Your Morning Coffee Podcast

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A conversation with Manuel Moussallam , the VP of Research & Data Science at streaming service Deezer .    Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with Manuel about a variety of topics, including AI detection, their User-Centric model approach, and the challenges all streaming services have to navigate in the marketplace today.    Subscribe to the newsle...

Episode 309   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Spotify Slashes Streams of Hit Song after Suspicious Activity on Prediction Market Kalshi •   Viberate Opens Music Data to ChatGPT, Claude and Other AI bots Via Official MCP Server Launch •   Google Says AI Training Is Fair Use and Copyright Should Be Policed on Outputs, Not Inpu...

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A conversation with Graham Davies , the prersident of the Digital Media Association (DIMA).   Your hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart chat with Graham about a variety of topics from their recently released 2026 Annual Report.    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 308   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Suno Launches Artist Incubator, Offering Grants and Marketing to Indie Talents •   Why Artists Can't Ignore Vanity Metrics •   The Science Behind Ticketing: How Artists & Their Teams Price Tours •   The Label Model Is Training Artists Not to Need Labels   Subscribe to the newslet...

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week second edition live conversations with Jay Gilbert and CD Baby's Molly Neuman , Bandcamp's Aly Gillani , and Sean Johnson from Top Drawer .     Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 307   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  The Music Industry Is Closing In On A Billion Global Subscribers—with Spotify Out In Front •   No Fakes Act, Bill Meant To Curb Unauthorized Digital Replicas, Clears Senate Judiciary Committee •   Warner and UMG are Quietly Asking Artists for Their Stems •   Four Music Datasets H...

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: An Indie Week live conversation with Jay Gilbert and Nettwerk's Mike Jowett and Partisan Records Zena White .    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 306   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Google Asserts That YouTube's Terms of Service Allow It to Train AI Models •   NMPA Reports Spotify and Amazon Bundling Cost Nearly $500M in Lost Value Since 2024 •   WMG Acquires Sureel AI, a Platform That Aims to Protect Music and Other Assets From Unauthorized Use and   Moneti...

Episode 305   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  The AI Music Streaming Flood: Where We're At •   Will Live Nation & Ticketmaster Really Get Broken Up? •   Meta Launches Paid Subscriptions: Is the Era of Free Social Media at an End? •  Suno Raised $400M Ahead of New AI Model Made in Partnership With Music Industry Establishment...

Episode 304   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •   TikTok's AI 'Text to Song' Trend May Be a Sign of Music to Come  •   The Midyear Box Score Report Shows Growth — But It Has Finally Slowed Down? •   Clipping campaigns: marketing's next move in a fragmented attention economy •   A Full List of Music-Related Legislation Before Co...

Episode 303   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Live Nation Must Be Broken Up From Ticketmaster After Monopoly Verdict, States Tell Judge •   Spotify and Universal Music Group strike landmark deal to let fans create AI covers and remixes •   Spotify's Head of Music Announces 'Reserved' Ticketing Initiative: •  If I Ran Spotify...

Episode 302   This week, your hosts  Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  " Blue Dot Fever" is a scalper narrative. Don't fall for it. •   Sync Is Dying (Quickly) •   Virgin Music Co-CEOs On Downtown Deal, Fighting Fraud With Price and Why They're With a Major •   "The Feed Is Fake"   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning. Coffee

This week, hosts Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •   Rap On Trial: The Long Battle to Keep Hip-Hop Lyrics Out of Court •   The US Copyright Office is hiking registration fees by 43%. Indy music orgs say artists won't be able to afford it. •   Spotify wins motion for arbitration in 'payola' lawsuit •   Udio admits to scraping YouTube audio for AI trai...

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A Conversation With mtheory EVP of Marketing and Digital Strategy Ed Rivadavia . In this conversation, we talk about his path, audience growth & engagement, tools & tactics, and even AI as it relates to marketing.   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 300 This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •   Concord and BMG Confirm Merger - Observations •   An Idiot's Guide to Music AI •   Universal is Selling 50% of its Spotify Stake, Generating Around $1.4B •   Universal Music Artists Can Reap Millions From Spotify Stock Sale,Thanks to Taylor Swift   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning....

Welcome to another special episode of the Your Morning Coffee podcast, a conversation with Jeffrey Smith , Vice President of Marketing for Alliance Entertainment .   If you're listening to a vinyl LP today, changes are, it came through Alliance. Jay Gilbert sits down to talk about releases on physical products like CDs and vinyl, Alliance vs Amped, and the truth about vinyl buyers who actually own...

Episode 299 This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  In the Age of Generative AI, It's High Time for Artists to Organize. •   The Death of the Record Deal •   How AI Rights Are Changing Record Contracts — and Why Music Attorneys Are Pushing Back •   The Other Vinyl Revolution: Why the Used Record Market Shouldn't Be Overlooked   Subscribe to the...

A Your Morning Coffee Special Episode: A Conversation With RIAA Chairman and CEO Mitch Glazier.   In his 25 years at the RIAA , Glazier has played a vital role in the music industry's transition to streaming and "anywhere, anytime" access to music.    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 298   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •   Everything to Know About the Live Nation Verdict, What It Means for Fans, and What's Next •   Universal's Michael Nash takes aim at 'False narrative of artist Replacement' by AI •   Someone Used AI to Steal a Song •   A Love Letter to the Music Industry in 2026   Subscribe to the newsletter...

A  Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with Oana Ruxnadra , Chief Executive Officer at PopHatch .    Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 297   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •   The State of Music Streaming in 2026 •   As Live Nation Trial Ends, Jury Must Decide If It's a 'Monopolistic Bully' or a 'Fierce Competitor' •   The Music Business Has a Problem. Bill Ackman Just Pounced •   A Folk Musician Had Her Voice Cloned by AI—And Her Recordings Claimed by a Copyrigh...

A  Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with Russ Crupnick , Managing Partner of MusicWatch .   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

Episode 296   This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Inside the Digital Marketing Agency that Creates Your Musical Taste •  The Architecture of Affinity: How Instagram Facilitates Music Superfandom •  The Taylor Swift Effect: Why Music Deals Are Getting Shorter And Smarter   Subscribe to the newsletter! : YourMorning. Coffee

A  Your Morning Coffee Podcast special episode: A conversation with 2X Grammy award winning record producer, A&R executive, music publisher, university professor and president of Pure Tone Music  Pete Ganbarg .   Subscribe to the newsletter! YourMorning. Coffee 

This week, Jay Gilbert & Mike Etchart break down these important music industry stories:   •  Inside the Secret Tactics Digital Marketers Use to Make Songs Go Viral in 2026 •  How Music Streaming Saved the Industry but Stifled the Artist. •  How Prediction Markets Are Changing the Music Industry •  Tools, not tricks: How musicians are actually using AI.   Subscribe to the newsletter: YourMorning....