Another YouTuber couch apology
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Another YouTuber couch apology
- Amazon’s ad business is bigger than YouTube and more profitable than AWS. Shein is the biggest fast-fashion retailer in the US, with no stores. US pay TV subscribers have fallen by a third. Where do ad budgets go, where does rent go, and how many brands will there be?
from TV, merchant media and the unbundling of advertising — Benedict Evans by Benedict Evans
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- one thing I saw growing up in South London in the 1980s as supermarkets deployed was that small food shops tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that supermarkets themselves couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was the de... See more
from Lists Are the New Search — Benedict Evans by ben-evans.com
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Revisited: one thing I saw growing up with the Internet as Google grew, was that small lists and directories tended to disappear, and then re-appear in new incarnations, providing service, curation and selection that Google itself couldn't match, for people willing to search them out and of course pay the premium, and where there was enough interest to support this. They didn't scale - they didn't turn into chains of 30 indie directories networks - but they often prospered.
- 2. The big get bigger - The antithesis of greenfield, today’s big box retailers and large tech incumbents often suck the air out of the room and capture disproportionate share of consumer spend.
from Roadmap: Enabling entrepreneurship in the creator economy by Bessemer Venture Partners
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- Five years ago, a YouTuber ago might have run their entire ‘business of 1’ through YouTube. Today, that same creator might chop up clips of their content for TikTok, redirect traffic to their personal site through Beacons, sell their own branded merchandise via Shopify, and offer fan interactions via Cameo.
from Beacons: The Storefront for the Multi-SKU Creator that's Growing 3X Monthly by Sacra
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- (Curator's comment: This is referring to YouTube’s decision to offer YouTube Red, a subscription service for ad-free experience.) They’re getting their highest value users, which are the people that the advertisers actually want to reach to not see the ads and to do brand advertising you need enormous scale, I mean Facebook and YouTube are the only... See more
from YouTube | Acquired Podcast by David Rosenthal
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- Brick-and-mortar grocers have built in geographical demand, but online grocers must pay “rent” to Google, Facebook and other top-of-funnel acquisition tools—and that rent tends to rise over time
from Ultrafast Delivery: The $28B Market to Build the On-Demand Bodega by Sacra
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Accessibility — Ownership often sucks. You have to keep your things tidy, up-to-date, and in the case of digital material, backed up. And in this mobile world, you have to carry it along with you. Many people, me included, will be happy to have others tend our “possessions” by subscribing to them. We’ll pay Acme Digital Warehouse to serve us
... See morefrom Better Than Free by French
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- Smaller, pickup-only grocery stores could offer a few advantages, particularly in metropolitan areas. On the business side, they would reduce two of the biggest cost centers: headcount and footprint. Less expensive sub-street level space could be leveraged for storage, in addition to facilities outside a city. Customers could place orders ahead of ... See more
from Not Found by Aashay Sanghvi
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