Below you will find pages that utilize the taxonomy term “platform dependency”
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Pink News Cuts Staff After Snapchat Changes and Proves the Platform Risk Was Real
Pink News has proposed cutting up to eleven staff, its second round of redundancies this year, and the stated reason is a change in how the platform distributes publisher content. The platform is Snapchat. Snapchat generates the large majority of the publisher’s revenue.
That last detail is the whole story. Everything else is just the arithmetic playing out.
The deal that looked like a gift Platform publishing programmes always arrive on generous terms.