The Future of What
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The Future of What
Founded by Music Biz President, Portia Sabin as a way to educate musicians on the realities of the music business, The Future of What Podcast has become a forum where the most significant voices in our industry discuss important issues of the day. Tune in as she hosts important industry figureheads...
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Episode #268 — How Bootleg Is Super-Serving Superfans With a New Kind of Merch
Superfans have been discussed as a promising new revenue stream for artists, and Bootleg is leaning into this concept with an app designed to allow fa...
Episode #267 — Gut Instincts and Data: The Constants of A&R’s Evolution
Killphonic Rights is a creator-founded, full-service music company, with Michelle Fantus serving as Head of A&R. Michelle has witnessed the evolution...
Episode #266 — ONErpm’s Artist-First Approach to Business
As a distributor, publishing company, creator of DIY platform OFFstep and one of the world's largest music MCNs on YouTube, ONErpm is considered a ful...
Episode #265 — What It Means to Win A Clio Award: A Chat With Michael Kauffman
The Clio Awards have celebrated advertising & creative works across industries dating back to the 1950s, diversifying into different programs over tim...
Episode #264 — How Has Music Evolved Into Such a Viable Asset Class?
In the past, artists needed to sign with record labels who would take out bank loans in order to provide financing. Now thanks to companies like Sound...
Episode #263 — Assessing the State of AI in Music with Voice-Swap’s Mike Pelczynski @ Music Biz 2025
Mike Pelczynski has been a part of many important conversations on the subject of AI as the Chief Strategic and Innovation Officer of voice conversion...
Episode #262 — Inside Soundstripe’s Music Licensing Strategy with Global Head of Partnerships, Angela Abbott!
Soundstripe is a tech-enabled music licensing company working with brands, agencies and rightsholders, housing 1.5 million users in 160 countries. In...
Episode #261 — Independent Sector Happenings with A2IM’s Lisa Hresko @ Music Biz 2025!
At Music Biz 2025, Lisa Hresko of A2IM moderated a panel on growth strategies for independent music companies, a topic which she touches upon in this...
Episode #260 — Dissecting the State of Physical Music: A Conversation with Carrie Colliton @ Music Biz 2025!
We spoke with Carrie Colliton of DORS & Record Store Day at Music Biz 2025 about the recent sales surge at indie record stores, how sales data from re...
Episode #259 — Democratizing Artist Marketing: A Conversation with Chuka Chase of SymphonyOS @ Music Biz 2025!
We sat down with Chuka Chase, co-founder of SymphonyOS, during Music Biz 2025 to talk about his company, his experience at the Conference, and the con...
Episode #258 — The Impacts Of The Current PRO System On Small Venues
In this episode, we discuss the motivations behind NIVA’s letter to the US Copyright Office in conversation with Tobi Parks of the National Independen...
Episode #257 — A Conversation With Virginie Berger @ Music Biz 2025
We caught up with Virginie Berger, Founder of Don’t Believe the Hype and Advisor at MUSICx; fmr. MatchTune during Music Biz 2025 for a conversation co...
Episode #256 — Jonathan Azu of Culture Collective Talks the State of the Live Industry & More!
This week we speak with Jonathan Azu, founder of Culture Collective, on the state of the live industry, along with some exciting projects & collaborat...
Episode #255 — The Tech and Music Industry Crossover: A Conversation with OpenPlay’s Edward Ginis @ Music Biz 2025!
Edward Ginis, Founder and CEO of OpenPlay, attended his 15th Music Biz Conference this year. In this episode, he discusses how the Conference continue...
Episode #254 — Hear from Lauryn Menard, Creator of the GOB Sustainable Earplug Brand!
The difficulty common earplugs have conforming to each person’s unique anatomy leads to frequent struggles with actually keeping these devices in our...
Episode #253 — The Music Merchandising Experience with Kerstyn Inouye of Top Drawer Merch
Top Drawer Merch began their journey through collaborating with artists to create charity bracelets. Today, they service clients both in and out of th...
Episode #252 — How Friends of Noise is Creating Opportunities for the Youth of Portland
Friends of Noise, an organization supporting the creative youth of Portland, Oregon since 2016, is expanding their educational programming with the op...
Episode #251 — Music Biz in Atlanta: The Horne Brothers Highlight ATL’s Booming Music Economy
Building on our series of interviews with Atlanta locals, we spoke with Byron, Ryon & Tyson Horne, better known as The Horne Brothers. To commemorate...
