Re:Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutti...
by nradov on Thursday January 11, 2024 @11:32AM
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So in other words you are contributing to the enshittification of e-commerce, giving the smaller sites the same hostile customer experience as Amazon. I don't blame you, might as well make some money off the trend while you can. But I doubt that this will end well for the sites themselves. If they can't deliver a better experience than Amazon then customers will just stick with Amazon.
Re:Twitch layoffs: Amazon-owned livestreaming platform cutti...
by novagameco on Thursday January 11, 2024 @12:51PM
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The way I see it (and the way I see all OpenRTB advertising) is that we are helping to give a competitive edge to smaller, more independent sites so that they can survive against huge corporations like Amazon. Without higher yield advertising, independent publishers and new organizations can't survive and ecommerce sites can't compete. Unless people start paying for subscriptions to certain services or choosing to utilize smaller businesses at a higher cost and slower delivery times (which they will do neither of willingly), the open advertising system is the financial engine which keeps the internet from consolidating into a walled garden of just a handful of sites.
The company I work for is working on a retail media system so that smaller ecommerce sites can get paid to promote results by advertisers in the same way that they can get paid to show banner ads: the advertiser knows nothing about the retailer and vice-versa. The advertiser offers their products on our DSP and the ecommerce site makes their inventory available to us on our SSP and we connect the two