Music Tectonics

How Direct-To-Fan Unlocks Revenue

This week on the podcast, we're on revenue multiplier 7 on our Rising Tide miniseries: direct-to-fan.  First, Mag Rodriguez, founder and CEO of EVEN, makes the case tha

Fan Growth Tech: More Fans, Buying More Things

What does it actually take to turn followers into fans who buy?  This week, we're digging into Fan Growth, one of the 8 revenue multipliers in our Rising Tide miniserie

More Music Means More Growth: The New Job of Distributors

What is a music distributor actually responsible for in 2026? This week on the Music Tectonics podcast, we're focusing on distribution and artist services as a revenue

What if Generative AI Grows the Music Business?

What if generative AI actually grows the music business instead of shrinking it? This week, Dmitri Vietze tackles the AI question everyone's tired of hearing about, but f

New Forms of Licensing: How Businesses, Apps, and Games Pay for Music

What happens when businesses, apps, and games use music without really paying for it?  This week we're on the third revenue multiplier of our Rising Tide miniseries: ne

How Music Catalogs Get Valued and Sold

What is your music catalog actually worth, and how would you even find out?  This week we're on the second stop of our Rising Tide miniseries, tackling catalog valuatio

Revenue Recovery: How to Recover Lost Music Royalties

There's no lost and found for your royalties. If you don't claim them, they don't come looking for you, and depending on where the money's sitting, you may only have a fe

Eight Revenue Multipliers of the Music Industry

What's your music catalog actually worth, and where is the industry still leaving money on the table?  This week, Dmitri is joined by our chief writer Tristra Newyear Y

What Multiplies Revenue for Music? (Bonus Episode)

We interrupt this miniseries for a special bonus episode! Last week, we laid out a theory on what technology can do to grow the value of music, so this time we wanted to

What If Tech Grows the Music Industry Instead of Disrupting It?

That's the question host Dmitri Vietze presents to Vickie Nauman, founder of CrossBorderWorks, in this episode of Music Tectonics. Vickie has spent over two decades at th

State of the Music Industry: What Happens After Streaming?

Streaming built the modern music industry, but its growth is slowing in the US and other mature markets. So what comes next?  This week on the podcast, Dmitri sits down

Why is the Music Industry So Small?

Why is the value of the music industry so small compared to other forms of entertainment like gaming and television, even though music seems to be everywhere in our lives

How Do You Value Music Catalogs in 2026?

How do you actually put a price on a music catalog in 2026?    In this panel from our recent Grow the TAM event, Billboard's Elizabeth Dilts Marshall sits down with t

How Will Music Be Monetized in 2030?

What will the music business actually look like in 2030?  In this special panel from the Grow the TAM summit, Tatiana Cirisano, VP of Music Strategy at MIDiA Research,

8 Ways to Grow the Value of Music in 2026

In this episode, Dmitri and Eleanor walk through eight revenue multipliers reshaping the music business in 2026, including catalog valuation, revenue recovery, music lice

Every Object Can Sound: How Playtronica is Reimagining Music Creation

What if you could make music with anything around you? Fruit, water, human skin, or even the weight of objects on a kitchen scale? That's the question Playtronica has bee

The $300 Billion Industry Music Tech is Ignoring

What if the biggest opportunity in music monetization isn't streaming, social media, or live concerts? It's the $300 billion pro AV industry, and most musicians and music

Can Gamification Fix Music Discovery?

Remember when the best music recommendation you ever got didn't come from Spotify's algorithm, but from your coworker, your cousin, or a stranger in another country who l

How TikTok Changed Sync Licensing (and What Cipher Music is Doing About It)

Why are most brands still stuck licensing royalty-free tracks nobody recognizes while short-form content runs on music?  This week, we're sharing a conversation Jade Pr

The Label of the Future: How ONErpm Scaled Without Investors

Emmanuel Zunz, the CEO and founder of ONErpm, has spent 16 years building one of the fastest-growing independent music companies in the world, across 40 territories, with