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Axegrinder Friday: Jorge Brea on Streaming Fraud

 Jorge Brea is CEO of Symphonic distribution. Symphonic is a 100% independent company offering full service distribution, marketing, royalty collection and more, for artists, managers, and distributors alike. 
Jorge Is deeply concerned about Streaming fraud and he grinds this axe today.
 
His Full BillBoard Editorial on Streaming Fraud is HERE: https://www.billboard.com/pro/streaming-fraud-music-industry-how-fight-guest-column/

Who Are You and Why Are You Here? Extended Play: Lynn Lowe

 You may have noticed that when a conference happens, I run around with a microphone and ask people, who are you and why are you here? So today we've got a Who are You and why are you here? Extended Play Edition brought to you with the support of Music Services Inc. Music Services is a division of SESAC Music Group, and they've pioneered technology, licensing, and administration solutions to meet the growing needs of record labels and music publishers worldwide.
We sat down with Lynn Lowe from Music Services Inc. Which is the Publishing Administration division of Music Services that the larger music services organization takes its name from.  Lynn and I sat down for the second in a series of chats with key folks from music services at South by Southwest, Lynn is one of the people who makes sure publishers and songwriters get paid and get paid on time and get paid accurately. It's work that a lot of people don't know about, and Lynn explains what she does and how she got there.

Monopolistic practices, egos, confusion, and There She Goes.

Instagram goes hard vs.TikTok and a great viral for the olds.
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Kevin Systrom
Mark Zuckerberg
Lauren Feiner
Instagram
Cyril
Dominic Preston
Andrew Hutchinson
The La's
 
Links:
Systrom Testifies Against Meta
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/world/video/trump-tariffs-china-warehouses-tiktok-digvid
A New Insta Feature
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/instagram-launches-blend-reels-sharing-feature/745690/
Another New Insta Feature
https://www.theverge.com/news/653136/instagram-edits-meta-capcut-clone-tiktok-bytedance
Wait I thought TikTok was OK now...
https://komonews.com/news/nation-world/children-turning-to-tiktok-instead-of-church-for-guidance-summit-ministries-gen-z-jeff-myers
TikTok Bad
https://www.cnn.com/2025/04/21/world/video/trump-tariffs-china-warehouses-tiktok-digvid
YouTube is still King of all Streaming
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/youtube-ctv-market-share-nielsen-gauge-report/745840/
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug

The merch-pocalypse, AI flooding the zone, and Flashback 2000.

Tariffs help choke off one of the last reliable artist revenue streams.
 
Names In Today's Pod:
 
Ed Newton-Rex
Deezer
Tim Ingham
Steve Knopper
Scott Galloway
Infinite Reality
TouchCast
Michael C. Wood
 
LINKS:
Merch Screwed By Tariffs
https://www.billboard.com/pro/trump-tariffs-affecting-music-merch-industry/
Deezer Flooded By AI
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/ai-music-invasion-doubles-on-deezer-20000-bot-created-tracks-now-uploaded-each-day-to-streaming-platform/
Google Monopoly Stuff
https://www.theverge.com/policy/652708/google-search-antitrust-remedies-trial-opening
Ed Newton-Rex on Legislators Flooded by AI lobbying
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/creators-ai-copyright-battle-1236192627/
Infinite Reality: Google or CMGI?
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/18/infinite-reality-acquires-touchcast/
RIP Leap Pad guy
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/04/19/business/michael-c-wood-dead.html?
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

Maximum wage versus minimum wage. EDM goes home. And are we really toing down to a deadline?

Now they call it an apprenticeship??
 
https://unlimitedsupply.podbean.com/e/boomer-school-at-coachella-superfan-saturation-and-it-always-starts-in-the-low-countries/
 
Names In Today's Pod:
 
Joel Katz
Jem Aswad
Steve Knopper
OVO Dam Milmo
Michael Beckermann
TikTok
BeatPort
 
LINKS:
RIP Joel Katz
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/18/music-industry-says-goodbye-to-legal-heavyweight-joel-katz/
For Shame, OVO
https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4185793215/?refId=r3iJxy4O1om%2FWdgbnf%2BLJg%3D%3D&trackingId=r3iJxy4O1om%2FWdgbnf%2BLJg%3D%3D
Coachella YouTube Streams Matter
https://www.billboard.com/pro/coachella-youtube-livestream-global-fan-engagement-artists/
TikTok Washington Fixer Leaves
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/17/tiktok-us-head-of-policy-steps-down/
EDM Surges on TikTok
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/20/views-of-tiktok-posts-with-electronic-music-outgrow-those-using-indie?utm_source=chatgpt.com
EDM Comes Home
https://www.internationalmusicsummit.com/ims-ibiza
Beatport awards
https://www.beatportal.com/articles/849573-the-beatport-awards-2025-categories-nominees-announced
Are Heidi and Spencer really still a thing?
https://events.variety.com/entmar2025/home?
Jazzfest
https://www.nojazzfest.com/music/
StageCoach
https://www.nojazzfest.com/music/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

Unlimited supply turns One, repeating things five times, and other lessons.

It's Unlimited Supply's first anniversary!!!
 
