Pushkin Industries Revs Fall Podcast Slate; In the brains of David Byrne
Pushkin Industries gives up a wide range of shows for the fall, while the AudioStudio wants to benefit from the “network effect” among its makers and hosts that have been built since the founding of the company in 2018.
Eric Sandler, Chief Strategy Officer for Pushkin, discusses the business vision of the company, the growth moters and the prospects in an interview about the latest episode of the Podcast “Daily Variety”. Below the highlights of Pushkin’s Lei is a retrospective of “The Big Short” With author Michael Lewis. Pushkin will publish the first Audiobook edition of the book by Lewis, and Lewis will organize a corresponding podcast to re -visit the most important events and important players of the mortgage crisis of 2008. The book 2010 led to the 2015 function adjustment starring Christian Bale, Steve Carell and Brad Pitt.
“It speaks to the depth of the content with which the makers we work with,” says Sandler. “It is ten years since the film, but it is almost like a content pipeline in reversing. Fifteen years ago it was a best -selling book. Ten years ago it was an Oscar -winning film and next month it will be a corresponding podcast with an audio book,” says Sandler. “It is still as relevant today as when he wrote it.”
Sandler points to another example of what he calls Pushkin’s ‘network effect’ to illustrate how the company uses audio as the content shub from which other media extensions sprout. Gladwell did one “Revisionist history” series “The Bomber Mafia” in 2021. It was then changed to a pushkin and audio book. “And we have put a bit of a reversal of the pipeline, and we sold the print rights, and then it was A24 for TV film,” says Sandler. “And so we want to create more opportunities for more storytellers to use this as a test area for content, really drive home really impactful stories and to be able to explore the funnel in a different way.”
David Byrne, as profiled in VarietySeptember 2 number.
Also in the episode, Jem Aswad, VarietyThe Executive Editor of Music describes his recent sit-down with groundbreaking musician David Byrne. Aswad brings a big perspective on the profile of the former talking heads frontman published in Variety‘s 2 September Print edition and on Variety.com on 5 September. Byrne at his office meeting was like a glimpse of a look in the psyche of an artist who has a Sui generis Career who tell music and stories in many different styles and forms, says Aswad.
Byrne’s “office is the center of New York, as you would expect. Of course he drives on his bike there. He rides everywhere on his bike. It is a loft -like space,” explains ASWAD. “When arrived, this vast floor to ceiling wall is just loaded with things. And it’s a bit like looking at his brain, because it’s a lot of vinyl and tons of DVDs. The” American Utopia “Broadway show, held a brain and talked about how our brains work.”
(Shown Top: Pushkin co-founder and host Malcolm Gladwell)
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