Sublime

An inspiration engine for ideas

AllPeopleCollectionsArticlesAudioBooksFilesHighlightsImagesLinksNotesTextTweetsVideosSocial

Last year, we conducted the first rigorous analysis of the millions of Americans who produce

Siddhartha Aneja • Taking Root: The Growth of America's New Creative Economy

Spotify has already learned that there’s no money to be made with exclusive rights to superstar offerings. “After pouring billions into podcasts and audiobooks to little effect,” explains tech journalist David Pierce, “it seems to have largely given up on the idea that exclusive content is the path to riches.”

The more profitable move is to manipula... See more

Ted Gioia • Nobody Will Tell You the Ugly Reason Apple Acquired a Classical Music Label

In her 2014 book Blockbusters, Harvard Business School professor Anita Elberse showed how mega hits have become more important across the whole entertainment industry. “Smart executives bet heavily on a few likely winners. That’s where the big payoffs come from,” she writes.

John Seabrook • The Song Machine: How to Make a Hit

2015年那波股市的大规模转移数据，底部85%投资者损失掉2500亿。来源：《Wealth Redistribution in Bubbles and Crashes》 https://t.co/ComG8inHpM

Time Horizon

x.com

In many instances, companies have leveraged structural advantages to achieve seemingly unassailable positions in their relative markets. Streaming services that host user-generated content (UGC) have significant advantages over other services due to copyright ‘safe harbours’, which has led to the dominance of services like YouTube. We have been tol... See more

Fame

sari and • 20 cards

what they say about contemporary culture, what they can actually do for audiences, and what they can offer contemporary social relations.

Jen Harvie • Fair Play: Art, Performance and Neoliberalism (Performance Interventions)

Content suppliers cancelled their license agreements. A weaker Netflix also became vulnerable to stepped-up attacks from Amazon and Apple .11 Figure 10.4 shows the movement of Netflix’s share price in the three months after the price increase in July 2011. The moral: one should avoid arrogance in pricing, especially after a run of enviable success.