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Quibi's Failure, Instagram's Algorithm, and Nickelodeon Canada

Josh PeckAugust 19, 20258 min1,060 views
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The Rise and Fall of Quibi

  • 💡 Quibi was a streaming platform with a great idea: content native to the phone format, presented in vertical 16:9.
  • 🚀 Despite a huge investment and big-name actors, Quibi failed because it lacked a creator element, functioning more like a traditional streaming service.
  • ⚠️ The platform was launched during COVID-19, a period of high entertainment consumption, yet it still failed, suggesting a fundamental flaw in its concept.
  • 🎯 YouTube Shorts is mentioned as a similar concept, but the key difference is that YouTube Shorts allows for user-generated content, unlike Quibi.

Instagram's "Suggested for You"

  • 🎯 The "Suggested for You" tab on Instagram is compared to a Jehovah's Witness, pushing content users haven't asked for.
  • 🧠 One speaker's algorithm has been
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