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EP 11: DOWNSTREAM (Liz Pelly)

New Models

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The Death of Buzzfeed

So we're seeing attention economies so doing anything possible just to get the clicks and then you're seeing platforms which are going to change their algorithm secretly because there's the whole fetish around trade secrets. So buzzfeed may have optimized for video or look at all the people that did pivot to video only defined by the time they actually launched their platforms. You have this really weird nebulous cloud of of different agents spending that shit ton of money but in the meantime who are the casualties like listeners or communities that are trying to make a living? I think about spotify shares that all the other big big stack platforms is first of all it flattens everything right and another aspect of that is the loss of

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