Kyle Kinkin
Media & Events Builder
Greater Nashville area, Tennessee
Professional Info
Professional Identity
Based in Nashville, Tennessee, our path is rooted in the fast-paced industries of media production, marketing, and event execution. Currently, we operate as the owners of Pjs Media Co (founded in 2024), directing comprehensive digital production and brand strategy, alongside Ikonic Studio (launched in 2023), managing design collateral assets.
Prior to leading our own agencies, we developed deep ground-level experience in managing client campaigns in management roles at Ikon Marketing (2022–2023). We began our career path coordinating logistics and stage productions in leadership roles at Red Mountain Events (2021–2022) and in day-of event operations atCoast To Coast Events (2020–2021).
Career Timeline
Directing full-service media production and digital brand building, transitioning client stories into high-growth social assets.
Managing creative design resources and physical brand collateral assets for growth companies.
Led local and regional campaign execution, handling brand placements and direct-to-consumer events.
Coordinated logistics, stage production, and vendor systems for medium-to-large-scale events.
Assisted in day-of coordination, live events setups, and local promotional distributions.
Gained foundational experience in marketing coordination, campaign tracking, and digital outreach.
The Duck Pivot
Traditional event management is built on checklists, physical venues, and local attendance. While we loved the execution of physical events, the catalyst that pivoted our path came from a very unexpected place: raising ducks.
Caring for these birds led to founding the Decent Ducks Sanctuary, a physical rescue project that we quickly realized had a global story to tell. To fund and build a community around the sanctuary, we launched theDecent Ducks NFT project on Web3.
Managing a digital ecosystem of art, community discord, and smart contract assets completely shifted our perspective. It was the spark that proved to us that digital brand building and direct-to-consumer content creation could reach further and scale faster than local, traditional marketing ever could. This spark led directly to founding Ikonic Studio and Pjs Media.
The Doginal Dogs Chapter
If Decent Ducks was the spark, partnering with **Doginal Dogs** represents the next level of our career. Doginal Dogs is an active community built on the Dogecoin (DOGE) blockchain, utilizing raw witness transaction inscriptions to preserve digital art directly on-chain.
Stepping into leadership and strategic partnership within the Doginal Dogs ecosystem has allowed us to apply our years of media production and event coordination directly to decentralized technology. By aligning community management, digital content, and on-chain mechanics, we have pushed the boundaries of what digital art communities can achieve in terms of engagement, utility, and value scaling.
Speaking Live at DDNYC
This journey comes to a massive milestone at **DDNYC (Doginal Dogs New York City)**. We will be participating in the summit, with Kyle Kinkin taking the stage as a featured speaker, presenting in front of an audience of 300+ founders, creators, and digital asset builders.
Our speaking topic is **“Betting on Yourself.”** It is a distillation of our career path: leaving the comfort of established, traditional event coordination, embracing the unexpected inspiration of Decent Ducks, navigating the complex world of Web3 inscriptions, and building agencies that empower creators. It’s a case study on why the biggest risk you can take is not taking a risk on your own vision.
Current Focus
Today, we sit at the intersection of the physical and digital. Our daily focus is scaling Pjs Media Co and Ikonic Studio, working with clients to build digital brands, and driving growth for on-chain ecosystems like Doginal Dogs.
By taking the rigorous details of physical events production and combining them with the global distribution of digital content, we help brands build authentic connections that last. Whether it's through code, video, digital assets, or real-life events, our mission remains: build things that matter, and never hesitate to bet on yourself.