Every theory about how people discover content in the digital age — from Chris Anderson's long tail, to the stunning success of Netflix and Amazon's recommendation engines, to
the power of aggregators like Reddit — suggests that the links between ordinary people are very important.
Not exact matches
One risk for news companies and publishers is that as more
of their content is found via social networks such as Facebook or
aggregators like Apple News (aapl), the
power of their individual brands tends to decrease.
Whereas Netflix laddered - up to its vertical model and used its
power as an
aggregator of demand to gain
power over supply, Disney is seeking to leverage — and augment — its supply to gain demand.
The implication
of the Smiling Curve is not only that
aggregators have increased economic
power, but that differentiated suppliers do as well; Omni Software is an example.
Whatever force — depression, weather, online review
aggregators — that's been taking a bite out
of this summer's box office receipts appears to have been repelled by the
power of scary clowns; Deadline reports that Andy Muschietti's Stephen King adaptation It is on track to have one
of the most successful opening weekends...
I'm rarely the first to rise to the defense
of Rotten Tomatoes, the review
aggregator that wields increasing
power over a movie's box - office fate.
Takeaway: While content
aggregators seem necessary to deal with diversified content creators, concentration
of power often has negative consequences.
Examples
of these entities include, but are not limited to, independent
power producers,
power marketers and
aggregators (both wholesale and retail), merchant transmission service providers, self - generation entities, and cogeneration firms with Qualifying Facility Status.
What's more, grid operators will need to work with new types
of organizations as automakers, retailers and others «with little or no experience in interfacing with the bulk
power grid» start to take on the role
of aggregator (grouping together 800 - 1,000 plug - in vehicles to provide services like scheduling battery charging based on pricing information and total grid load, or stop charging and reduce load on a targeted basis).
sPower has secured a 20 - year
power purchase agreement (PPA) for 105 MW - AC
of solar
power with community choice
aggregator MCE in California, making it sPower's largest contract
of this type to date, and the largest community choice aggregation (CCA) agreement known to pv magazine.
Spotify is in one sense an
aggregator, in that it increasingly controls access to music listeners, and to the company's credit, it has demonstrated the ability to exercise
power via its control
of music discovery and popular playlists.
The new directory is
powered by Down Payment Resource, the nation's only web - based
aggregator of home buyer programs.