The power when you're customizing the ads down to the level of the individual and what you know about them and what they've been clicking on and their demographics, like, how incredibly powerful that is. And an advertiser's going to pay more for that, right? You realize the extent to which facebook inevitable. It's always that multise process. You have a new medium, then you have the imitation of the medium that came before, that doesn't work very well. Then you figure out what the new medium can do that. The old medium can't. And then step three, you moditize it. But podcast has the gap where the ot of time people spend listening
Ben and James discuss Dithering, how Spotify is like Facebook, and a bit about working from home.
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- Ben Thompson & John Gruber: Dithering — Dithering
- Ben Thompson: Dithering and Open Versus Free — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: The Daily Update Podcast — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: Spotify’s Podcast Aggregation Play — Stratechery
- Ben Thompson: America Wakes Up?, An Interview with Matt Mullenweg About Working From Homey — Stratechery Daily Update
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