Event Recording Archive

Music Biz is proud to provide you with industry-defining data and commentary from our members and trusted research partners via recordings of our Common Ground Webinar Series, Music Biz Passport events, and other one-off virtual events!

March 6, 2025 – Make Metadata Work for You & Your Artists

Recorded Webinars

Why is metadata important? Why does clean metadata mean better royalties? How can you streamline your metadata processes? Get answers to these questions in this webinar with Noctil founder Jacob Varghese! During this session, Jacob explains the basics of metadata, the impact it has on rightsholder revenues and outline metadata best practices. Kortnee Borden from ACTRA RACS joins the webinar to explain how they worked with Noctil to streamline the ingestion and processing of artist and sound recording metadata.

February 20, 2025 – How to Scale as an Independent Music Business

Recorded Webinars

In this webinar, Revelator will explore how independent music businesses can scale successfully while staying in control. The discussion will focus on strategies for growth, maximizing revenue and maintaining creative freedom, all while addressing key operational challenges. To make this conversation actionable, you’ll also hear real-world success stories about implementing these strategies from Revelator partners Highvibes, Immigration Records and Rebellion Records.

February 6, 2025 – Elevate Your Game: Video Content That Boosts Streams

Recorded Webinars

In today’s streaming landscape, video assets are more than a requirement—they’re a powerful connection between artists and fans. Join this webinar to discover how Rotor empowers indie artists, record labels, and distributors to craft captivating visuals like Spotify Canvas videos, Apple Music Album Motion, and more. Learn how to use your own content or Rotor’s tools to quickly produce fresh, standout visuals for every release. Don’t just comply—captivate, engage, and elevate yours or your artists’ presence.

December 5, 2024 – This is Deezer

Recorded Webinars

Deezer is the world’s second largest independent music streaming platform. Find out why Deezer should be part of your international campaign strategy and how our tools can help grow your audience around the world. At Deezer, we Live the Music!

December 3, 2024 – Lessons From Abroad: What the Move to Regulate Streaming Services Means for the Music Industry

Music Biz Passport Recordings

In this panel, industry experts discuss the real & potential ripple effects of recent decisions around regulating music streaming services, the challenges that lie ahead, and how the music sector and governments can chart a path for growth and sustainability for today’s largely streaming driven marketplace that reflects how music is made and how artists reach their fans around the world.

November 21, 2024 – AI for Productivity in the Music Business

Recorded Webinars

AI is not the creative one, you are! Reprtoir is convinced that the brighter days of AI revolve around productivity and automation rather than creation. We all want AI to do the tedious part of the job. And as is the workspace for record labels and music publishers to streamline their business, this is exactly what Reprtoir does for music professionals. In this exclusive webinar with the Music Business Association, discover the use of AI also our feature Libraries by Reprtoir: a way to share your music catalog with selected prospects and partners, enhanced by AI like auto-tag filters and similarity search. Reprtoir gives seamless access to explore assets, a customizable, user-friendly experience to maximize your catalog's reach and impact.

November 7, 2024 – The Artist Friendly Approach: Empowering Artists Through Partnership

Recorded Webinars

Discover how Guin Records and KOGO collaborate to empower artists like Curtis Waters and Asha Imuno. We’ll explore our Artist Friendly Approach, sharing insights on creating impactful, artist-centered campaigns.

October 24, 2024 – How New Tech Is Narrowing The Space Between Artists & Fans

Recorded Webinars

Tradable Bits helps many of the industry's most well-known and well-loved artists, promoters, and venues engage with fans at scale. By acquiring, analyzing, and activating on fan PII data, Tradable Bits' clients are able to make more informed business decisions, generate additional revenue, create new saleable media inventory, attract high value sponsors, and deliver a better fan experience before, during, and between shows. This webinar will delve into the latest technological innovations refining fan journeys through the lens of real-life case studies from the world of music and sports.

October 10, 2024 – Music Publishing In The Cloud

Recorded Webinars

The Vistex Music Cloud is the future of music publishing rights and royalty solutions. In this session, we will look at the industry challenges and opportunities faced by music publishers. We will dive into specific topics such as handling associated metadata for musical works and managing the creation, acquisition and editing of large catalogs. The Vistex Music Cloud boasts a powerful calculations engine for complex royalty agreements, along with intuitive analytics and statements for cross departmental usage.

October 8, 2024 – WANA – the Fastest Growing Music Market in the World

Music Biz Passport Recordings

EMPIRE’s Head of WANA, Suhel Nafar discusses the trends opportunities and challenges for music in West Asia and North African with Nina Zidani of Levantine Music. Key topics include market trends, digitizing the region, and glocalization (global-local mentality).