Digital Platforms
topic on 3 shows · 3 statements across 3 episodes
3 statements about Digital Platforms, every show
Advertising Outperforms Subscriptions for Platforms via Price Discrimination
“Ads are just much better at price discrimination. And so if you have a billionaire in your audience and you also have a college kid in your audience and you're charging 10 dollars a month, they both pay 10 dollars a month. But if you're doing an ad based model…”
Ek: K-Pop entertainment companies employ internal software developers for platforms
“Not just from sort of maximizing The recorded side, but actually thinking about sort of fan development all the digital platforms, they have their own developers programmers building specific platforms.”
Callaghan: Digital platforms lack labor checks, leading to creator exploitation
“There's no checks and balances when it comes to the ownership and management of all these new digital platforms. Like you see all these TikTok kids get exploited way, way worse than I did. I mean, it's not like the movie industry where you have overtime sheets…”