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Anahita und Olivia sind zurück aus der Pause und bringen direkt alles mit: Urlaubsupdates, True-Crime-Vibes bei zu netten Männern und die große Frage: Wie zieht man zusammen, wenn der eine alles hortet und die andere es am liebsten leer mag? Folgt uns gerne auf Instagram, um nichts zu verpassen!@dasaundopodcast@anahitarehbein@oliviabopp BEARS WITH BENEFITS – HAARPFLEGE MIT GESCHMACK Mit dem Code DASAUNDO spart ihr noch bis zum 21.05.2025 ganze 20 % auf alles bei @bearswithbenefits (ab 20€ MBW). Ab dem 21.05. erhaltet ihr mit dem selben Code 15% Rabatt auf eure Bestellungen (ab 20€ MBW). Die leckeren, veganen und zuckerfreien Haar-Vitamin-Gummibärchen liefern euch dank ihrer hochdosierten, pharmazeutisch entwickelten 7-in-1-Beauty-Formel täglich die optimale Portion Pflege für kräftiges Haar – denkt dran: täglich einnehmen, damit sie ihre volle Wirkung entfalten! Auf der Website könnt ihr außerdem in nur zwei Minuten einen Beauty- & Ernährungscheck machen, um genau die Vitamine zu finden, die euer Körper braucht. Hier geht's zum Shop: Klick hier! https://www.bears-with-benefits.com/collections/influencer-product-launch?utm_medium=dasaundopodcast&utm_source=influencer&utm_content=story&utm_campaign=%F0%9F%92%A520%25+RABATT+AUF+ALLES+%F0%9F%92%A5&emid=681b45e7de2786055e0134dd Schaut auch auf Instagram vorbei: @bearswithbenefits Und das Beste: Es gibt eine 100-Tage-Geld-zurück-Garantie– wenn ihr nicht zufrieden seid, bekommt ihr euer Geld zurück. Happy Snacking! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Zora und Hanna sind zurück aus Kanada – voller Jetlag, voller Eindrücke und mit einer ordentlichen Portion Erzählbedarf. Zora durfte Businessclass fliegen (neid!), Hanna hingegen wurde direkt nach der Rückkehr von einer ausgewachsenen Kloppergrippe ausgeknockt. Trotzdem gibt's viele Highlights: Vom Eishockeyspiel bis zur Karaoke-Nacht (an der Zora nicht teilgenommen hat), vom opulenten Hotel-Frühstück bis hin zu kleinen Kulturschocks. Wieder zuhause gibt's Frühlingsgefühle, erste Gartenupdates und – ganz wichtig – Spargel! Zumindest auf dem Teller bei Hanna. Auch das Hochzeitskleid nimmt Form an: Es ist abgesteckt und fast ready for the big day. Im Service gibt's Garten-Tipps für eine Hörerin mit Mini-Grünfläche und eine neue Ausgabe Probleme am Herd: Es geht um die Tücken beim Zitronentartelette und welchen Baiser man am besten verwendet – Hanna schwört jetzt auf italienischen! Beim Dreierlei wird's osterlich: Die beiden teilen ihre liebsten Ideen für einen gemütlichen Osterbrunch. Und beim Feierabendbier geht's wie immer um die Pläne fürs Wochenende: Hanna ist sich nicht ganz sicher, aber sie vermutet einen JGA in Berlin – oder doch nur Shopping? Zora hingegen hört auf ihren Körper und sagt: Nichts machen ist auch mal was.
Eintrag #53: Licht ist mehr als nur Helligkeit – es beeinflusst unsere innere Uhr, unsere Stimmung und sogar unser Immunsystem. In dieser Folge gehe ich darauf ein, wie Lichttherapie gezielt eingesetzt werden kann, um Schlafstörungen, Winterdepressionen und sogar den Hormonhaushalt zu unterstützen. Welche Lichtquellen sind geeignet? Wann und wie setzt man Licht gezielt ein? Und was ist dabei zu beachten? Freu dich auf eine spannende Reise in die Welt des Lichts – ganz ohne Esoterik, dafür mit klarem Blick auf wissenschaftliche Erkenntnisse und praktischen Tipps für den Alltag. *Anzeige* Diese Folge enthält Werbung für Rosental Organics. Mit dem Code DIARY bekommt ihr ein gratis Bakuchiol-Serum ab einem MBW von 59 €. Werbung wegen Nennung: ONEGEVITY. Hier findest Du alle Infos, Links & Rabatte von Doc's Diary. Folge mir, Alina Walbrun, auf Instagram und auf TikTok, um weitere Updates zu mir & meinem Podcast zu erhalten. Doc's Diary ist ein Podcast von arc.studio. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Send us a textSchluss mit Bauchfett und Co: Das richtige Training in den Wechseljahren verändert alles!Warum das richtige Training in den Wechseljahren der Gamechanger ist?In dieser Episode erfährst du, wie spezifische Bewegungsformen den hormonellen Veränderungen entgegenwirken und was das mit deinem Bauchfett, Knochengesundheit und überraschenden Symptomen zu tun hat.Viele Frauen bemerken ab Mitte 30 erste Anzeichen der Wechseljahre, ohne sie als solche zu erkennen. Neben bekannten Symptomen wie Hitzewallungen und Stimmungsschwankungen treten auch weniger bekannte Beschwerden wie Schwindel, Brain Fog und Tinnitus auf.Ich erkläre dir, warum durch den Östrogenmangel vermehrt Bauchfett entsteht und wie du mit gezieltem Training diesem Prozess entgegenwirken kannst. Du lernst, welche Trainingsformen besonders effektiv sind und wie du sie optimal in deinen Wochenplan integrierst.Besonders spannend: Warum explosive Bewegungen und plyometrisches Training so wichtig für deine Knochengesundheit sind und wie sie den altersbedingten Knochenschwund verlangsamen können.Diese Episode ist ideal für Frauen ab 40, die verstehen möchten, warum sich ihr Körper verändert und wie sie mit dem richtigen Training nicht nur Symptome lindern, sondern auch ihre Lebensqualität in den Wechseljahren verbessern können.Entdecke jetzt, wie das richtige Training Wechseljahresbeschwerden lindern kann. Tipps gegen Bauchfett, für starke Knochen und mehr Wohlbefinden trotz Hormonumstellung.Viel Spass beim Hören dieser spannenden EpsiodeDeine Mimi Lawrence.+++++++Werbepartner:Bears with Benefit: HIER LANG Code: MIMIS20 20% auf alles ab einem MBW von 20EuroBacklaxx: Hier lang Code: Mimi10. Meine Akkupressurmatte ist die MAGNUM+++++++Mein Buch: erscheint im Mai 2025Instagram @mimilawrencefitness INSTAGRAM NEUER KANAL: @mimilawrencepodcast Youtube: MIMI LAWRENCE FitnessWebseite: mimilawrence.comTik Tok @mimilawrencefitness
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Apple pushes out iOS and iPad 18.3.1 to fix a security flaw. Could the iPhone SE 4 be released soon, possibly after this episode of MBW goes out? A bug has re-enabled Apple Intelligence in the recent iOS 18.3.1 and macOS 15.3.1 updates when some users opted out of using the service. And Apple released new Powerbeats Pro 2 with new features, including heart rate monitoring. About the security content of iOS 18.3.1 and iPadOS 18.3.1. U.K. orders Apple to let it spy on users' encrypted accounts. Apple removed apps infested with screen reading malware. Apple's long-awaited overhaul of iPhone SE nears release. Spigen accidentally reveals iPhone SE 4 design: bigger screen, action button, and more. Bug in macOS and iOS updates re-enables Apple Intelligence for some who'd opted out. Powerbeats Pro 2 debut with heart rate monitoring, H2 chip, active noise cancellation, and more. Apple reportedly 'passed over' DeepSeek as Apple Intelligence partner. Could the trade fight take a bite out of Apple? Unlocking Apple Immersive video quality for all. One year with the Vision Pro. Apple's F1 movie teaser debuts during Super Bowl pregame. Picks of the Week: Alex's Pick: Magic Room Andy's Pick: Forklift 4 Jason's Pick: TRMNL Hosts: Leo Laporte, Alex Lindsay, Andy Ihnatko, and Jason Snell Download or subscribe to MacBreak Weekly at https://twit.tv/shows/macbreak-weekly. Join Club TWiT for Ad-Free Podcasts! Support what you love and get ad-free shows, a members-only Discord, and behind-the-scenes access. Join today: https://twit.tv/clubtwit Sponsors: get.stash.com/macbreak joindeleteme.com/twit promo code TWIT 1password.com/macbreak
Send us a textAnti-Aging ab 40: Welche Trends lohnen sich wirklich – und was funktioniert kostenlos?Microneedling, Hyaluron, LED-Masken & CO – bringen sie wirklich was? In dieser Episode decke ich auf, welche Anti-Aging-Trends funktionieren und welche du dir sparen kannst. Aber das Beste: Ich zeige dir Anti-Aging-Hacks, die 100 % kostenlos sind! Warum Muskeln, Hormone & Training die besten Faltenkiller sindDer wahre Grund für Haarausfall, Heißhunger & Bauchfett ab 40Welche kostenlosen Methoden deine Haut jugendlich haltenwas ist dran an Hyaluron, LED MASKEN und Microneedling?Hast du schon Erfahrungen mit Microneedling oder LED-Masken? Schreib mir auf Instagram @mimilawrencefitness! oder auf @mimilawrencepodcast
Verändert sich unsere Ernährung wenn wir Single oder in einer Beziehung sind? Wie kann man Gewohnheiten etablieren? Sarah und Carina fragen Marius (@calamariuz & @runforlove.koeln), Ausgebildeter Sportwissenschaftler (B.Sc.) und Personal Trainer aus Köln, Löcher in den Bauch. Auch das Thema Eifersucht hat sich am Ende rein geschlichen. Bei vielen vielen Fragen war die Antwort: Gesundheit. Ob es um Motivation oder Ausführung und Umsetzung geht. Werbung: Mit dem Code OFFENGESTANDEN bekommt ihr ein gratis Bakuchiol Serum ab einem MBW von 59€ https://rosental.de/OFFENGESTANDEN
Diese Woche gibt es ein großes Update: Was ist in den letzten zwei Monaten passiert, und warum kam es zum plötzlichen Stopp des Podcasts? Außerdem klären wir, wie es weitergeht. Und natürlich gibt's auch einen Trash-TV-Moment – mit mehr Doppelmoral, als man ertragen kann!Red Month bei The Female Company - größter Sale des Jahres!Mit dem Code RED_ENTSPANNT erhältst du +15% on top auf den Sale. Du kannst insgesamt bis zu 60% sparen.NEU: Lace Magenta Slip + Bralette.Ab 14 € MBW. Kostenloser Versand bei Bestellungen über 50 €. 60-Tage-Geld-zurück-Garantie auf Period Panties.https://tfc.is/red_entspanntAlle Angebote und Codes von Werbepartnern findet ihr hier: https://linktr.ee/aufentspannt_dealsMehr von uns auf Instagram:https://www.instagram.com/__jessyo__/https://www.instagram.com/polcevita/?hl=dehttps://www.instagram.com/auf.entspannt_podcast/Mails an: auf_entspannt@yahoo.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
One this episode I'm joined by Alan Wolfe, we talk about Halloween as a kid in the 80's, smoke cigars from Stolen Throne cigars, all while Justin & Paige Turner compete for the MBW mixed tag team championship belt's!! Email: smokinsoundspod@gmail.com Socials: @smokinsoundspod Website: https://smokinsounds.podbean.com/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/smokinsoundspod/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/smokinsoundspod/?_rdr Apple Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/smokin-sounds/id1715575376 Totally 80s & 90s Recall: https://www.instagram.com/80s90srecall/ Dram Armature: https://www.instagram.com/dram_amateur/ IHeartRadio: https://www.iheart.com/podcast/1323-smokin-sounds-127707723/ Alan: https://www.instagram.com/cigars_wit_big_al/ Stolen Throne Cigars: https://stolenthronecigars.com/ #cigar #cigars #jazz #nostalgia #halloween #podcast content #wwe #music
Welcome to the latest MBW Podcast – this time a special podcast entry in our long-running World's Greatest Producers series.Salaam Remi is, by any measure, a World's Greatest Producer. A Grammy winner, he's worked closely – and made timeless hits – with musical legends from Nas to Amy Winehouse, Alicia Keys, The Fugees, and many more. He's also an accomplished music biz executive and entrepreneur. On this podcast, Salaam joins MBW founder, Tim Ingham, to discuss topics including techniques for staying creatively hungry, why he decided to stop actively producing records on his 50th birthday, and what he's learned working with some of the most important artists of all time.Salaam also discusses his own music rights management company, Analog Metaverse, and its new partnership with Warner Chappell Music. (WCM's CEO is Remi's long-time friend, Guy Moot.)MBW's World's Greatest Producers series is supported by Hipgnosis.
