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Building a More Trusted Platform for Artists and Listeners
In today’s music landscape, it’s more important than ever for artists to build real connections with their listeners. Artists want to represent themselves authentically, deepen their relationships with fans, and trust that the system carrying their work is transparent and fair. Who’s actually behind a release? How do artists stay in control of what’s released…
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How ‘Superfandom’ is Reshaping Music Streaming’s Next Chapter
By Con Raso, CEO and founder of music cloud platform Tuned Global.Streaming executives from SoundCloud, Audiomack, and Tuned Global say the future of music platforms lies in community, local scenes – and…
Why We Built an AI Music Video Generator That Listens to Songs
In 2021, my co-founders and I began developing the music-vision foundation model that would become Freebeat. The question that drove us, as engineers and lifelong music lovers, was simple: why…
Music, Sports, and the Fans Who Got There First
A couple of years ago, I was standing in a live music venue in my hometown of Paris, France and tears started streaming down my face uncontrollably. The artist on…
AI Is Already Training on Music. The Real Question Is: Who Gets Paid?
AI is already learning from music. Quietly, constantly, and at a scale most people don’t fully see yet. While the industry debates hypotheticals, the real shift has already happened. The…
Creators’ needs now: how SACEM is adapting to new modes of creation
This is the second episode in a two-part series about the evolution of CMOs – recorded as collective management organisations undergo their most significant transformation in decades. In this episode, Sacem’s…
How CMOs are scaling globally, collaborating across industries, and rethinking the creator relationship
Music consumption today is borderless, but the systems that manage it have historically been national. Collective management organisations are undergoing their most significant transformation in decades. On one hand, they…
From Access to Infrastructure: How Managers Can Win at Streaming
For the first decade of streaming, success was largely about access. The industry focused on getting music onto digital service providers as quickly and widely as possible, and solving distribution…
The Foundation of Trust: Why Royalty Infrastructure is the Key to Artist Retention in 2026
Artists and rightsholders have unprecedented leverage over where to house their catalogs. Legacy brand prestige is no longer enough to retain them; instead, your artist network’s loyalty depends heavily on…
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