Episode #250 — Angry Mob Music’s Marc Caruso Addresses What Indie Publishers Need
Independents make up 40% of the publishing industry, and yet, they struggle to leverage deals. Why? It all comes down to industry fracturing that is p...
Episode #249 — Girlilla Marketing’s Jennie Smythe on the Evolution of Digital Marketing & Female Representation
Jennie Smythe, CEO of Girlilla Marketing, not only brings on unique & interesting clients, ranging from local businesses to well-known actors, but has...
Episode #248 — Marketing In The Live Event Sector With Nederlander’s Jamie Loeb
The financial loss our industry faced when touring came to a halt during COVID-19 has brought attention to the importance of the long glossed over liv...
Episode #247 — How The Music Leaders Network Empowers Female, Trans & Non-Binary Music Executives
The Music Leaders Network exists to establish a network of underrepresented female, trans & non-binary music executives and support their industry car...
Episode #246 — Music Biz In Atlanta: Discussing the City’s Thriving Music & Tech Culture with Shachar Oren
With the Music Biz Conference coming to Atlanta for the first time this year, we’re continuing our series of interviews with local executives to learn...
Episode #245 — New Mental Health Study from MusiCares & Amber Health
The music industry’s high-stress and ever-changing nature often leads to the development or exacerbation of mental health issues for artists & profess...
Episode #244 — Maintaining Ethics in AI-Generated Music
Generative AI has taken all creative industries by storm over the last few years, and the technology’s rapid adoption has already led to major headach...
Episode #243 — Music Biz in Atlanta: Tobago Benito of DBS Sounds!
The Annual Music Biz Conference will take place in Atlanta for the FIRST TIME in 2025, gathering more than 2,100 global music professionals in a vital...
Episode #242 — The State of Music Publishing in 2025
The past decade has seen a vast uptick in the importance of the music publishing sector. Publishing rights now account for roughly 30-40% of rightshol...
Episode #241 — Music & Tech’s Trajectory In The Year To Come
2024 was yet another transformative year for the music industry, bolstered by the widespread embrace of AI integration, challenges to the cornerstone...
Episode #240 — Managing Artists In 2024 & Beyond!
With the ever-changing landscape of the music industry, as well as new expectations from today’s artists, it’s time for us to check in on how the mana...
Episode #239 — Ensuring Ethical AI Use With AI:OK’s Dr. Martin Clancy
The misuse of generative AI tech has already tested the status quo of music distribution & streaming, with DSPs being flooded with thousands of fraudu...
Episode #238 — Music Research & AI-Detection Tech With Deezer's Romain Hennequin
Research divisions within music companies often operate to advance the products & services they offer. In the case of Deezer’s most recent research on...
Episode #237 — #iVoted & Leveraging Music To Increase Voter Turnout
#iVoted is a non-partisan, non-profit organization that hosts concerts on election nights & during early voting periods to help drive voter registrati...
Episode #236 — Supporting Women In Music: Interview With Head Bitch Music’s Jessica Vaughn
Following up on her op-ed for our Keeping Tempo series, we’re thrilled to have Jessica Vaughn of Head Bitch Music on our latest episode of The Future...
Episode #235 — How AI Tech & TikTok Consumption Is Changing Our Industry
Since the digitization of the music business began, new tech applications and methods of consumption have helped to redefine how our industry operates...
Episode #234 — Modern Music Royalties Processing
Ray Bush founded The Music Royalty Co. (MRC) in 2014 after identifying opportunities to modernize royalty calculations in the face of music data’s exp...
Episode #233 — Our Employees’ Needs Have Evolved: How Do We Best Support Them?
The events of the last few years, particularly the COVID-19 pandemic, have had a major effect on how people across the globe view work-life balance an...
Episode #232 — Solving Music’s Identity Problem With Switchchord
The complex web of unique identifiers associated with an artist and their body of work can make it extremely difficult for them to interact with publi...
Episode #231 — DiMA President & CEO, Graham Davies
The Digital Media Association (DiMA) represents the world’s leading audio streaming companies and streaming innovators, providing community, resources...
Episode #230 — Diversifying Music Industry Writing Rooms
The music industry has proven time and time again that inclusive practices lead to better productivity and a higher quality of work in all business se...
Episode #229 — Music Fraud Update: Combating Bad Actors From All Angles
The fight against all forms of music fraud has been a major watershed moment for intra-industry collaboration, as was seen in the Music Business Assoc...