On the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, Tim Ingham, founder of MBW, is joined by the founder and CEO of Harbourview Equity Partners, Sherrese Clarke Soares (pictured).Since being established in 2021, Harbourview has acquired premium music assets associated with stars such as Wiz Khalifa Nelly, Lady A, Florida Georgia Line and Christine McVie. One of Harbourview's biggest deals to date was its reported $325 million purchase of Sound House Acquisitions LLC in 2022. The company has since expanded into other entertainment verticals, investing in assets in film/TV.Founded with backing from Apollo Global Management, Harbourview has more recently inked a deal to secure $500 million in debt from KKR via a private securitization of its catalog of music royalties.On this podcast, Ingham asks Soares about Harbourview's ambitions to keep on buying in the music and entertainment space, streaming trends, and much more.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, Tim Ingham, founder of MBW, is joined by the CEO of Amra, Tomas Ericsson (pictured).Amra is a global digital collection society that happens to be owned by Kobalt Music Group. Since Kobalt acquired and relaunched Amra in 2015, the collection society has become a fast-growing business in its own right: in the 12 months to the end of June 2022 – the last year for which public financial information is available – Amra generated over USD $110 million in revenue. Amra's clients today include Kobalt's global publishing business, plus other significant independent music publishers, including Anthem Entertainment and Armada Music Publishing. Prior to joining Amra and Kobalt, Tomas Ericsson was Deputy CEO of Swedish collection society STIM, and he was the Managing Director of ICE until 2009. (At that time, ICE was a joint venture between STIM and the UK's PRS For Music; it would later welcome Germany's GEMA as a third stakeholder.)On this podcast, Ingham asks Ericsson about the changing landscape for songwriter royalty collection, the opportunity ahead – and the fact that Amra has, to date, invested more than $50 million upgrading and expanding its core technology...Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Eliah Seton, the CEO of SoundCloud.Seton (pictured) joined SoundCloud as the company's President in 2021 after over a decade at Warner Music Group/ADA. Seton then became CEO of SoundCloud last year.During his time at SoundCloud he has steered the company beyond major milestones – including SoundCloud's first ever annual profit, posted last year.The biggest headline surrounding SoundCloud in 2024, however, has been the news that the company is headed towards a financial event: either a sale, an IPO, or some kind of raise, following investments in the firm in recent years from Sirius XM, Raine Group, and Temasek.Meanwhile, Seton confirms that SoundCloud hosts 400 million tracks today - making it significantly bigger as a streaming platform for listeners than other audio services. At the same time, it's a powerful partner for millions of creators, offering distribution and additional services to accelerate their careers.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Emmanuel Zunz, founder of ONErpm, one of the recorded music industry's most interesting companies and something of a quiet giant.When it was founded in 2010, ONErpm quickly gained ground in Brazil, where it continues to challenge the major record companies for market share. Since finding success in Brazil, ONErpm has grown all over the planet, offering a range of partnerships to artists, from low-margin DIY distribution to higher-margin full-service deals.Understood to turn over a substantial nine-figure sum each year, ONErpm is profitable because it has to be: One of the most remarkable things about the company, over and above the fact that it runs more than 40 offices globally, is that Zunz continues to fully own the business. He's never taken a cent of private equity or venture capital money, and he's rebuffed a number of acquisition approaches from major music companies and other parties.As he explains on this podcast, Zunz's ambition is simple — to become the fifth largest record company in the world while maintaining a profitable, sustainable business controlled by its founder…Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment.This week's duo of topical picks get our hosts more irritated than usual:(1) The US Department of Justice suing Live Nation and Ticketmaster in a bid to break up what it describes as an "unlawful monopoly". (2) Generative AI Suno raising $125 million, as its prime investor – venture capital firm Lightspeed Partners – claims that the app can spit out music "worthy of Top 40 radio".People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Michael Rapino, Lightspeed Partners, Suno, Olivia Rodrigo, and more.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Temi Adeniji, Managing Director of Warner Music Africa and SVP of Sub-Saharan Africa at Warner.Africa, especially Sub-Saharan Africa, is already a major global music industry story with huge potential for the future. On the music-making side of things, the continent has produced global hits and superstars in recent years including the likes of Burna Boy from Nigeria, Tyla from South Africa, and many others.Based in Johannesburg, Adeniji has been instrumental in a number of initiatives from Warner Music Group in Africa in recent years, including its partnership in Nigeria with Chocolate City, signed in 2019, as well as its acquisition of distributor Africori in 2022.Adeniji was born in Nigeria before moving to the US as a child, where she later graduated from Princeton University and then Columbia University, before building a successful career in law. She then joined Warner Music Group in New York in 2016, working across international strategy and operations, before relocating for her current job in Johannesburg in 2021.On this podcast, Temi discusses the potential of various African markets, plus Warner's own strategy in the region, and the general commercial excitement in the music biz surrounding the continent.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Universal Music Group's kiss-and-make-up announcement with TikTok over the two companies' new deal, via which UMG says it's being paid more handsome compensation than it was previously; (2) Spotify quietly moving access to lyrics behind a 'paywall' – i.e. making lyrics a Premium-only perk.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Spotify, Universal Music Group, TikTok, Taylor Swift, Billie Eilish, Sir Lucian Grainge, MySpace, Musixmatch, RIAA, SiriusXM, Michael Nash, WimP, TIDAL, and more.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by David Israelite, the President and CEO of the National Music Publishers' Association.We probably don't need to ask you to guess which particular controversial topic Israelite and Ingham discuss.Earlier this month, Spotify announced that it was changing the way it calculates mechanical royalty payments for songwriters and publishers in the US.Spotify has re-categorized its Premium subscription tiers in the States as 'bundles,' enabling it to pay out a lesser mechanical royalty rate to songwriters than it would if said Premium tiers were classified as pure music services.Spotify believes it is entitled to re-categorize these tiers as 'bundles' due to the fact that SPOT now offers access to music plus audiobooks.The idea that 'bundled' services should be entitled to a lower mechanical royalty rate (vs. standard music subscription services) was enshrined in the so-called 'CRB IV' agreement/settlement between publishers and Spotify in the States, signed in 2022, and covering the years 2023-2027.As David Israelite explains on this podcast, the NMPA is currently considering legal action against Spotify that would seek to undo the newly-lowered 'bundle' mechanical royalty rate on the service.This isn't the first time that Spotify and songwriters have butted heads, of course: In 2019, the US Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) decreed that Spotify and other streaming services needed to increase the headline mechanical royalty rates they paid publishers and songwriters in the US for the period covering 2018-2022.That decision from the CRB (in the so-called 'CRB III' process) followed a campaign of lobbying and general legal cajoling from the NMPA, on behalf of songwriters and publishers.Spotify (and Amazon) subsequently appealed this ('CRB III') ruling, attempting to drive down the mechanical royalty rate they paid songwriters under US law.The CRB, though, stood firm – and told the streamers they must increase their rate.Now, with its 'bundle' reclassification under 'CRB IV', Spotify is once again attempting to push down the percentage of its revenue that it must, by law, pay to songwriters and publishers in its biggest market.Will Spotify ultimately get away with it? Stay tuned.As Israelite confirms on this podcast: "This will likely end up in a legal conflict..."Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) A battle between Concord and financial giant Blackstone to acquire Hipgnosis Songs Fund – the UK-listed bundle of music rights accumulated by Merck Mercuriadis; (2) Spotify's decision to re-categorize its Premium subscription tiers as 'bundles' – including audiobooks – that will materially lessen the royalty rate paid to songwriters in the US.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Spotify, Daniel Ek, Blackstone, Merck Mercuriadis, Concord, NMPA, David Israelite, EQT, Shot Tower Capital, BMG, Citrin Cooperman, and more. Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Criticism of Spotify from non-superstar artists who say the platform isn't paying them a fair amount in royalties; (2) Taylor Swift unilaterally putting her recorded music back on TikTok despite her record company, Universal Music Group, continuing to refuse to license the service.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Universal Music Group, Spotify, Daniel Ek, Sir Lucian Grainge, Stem, Milana Rabkin-Lewis, Virgin Music Group, Beggars Group, Bad Bunny, TikTok, HYBE, Scooter Braun, WeVerse, Meta.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Milana Rabkin Lewis, the founder and CEO of Los Angeles-based Stem, a distribution and services company, including financial services for independent artists.Stem has had a big 12 months. A major highlight arrived last summer when the company announced it had secured a $250 million credit agreement with Victory Park Capital, which has transformed the size and scope of artist advances that Stem can offer.For a firm that has grown used to seeing some of its biggest independent artists jump to major label deals, that $250 million raise is something of a game changer for Stem and Milana.Long-term listeners to MBW's podcasts may remember that this isn't Milana's first time speaking to us. She last appeared on this podcast four years ago, just at the tip of the pandemic, and she volunteered a number of predictions about the music businesses in the years ahead, many of which have already come true, or at least partly come true.On this podcast, Milana and Tim discuss – with some agreement, but not always – several crucial topics in the music business right now, from TikTok versus Universal Music Group to artist-centric streaming royalties to artificial intelligence, and of course Stem, and why Milana truly believes she is building a music company fit for the future.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined once again by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) BMI's $100 million payout to songwriters following its acquisition by New Mountain Capital; (2) Universal Music Group's investment into HYBE's 'superfan' app, WeVerse.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: BMI, ASCAP, Google, Spotify, New Mountain Capital, BMG, Kobalt, Sony Music, Universal Music Group, Sir Lucian Grainge, HYBE, Scooter Braun, Shopify, David Bianchi, Goldman Sachs, Live Nation, Ticketmaster, Vivendi, SeeTickets, WeVerse, and more.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is joined once again by Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two key recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) Fortnite's 'Festival', built by music gaming experts Harmonix, in which players can purchase music tracks via in-game store; (2) A stat from Spotify showing that over half the 66,000 artists who generated $10k+ on the platform in 2023 were based in countries where English is not the first language.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Epic Games, Harmonix, Meta, Mark Zuckerberg, Universal Music Group, Gabe Newell, Valve, Sony Music Group, Warner Music Group, Daniel Ek, Spotify, Luminate, Mavin Records, Believe, and Denis Ladegaillerie.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, is once again joined by US-based music biz veteran, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific recent headlines from the world of entertainment: (1) A tough time on the public markets for private members' chain – and music industry favorite – Soho House; and (2) The increasing prospect of a battle between Denis Ladegaillerie and Warner Music Group to acquire control of Believe.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Soho House, Hipgnosis Songs Fund, Merck Mercuriadis, Warren Buffett, Denis Ladegaillerie, Warner Music Group, Believe, Robert Kyncl, Ingrooves/Virgin Music Group, The Orchard, Willard Ahdritz, SoundCloud, and AWAL.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
