Chris Phoenix (producer)
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Chris Phoenix is a songwriter and producer in New York, co-founder and member of the much acclaimed Boston band Avatar Blue. He began a solo career with the Renaissance/PolyGram release of All Things Are Possible. The founder of Phoenix Recording Studios and Phoenix Productions, his work includes projects with Grammy nominated artists and songwriters.
Phoenix went on to launch and become director of Dennis Media Group (2001-2005), the broadcast, retail and online video division for Dennis Publishing (Maxim, Stuff, and Blender Magazines).
In mid 2005, he co-founded Hayburner Media Inc., a film and television production and motion design company.
Chris Phoenix has the distinction of being one of the notable few who, for the past six years, has been developing successful models for how magazine publishers transition their brand, with video, onto the web and television. He instituted and ran the much-admired Dennis Media Group, a web, retail and television video department, from 2001 to 2005 for the Dennis brands Maxim, Stuff, and Blender. He has gone on to innovate, consult, and develop programming and content for Condé Nast Publishing, Wenner Media and the Meredith Corporation. “The primary challenge is to adapt a business and transition it to a new medium while recognizing the web as a fundamental reorganizing of how people search out their entertainment and information." Phoenix focuses on the economic underpinnings of video production and creation and how those costs can be mitigated with advertising dollars. “The time has come to make video a successful part of the publishing business model or the industry could potentially find itself usurped by a new technology and means of distribution.”
