We Get What the Business Model Wants
We Get What the Business Model Wants
Section titled “We Get What the Business Model Wants”
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- Full Title: We Get What the Business Model Wants
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- URL: https://seths.blog/2021/09/we-get-what-the-business-model-wants/
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Section titled “Highlights”- The model for TV in the 1960s was three major networks supported by mass advertising. And so the shows that were produced were banal, reassuring and fairly inexpensive to produce. The goal was simply to keep someone from watching the other two channels. The business model in the Netflix age, with multiple streaming channels racing to gain market share among affluent consumers with a surfeit of choice, is fundamentally different. And as a result, so is the content being produced. It’s not that the TV people wanted to watch suddenly changed–it’s that the economic model for delivering it did.