On this Music Business Worldwide Podcast, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, interviews Aaron Bay-Schuck, the CEO and co-Chairman of Warner Records in Los Angeles.Right now, Warner Records is on fire like no other time in its recent history. It's seeing blockbuster success from several artists who, according to Bay-Schuck, are all true artist propositions – in this industry for the long-term, rather than just a quick streaming or TikTok hit.These artists include the likes of Teddy Swims, Benson Boone, Dua Lipa, and – not least – country star Zach Bryan, whose No.1 US single, I Remember Everything (feat. Kacey Musgraves), continues to bounce around the Top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100... despite being released last summer. Alongside his fellow co-Chairman, Tom Corson, Aaron Bay-Schuck last year led Warner Records to become the fourth biggest frontline record company in the US. According to Billboard, Warner Records 'current' US market share jumped by 110 basis points in 2023, up to 5.96% from 4.86% in 2022.Bay-Schuck's industry story before Warner was an interesting journey – from being a junior at the A&R team of Atlantic Records, where he signed Bruno Mars, through to becoming President of A&R at Interscope, where he worked with the likes of Imagine Dragons, Lady Gaga, Gwen Stefani, and Selena Gomez.For Bay-Schuck, his more recent success with Zach Bryan and co. isn't evidence of Warner Records suddenly becoming a ‘hot' label. In his eyes, it's evidence of a patient, long-term, and consistent A&R strategy…Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
MBW's Talking Trends is back! On this episode, Music Business Worldwide founder, Tim Ingham, is joined by US-based industry expert, Charlie D'Atri, to discuss two specific topics that have made headlines in recent weeks: (1) A recent wave of lay-off announcements at major music companies, and (2) Universal Music Group's new $240 million investment into Chord Music.People and companies mentioned on this Talking Trends podcast include: Universal Music Group, Warner Music Group, Robert Kyncl, Julie Greenwald, Chance The Rapper, Peter Mensch, Cliff Burnstein, Roc Nation, John Janick, Monte Lipman, Irving Azoff, Jeffrey Azoff, Stephen Hendel, Sam Hendel, AWAL, In2une, Sir Lucian Grainge, Boyd Muir, Mubadala, Sony Corp, EMI Music Publishing, Golnar Khosrowshahi, Reservoir, Blackstone, KKR, and Hipgnosis.Music Business Worldwide's Podcasts are supported by Voly Entertainment (previously known as Voly Music).
Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Music – now known as Voly Entertainment.On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham discusses a crisis that's rapidly deteriorating the UK live music scene.The Music Venue Trust is a trade body representing the interests of a vital collective of British live music venues. It's just released a bunch of shocking statistics in its annual report – including the fact that in 2023, an average of two of the UK's live music venues were shutting their doors every WEEK.Amongst the venues that Music Venue Trust represents are what it calls Grassroots Music Venues, or GMVs. It surveyed 835 of these GMVs for its 2023 annual report.These venues have an average capacity of 309 people, though that can range to a capacity over 650 people. As mentioned, the Music Venue Trust's latest report shows that two GMVs are shutting down per week in the UK. But perhaps the most shocking data point in the new report is that 38.5% of GMVs reported an annual financial loss in 2023. To repeat that: Over a third of ‘club'-sized music venues in the UK are currently operating at a loss.On this podcast, Tim Ingham is joined by Mark Davyd, founder and CEO of the Music Venue Trust. Davyd explains how his organization intends to solve this issue – likely via a levy placed on ticket sales in larger venues like arenas and stadiums.He also explains why this is a more complicated scenario than merely being the free market in action – and suggests that it's only a matter of time before the UK's live music venue crisis reaches a similar point of desperation in the United States…The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Hello and welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide Podcast, supported by Voly Entertainment.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by two people who know all about music 'superfans': Alexander Seidel, the CEO of Aviator, and Lindsay Jones, the COO of Aviator.Aviator, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany, specializes in serving these superfans rare content from the artists they love – often with archive video that has long gone undiscovered and has been gathering dust.It's worked with artists including Mark Knopfler, James Taylor, Cliff Richard, Cher, James Brown and Olivia Newton-John.Aviator also specializes in rights clearance and rights management. You can see how that expertise marries with its archive content business – Aviator finds, say, the long-forgotten content from a French TV performance in 1986, clears the rights, smartens up the audio and video using hi-tech tools, before finally releasing it to... superfans.This expertise in serving superfans, especially superfans of catalog artists, puts Aviator squarely in the center of one of the defining questions of today's music business: Is the industry getting enough money from superfans – and is it serving them adequately?The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
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Hello and Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this podcast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Anthony Davenport, the CEO and founder of New York-headquartered Regal Credit Management.Regal Credit, as the name suggests, helps high-profile and high-net-worth individuals with their credit – both in terms of building it and protecting it.Regal Credit, which was recently named on the Inc. 5000 list of companies in the US, counts many clients from across the music businessThe particular reason we invited Davenport on this podcast was to discuss a tool of Regal's called CyberSweep.CyberSweep is a data removal service that either suppresses or outright deletes personal information from across the internet – whether on the dark web or more legitimate sites.According to Davenport, Cyber Sweep has been used by very high-profile figures in the music business including superstar artists - who are looking to protect themselves both from fraudulent online activity, and from stalking from fans.On this podcast Davenport discusses why he believes such activity is becoming a growing societal problem, and we also get time to dig into Davenport's own interesting origin story that led to the birth of Regal Credit.The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Podcasting 2.0 October 27th 2023 Episode 152: "Drop the TOC" Adam & Dave discuss the chapters controversy and lay out a vision for discovery ShowNotes We are LIT Chapters feedback boostagrams toc type= RemoteItem for albums and artists vs single feeds Live websocket Splitkit and Music Side Project open sourced Guide to Value4Value Music Shows | RSS Blue Spotify profit is a joke Spotify Is Changing How It Pays Artists: New Streaming Royalty Model – Billboard A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool. Financial penalties for music distributors and labels when fraudulent activity on tracks they have uploaded to Spotify has been detected. A minimum play-time length that non-music noise tracks, such as bird sounds or white noise, must reach to generate royalties. Link PIC Chat V4V on this show is not to make money You cannot serve two masters V4V is a motivational engagement metric The End of LBRY Inc. ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 10/27/2023 14:45:29 by Freedom Controller
Podcasting 2.0 October 27th 2023 Episode 152: "Drop the TOC" Adam & Dave discuss the chapters controversy and lay out a vision for discovery ShowNotes We are LIT Chapters feedback boostagrams toc type= RemoteItem for albums and artists vs single feeds Live websocket Splitkit and Music Side Project open sourced Guide to Value4Value Music Shows | RSS Blue Spotify profit is a joke Spotify Is Changing How It Pays Artists: New Streaming Royalty Model – Billboard A new threshold of minimum annual streams that a track must meet before it starts to generate royalties. The threshold, according to MBW, will de-monetize tracks that had previously received 0.5% of Spotify’s royalty pool. Financial penalties for music distributors and labels when fraudulent activity on tracks they have uploaded to Spotify has been detected. A minimum play-time length that non-music noise tracks, such as bird sounds or white noise, must reach to generate royalties. Link PIC Chat V4V on this show is not to make money You cannot serve two masters V4V is a motivational engagement metric The End of LBRY Inc. ------------------------------------- MKUltra chat Transcript Search What is Value4Value? - Read all about it at Value4Value.info V4V Stats Last Modified 10/27/2023 14:45:29 by Freedom Controller
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Denis Ladegaillerie, founder and CEO of Believe.Paris-headquartered Believe is now well established as one of the largest recorded music companies in the world, both via its Believe-branded artist and label services operation, as well as its subsidiary, TuneCore, which announced the close of last year that it had paid out over USD $3 billion to independent artists to date.Believe currently is valued at around USD $1 billion on the Paris Euronext stock exchange, having turned over around USD $450 million in revenue in the first half of 2023. (Believe reports its revenues in Euros.)On this podcast, MBW's Ingham asks Ladegaillerie all about a number of key topics including: - How the music industry should deal with streaming fraud;- Why Asia is set to commercially explode in music in the years ahead;- What Believe's strategy is to challenge the ‘major' music companies; and- Yep... Artificial Intelligence. (AI is a particularly timely subject at Believe and TuneCore, which recently partnered with Grimes to distribute music created by other artists using an AI replication of her voice.)One other important point: Believe is no longer just a recorded music company. Since March it has also run its own global music publishing operation, housed under TuneCore, following Believe's acquisition of the $51 million-valued Sentric Music.The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the latest Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Lisa Yang, Managing Director of Media & Internet at Goldman Sachs' Global Investment Research. Yang keeps a very close eye on the music business – and is the lead analyst on Goldman's hugely influential ‘Music In The Air' paper, a new and updated version of which is released each year.The latest iteration of ‘Music In The Air' arrived in June 2023, and contained amongst its 72 pages financial and data analysis of all corners of the music business. It also contained headline forecasts, including that the global recorded music industry will be generating over $50 billion dollars by 2030, from some 1.2 billion paying streaming subscribers worldwide.On this podcast we ask Lisa about her team's latest forecasts in 'Music In The Air', while picking on her brains on other conclusions from the report, and asking more generally about how the global music business will change in the decade ahead of us….The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this 'cast, MBW founder Tim Ingham is joined by Travis Rosenblatt, founder of the SaaS platform for A&R research and scouting, Meddling.Rosenblatt is a particularly interesting person to speak to because, by his own admission, he spends a lot of his time NOT consumed in his day job. This allows him the bandwidth to think deeply about the music business, its challenges, and where it might be headed in future.Meddling is very clever, gathering data from multiple touchpoints on new artists for clients that have included the likes of Republic Records, Kobalt, Columbia Records, and Atlantic Records.But as a SaaS platform, Meddling largely runs itself – enabling Rosenblatt's mind to wander toward various crucial topics for the modern music industry.On this podcast, Ingham asks Rosenblatt about Meddling – a bit – but their conversation also dives into PROs, DIY distribution, music's role on video platforms, and much more besides…The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported by Voly Music.On this podcast, one of the industry's sharpest minds, Will Page, joins MBW founder Tim Ingham to cover a range of topics including pricing, streaming, royalties – and why the global industry is more local than ever.Page is the ex-Chief Economist of both Spotify and UK collection society PRS For Music. These days he's a consultant and the author of the book Tarzan Economics (aka Pivot), which presents compelling principles for business owners facing uncertain and disruptive times.Will is also the co-author of a new paper published by the London School of Economics and Political Science that focuses on what he calls ‘Glocalisation' of music. In other words, music has never been more global as an industry, yet when you dig into the most popular tracks in individual markets, they have a decidedly local feel.The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide podcast supported byVoly Music. Audius is one of the most talked-about new digital streaming startups in the music business today.Powered by Web 3.0 technology, it describes itself as a “global decentralised music community and discovery platform that puts the artist in control”.What that really means is that Audius enables artists to connect with their superfans, and offer those superfans the opportunity to pay more for access to coveted digital products, be that rare catalog recordings, or even the permission for a fan to remix a track.Audius boasts 7 million unique monthly users on its platform, and has attracted investment from some impressive people, both music artists and music executives.On this podcast, MBW founder, Tim Ingham, speaks to Audius' co-founder, Forrest Browning, about what differentiates his company from other music streaming platforms. We also discuss how Audius' model fits increasingly snugly with clamouring from major music company bosses, Sir Lucian Grainge included, for a better commercial relationship with music's superfans…The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