Names in the pod today:
 
Syd Schwartz
Ed Christman
Record Store Day
Denis Ladegaillerie
Believe Music
Charles Goldstuck
Goldstate
DMN's Investment Rundown
Paul Resnikoff
Mandy Dalugdug
Tony Van Veen
Daniel Ek
 
LINKS:
Syd on RSD
https://jazzandcoffee.substack.com/p/post-mortem-record-store-day-2025
Billboard on RSD https://www.billboard.com/pro/record-store-day-2025-report-swift-sales-long-lines-weather/
Denis Solidifies Believe Hold
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/denis-ladegaillerie-backed-by-eqt-and-tcv-makes-move-to-fully-acquire-believe/
Goldstuck raises 5 Rods https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/charles-goldstucks-goldstate-raises-500m-to-buy-music-blishing-make-for-even-odder-rights-with-investment-from-northleaf-capital-and-ares-management/
DMN tracks the investment Boom
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/pro/weekly-music-funding-q1-2025/
How Much Spotify is not paying the Long Tail
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/17/spotify-stream-minimum-estimate/
How Much Daniel Ek Cashed out this week
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/spotify-ceo-daniel-ek-continues-share-sale-streak-cashing-out-another-28-2m/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.FM
Hangout.fm

Festival counter-fomo, Brookchella, and a dead cat bounce?

Rock is back. Again. It never went away, Again. Is it a dead cat bounce?
 
Names in the Pod today:
Jonathan Azu
Alison Hagendorf
Mark DiDia
Spotify
Zoom
Rich Schaefer
Reggie Watts
Gideon Gottfried
Coachella
Bonnaroo
Rae Isla
 
LINKS:
Rock Takes a Holiday
https://www.techradar.com/news/live/spotify-down-april-2025
Worker Bees Touch Grass
https://www.theverge.com/news/650123/zoom-down-outage-video-calls
Pollstar Live hub
https://news.pollstar.com/2025/04/14/pollstar-live-2025-hub-stevie-nicks-jelly-roll-lns-michael-rapino-kevin-cronin-fireaid-aegs-rich-schaefer-kevin-lyman-more/
Reggie Watts Does not love Coachella
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/16/reggie-watts-coachella-lost-its-soul/
Bonnaroo looks like fun
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/16/fyre-festival-2-postponed-all-tickets-refunded/
Gullible suckers get refunds
https://variety.com/2025/music/news/fyre-festival-2-postponed-tickets-refunded-no-new-date-1236371077/
Scene Silver Lake
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPmgYqTjMIA
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout
Https://hangout.fm

Lost in the chaos, No rush for TikTok, and clipping on the rise.

Clipping Campaigns...Fad or revolution?
 
Names in the pod today:
TikTok
Kevin O'Leary
James Hale
Andrew Hutchinson
Alex Heath
OpenAI
Gametune
DDG
 
Links:
NO hurry for Bytedance
https://www.tubefilter.com/2025/04/11/tiktok-us-earnings-bytedance-sale/amp/
https://www.theverge.com/openai/648130/openai-social-network-x-competitor#comments
OpenAI Social Net?
https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/open-ai-considers-its-own-social-network/745467/
Clipping Campaigns start to roll..
https://www.cnn.com/2024/10/28/media/election-social-media-video-clips-viral/index.html
https://www.instagram.com/p/DIRZp8xOvZA/
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anthony-pisano-7ba19040_futureofmusic-contentstrategy-creatoreconomy-activity-7316129994357776384-Oq8N/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm
Lydia's V30
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug

Attacks on your sanity, a tax on your sanity, and tech on your sanity.

Pexit!
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Amadea Choplin
Pex
Vobile
Chris Castle
Jack Dorsey
David Solomon
Paolo Confino
Ashley King
Marissa Mayer
Dolby
 
LINKS:
Pexit
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/amadeachoplin_pex-vobile-activity-7317561716727238657-9H4w?utm_sourcet=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAAC_y4Bj_55MYX2ryKaHuxhU84V4OgAAeM
Chris Castle Recognizes Patterns
https://musictech.solutions/2025/04/14/does-publicly-available-ai-scraping-mean-they-take-everything-or-just-anything-thats-not-nailed-down/
Maybe agentic AI will come for the bankers first.
https://fortune.com/2025/01/17/goldman-sachs-ceo-david-solomon-ai-tasks-ipo-prospectus-s1-filing-sec/?utm_source=generativeaienterprise.ai&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=goldman-cuts-time-to-value-by-95
I guess Jack Dorsey wants to give up his patents and Trademarks
https://www. ..digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/14/jack-dorsey-ip-comments/
Perplexity AI on AI data Training -- How (small m) meta!
https://www.perplexity.ai/page/jack-dorsey-and-elon-musk-call-nLediHtgRhudPAtW9n7MDA
A long Apple Tradition
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/13/apple-music-quietly-adds-dolby-atmos-support-for-windows/
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm

Boomer school at Coachella, superfan saturation, and it always starts in the low countries.

Superfans, Superfans, and...Bernie Sanders
 
Names In Today's Pod:
Nick Holmsten
Tim Ingham
Syd Schwartz
John Semley
Bernie Sanders
Glenn Peoples
Mark Mulligan
Tatiana Cirisano
Dylan Smith
Pollstar
Music Sustainability Alliance
 
 
LINKS:
Bernie Schools the Infuencers
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bernie-sanders-coachella-2025-clairo-1235945316/
Spotify Squeezes the Low Countries
https://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2025/04/11/spotify-price-increases-benelux-april-2025/
Superfan Streaming predictions
https://www.billboard.com/pro/superfan-music-streaming-how-much-money/
A new Superfan Challenger Bank
https://www.musicbusinessworldwide.com/nick-holmsten-launches-superfans/
Record Store Day Precaps
https://jazzandcoffee.substack.com/
https://www.billboard.com/lists/record-store-day-2025-best-releases/
https://defector.com/how-record-store-day-became-the-stupidest-day-in-music
Pollstar Live
https://www.pollstar.live/flow/ovg/psl25/landing/page/page
Music Sustainability Summit
https://www.musicsustainability.org/summit
 
 
RoyFi
https://www.RoyFI.com
Hangout.fm
Https://hangout.fm