Tastemakers Media Founders

Tastemakers started in 2014 as an original content conception by Ian McDonell, Emil Garner, and the late Charlie Lytle, platformed on Dash Radio as a daily talk show. In its first 6 months the Tastemakers talk show saw an abundance of success, attaining record numbers with their analytics and conducting interviews with some of the hottest names in the Entertainment Industry. 

McDonell and Garner came to understand that while their initial intent was content for contents sake, they were now perfectly positioned they were to form a business and institution around the product. Thus in 2015 they co-founded Tastemakers Media, LLC. The change was to officiate the reality of their brands capacity as a full-service broadcasting production house.

With multiple properties in development, long time friend and industry associate Jeff Schwartz was brought on the team as President of Production. This addition was a key element and helped elevate the capabilities and facilitate the companies growing production needs.

Over the next five years the company managed, through some unorthodox approaches and targeting, to cement their position as one of the most preeminent third party production services contractors in podcasting and talk radio.