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Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ola Sars, founder and CEO of Soundtrack Your Brand.A graduate of Harvard Business School, Sars went on to become the co-founder and COO of Beats Music – the music subscription streaming service, associated with Beats By Dre headphones, that would become Apple Music. In 2013, Sars launched Soundtrack Your Brand (then called Spotify For Business) as a JV with Spotify. The premise is simple: a music streaming service specifically made for businesses – whether multi-nationals or mom'n'pop shops.In 2018, Sars spun the company out of that ownership structure as the independent Soundtrack Your Brand (although Spotify remains a minority investor today).One of his key arguments: any business playing music from an individual's Spotify account is breaking the terms and conditions of their agreement with the service. Said businesses, according to Sars, should be paying a premium monthly fee for a streaming service that clears them to play music for their customers (and which, ideally, also recommends music designed to draw more purchase activity from consumers).Sars calculates there are 100 million different types of public-facing businesses globally that are a target market for this kind of B2B music streaming service.Between them, he says, they could bring in an additional $40 billion of revenue into the music industry. Right now, Sars is some way from that kind of target: In 2022, Soundtrack Your Brand turned over 214 million SEK, which works out at just over $20 million US dollars. However, that revenue wasn't far away from doubling year-on-year – up 61% on 2021. As you read this, Soundtrack Your Brand has just over 54,000 paying monthly subscribers globally.Sars says there's much more to come...The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the latest episode of Talking Trends from Music Business Worldwide (MBW) – where we go deep behind the headlines of news stories affecting the entertainment industry. Talking Trends is supported by Voly Music.-------As the years tick by, more and more DIY artists will earn a liveable chunk of annual cash from Spotify.That's an inevitability, right? Wrong.In 2022, according to Spotify's own figures, the number of DIY/self-releasing artists who generated over USD $10,000 in royalties on the platform annually – from both recorded music and music publishing combined – actually fell year-on-year.That fact is revealed (and chewed over) in the latest episode of Music Business Worldwide's Talking Trends podcast, presented by MBW founder, Tim Ingham.Ingham explains that, according to Spotify's Loud & Clear data, just over 14,700 DIY artists generated more than $10k on Spotify in 2022.That figure was down on the number of DIY artists who managed to do the same thing in 2021... despite the total number of artists (i.e. DIY plus non-DIY acts) who annually generated more than $10k on Spotify growing last year.The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to Ed Newton-Rex, VP of Audio at Stability AI – and one of the world's foremost experts on generative AI in the field of music. An entrepreneur and inventor, Newton-Rex built the pioneering AI-driven music-making platform Jukedeck, before selling it to TikTok in 2019. He then went on to work at TikTok as Product Director of the company's AI Lab – as TikTok looked to build on Jukedeck's impressive song-forming technology. Newton-Rex left TikTok in 2021 to join music startup Voisey, which was subsequently sold to Snap Inc (parent of Snapchat).These days, Newton-Rex is VP of Audio at Stability AI, which is best known as the home of AI-powered text-to-image creator Stable Diffusion.The Music Business Worldwide Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
The Techstars Music accelerator just announced its 7th cohort. As the program's Managing Director Bob Moczydlowsky told me on this episode, they don't invest in music companies. They invest in companies solving problems for the global music business. There are 10 companies that involve music in some way, including — education, web3, and even wedding celebrations. Each startup gets a $120,000 check from Techstars and hands-on development for 90 days. Past portfolio companies include Community, Endel, and Splash among many others. According to Bob, the program has returned a 3X multiple on invested capital since starting in 2017. Companies that went through the accelerator have gone on to raise an additional $250 million in capital after the accelerator.Here's what we hit on:[0:00] How the accelerator has evolved [7:56] Investment areas that have underperformed [9:02] Is there a ceiling on music innovation? [12:38] Minor-league scouting, major-league swinging[17:07] Repeating motif of investments[18:11] 2023 accelerator cohort is “weirdest class ever”[28:49] The case for remote teams[31:44] The surge in capital from outside music industry[37:46] Music is less sensitive to macroeconomic conditions[40:39] Return on music accelerator vs. other Techstars programs [43:32] Techstars LP's becoming more experimental [48:01] Hip-hop business mentors wantedListen: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | SoundCloud | Stitcher | Overcast | Amazon | Google Podcasts | Pocket Casts | RSSHost: Dan Runcie, @RuncieDan, trapital.coGuests: Bob Moczydlowsky, @bobmozThis episode is brought to you by Amuse. Learn more about how its new program Music Insights can help your artist career: https://www.amuse.io/en/insightsEnjoy this podcast? Rate and review the podcast here! ratethispodcast.com/trapitalTrapital is home for the business of music, media and culture. Learn more by reading Trapital's free memo.TRANSCRIPT[00:00:00] Bob Moczydlowsky: We have to invest in something that isn't fashionable but looks like it's before it's time, might even look a little crazy. And that's the where we can add a ton of value. And then it's our job to help to look back three years later and go, oh yeah, there it is but of course we saw that all along.[00:00:13] Like, same thing with generative media. We've been making generative media in investments since the very first year of the program and about half of them are really interesting, valuable companies now. And it took a long time for the red, the market to sort of catch up to that. and then, you know, ironically, my problem is as a small check investor just at the moment where I know that space really well and I can be really helpful and we have a good portfolio there and a community of people to connect new founders too. Now that the category is hot, we can't afford it anymore.[00:01:07] Dan Runcie's Guest Intro: Today's guest is the one and only Bob Moczydlowsky, but if you're in the space in the industry, you probably know him as Bob Moz. He is the managing director of the Techstars Music Accelerator, and he recently announced the seventh cohort that they have for the accelerator, which includes a few companies here, let me just read the names here.[00:01:26] Baton Media, Beeper, Confetti, 5ive Mics, Haven, Highly Liquid, Homeroom, Obey Me, Royalty, and Seed. So Bob and I talked about what went into these companies, what are some common themes that went into this cohort and how this cohort has changed over time. This is now the seventh year that Bob has been running this accelerator.[00:01:48] So he's gone through the bull market of startup investing. The growth of streaming and how each of those things have impacted. So what are some of the trends that have been the most lucrative for him? How he's evaluated on his returns, how his LP mix has been shaped and shifted over time, and some general trends and some common misconceptions that people hear and think about when it comes to investing in music companies and companies that are trying to solve problems in music.[00:02:16] Great episode, especially for the founders, investors and builders out there. Hope you.[00:02:22] Dan Runcie:[00:02:22] All right. Today we have Bob Moz, who is the managing director for Techstars Music Accelerator. Bob, first time on the podcast.[00:02:31] Bob Moczydlowsky: Thank you very much for having me. I am a, longtime listener. I'm kind of thrilled to be a guest. It's very cool.[00:02:37] Dan Runcie: Yeah, and I think it's great to talk to you right now because you have the new cohort for Techstars Music Accelerator now, but you've actually been doing this now since 2017, and I think that. It's been interesting to just to see how much has changed in your role, but more broadly with music. You had this bull run, you had streamings rapid growth, and I'm sure with that, there's been so many different evolutions of how this cohort and how the companies have shaped over time.[00:03:06] What's been your read on that? How has the accelerator evolved over time?[00:03:11] Bob Moczydlowsky: Oh man, that is a gigantic question right out of the gate. so when we started the program in 2017, part of the thesis was. and it is still sort of the dirty secret of Techstars music. Like, we're not really here to invest in music companies or music tech startups. We're here to invest in startups that solve problems for the global music business.[00:03:31] So we wanted to be five to seven years ahead of, where new revenue streams would be. New audience interactions would be. we wanted to be really, really out there on ways kids could express themselves and, and or make new music or how rights holders would monetize that music and I would say that heading into our seventh class, like any, you know, venture fund, we made a bunch of mistakes.[00:03:54] we are happy to have some really valuable companies in the portfolio that are changing the way the music business works, like Splash and Endel, and community. And so the winds have come from the places we didn't expect, with maybe the exception of generative media. We can talk about that a a little more.[00:04:11] Bob Moczydlowsky: We were into that from the beginning and we've, remained into it though I can no longer afford any of those deals because that's kind of a popular category. So I think I'm kind of out of those deals now. But in general, like the wins came from places we didn't expect and the defeats came in places we thought were gonna be great spots, right?[00:04:28] So what we have learned is that you really have to focus on the quality of the team. You really have to focus on the opportunity and how that company can capture value in the market. And then you have to be patient, and just, and remember that one email, you know, with a yes on it. One phone call with a yes changes the fortunes of companies.[00:04:48] Pre-seed, seed stage, you know, one feature, one good, dev sprint, where you actually really, you know, solve a problem for your users, changes the trajectory of the whole company. So, I would say that we have, put ourselves in a position now where we ha like our thesis is defensible, our portfolio value is real, and we have an incredible list of people who have come through the program and touched it in some way that.[00:05:12] make a lot of really important decisions in the music business. So mostly it's just, I feel old when you say that, and I just feel super grateful that we get to do.[00:05:20] Dan Runcie: Well, you said a few things there that I wanna dive into about the wins and the losses being opposite from what you may have expected on either side, and I think that's a thing I've heard from other investors and VCs, but specifically with this accelerator, are there certain trends that stuck out for things that you thought would've been a big bet but didn't end up turning out?[00:05:43] Bob Moczydlowsky: Well, know, we were really excited about adaptive music and it's changing and matching your biometrics and pairing that with fitness that hasn't really come to fruition yet. . I'm optimistic it still might, but it hasn't so far. we were super optimistic that the using DSP streams to make mixes would allow, DJs to create and express themselves and create new content and repurpose music, and that wouldn't be considered a derivative work.[00:06:08] And you could give full credit stream back to the rights owner, and that would be a way to deepen engagement and maybe add a couple of bucks to the monthly subscription fee of a larger DSP. That hasn't happened really, you know what I mean? or come to fruition. it has taken longer, than we've expected for someone to make a hit song using generative media and AI, though, you know, it sort of perpetually feels like it's right around the corner.[00:06:33] but I think in that category, you know, I think we were just wrong people were gonna use generative media and AI to make songs. and instead they were going to use it to become artists and play games. and so we've learned a lot there where, what the thing we actually learned, and I say "we", but what I really mean is the splash team.