About - Vinny Stone

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Hey — I’m Vinny.

Born in Yorba Linda. Grew up at the beach. Weather does most of the talking down there. I didn’t live in real seasons until I was 40, and I still think that’s a better way to do it.

At 13 I snuck onto the Universal Studios backlot. Instead of getting thrown out, they gave me a desk. I’ve been in this business ever since.

Radio

Talk radio producer at CBS / Infinity — including the Adam Carolla years after Howard Stern left terrestrial radio. Built and ran my own radio network and sold it in 2016. Audio engineer. Exec Producer.

Studios and stages

I build rooms that can go live. Full broadcast, podcast, live, calls, streams, portable and fixed. I also run All Star Stages — portable acrylic staging since 2006. Well-engineered portable octagon glow stages, make ‘the thing’ exist in the room.

WordPress, Sites, and Traffic

Been using WordPress content management platforms since WP 1.1.0. in January 2004. We’ve since graduated to WP 7.1 in 2026. Much has changed with PPC, CTA’s, KPI’s, CPA’s, and SEO. The game goes where the attention is. I’m blessed to have been along for the internets roots ride, and still goin’.

DIT/Camera

BTS, social, music videos, the day on a set. Audio engineer. I am not the editor you send the cards to. I’ve done over 20 yrs w/ Warner Bros. Paramount. FOX. CBS. Universal. NBC.

What changed

Music in the late ’90s. Radio in the late 2000s. Film and TV in the late 2010s. Casting pulls people off YouTube and TikTok now. A lot of people work for a fraction of the old rates. Still here. Still building. Still working with people who actually have something to say.

Where I am

Mid-July 2026 I packed up the beach and drove north. A 20-year company in Silicon Valley wanted to brand out and scale. I was brought in to run broadcast and social marketing, built a studio, full brand-out audio/video/written.. The job was not what was sold. I’m in the Bay now, cleaning that up and getting back to radio and studio work along w/ the stages.

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