A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week second edition live conversations with Jay Gilbert and CD Baby's Molly Neuman, Bandcamp's Aly Gillani, and Sean Johnson from Top Drawer.

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Episode 307 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • The Music Industry Is Closing In On A Billion Global Subscribers—with Spotify Out In Front • No Fakes Act, Bill Meant To Curb Unauthorized Digital Replicas, Clears Senate Judiciary Committee • Warner and UMG are Quietly Asking Artists for Their Stems • Four Music Datasets Holding Millions Of Tracks Are Being Shared Among AI Developers Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week live conversation with Jay Gilbert and Nettwerk's Mike Jowett and Partisan Records Zena White.

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Episode 306 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • Google Asserts That YouTube's Terms of Service Allow It to Train AI Models • NMPA Reports Spotify and Amazon Bundling Cost Nearly $500M in Lost Value Since 2024 • WMG Acquires Sureel AI, a Platform That Aims to Protect Music and Other Assets From Unauthorized Use and Monetization • Indie Venues Call For 'Dismantling' the PRO's Blanket Licensing Practice

All of this plus Jeremy Sirota drops in to talk about "Breaking Into The Music Business"

Jeremy's list of 100+ music companies: https://tinyurl.com/4zk88n4u

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Episode 305 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We're At • Will Live Nation & Ticketmaster Really Get Broken Up? • Meta Launches Paid Subscriptions: Is the Era of Free Social Media at an End? • Suno Raised $400M Ahead of New AI Model Made in Partnership With Music Industry Establishment

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Episode 304 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • TikTok's AI 'Text to Song' Trend May Be a Sign of Music to Come • The Midyear Box Score Report Shows Growth — But It Has Finally Slowed Down? • Clipping campaigns: marketing's next move in a fragmented attention economy • A Full List of Music-Related Legislation Before Congress Right Now

Plus an audio drop from Duetti's CEO Lior Tibon

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Episode 303 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • Live Nation Must Be Broken Up From Ticketmaster After Monopoly Verdict, States Tell Judge • Spotify and Universal Music Group strike landmark deal to let fans create AI covers and remixes • Spotify's Head of Music Announces 'Reserved' Ticketing Initiative: • If I Ran Spotify.... Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

Episode 302 This week, your hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • "Blue Dot Fever" is a scalper narrative. Don't fall for it. • Sync Is Dying (Quickly) • Virgin Music Co-CEOs On Downtown Deal, Fighting Fraud With Price and Why They're With a Major • "The Feed Is Fake" Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

This week, hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories: • Rap On Trial: The Long Battle to Keep Hip-Hop Lyrics Out of Court • The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Indy music orgs say artists won't be able to afford it. • Spotify wins motion for arbitration in 'payola' lawsuit • Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI training in answer to Sony Music lawsuit Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning.Coffee

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A Conversation With mtheory EVP of Marketing and Digital Strategy Ed Rivadavia.

In this conversation, we talk about his path, audience growth & engagement, tools & tactics, and even AI as it relates to marketing.

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