[00:06:50] Bob Moczydlowsky: And Steven and Angus, I'm a passenger in that, right? So I say "we" a lot, but those guys do all the work. you know, what they realized was that kids don't wanna make songs. Like no kid is going out there looking for an AI to make a song. they're looking for an AI to help them do[00:07:05] several of the things that it require that are required to be an artist and grow a following and have people pay attention to you and express yourself. And they went and built a whole game around, okay, well then here's all the parts you need to DJ set. Here's the ability to perform in front of people.[00:07:20] Here's a framework under which those performances are judged. And that became a wildly popular game. And so it turns out that like in the gaming world, you might use an AI to control both sides of the copyright, to give the player the freedom to do whatever they want with the music. but you also need a venue and you need an avatar, and you need a crowd.[00:07:38] And there's a bunch of pieces where it's the song or the music is just one part of that. so that's been a massive, massive learning. and then the last one I would say, is that we continue to make investments around this and we will continue to do it, but the pace at. royalty flow and auto software automation for routing payments from consumption of music.[00:07:56] The rate at which that has changed and adapted to be automated and look, I'm not naive. I know there's a bunch of competing interests and reasons, you know a bunch of players who benefit from it being slow and manual. but I think that's an inevitable area that has to get automated over time, and it hasn't happened as fast as I would expect it to.[00:08:14] we we're kind of bumping up against the ceiling of growth for revenue from recorded music until we start automating those payouts and have better database ownership and better understanding of who owns what on a track. And the idea of like, you know, one publisher opting out or, securing their payment information to sort of give them leverage.[00:08:33] Bob Moczydlowsky: Like, yes, that optimizes price for any one license or copyright, but it doesn't, grow the, it doesn't swell the tide. And so I think we're hitting this point where if we really want astronomical growth, we're gonna have to start automating that process too.[00:08:47] Dan Runcie: Yeah.[00:08:48] Bob Moczydlowsky: I remain optimistic. I'll keep trying on that one, but I haven't yet, mined any gold there,[00:08:52] Dan Runcie: touching on something that I've heard other investors talk about too, where it does feel like there is this ceiling of how much innovation, how much growth can truly happen, and you hear that mostly about music tech specifically, just because some investors feel that. The incumbents just have so much power and control over the wake.[00:09:12] Things currently are done with the systems that, whether it's tams or astronomical growth can be somewhat limited compared to what you may see in other industries.[00:09:21] Bob Moczydlowsky: That's right. that's part of why I say we invest in companies solving problems for music and not music companies, is that it is a really complicated process to license music and use that. and so you think about the, act of primary listening or primary consumption, you know, some of the big platform companies use that as a loss leader.[00:09:37] You know, Spotify's a pure play streamer, but they had diversified into audio and it took them enormous scale to make that those economics work. those are great businesses. It's cool, you know, think of me as a minor league talent scout. I'm not, you know, my checks are small. I go to work to help make those companies valuable.[00:09:53] That's a level of the game that, I can't play, I don't have the kind of capital to make investments replace current big competing companies to Spotify. I'm better off make investing in companies that have an opportunity because of the way Spotify changes the landscape or the way Amazon changes the landscape.[00:10:09] Now all of a sudden there's a new opportunity because people's consumption habits are different. That's where I'm gonna invest. I'm not gonna invest in the primary piece. And then the secondary part of that is like a lot of the way music copyright works, and we could talk about this as you dig into web three stuff if you want to.[00:10:25] but a lot of that stuff is coded in the law and it's coded in the law across multiple territories around the world. You can't just disrupt the way payments work for music. That's not how it works. . Like there are rules and laws that make that stuff be what it is. and so in some cases the, those laws are holding back growth for the rights holders and in some cases they're protecting value for them.[00:10:45] and startups that pretend that, that's not true, like they're kind of lying to themselves, you know, and they're, there's a couple of those every year. I wish someone would write a really definitive blog post about how to stay out of that. it is what it is. like that's not our domain.[00:10:59] Dan Runcie: Yeah. I think too, just thinking about, you mentioned something as well, just in terms of you being in the minor league position, that's not your job necessarily to make the swings for the majors, but I also have to imagine too that whether it's you or even some of your LPs, would love to be able to double down and invest some of the prorata that you may have in some of these follow on rounds.[00:11:20] Bob Moczydlowsky: Oh yeah, don't get me wrong, my job is to swing for the majors, right? but my job is to find a company that could be a billion dollar company where, you know, a couple a hundred grand and the support of the program and mentorship can put it on a path to succeed. Like if a company needs 10 million dollars to start, I just don't have that kind of capital.[00:11:40] I'm not the right profile of investor for that company. So it's not that I'm not trying to get gigantic companies, right? Like when we wrote the first check in to Endel people thought we were crazy. They were like, what are you doing? How is the personalized soundscape for helping you focus, relax, or go to sleep?[00:11:55] How is that gonna be a billion dollar company? And now you're in a situation where there's, you know, millions of dollars in annual revenue, hundreds of thousands of subscribers, interesting revenue coming out of the DSPs. Incredible partnerships with artists. No one at this point now in music, would argue that functional music is going to be eight to 10, maybe 12% of total consumption of music.[00:12:20] And that Endel isn't the premium brand and the most valuable company in that space, that's sort of a foregone conclusion. That wasn't the case when we wrote that check. That's what I mean about sort of minor league, right? It's like, it's not that the companies aren't major league companies, of course they are.[00:12:37] It's just that we have to invest in something that isn't fashionable but looks like it's before it's time, might even look a little crazy. And that's the where we can add a ton of value. And then it's our job to help to look back three years later and go, oh yeah, there it is but of course we saw that all along.[00:12:52] Like, same thing with generative media. We've been making generative media in investments since the very first year of the program and about half of them are really interesting, valuable companies now. And it took a long time for the red, the market to sort of catch up to that. and then, you know, ironically, my problem is as a small check investor just at the moment where I know that space really well and I can be really helpful and we have a good portfolio there and a community of people to connect new founders too.[00:13:19] Now that category is hot and we can't afford those deals anymore.[00:13:23] Dan Runcie: And I'm sure.[00:13:24] Bob Moczydlowsky: so that's what I mean, like it's not that we're trying to have small companies, we're trying to have[00:13:27] Dan Runcie: Right. No, that makes sense. And I would imagine too, Whether it's your investors or others, they would love for you to be able to, oh, could you still get in these deals? Or could you still be able to do the follow on investments in whether it's an end or, or some of the generative companies?[00:13:42] Bob Moczydlowsky: That's right. so the companies that have come through our program in total have gone out and raised another additional 250 million dollars after taking our initial capital, Right? so the capital we've deployed through the program is now, let me see, 7.4 million dollars after this current class.[00:13:58] It'll be 7.4 million of, checks all sort of at that 120K, you know, Techstars, accelerator deal. You know, like they're all the same. All of our deployments are Post program now 250 million plus, it's like 254 million, something like that. And change has come into those companies after the program, of which about 16 million of it has come from the member companies.[00:14:20] So that's Sony Warner's, Peloton, Hyde, Concord Monarch, Quality Control, Right hand, Bill Silva. All of those companies sort of collectively have put another 16 million dollars in post program, into those companies. So they're, active strategic investors and angel investors into those companies. the number I don't have that I should to tell you, is like also the individual, the number, the numbers, right?[00:14:44] So executives from those companies as angels, or, executives or mentors who are not from the members, but are just independent and come and visit and help in the program. They also write, you know, 25K, 50K, 100K angel checks into companies. That number's a little harder for us to capture. cuz it's sort of personal money and not, corporate money, but, everybody around the program is definitely taking prorata and in, participating in those rounds as the companies grow grow for sure[00:15:07] Dan Runcie: That makes sense. And I feel like those examples hit at the flip side of that earlier question of, at the time people probably didn't think that those were the areas that may have lined up with the initial thesis on paper, but they ended up being some of the most successful ones you had.[00:15:23] Bob Moczydlowsky: it is a continuing, like delightful and hilarious, like repeating, you know, motif through the whole program. Right. no one liked Splash when it came in. It was called Pop Gun at the time. No one liked that, right? That's a 70 million dollar company now and the number one music related Roblox game.[00:15:40] The company shimmer came in and was sort of like stuck mid-C ground, had a huge pivot and became community, right? That was, who could have predicted that? Endel, everybody hated, didn't believe it was real. Hey, these crazy Russian guys. This isn't science back. this doesn't work.[00:15:55] This is the placebo effect. you , know, that's a 75 million dollar company. even just recently, like last year as recently as last year, having all of this history in the program, we get all the members together to screen new companies coming in and decide who we're gonna invest in.[00:16:07] last December, the lowest ranked company in that screening was Circle Labs. Run by Anushk Mittal makes sentient NPCs sort of, and chat bot, right? A year ahead of chatGPT a year ahead of, in world, right? In those companies trying to like personalities into video game characters. you know, and during the program he went from sort of like two or 3000 users to 25,000 users.[00:16:31] Bob Moczydlowsky: By the end of the summer he had 40,000 users. They're making these creators, you know, they're making these characters independent creators are, they're in multiple Discord servers. They're chatting with people all day. They have Twitter accounts, that becomes a competitive round, that light speed leads last fall, no one thought that was a company.[00:16:48] Everybody thought that was crazy, not gonna be a thing. Now that's a, you know, $20 million plus company just you know, less than a year later, right? So it just is a thing that like can keeps repeating and repeating over time. and the reminder to us as investors and, especially at this pre-seed stage is it's okay if it's wild, right?[00:17:08] There are gonna be things that are wild that are gonna fail, but only the wild different ones have a chance to actually move into that open space in that green field and be a huge company from seemingly nowhere, right? And that's our job. Our job is to experiment with that stuff and bring the whole music business around, in an ecosystem to participate and argue about it and be wrong together and disagree.[00:17:29] And, you know, it's sort of my job to provide that safe space for those conversations to.[00:17:34] Dan Runcie: Right, and I feel like you've talked about this a little bit, and even in past conversations about how the definition of a Techstars Accelerator company, or Techstars Music Company is part of that. It continues to evolve as you've seen different cohorts, but at least for this current cohort right now, you have a few, three companies in here.[00:17:56] You have a few music companies, even one involved with wedding celebrations as well.[00:18:01] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah, we do. It's the weirdest class ever, in the best way. Like I'm actually really curious. So you've seen it almost before anybody else has. and you know, it'll be public by the time people are hearing this podcast, but it's not public right now. Like, where do you wanna start?[00:18:15] Like, it's an interesting list. there's probably a couple companies on there you've heard of before and seen, , I'm actually like, I'm happy to talk about any of them and I'm just as fascinated and curious to hear where you wanna start and what you, saw when[00:18:27] Dan Runcie: Yeah. So we gotta start with Confetti. We gotta start with the wedding planning there and looking at the website, this wasn't a company that was on my radar before, but that's why I love stuff like this. You know, you're able to have unique access to things and it points out, and for me it stuck out.