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!

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 ( 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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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! is an episode from Music Ally Focus by Music Ally.

This episode is 00:40:23 long.

This episode was published on Oct 23, 2025.

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