BPI launches new Innovation Podcast series

Episode 1: “The Innovation Landscape of the Recorded Music Industry” airs 15 August and features guest contributors Pat Carr (Remote Control) and Tanguy Giraud (Marathon Music Group)

Building on its various innovation-led initiatives of the past 12 months, including its groundbreaking Grow Music partnership with London & Partners announced in July, the BPI is excited to now launch its series of BPI Innovation Podcasts.

Set to air fortnightly on alternate Thursdays, the BPI Innovation Podcast will aim to spotlight the most interesting, innovative ideas being developed across the music industry today. They will look to highlight exciting new technologies that are powering or are being powered by music and by the innovative record labels and start-ups collaborating successfully to shape the future of our industry.

Hosted by BPI’s Innovation Manager, Amalie Briden, and produced by the BPI’s Laura Bower, each episode will explore a key issue – and the opportunities or challenges that come with this. It will bring together record label executives and start-up founders, drawn from across the BPI’s community of members and partners, to explore their unique perspectives.

Episode 1, The Innovation Landscape of the Recorded Music Industry, will go live on Thursday, 15th August and can be found here. This inaugural edition will explore how record labels and tech start-ups can collaborate to anticipate and shape future trends and needs. In conversation with host Amalie Briden will be Pat Carr (Founder, Remote Control and Co-owner, The Vertex Music Label) and Tanguy Giraud (COO & LABs Program Director, Marathon Music Group).

The BPI Innovation Podcast series is designed for anyone working in, or interested in the recorded music industry and the tech start-ups and scale-ups that are shaping meaningful change in how we discover, consume and engage with music.  Listeners can tune in to hear case-studies and real-world examples of how innovation is blossoming in the music industry, and so better understand the types of partnerships that are flourishing between labels and start-ups.

BPI Innovation Manager and Innovation Podcasts host, Amalie Briden, said:

“The past few months have seen many exciting developments, not least our Grow Music partnership with London & Partners, as the BPI looks to expand its engagement in the innovation space – both to support our record labels and tech partners in developing meaningful opportunities and to help promote the increasingly groundbreaking work already taking place. This latest initiative, the BPI Innovation Podcast series, will help us to amplify this essential work still further, and we hope many more opportunities will be generated for our members and partners as a result.”