a sensational 'elevator pitch' video to help with my research work. I highly recommend Ascent Media for their great service.
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Ascent Media is a film and photography company with over two decades in the industry. 

Formerly known as Samurai AV, we work in all areas of production, have the knowledge and experience to oversee every detail, and manage projects from concept to delivery.

We shoot from sea to sky and are licensed drone pilots and qualified scuba divers.

Based in Melbourne, we have a full workshop of equipment and an experienced team of cinematographers, photographers, sound recordists and post-production editors to bring your story to life. 

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