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Tech business models videos

Tech-industry videos are easier to evaluate when you trace customers, creators, advertisers and platform operators separately. A product can be useful to one group while extracting value or shifting risk to another.

Distribution power and the difficulty of alternatives

Muller’s Facebook critique concerns access to an audience. Olson’s VidMe essay examines why a competing platform needs more than opposition to the incumbent. Read them together as arguments about incentives and distribution, not a complete history of either service. Ask which side pays, which side supplies valuable work and who can change the rules after others have invested.

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Platform policies and business models change. An account of a past failure does not establish that every alternative must fail in the same way.

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