Ad Lib Podcast: Pop-Up Magazine's Chas Edwards Takes the Written Word on The Road

Subscribe to us on iTunes, check us out on Spotify and hear us on Stitcher, Google Play and iHeartRadio too. This is our RSS feed. Tell a friend!What if you took a magazine and put it on stage? What you would get, if the magazine were any good, is Pop-Up Magazine, an evening of true stories about the world around us, with photography, film, radio, and original music all mixed together and performed live on stage. Chas Edwards is a co-founder of Pop-Up Magazine and the physical print publication it spawned, California Sunday Magazine.Edwards joins us as a guest of the Ad Lib podcast as Pop-Up Magazine is in the thick of its winter tour. If you missed them in California, New York or Austin, you can still catch them this week and weekend in New Orleans or Atlanta. Edwards gives us a breakdown of what it is, how it's evolved and how its unique business model has helped it thrive. Continue reading at AdAge.com Continue reading at 'Advertising Age'

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