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An Introduction to Vertical Social Networks

Buffer

Vertical networks — social platforms solely dedicated to niche interests — are there to support those interests. Reddit may come to mind as it is essentially several vertical networks (subreddits) in one horizontal network. What are vertical networks?

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Why Martech Companies Should Be Terrified of Facebook, Google, and Amazon

Contently

Ad tech funding is dropping rapidly, according to the Financial Times , and investors see dim futures for ad tech companies who can’t compete with Google or Facebook. And they’re bringing superior talent, vertical advantages, and astronomical budgets with them. Could the same thing happen to the martech industry ?

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Amazon and Google now lead two key martech categories as vertical competition heats up

chiefmartech

But as they walked me through their deck, there was another finding of theirs that made me almost fall out of my chair: Amazon and Google have now each jumped into the lead of major martech categories. So the conclusion is that Amazon and Google are now also in the same environments as the traditional vendors.

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5 Disruptions to Marketing, Part 3: Vertical Competition

chiefmartech

Vertical competition presents a greater strategic threat than horizontal competition. VERTICAL COMPETITION. However, there is another kind of competition known as vertical competition. Vertical competitors compete on how much they get to wrest from the total relative to each other. give us digital everything.

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How Ad Serving Businesses Help Google and Amazon Disrupt New Industries 

Martech Advisor

Google and Amazon are steadily encroaching on new industries as the enter new lines of business, and meanwhile most of their new competitors freely give their data to Amazon and Google's ad servers. Do today’s brands have any choice but to continue to bankroll the very companies that are looking to disrupt their business models?

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5 Disruptions to Marketing, Part 3: Vertical Competition (2018 Update)

chiefmartech

VERTICAL COMPETITION (2018 Update). I have been writing about vertical competition in digital marketing for several years: how companies at different points along the pathway between the marketer and the customer exert power and extract value. Amazon Alexa is a great example of a proprietary client.

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Pop quiz: What do Amazon Alexa and Whole Foods have in common?

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The easy answer, of course, is that they’ll both be controlled by Jeff Bezos and the rapidly evolving Amazon empire. But in my worldview, Amazon’s $13.7 But in my worldview, Amazon’s $13.7 For an explanation of such pipelines, see 5 Disruptions to Marketing, Part 3: Vertical Competition.). In real-time.

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