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[1]. 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 of Dennis Publishing (Maxim, Stuff, and Blender Magazines).
In mid 2005, he departed Dennis Publishing to co-found Hayburner Media Inc., a film and television production and motion design company, who's credits include "Battle of the Network Reality Stars" (BRAVO).
In January of 2007, Phoenix re-launched Phoenix Productions which specialized in consulting for publishing companies, expanding their brands to the Web through video and rich media programming and advertising. The company recently worked with Busboy Productions to develop motion branding for Comedy Central’s upcoming series Important Things with Demetri Martin.
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 Heart Publishing, 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.”
From March to May of 2008, Digital duplication facility International Duplication Centre (IDC) hired Chris Phoenix as a consultant to establish a fully-integrated post-production division - Air Station.
Most recently Chris Phoenix's company, Phoenix Productions, completed the graphics package for Comedy Central's "Night of Too Many Stars" [2] which aired on Sunday, April 13th 2008.