[00:18:43] There's an experiential aspect. We all know how many people would love to be able to see and attend and experienced weddings and can't normally do so, but they're integrating brands. They're integrating music and culture in different ways and I think that's a unique thing. And yes, of course you could always throw a Zoom link.[00:19:02] I've attended Zoom weddings before, especially during the pandemic, but I think there's something different here. And that one, let's start there. That one stuck out to me.[00:19:10] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah. It's the most polarizing company, within our sort of internal community coming into the program. Andrew, the CEO knows this, like you've mentioned all the things like people wanna attend remotely. People might watch and buy a ticket to an influencer wedding. As weird as that sounds like it's totally believable thing that could happen.[00:19:26] but I also think like there are, ways to organize media and everybody's at these events with a phone in their hand the entire time. like, you know, you're dressed up, you're in your suit, you're in your cocktail dress, whatever it. The only thing you need besides yourself and a fancy outfit at a wedding is your phone.[00:19:42] Bob Moczydlowsky: You're taking pictures, you're making video, you're sharing things. So the concept of can we provide and experience people who are not there, can we generate and organize content with people who are there? Can we do virtual gifting and tipping or challenges and organize some of that stuff, especially as that pertains to the big moments in a wedding, which also, let's be honest, revolve around music in a lot of ways.[00:20:04] I mean, it's very few weddings you've been to that don't involve music in as a core key ingredient in different places. this is a thing where there's enormous number of these events that happen over time. There's enormous potential in organizing this already existing behavior. and this is a good, it's a good hack as a venture investor if the behavior already exists and the company is gonna capture value by organizing it.[00:20:27] that's a good opportunity as opposed to like, oh, we have to create some behavior and convince people to do this action. We have to change the user behavior before the company works. Those are companies that just have a much steeper hill to climb. And so this company comes to us with some traction.[00:20:43] They've done some influencer weddings, they've got kind of a cool philosophy around it. We're gonna run a bunch of experiments and see if we can turn this into a[00:20:50] Dan Runcie: So what does the business model look like[00:20:52] Bob Moczydlowsky: for them?[00:20:52] Come along for the ride, like, if right now it is a share of ticketing for the influencer stuff, right?[00:20:57] and that's kind of marketing if you think about it. Like how do I get people comfortable with, how do I participate in a wedding remotely? but we actually think the much larger opportunity is just in people moving cash around during the wedding, gifting, buying things for each other, participating or having the account to organize the media.[00:21:14] So there's several different revenue streams inside of that, and we're gonna experiment with like, what makes people happiest and they'll do sort of at volume. but right now the virtual gifting thing is a real thing. And it's easy[00:21:24] Bob Moczydlowsky: for a bunch of[00:21:25] people. Like, you don't have to bring the gift with you.[00:21:27] you know, you're not just sending, like, who wants to just buy something off an Amazon registry link that's boring. Like, let's instead, you know, put a bunch of money on at the moment and, you know, run up a cool tab for people to go have a good honeymoon with during the reception itself. Totally believable.[00:21:41] Dan Runcie:No, I think there's something there, especially even with brand opportunities too. Just think about the number of brands that want exposure. Think about anytime you see a wedding and even just a way to like share that information in a way that's more clear. I know friends get weddings, literally, they'll reshare the Instagram story of every friend that was at the wedding, and it's like, all right, you know, happy for your nuptials and everything, but I'm not gonna sit here and tap through a hundred Instagram stories. Like, no, I'm not gonna do it. But if there's some type of interesting thing that's somewhat in between some, you know, $10,000 videographer, you know, montage that they put together and something that could be done here, I think there's something cool to be able to potentially tap into there.[00:22:21] So excited for that one. The other one, come meet them.[00:22:25] Dan Runcie: I know. Yeah. The other one that stuck out to me is Five Mics. So Ace Patterson, "Call Me Ace". He's been a guest on this podcast before. Him and I are friends, and I remember him telling me about this startup that he is playing as a while, and I think that he has, interesting landscape into the industry from both his work in consulting, working in big tech, working at YouTube.[00:22:49] So he understands how that piece of it works, but then he's an artist himself, so just tapping into the collectibles opportunity, and I feel like so many people have been talking about that hip hop gaming collectible intersection, so I feel like there's something there.[00:23:03] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah, I mean, well, so we should tell people what it is, so anybody listening, the picture is very simple. Imagine a card game like Magic: The Gathering or horror stone that is started around hip hop. And so instead of playing my or versus your Wizard, I'm playing Snoop versus, you know, Chief Keith, I don't know, like I don't know if it requires name and likeness.[00:23:21] I don't know. Like the whole thing could happen. It could be Snoop Lion versus Murder Was The Case, Snoop, right? There's a bunch of different ways you could think about the organization of the characters. They could even be. Made up characters just in a fantasy hip hop world, if you don't, you know, need name and likeness, right?[00:23:36] but the concept of those cards as digital collectibles, not physical printed things, you can store them, right? You can tokenize them, you can play them back and forth. if that game is fun and can entertain you, that's a real opportunity in a very cool and interesting way. And so I think, you know, I think Ace and Adam, are really talented guys who needed a shot, they needed shelter to actually like get this idea off the whiteboard and into practical reality.[00:24:01] Bob Moczydlowsky: And part of the reason our program exists is to take really talented people who need that and need a little capital and need a little shelter to really like, feel like they gave that thing the full effort it deserves. and that's an idea that deserves real effort. Like that's a great concept. And if done correctly, I think we all could believe that could be played by millions of kids around the world.[00:24:21] No problem.[00:24:21] Dan Runcie: The other companies that stuck out to me from the list, there was a large focus I felt on community. There were a number of the startups that are either tapping into it, in some way, trying to bring music fans together, bring collaboration with other folks together.[00:24:32] Bob Moczydlowsky: A hundred percent a theme for this year's process. Yep. Like very intentional. we talked a lot about what's happening around our own behavior, and the way we are all kind of interacting with each other. And it's like, I don't know if I need to have millions of followers.[00:24:46] Like that's not a community. I need to have, you know, hundreds of people or thousands of people that are really like-minded that really teach me things and move me together. And, and so, the future being a massive niches is a thing we've all been talking about for a very long time.[00:24:59] And there's a lot of evidence happening right now that these things are starting to become really lucrative, really valuable to people, and are becoming places rather than just online destinations. so we got a couple of companies that, touch this sphere, One called Homeroom, founder named RJ Ruggles.[00:25:15] the Lazy investor way to describe this company is it's Google Analytics for your online communities. it's the, console you use to monitor Discord, Slack, other community-based environments where your community manager has to report metrics back to the business. Are we getting people out of the community into the transactional purchase funnel?[00:25:33] Bob Moczydlowsky: Do we have people leaving the community because the commentary is toxic they're getting harassed? How do we monitor and what are the standard metrics by which we operate as community managers, like that's pretty loosely defined these days. and we think we can build a piece of software that defines that for people and then also helps them do better at it.[00:25:51] and then in that same world, there's a company called Highly Liquid, run by Izzy Howell. If you imagine if you build a new fashion brand, and the buzzword of the day is a fi digital brand, right? Where you have digital and physical products.[00:26:03] Bob Moczydlowsky: You have physical experiences, online community. So if you took a company like Supreme and we're gonna start at today, not everything would be skate decks and t-shirts. but you'd have collaborations. You would have some products in person and in her mind, Highly Liquid is targeted at women who care about online and tech communities, her first, product drop is actually a pair of panties. It's like a lingerie product. The second product will be in a totally different sort of category. but the idea that there's sort of a, what's the company, mischief.[00:26:32] She references a lot that does like crazy online campaigns with artists and gets, like, creates trouble online and gets people to follow. If you combine that with sort of an ongoing community that was about female empowerment, about being active online in a, cool community, had a little bit of your favorite R-rated sex comedy jokes and attitude about it, that's a really interesting brand.[00:26:51] That could exist in lots of different channels. and so we're excited about that and you could see how a company like that would need a company like Homeroom, as part of its core, you know, control center for running the, business. Right. on the other side of that is this company, Seed,the founders come out of a small town in Puerto Rico.[00:27:07] They're living in Florida now. They've built an online music community slash school for learning about the music business. Entirely in Spanish and targeted exclusively to Spanish speaking markets. So they're not trying to like have multiple languages and everything's in English, like very specifically Spanish language, Spanish language contracts, dynamics and explaining the way the business works from the perspective of someone who sees Bad Bunny or sees Shakira and aspires to be in that world.[00:27:37] and that company is doing gangbusters business already. and could be, I think the definitive brand for how music business expands in Spanish speaking, territories, right? Again, driven by a combination of school and curriculum, but also community and professional development, and a place where you can go and talk to people and develop your career and make like sort of lifelong contacts.[00:28:00] Bob Moczydlowsky: As opposed to something like LinkedIn where it's like, oh, everybody's on LinkedIn. So there's not really any real community there, right? yes, you need that because you need the publicly available place where you're, you could be found professionally, but in your industry, in your category, in your specific vertical, you need much more interaction.[00:28:16] So, we're headed that way with sort of, with some of those companies. So I'm glad you noticed like this. It's not an accident that all that stuff's[00:28:22] Dan Runcie: Yeah, and I'm sure too with this cohort, this is a hybrid cohort. With that, we're talking a little bit before we record it, but you're gonna have a week in la, you'll have a week in Atlanta. There'll be a lot of remote time, and I think that reflects a lot of the trends we've seen over. The past few years, and even how Techstars has run, because you started out where the teams were all in LA, at least for the duration, working outta the office during the pandemic.[00:28:49] Everything's remote. Now it's hybrid, which I think does reflect a lot of this that we've seen. and I know that the focus of teams and the people that are building these is so important, especially in early stage startups. How is your evaluation of teams? And that piece of it evolved with knowing that even the startups themselves may not be directly working in the same place.[00:29:11] Like the founders themselves may not be directly in the same location.[00:29:14] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah, I think the idea that you have to run your startup in a specific room with everybody all together, or you have to be in a specific geography like, the trend was that that wasn't true pre covid, but Covid just wiped it off the, board. You know, like we, we've had companies in the past, like investor, like go to see investors and the investors is like, oh, like everything about this deal except that your company's located in Europe or your company's located in Australia or whatever, so we're gonna pass because of your location.