187 Episodes

  1. Getting tomorrow's music income today – looking back on a decade of music financing with Sound Royalties' CEO and founder Alex Heiche

    Published: 26/02/2025
  2. How music marketing will change in 2025 – with Liam James Ward of Something Something

    Published: 14/01/2025
  3. Retraining for new roles in the music industry – with Music Ally COO Patrick Ross

    Published: 08/11/2024
  4. Music-tech today and tomorrow: Stuart Dredge gets past the hype, gets to grips with Music AI, and gets excited about music fintech, music ecotech, and music healthtech

    Published: 10/10/2024
  5. Selling direct-to-fan and making money even when you're an emerging artist: Mag Rodriguez of D2C platform Even talks about the future of artist commerce

    Published: 30/09/2024
  6. Marketing Focus: Lainey Wilson, The Cardigans, and Peggy Gou's recent campaigns analysed

    Published: 18/09/2024
  7. Making money as a local venue in 2024: Dhruv Chopra, founder of Brooklyn venue Elsewhere, talks memberships, building community, and how Gen Z gig-goers want more than cheap beer

    Published: 30/08/2024
  8. Dirty Hit's Jamie Oborne on managing The 1975, trusting your artists' instincts, and how the power of cringe helps to choose what not to do

    Published: 07/08/2024
  9. Livestreaming in 2024: what do artists and fans want from it now? And what about superfans? On Air CEO Jakub Krampl explains

    Published: 25/07/2024
  10. Super-serving superfans – Jacquelle Horton of Fave on superfandom and superfan strategies for artists of all sizes

    Published: 20/06/2024
  11. The Nations: from YouTube remixes to modern music radio – founder Andre Benz explains how he tries to meet the needs of young music consumers

    Published: 05/06/2024
  12. "This isn't just another #MeToo issue... it's way bigger than that." Sexual violence, NDAs, and the music industry – with Caroline Heldman, PhD and Samantha Maloney of the Sound Off Coalition

    Published: 23/05/2024
  13. "The music festival industry is suffering and there is something fundamentally wrong at its heart" – so what can be done to revive it?

    Published: 03/05/2024
  14. "We're not just creating musicians; we're shaping well-rounded individuals" – Young Voices CEO Ben Lewis and violinist Anna Phoebe on the impact of choir singing on children

    Published: 25/04/2024
  15. "The music industry's approach to mental health was disastrous”

    Published: 19/04/2024
  16. How to make disabled people’s access to live events environmentally sustainable – with Suzanne Bull, founder of Attitude is Everything & Dr Teresa Moore, Director at A Greener Future

    Published: 11/04/2024
  17. Local, independent artists want to play gigs – but it's increasingly hard to make money or find a venue. Sofar Sounds CEO Jim Lucchese, talks about the economics of live music – and what should change

    Published: 05/04/2024
  18. Marketing music to Gen Z: hyper-authentic, and always online – how do you connect with this elusive audience? Keturah Cummings of Forward Slash explains

    Published: 28/03/2024
  19. The biggest questions that music streaming platforms face in 2024 – Music Ally's Head of Insight, Stuart Dredge, answers them.

    Published: 25/03/2024
  20. How do people search for music – and what do they really want in their results?

    Published: 21/03/2024

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