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Next Biz Thing #420 vibebeats.ai
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- Sep 14, 2026
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Summary
VibeBeats https://vibebeats.ai Markus J. Diplama looks at VibeBeats, the Burleigh Heads company rebuilding how commercial venues handle their music. Launched in 2026 by founder Damien King, VibeBeats streams a direct licensed catalogue that sits outside PRO administered repertoire, so one subscription replaces the OneMusic, APRA, ASCAP, BMI and PRS paperwork that most cafe, gym and hotel owners never wanted to deal with. The episode covers its smart AI DJ, daypart scheduling, the multi venue dashboard and the Certificate of Compliance, and why compliance is quietly being absorbed into the products we use. Worth a listen if you run a room full of people. Think about the last café you walked into and genuinely enjoyed being inside. Not the coffee, not the chairs, not even the light coming through the window. Think about what you heard. There was almost certainly music playing, and if the owner got it right, you never once consciously noticed it. That is the strange thing about sound in a business. When it works, it is invisible. When it is wrong, it is the only thing in the room. Welcome back to The Next Biz Thing. I am Markus J. Diplama, and this is the show where I go looking for companies quietly solving problems that most of us have never stopped to name. Some of them are building something that will reshape an entire industry. Some of them are simply refusing to accept that a broken process has to stay broken forever. Today's company is doing a bit of both, and it begins with something almost every venue owner on the planet has dealt with, usually badly, and usually without realising quite how exposed they were. The company is called VibeBeats, and they are based in Burleigh Heads, on the Gold Coast in Queensland, Australia. They launched in July of 2026, founded by…