Recorded Webinars

As a benefit to membership, Music Biz members can freely access our entire back catalog of webinars!

Note: Non-members have access to webinar recordings for three months after the session takes place. Non-members may request access to older webinars, and will be contacted with more information about the Association.

October 12, 2023 – AI Music Search and Discovery

In this webinar, Einar Helde of AIMS API delves into AI’s role in the music industry, focusing on independent labels, publishers, and tech startups. We’ll cover how AI streamlines catalog management, enhances A&R and marketing, and superpowers sync departments. Join us for an in-depth discussion on how AIMS is transforming music operations.

September 28, 2023 – A Very Practical Music Data Course

Master data-based A&R, music marketing, and more in less than an hour. We’ll use Viberate Analytics, one of the world’s leading music data analytics platforms, to demonstrate how industry execs leverage data from streaming, social and other channels to get better results. Through practical, real-world cases, you will learn how to discover new talent, analyze the effect of promotional campaigns, or monitor the popularity of artists you represent.

September 14, 2023 – Panning For Gold: Finding The Hidden Billions In UGC

User-generated content (UGC) is a multi-billion dollar industry. While revenues from streaming are widely reported to be slowing, the UGC market is projected to expand at a compound annual growth rate of 29.4% from 2023 to 2030. Song Sleuth are at the forefront of the UGC industry and have made it their mission to ‘find the unfindable’ — UGC that is currently slipping through the net of existing detection systems of digital platforms. Join company Co-Founder & CTO, Ibrahim Maali as he reveals the true scale of the revenue opportunities from UGC.

May 4, 2023 – Rights Management In The Cloud By Vistex

Join music expert, Aashish Pathak as we discuss the importance of owning the rights to music works, the best way to exploit your titles and associated rights, and how to transfer rights. As we navigate through rights management, we’ll also look at Vistex’s industry-leading, cloud-based software for the music industry and its end-to-end capabilities. Don’t miss this informative webinar on rights management for your organization.

April 20, 2023 – The OpenPlay Network Effect: Beyond Proprietary Systems

Everything works better when we have common ground. This is a truism that the music industry has not always lived by. Proprietary systems throw up hurdles to data management, distribution, royalty collection, and more. OpenPlay works to clear those hurdles and help the music industry get more done faster. It does this by providing labels, distributors, publishers, and other rightsholders with powerful asset management tools that allow them to capture catalog data and assets in a highly relational system that connects all products, assets, and artists. In this webinar, attendees will walk through OpenPlay’s various features, learn how it works, and get a glimpse into a future beyond proprietary systems.

April 6, 2023 – Artist-Centric Financial Innovation With HIFI

Join us for a deep dive into how artists & rightsholders can benefit with companies like HIFI, the financial rights organization for the music industry, who tailor their technologies and services specifically to financially empower its membership of rightsholders across the market. HIFI’s services include HIFI Enterprise, a platform that brings intelligent revenue processing to sophisticated businesses handling royalty data at scale. And 2023 will see the launch of HIFI’s much anticipated Cash Flow service, which accelerates royalty payments to artists in real-time from around the world.

March 23, 2023 – BE THE CHANGE: Gender Equality Study 2023

A discussion of data and findings from the 2023 BE THE CHANGE: Gender Equality Study. In the third installment of the annual TuneCore-sponsored study, panelists will break down the results of this year’s expanded survey in order to raise awareness of gender-based inequities in the music industry and provide actionable insights into how to combat them.

March 16, 2023 – Music Television for the Music Industry

What’s old is new again, and music videos are making a comeback on TV thanks to the wealth of connected television providers making it easier than ever for consumers to access content. However, while TV offers the biggest, cinematic music video viewing experience for fans, the TV screen’s potential for artists is still to be fully realized, including generating incremental revenue for artists at all stages of their career. Over the last few years, Vevo has been at the center of this trend building a global network of partners, harnessing this screen for the music industry. The smart TV offers artists a new internet-enabled platform to connect with audiences and build fan bases through sight, sound and motion.

March 9, 2023 – How to Create a Scalable A&R Incubator Inside Your Label

When your inbox is overflowing with great demos but it’s impossible to sign them all, where do you send them to release? What if you could capture, monetize, and assist those early stage artists release their music with minimal effort, under your own brand, and access their data and analytics for potential upstreaming opportunities in the future? Join DistroDirect CEO Andy Irvine as he explains why premium white label micro-distribution is creating additional revenue sources and opportunities for labels, and allowing music businesses globally to add scale with minimal resources. With any music-aligned business now able to set up a branded distribution portal and set their own pricing and royalty rates, a host of new opportunities are being created to grow revenue and retain customers. With DistroDirect white-label distribution, labels have the power to create their own custom ‘A&R incubators’, leveraging their brand equity to capture, amplify and scale their artist network like never before.

February 22, 2023 – Democratizing Music AI Tech to Support Creators & Services Worldwide

With over 25 million downloads (as of Dec 22’), Moises is democratizing access to AI-powered tools for musicians and creators worldwide. In this presentation, Moises’ VP of Business Development, Matt Henninger speaks to how AI is helping empower and inspire musicians, and covers how AI technologies can drive new levels of interactivity across platforms - potentially unlocking new revenue streams for artists and content owners.