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✖️ Should we decentralize creativity?
And: Music and wellbeing vs musicians' wellbeing; BTS x Free Fire music video; NFT mint sweet spot; IFPI signals Discord, Reddit as music piracy threats
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Maarten
✘ Kids' behaviours in our current digital age
And: Web3 changing fan power; Metaverse reshaping our lives; How to make our music economy richer?; Google testing AR experiences; UK music venues…
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Maarten
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✘ What happens when music is no longer static?
And: An explosion of spaces for genAI music mavericks; Artists as APIs?; Found fandom families; How media is decentralizing in hopes of solving web2…
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Tristra
✘ Will AI correct the anomaly of the 20th century music business?
The disruptive impact of AI will be seismic. Our questions should be of similar scale.
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Bas Grasmayer
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✘ 2025: The Year of Culture (and Why You Should Care)
And: Music industry as a field of cultural production; Boiler Room sold again; GEMA sues Suno; UMG to dual list in the US?
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Charlotte Caleb
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✘ A cozy web of authenticity - a lesson for world builders
And: Ideas are nothing without...; ARC looking for new home; Progressive ownership through tokens; Takeaways from music marketing bootcamp; How to break…
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Maarten
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✖️ URL vs IRL - Tyler's "What even is an NFT" & Dua Lipa's reluctance for Studio 2054
And: Develop a Jamaican Music System; 1.3 billion online video subscriptions; Indie artists navigating the aftershock of the NFT boom; Travis Scott…
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Maarten
✖️ How the emerging Web3 WILL and WON’T disrupt music streaming
And: Crypto & Black cultural momentum; Where is Spotify HiFi?; TikTok as Spotify's biggest threat?; Top web3 experiments of 2021
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Bas Grasmayer
✖️ Five predictions about music streaming's future
And: The one-artist festival era; Sound.xyz crosses $4M in music NFT resales; music players should be more like maps; US Congress vs Daniel Ek…
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Bas Grasmayer
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✘ Mood Machines, superfans, and music culture that sucks
And: The music-tech ownership ouroboros; The ghosts in the machine; The ugly truth about Spotify
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MacEagon Voyce
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✘ There has to be a better way: How to overcome music industry overload
And: How Pixar fosters collective creativity; Fan pages as marketing tools; Optimizing the constraint; Marketing music to a new generation; How to…
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Justin De Marco
Believe them when they say: touring is breaking musicians
And: Future Proof your Community; UMG's strategy on TikTok; Worldbuilding
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dutchovengirl
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