What are the music-tech trends in 2025 – and where is it going next? Music Ally's Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow talk AI (of course), tools that empower artists, direct-to-fan and more! episode artwork

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What are the music-tech trends in 2025 – and where is it going next? Music Ally's Stuart Dredge and Joe Sparrow talk AI (of course), tools that empower artists, direct-to-fan and more!

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Ep 172: Taking the pulse of music-tech in 2025. We asked Music Ally’s head of insight, Stuart Dredge, to chat to our managing editor Joe Sparrow about the state of music-tech – and they talk in depth about AI doing your admin, the proliferation of tools designed to empower artists, direct-to-fan monetisation tech,  and more!This podcast connects to Music Ally's latest Insight Report on music-tech in 2025 (https://musically.com/category/reports). This year is the third “Year Of AI” in a row, by our reckoning. So how will people in the industry actually use AI – and in mundane ways? How much can be automated and when do humans need to step into the decision-making process? And if you automate away the mundane tasks, where do entrants in the industry start?

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