The Future of What

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The Future of What

A weekly podcast & radio show about the music industry hosted by Music Business Association president, Portia Sabin. Listen to new episodes here, or wherever you get your podcasts!

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

    NOV 18

    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.

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

    NOV 4

    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!

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

    OCT 15

    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!

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

    OCT 2

    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!

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

    AUG 20

    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!

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

    AUG 6

    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!

    19 min
  7. Episode #233 — Our Employees’ Needs Have Evolved: How Do We Best Support Them?

    JUL 16

    Episode #233 — Our Employees’ Needs Have Evolved: How Do We Best Support Them?

    The events of the last few years, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a major effect on how people across the globe view work-life balance and traditional ways of working. In our latest episode, we discuss how to best support today’s workforce with two experts in the avenues of HR and workers’ rights. First off, we speak with WorkFour Director, Jackson Kerchis about how his organization is raising awareness in the U.S. about reduced work-time initiatives and how they stand to benefit both employees & employers. Then, we discuss how companies can best support their employees and answer their questions around wellness, as they either navigate their new work-life balance or return to the office, with Natoya Brown, SVP of People Inclusion & Culture for Universal Music Group.

    28 min
  8. Episode #232 — Solving Music’s Identity Problem With Switchchord

    JUN 25

    Episode #232 — Solving Music’s Identity Problem With Switchchord

    The complex web of unique identifiers associated with an artist and their body of work can make it extremely difficult for them to interact with publishers, sync officers, and other parties they work with. Switchchord aims to eliminate this friction by allowing artists to document ownership of their music and map out the legal & business relationships they engage in via legally verifiable, decentralized digital identities. We spoke with company founder and CEO, Cole Davis about how the technology works and what opportunities it opens up for artists!

    22 min
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A weekly podcast & radio show about the music industry hosted by Music Business Association president, Portia Sabin. Listen to new episodes here, or wherever you get your podcasts!

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  • Creator
    Music Business Association
  • Years Active
    2015 - 2024
  • Episodes
    271
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