The Future of What

Music Business Association
The Future of What

Founded by Music Biz President, Portia Sabin as a way to educate musicians on the realities of the music business, The Future of What Podcast has become a forum where the most significant voices in our industry discuss important issues of the day. Tune in as she hosts important industry figureheads and innovators alike in exciting discussions on where the music business is headed next!

  1. Episode #241 — Music & Tech’s Trajectory In The Year To Come

    16 DE DEZ.

    Episode #241 — Music & Tech’s Trajectory In The Year To Come

    2024 was yet another transformative year for the music industry, bolstered by the widespread embrace of AI integration, challenges to the cornerstone that DSPs have become, and maturing integrations in gaming & VR. In our final conversation of 2024, we speak with Vickie Nauman of CrossBorderWorks about how as music consumption becomes more passive, more interactive experiences enabled by exciting new tech may define the music industry in the year to come!

    20min
  2. Episode #240 — Managing Artists In 2024 & Beyond!

    4 DE DEZ.

    Episode #240 — Managing Artists In 2024 & Beyond!

    With the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, as well as new expectations from today’s artists, it’s time for us to check in on how the management field has evolved to meet the needs of today’s music makers. In our latest podcast, we talk to 10 and 8 Management’s Nicholas Mishko about what managers can do to best support their artists in the 2020s, when artists should enlist a manager & for what reasons, what new tech & revenue streams managers need to be aware of, advice for those looking to break into management, and beyond!

    20min
  3. Episode #239 — Ensuring Ethical AI Use With AI:OK’s Dr. Martin Clancy

    18 DE NOV.

    Episode #239 — Ensuring Ethical AI Use With AI:OK’s Dr. Martin Clancy

    The misuse of generative AI tech has already tested the status quo of music distribution & streaming, with DSPs being flooded with thousands of fraudulent tracks meant to siphon royalties away from rightful artists & rightsholders. AI:OK is a new initiative which takes a multi-pronged approach to ensuring that the music industry is ethical in its use of AI. In our latest podcast, we talk to AI:OK founder & CEO, Dr. Martin Clancy about the initiative’s origins and goals, as well as the immediate outlook on AI’s impact on our industry.

    15min
  4. Episode #238 — Music Research & AI-Detection Tech With Deezer's Romain Hennequin

    4 DE NOV.

    Episode #238 — Music Research & AI-Detection Tech With Deezer's Romain Hennequin

    Research divisions within music companies often operate to advance the products & services they offer. In the case of Deezer’s most recent research on identifying & tagging songs, it may improve the ways our business fights against bad actors. This month, we talked to Deezer's Head of Research Romain Hennequin about his team’s origins, its most recent paper which delves into how self-supervised learning (SSL) may help accurately identify AI-generated tracks uploaded to streaming services, and much more!

    21min
  5. Episode #237 — #iVoted & Leveraging Music To Increase Voter Turnout

    15 DE OUT.

    Episode #237 — #iVoted & Leveraging Music To Increase Voter Turnout

    #iVoted is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts concerts on election nights & during early voting periods to help drive voter registration & turnout. After hosting the largest digital concert in history during the 2020 Presidential Election, which data from MIT touts as bolstering voter turnout by an estimated 7%, #iVoted is gearing up for a series of events leading up to and on Election Night 2024. The org’s Founder & CEO, Emily White, joins us on the podcast to talk about how it has evolved since 2018, how her music industry background informs how #iVoted operates, the ways it uses data to most effectively plan events in target areas, and much more!

    15min
  6. Episode #236 — Supporting Women In Music: Interview With Head Bitch Music’s Jessica Vaughn

    2 DE OUT.

    Episode #236 — Supporting Women In Music: Interview With Head Bitch Music’s Jessica Vaughn

    Following up on her op-ed for our Keeping Tempo series, we’re thrilled to have Jessica Vaughn of Head Bitch Music on our latest episode of The Future of What! In this interview, Vaughn discusses the ways our industry has evolved (both for better and worse) in its support of women & marginalized communities, how her industry origins as an artist influenced her to pursue an executive career and institute change from the inside, her current roles in the sync/custom music space, and much more!

    18min
  7. Episode #235 — How AI Tech & TikTok Consumption Is Changing Our Industry

    20 DE AGO.

    Episode #235 — How AI Tech & TikTok Consumption Is Changing Our Industry

    Since the digitization of the music business began, new tech applications and methods of consumption have helped to redefine how our industry operates. In recent years, the highest profile changes have been the implementation of AI algorithms and the rapid adoption of music consumption through short-form video platforms. We spoke with Miquido’s Chief AI Officer, Jerzy Biernacki about the benefits of AI applications on personalized music experiences like curated playlists & song recommendations, and how music trends on TikTok are changing how labels search for & market new talent!

    15min
  8. Episode #234 — Modern Music Royalties Processing

    6 DE AGO.

    Episode #234 — Modern Music Royalties Processing

    Ray Bush founded The Music Royalty Co. (MRC) in 2014 after identifying opportunities to modernize royalty calculations in the face of music data’s exponential explosion as streaming began to take off. A decade later and the company has remained an expert in complex royalty calculations for labels, publishers and distributors, while also evolving to meet the accountancy needs of music companies. In our latest podcast, we speak to Bush about the company’s first decade, how the global music industry has financially grown in that same time, the impact of having a dedicated royalty service, and much more!

    19min
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Founded by Music Biz President, Portia Sabin as a way to educate musicians on the realities of the music business, The Future of What Podcast has become a forum where the most significant voices in our industry discuss important issues of the day. Tune in as she hosts important industry figureheads and innovators alike in exciting discussions on where the music business is headed next!

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  • Criado por
    Music Business Association
  • Anos de atividade
    2015 - 2024
  • Episódios
    273
  • Classificação
    Livre
  • Copyright
    © All rights reserved
  • Site do podcast
    The Future of What

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