Winds of change from the East, score a couple for the rights holders, and a "Messy" trend.

Global Power, ChatGPT Power, and Messy Memes

 

Names in the pod today:

Andrew Hutchinson

ChatGPT

Discord

Sarah Perez

Amanda Silberling

Sarah Moses

Monica Kulkarni

Jacob Geskin

 

Links:

Billboard Global POWER

https://www.billboard.com/pro/billboard-global-power-players-2025-list/

ChatGPT on The March in April

https://www.socialmediatoday.com/news/chatgpt-traffic-rising-versus-other-top-visited-websites-infographic/749090/

Surf Provides custom feeds

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/22/open-social-web-browser-surf-makes-it-easier-for-anyone-to-build-custom-feeds/

Score two for the rightsholders

https://www.billboard.com/pro/beastie-boys-social-media-lawsuit-diddy-trial-recap-lil-wayne-case/

How Brands can avoid getting Schooled by the rightsholders

https://www.billboard.com/pro/how-brands-avoid-lawsuits-music-social-posts-op-ed/

Discord Is aware of its issues

https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/23/discord-seeks-to-solve-a-problem-that-it-created/

Music Services

Musicservices.com

Hangout.fm

Https://hangout.fm

Lydia's V30

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tG6NjUzug