With the rise of online media platforms, intensified competition has forced platforms to
develop their content and even to cooperate with rival platforms. It is worth exploring the …

Media platforms generate revenue by bringing consumers and advertisers together.
Although advertisers like to promote their services and products to consumers, consumers …

Some media platforms earn their profits from both consumers and advertisers (eg, Spotify,
Hulu), whereas others earn their profits from either advertisers only (eg, Jango, Tubi) or …

We consider pricing and product-bundling strategies for two competing platforms with two
groups of agents, customers and sellers (independent content developers). In this paper …

We model competition between content distributors (platforms) for content providers, and
show that whether or not content is exclusive or “multihomes” depends crucially on whether …

Monopolistic media platforms (MMPs) are increasingly prominent in the global Internet
media industry due to the lock-in effect of the network economy. A MMP is capable of …

Many digital platform firms cooperate and compete with rivals simultaneously by offering
complementary products of their digital platform to rivals. We develop a game-theoretic …

The value of a two-sided platform to buyers depends critically on the variety of
complementary products available for it, and on their quality. The platform can choose the …

Two-sided markets are composed of platform owners and two distinct user networks that
either buy or sell applications for the platform. The authors focus on multihoming—the …

We consider ad-supported media platforms with incomplete information about the disutility
consumers' experience from exposure to advertising. We characterize the platform's optimal …