The guests on this week’s episode of Variety podcast “Strictly Business” are about two dozen people I conversed with last week while attending the SXSW conference and festival in …
podcast “Strictly Business” are about two dozen people I conversed with last week while attending theconference and festival in Austin, Texas. They are in fact leaders in media and entertainment. As sophisticated and highly engaged consumers, their choices can make or break a streaming platform, a movie, a TV franchise, a tour or an album.
I love the spirit of SXSW because it is a gathering that involves so many disciplines — even more than I knew. The weather in Austin was sunny for most of March 10-19 gathering, and so was the mood.
True Austin locals were unfailingly friendly and generous. My interview with Rebecca, Nicki and Debbie, three retired public school teachers, was conducted while riding the rails on the CapMetro rail line that heads north from downtown Austin station a few feet from the convention center. Other people stopped for me inside the convention center and outside in the heart of the foot traffic.
The format of this episode is in keeping with fan-focused interviews I conducted for special Strictly Business installments produced out of the
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