[00:29:44] I haven't heard that in years, you know what I mean? Like we're in a new world now where people can be multiple places at once in a really weird but true way. Like, one of the teams coming in, Baton is working on organizing all of the pre-release, like work in progress music.[00:29:59] And their teams are all over the place. They've got guys in, they have a guy in Dubai, they've got a team in Italy, they've got Americans, they have people in New York, they're gonna be with us here in LA. We have a team, working on online virtual nightclubs, specifically targeting African teens.[00:30:15] They're based in South Africa and London. They're gonna be with us in LA and New York and probably raise capital in the US and build a product targeted towards, you know, teens in Africa. So the idea that these things are geographically focused, or your thesis could be geographically focused, I think is actually a detriment if you're operating that way.[00:30:32] and so we've resort of rearranged the way the program works to try to add a maximum amount of value for Serendipity. Be together in the office, talk about hard things, have accountability, do an all hands, meet each other, share contacts, and then break apart and go back remote and focus on shipping product.[00:30:50] Bob Moczydlowsky: And you can do really great mentor meetings in, you know, 20, 30 minute sessions via Zoom and get access to amazing people because they don't have to come to the office to have that meeting. and so if as long as you're balancing the hard conversations and the development and the team organization in those in-person weeks.[00:31:08] And then you're breaking apart to go actually focus and accomplish stuff. I think you end up with the best of both worlds. So we've always had an international program by thesis design. Half our investments are outside of the United States because we think that's where most of the future revenue opportunities are and growth is gonna be.[00:31:25] So the hybrid model just makes this whole thing, you know, easier for us and allows us to actually, you know, have European portfolio companies that are just as important to us and accessible to us as Americans.[00:31:36] Dan Runcie: Definitely, especially in this industry, with any company that's trying to improve problems for music, it's most likely gonna come from places outside of the us so that makes a lot of sense. The other shift that I've seen over the past couple years, especially in music, is the increasing amount of non-music or non-music people that have a big checks or they're trying to get involved in some way, usually at later stage rounds.[00:32:03] And in your case, those could be the folks that are marking up some of your companies that you've already made investments in, do you feel like that has shifted what the success likelihood or the type of companies that may get follow on investing in that, that you're then looking at your end of obviously trying to fund those companies out to be most likely to exit and how that may have shifted the portfolio companies or just the likelihood of success one way or another for companies solving problems in.[00:32:32] Bob Moczydlowsky: Hmm. Yeah, I would say it's like, so it kind of depends like, the companies that are related to music, there are a lot of people coming into music who have bought catalog or who have, who have bought music related assets, who now wanna help further that ecosystem. and we have a company in this year coming into this year's class called Royalty that's working on, like, the analogy I would use for that company is, a company that was very boring, that wasn't very sexy, called Athena Health that automated the medical billing process.[00:32:58] Like it was too hard for doctor's offices and clinics to submit their procedures to the insurance company. Insurance company reject it cuz it didn't have some special code on it. They have to go refile it and try to get paid to qualify. Right. That model looks a lot like, royalty registration and making sure you're collecting money from copyright assets around the world.[00:33:16] And so you see people funding companies like that and like entertainment intelligence, although I guess entertainment intelligence in the program a couple years ago. We sort of co-own that as a program with Concord and secretly Canadian, and it's used by Monarch and secretly, and Hopeless Records and a bunch of other folks, to do data warehousing and trend analysis, right? It's the ability to watch what's happening to your streaming data and then react to tiny signals in that data. So, for example, you have a catalog track that you haven't done primary marketing on or 15 years starts to get a little traction on TikTok. You now need to call your rep the DSP and get that thing onto a playlist or you need to call your music supervisors and get that in somewhere, right? And so investment and capital and growth is happening for those companies. and they're so like that's the kind of company that the person who's coming to music because they bought some assets or they've had extra cash and they're developing, those are the kind of companies that we're seeing that kind of investment going to.[00:34:15] and like I'm really excited about royalty this year because of that opportunity, right? There are people now who have gone and purchased these assets, who now need the way the music business operates to become more efficient and more streamlined so that they can get growth that justifies the multiple they paid for that catalog.[00:34:30] Bob Moczydlowsky: If you bought a catalog at 20 x annual revenue, you need to make sure you're collecting every penny that's due to you, and you need to work on streamlining the way the business works to get more money in the future, right? So you get a faster payoff and better ROI on your deals. The companies that are most valuable for us, however, I still have to cajole, convince, arm twist network with, you know, grade A venture investors and show them those deals.[00:34:56] And I almost have to leave out the fact that we operate in and around music on those deals, right? Like when Splash goes to COSLA or Endell goes to, true or, gogogo comics goes to BitCraft or Circle Labs goes to light speed music isn't part of the conversation at all in those cases. And we still have a stigma of music as a category is a smaller, not as interesting place to play for those investors and instead of convincing them that they're wrong and they should look, I have found that the way to be effective is just to show them the opportunity uniquely to that one company and let them judge that and forget how it relates to music altogether.[00:35:38] Dan Runcie: That first point you mentioned I think is really interesting because if you're a company that has purchased a catalog, it would also be in your interest to make sure that those payments are being processed as efficiently as they should, or any other type of financial activity that could benefit your asset that you just spent 50, 60, a hundred million on could be even more beneficial.[00:35:59] So that piece, it made sense. And I think too, even the comparison to like Athena Health, right? How can you make a comp to some other industry where this thing did this and helped push things moving forward. I could definitely see that. I would like to imagine that the music conversation, maybe it would eventually shift at some point.[00:36:17] I know that we often hear the comparison to gaming and how gaming's revenue continues to increase and I know a very different business model different in a lot of ways. So I still think that the big tams are out there, and I think because given. There's been so much investment activity, even from the major record labels or some of the indies.[00:36:36] I know some of them are investors in your accelerator, or they have made big investments themselves or big bets like they want to be able to increase the overall pie. Just think that there's so much that is inherent with the complexity of the business and just some of the. Information that can be held tight, that can make some of it be a bit challenging.[00:36:56] But if you do have that combination of someone that knows the space, someone that's willing to find efficiencies where it can be, I still think that there is big opportunity.[00:37:06] Bob Moczydlowsky: I agree. Like If anything, there are more deals that I would like to do that I can't do. You know what I mean? Like, it's not like I'm like, oh, I didn't have enough deals to do. I think the next couple of years, there will be less cash. There will be less capital in the market.[00:37:19] which will be good because there was sort of too much and prices were too high and there was too many and it was hard to sift through which founders are real and which ones weren't. but in these next couple of years, there is unbelievable opportunity based on sort of like the inertia of where the business is headed and whatever impact we get of macroeconomic downturn is gonna hit music less than it's gonna hit a bunch of other categories.[00:37:42] And so the concept of music driving culture and culture driving everything else, and things starting in around music, and music, being willing to find these other revenue streams. music was at the forefront of the direct-to-consumer online shopping revolution. Music was at the beginning of the, how do I become, an entity that can have multiple brands and collaborations and have new consumer products driven by fandom.[00:38:03] Music has been at the forefront of these movements over and over and over again, and the company doesn't have to position itself as a music company to benefit from working in and around music, right? Like that's the way we think about it. And I just think that's gonna be more and more true over the next several years.[00:38:18] It's just gonna be, and the things that people wanna do in and around music, like go to events and go have experiences with their friends outside. are going to become even stronger. That demand is really high now, and we have a bunch of tools and platforms that allow people to do that at scale.[00:38:37] That was never possible before, right? Like this company coming into this year's class, I think it's the last one maybe we haven't talked about. Haven, they have multiple brands, one called Floating and one called Ambient Church. Where they put on events that don't have artists on the top. They have sort of experience like, we're gonna go to the park and there's gonna be a sound bath, and we're going to like 40 people, no alcohol Sunday afternoon out in nature.[00:39:00] Connect with each other, talk to each other, be mindful and relax and like de-stress from our overly technical scheduled lives. That company, you know, sold tens of thousands of tickets last year across their two brands. And they're connecting everybody with, you know, SMS community and membership belonging to a community that furthers those brands and those events.[00:39:22] But the event itself is like unplugged, disconnected, like that's the level we're at now where the tools allow you to have sort of music style experiences that don't necessarily involve the legacy music business at all. There's no promoter there. There's no primary ticketer, you know, there's no tour merch, there's no back production company.[00:39:43] There's not a huge rig and a negotiation like there's none of that stuff. It's just humans agreeing to go do something and enjoy some music and sound out in nature. But everything around it makes like you can have the entire rest of the company that looks like a really awesome modern promoter company because you can scale it horizontally into multiple cities.[00:40:03] Through community, right? So these are the things where everybody says there's no more green space in and around music. It's a low limited category, there aren't big, huge opportunities for these companies to have a hundred, 200 million in annual revenue, a billion dollars in annual revenue.[00:40:18] I just kind of chuckle cuz it's like the perfect, you know, like it's the perfect great garden bed to plant these seeds in. Like yes, they grow up to be trees in other forests, but they start there.[00:40:28] Dan Runcie: And when you hear that pushback, do you have like stats that you can show or anything that like I'd be curious to hear what does the Techstar Music Accelerator returns or success look like compared to maybe other Techstar non-music accelerators like we.[00:40:43] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah, so some of that's pretty proprietary. couple of the stats I'll give you just because I'd like you and I'll probably get in trouble, but it'll be okay. So our multiple on invested capital from the accelerator is a little over three. And, you know, we've deployed, like I said, that 7.4, you can do the math on that about what our positions are worth in those companies.[00:41:02] The reason that is true is because, you know, the way an accelerator works is you, you know, there's gonna be a power law, right? You're gonna put 10 companies in, you're gonna work on them together. They're not all gonna end up being equal, but the things you learn from the ones that fail are gonna help you make better decisions on the next batch.[00:41:19] Bob Moczydlowsky: And, so, you know, the last couple of years the market has been so, frothy, right? There's been so much cash looking for assets to the price of assets just went way up, right? Interest rates were effectively zero. If you had cash, you had to do something with it to get a return. You couldn't just put it away and get 3, 4, 5, 6% on it.