ABOUT ATOMIC
At Atomic Entertainment, we turn passive audiences into engaged learners.
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Our mission is simple yet powerful: to create premium educational content so captivating that audiences don’t realize they’re learning. We specialize in high-quality "stealth education" across every medium—from top-rated TV and streaming series to branded content and audio experiences. Our most recent flagship success story, Who Smarted?, is a 3x weekly podcast that has redefined STEAM education for elementary schoolers. Over 25 million downloads we haven't just built a show; we've built a daily habit for families, classrooms, and homeschoolers globally.
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For the biggest brands in the world, Atomic offers unique ways to solve complex business problems. Top-tier brands like General Electric, Siemens, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Spotify, Drone Racing League, Topgolf, Headspace, and Harvard Business School have all sought our coveted combination of fun, clarity, and storytelling expertise to create narrative content that drives revenue, retention, or recruitment.
Atomic also has a well-earned reputation for being able to shoot in highly sensitive environments. We have been trusted with shooting inside companies such as IBM and Google, in highly classified military manufacturing complexes, in prisons, embedded with the Department of Homeland Security, at top-secret space launches, and with some of the world's leading neuroscientists, magicians, and laboratories.
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Co-founders Jerry Kolber (CEO) and Adam "Tex" Davis met as freshmen at NYU - Adam in film, Jerry in theater.​ After NYU, Jerry went on to become one of the most sought after showrunners in television on shows like INKED and CONFESSIONS OF A MATCHMAKER on A&E, the punk rock series NOFX: BACKSTAGE PASSPORT, Nat Geo's GOLDFATHERS, and many more.
Adam parlayed his comedy chops into a career as a comedy screenwriter, selling script after script to MTV, Leonardo DiCaprio, the CW, Miramax, and New Line Cinema, and experiencing his first taste of cult stardom as the writer of Ryan Reynolds' iconic Christmas classic film, JUST FRIENDS.
Jerry sought Tex's help for a series he was Executive Producing about celebrity butcher Pat LaFrieda's business, which led to the next, and shortly thereafter led to an Emmy Nomination for the first season of their creation and production of National Geographic's all-time highest-rated series, BRAIN GAMES - and an incredible seven-season run.
In addition to the Emmy recognition, the company has won multiple Imagen Awards for positive portrayals of diversity, multiple Parent's Choice and Telly Awards for family-friendly and educational series, and received the Real Screen "Global 100" List award in recognition of their significance to the industry. They've also been recognized with multiple awards for their branded content.
An ongoing years-long creative collaboration with Pharrell Williams and his creative partner Mimi Valdés has yielded everything from Netflix's first live-action kid's original science series, Brainchild, to an epic and moving documentary HYDRATION about Pharrell's groundbreaking music festival in Virginia Beach.
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Atomic sits uniquely at the crossroad of education and entertainment, delivering outsize value from our original properties and our branded entertainment.
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