Professional Documents
Culture Documents
2
Theories
Theories
Loss in classifieds
3
Proposed
Proposed solutions
solutions
Allow mergers
4
Only
Only two
two facts
facts
5
Switching
Switching
Browsing
Free content
Aggregators,
social networks
and search
6
Single-homing
Single-homing consumers
consumers
7
Our
Our assumptions
assumptions
8
The
The impression
impression game
game
Morning Afternoon
Outlet 1
Outlet 2
Wasted
Impressions
10
Solving
Solving the
the dilemma
dilemma
No switching
Pure multi-homing
No tracking (Bergemann-Bonatti)
Coordination in time
Perfect tracking
11
Advertiser
Advertiser demand
demand
To impress switchers,
want to increase Multi-homing
frequency … at the
cost of wasted loyal Multi-homing +
impressions Frequency
Higher value
advertisers more
willing to bear costs
Quantity (Advertisers)
12
Market
Market clearing
clearing
Price
The equilibrium
impression price is set Supply
by a single-homing
advertiser.
2a
Quantity (Advertisers)
13
More
More switchers
switchers
Price
More switchers
reduces demand for Supply
multi-homing
Quantity (Advertisers)
14
Endogenous
Endogenous ad
ad capacity
capacity
Profits
Outlets compete in
Cournot fashion due to
presence of switchers
Increase in switchers
causes expansion in ad
capacity in equilibrium
‘Potential’ U-Shaped
relationship
Share of switchers
15
Perfect
Perfect tracking
tracking
Profits
inefficient matching is
eliminated …
Share of switchers
16
Impact
Impact of
of blogs
blogs
Price
decrease available ad
capacity in the market …
Quantity (Impressions)
17
Paywalls
Paywalls
18
Conclusions
Conclusions
19
Future
Future directions
directions
20