[00:41:37] There was no interest to be had. So that drives up asset prices, it drove up the stock market, it drove up private company valuations, drove up the prices of seed rounds and pre-seed rounds and everything, right? That is deflating quite a bit at the moment. So, in those two years where our deals stayed the same and we make the same sort of fixed term investments and there was, it got even more competitive for us to try to get into companies and invest in them.[00:42:00] And great companies had their pick of investors, we decided to go the other way and go even earlier and even crazier because instead of competing for those really high, overly marked up deals, we're gonna help start some things. And yes, we're gonna have a high mortality rate, but if you grab a couple that work, the markups are so gigantic that you end up with a pretty good performance on your fund, right?[00:42:22] So if you invest in a company, you know, at a 3 or 4 million dollar valuation, and the next round to capital for that company is in the twenties like, now you look like you know what you're doing and it's okay that a couple other ones like that seemed crazy, turned out to be crazy and went to zero, like the magic of venture capital is you can only lose your principle.[00:42:42] Dan Runcie: Right. Yeah. Asymmetric upside for sure. Especially with,[00:42:47] Bob Moczydlowsky: That's for sure. And so if you're thinking about deploying capital in the category, you kind of need to be promiscuous, right? You need to have a long-term horizon on it, and you need to be willing to think about it that way. And I think the way to do that is at the very earliest stages. Now to do that, you have to know how music works and you have to be able to get people on the phone, and you have to be able to argue about stuff, and you have to have the stomach for the crazy one, you know, going belly up six months after you wrote the check. but if you're willing to do those things, the amount of information you learn by doing that is sort of creates a, little flywheel around you making this better and better and better[00:43:21] Dan Runcie: decisions.[00:43:22] Right. And I think for you, at the end of the day, it's being able to get that buy-in from the LP base. And I'd be curious to hear from you, how has your LP base shifted over time? Are there any trends you've seen there? And does that say anything about what types of companies have been more or less interested in investing in the future of solving problems for music in the past five, six years[00:43:44] Bob Moczydlowsky: Yeah. they've definitely gotten less conservative over time. More experimental, more willing to like try stuff. Like to the point even where like if you look at Warner from Warner's comments in, I think they maybe were in Music Ally or MBW a couple days ago, like late January, I think she even said publicly like, the era of conservatism is coming to an end.[00:44:06] We need to start experimenting with the way our content is used to build these businesses. I can back her up, she's awesome by the way. Very thoughtful looks at it at a really good high level. I can back her up and then I've actually felt and seen people's behavior change against that rhetoric.[00:44:22] when we first started the program, it was a lot of question about what are returns gonna look like? When are these companies gonna be valuable to us? When are we gonna get something out of this that's we can have, you know, financial ROI on and as the companies have evolved, as Endell became Endel and Splash became Splash and Community did its thing, and Gimme Radio is moving, you know, hundreds of thousands of dollars for catalog divisions, you know, in specific genres.[00:44:47] Bob Moczydlowsky: When AI became, you know, the source of data warehousing and is helping people understand TikTok and Concord is the secretly Canadian are like, oh, we need to actually own a piece of that company, you know, when those things start to happen. Everybody looks at it and goes, oh, all right, like, we just need to water the garden.[00:45:03] We don't necessarily need to be beating any one deal up on its ROI as long as the garden has flowers in it, right? L et's look at the whole thing. And so we have a very real feeling of, collegiality and team inside of the accelerator. you know, it's not like Warners and Sony don't compete. It's not like Concord and Sony don't compete, right? But when it comes to a company that is providing the service that could help them be more efficient. They are more likely to collaborate and share information with each other, because everybody benefits. And that posture now, you know, in 2023 where, you know, compared to 2017 radically different.[00:45:39] Like when we were first putting the program together in 2017, I had major label business affairs lawyers, like giving me checklists around making sure we didn't have like, you know, anti-monopolist or collusion issues or antitrust issues with the way we shared information in the program. Now we have a screening committee where we look at sort of the top 25 companies each year, and everybody's in the room together sharing ideas and like trading deal flow, and like, oh, I think we really like this one.[00:46:07] Do you guys like this? If we wrote a check, would you write a check? Like the conversation is so radically different and collaborative compared to where we started. That I can just say like the music business knows that to get growth, it needs to be more experimental, and it's not like it was doing the wrong thing from 2005 to 2012 or 2013 when your annual revenues are declining,[00:46:33] like anybody, you lose your job, you have less revenue. You're gonna be more conservative with how you spend your cash and what you do it, and you're gonna be more protective about the revenue you do have, right? Like when you are making more money and you made your bonus and you got extra money you didn't plan for, you experiment and you try new things and like that.[00:46:50] So the good news is I think we're in an era that's gonna stay, you know, pretty steady for a while and that experimentation and growth is gonna occur, and it's a delight to see, you know, public rhetoric from the heads of major labels, like backing up the behavior they're already exhibiting in the accelerator, right?[00:47:07] Like, I think it's time for huge[00:47:09] Dan Runcie: optimism.[00:47:09] Well said. I think that they we're in this transition moment, so hopefully we'll see more of this. But Bob, this has been great. Before we let you go though, for folks that wanna stay in touch with what's happening with this cohort, with the accelerator, where should they go?[00:47:23] Bob Moczydlowsky: Okay, so we actually are recruiting some new mentors for this year's program. we have some specific issues and people that we're interested in and we want them to come, particularly from, hip hop, right? We are constantly trying to build a deeper bench of mentors and angel investors from the hiphop community all the time.[00:47:42] And so what I would tell people, if that's you and you're listening or you are active in that area, just email me. I'm Bob Moz, bobmoz@techstars.com. I'll send you a thing to submit on mentorship, and not everybody will make it through. Some people will have to say no to. But we'll read 'em and look at all of them, but there are specific things where we wanna e expand and deepen our community, that that's one of them.[00:48:03] the other thing, would be is that if you are an investor thinking about deal flow here, you're looking at a company we're in, or you're looking at a company that we're not in, and we can be helpful to you to like, here's what we've seen, here's the comps companies, here's the competing company or Oh, you know, we made an investment like that.[00:48:18] Bob Moczydlowsky: Here's all the places that fell apart. Be careful of these places. Also just, email me you know, I'm constantly talking to investors about their portfolio, not mine, and trying to like just be useful to them. because ultimately I want there to be more capital in the category, right? I want people to raise funds. I want them to invest in deals.[00:48:36] there's not one thing I can think of where I would've a competitive posture about any of that stuff. and I would tell people who wanna be involved, like, drop your competitive pieces off out of your own actions and your own behavior. Just be a hundred percent collaborative.[00:48:51] There's only a couple hundred people who are really serious and really active in this community worldwide. There's nothing to fight over. Like there's enough for everybody. and, you know, deals that I can't afford. That's okay, I'll still tell people I think they're cool deals and if you wanna be involved and see some of that stuff, like just email me and we have ways to plug people into our, community. It's hundreds of people. So, it's not like we're off in a closet running the accelerator with, 10 folks. It's a lot of people.[00:49:16] Dan Runcie: That's awesome. That's awesome. Love to see it. Well, thanks Bob. This has been fun. Appreciate you.
Welcome to the Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music. On this episode, MBW founder Tim Ingham speaks to AI expert, and the CEO of LyricStudio, Dr. Maya Ackerman.------Bloody Elon Musk. Not content with doing beastly things to Twitter (like, erm, marginally improving the user experience), he's also triggered the actual beginning of the actual end of the world. Well, not directly. But Musk was one of the co-founders and funders of San Francisco-headquartered OpenAI, which is the progenitor of ChatGPT – the AI-powered online tool that can not only research and regurgitate online facts, but also weave that regurgitation in a variety of generated tones and styles. Some tech experts are so impressed with ChatGPT, they say, in just a few more iterations, it will become a serious challenger to (and perhaps even surpass the usefulness of) Google, and turn the business of online search upside down. (The next chapter in this sci-fi novel: ChatGPT gains sentience, turns our own long-trusted devices against us, and subjugates the human race. But that's probably still a few years away, so chill out, and, as Warren Zevon famously recommended, Enjoy every sandwich.)The music industry is actually a little ahead of the curve on this topic. Because language-based 'generative AI' platforms are already transforming this business in a meaningful way – in the world of lyric writing.LyricStudio, owned by California-headquartered parent WaveAI, produces original lyrics for songwriters in a style that mimics their own. In this sense, it's 'assistive AI' – a human companion, a muse. "When it comes to curing writer's block, there is nothing as powerful as LyricStudio," its website boasts. Its popularity is already mind-boggling: to date, LyricStudio has been responsible for 'assisting' the creation of over a million songs, from over a million songwriters, musicians and producers. And at least 15% of the people that use it, say LyricStudio, are professional artists.One of those artists, rapper Curtiss King, released a No.1 album (on the US iTunes chart) last summer – with lyrics written/'assisted' by LyricStudio.On this podcast, the co-founder and CEO of WaveAI/LyricStudio, Dr Maya Ackerman, discusses the future for AI and music – especially when it comes to lyric writing. Ackerman has some powerful credentials in the world of generative AI, having studied the field She points out that, so long as everyone behaves ethically, there shouldn't be a huge problem...The Music Business Worldwide Podcast supported by Voly Music.
Lyor Cohen believes that short-form video poses a major threat to the music business. He also thinks it might be the industry's savior.On this MBW Podcast, Cohen – Global Head of Music at YouTube – explains his fears over short-form video platforms that fail to push users into deeper engagement with music and artist content."Short-form video that doesn't lead anywhere is the most dangerous thing I've seen the music business face in a long time," says Cohen. Cohen believes that, if left unchecked, the rise and rise in music consumption on this type of short-form video platform could become one of the music industry's "biggest crises to date".(Cohen doesn't mention any particular platforms, but it's worth noting that there's been a lot of headlines written on MBW this year about TikTok's failure – so far, at least – to launch a connected music service to its main platform.)Cohen argues that YouTube's approach with its YouTube Shorts product offers an important distinction: A platform that hooks you in with short-form video – but then nudges would-be fans to longer/deeper audio and visual content about artists on both YouTube and YouTube Music.Cohen lays out three problems he sees growing to a head in the current music business:Problem No.1, he says, is an expectation for modern artists to spend a significant amount of their time, creativity and energy on certain social media platforms – platforms that in Cohen's view rarely lead to deeper fandom amongst consumers;Problem No.2, he says, lies with consumers themselves – and his concern that the next generation of fans aren't currently delving deep into artists, their stories, and their catalogs;And Problem No.3, says Cohen, lies at the door of record companies, who are struggling to break artists with regularity in this current digital environment.He believes the migration of fans away from long-standing social media platforms towards short-form video services is a major opportunity for the music business to foster true fandom in a vast potential audience globally.But he also warns the music business to drop its current "euphoric" state, and think hard about how short-form video's role must evolve to best serve the next generation of fans and artists.The MBW Podcast is supported by Voly Music.
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