Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the weeklong “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” series on PYMNTS.com is just beginning. The final stop for the Market Platform Dynamics team is ‘Open Platforms’: loves me or loves me not?
David Evans: Loves Me
Wouldn’t you love to have a business where everyone else does all the work, […]

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the weeklong “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” series on PYMNTS.com is just beginning. The fourth stop for the Market Platform Dynamics team is ‘Rewards’: loves me or loves me not?
Karen Webster: Loves Me
The card industry did a beautiful thing when it decided that it needed to layer […]

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the weeklong “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” series on PYMNTS.com is just beginning. The second stop for the Market Platform Dynamics team is social commerce: loves me or loves me not?
Tim Attinger: Loves Me
I love my mobile, and my mobile loves me~!  To be fair, once upon a […]

Valentine’s Day has come and gone, but the weeklong “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” series on PYMNTS.com is just beginning. The second stop for the Market Platform Dynamics team is social commerce: loves me or loves me not?
Karen Webster: Loves Me
What’s not to love about social commerce? When done well, it will allow me […]

February 14th marks a day that is symbolic of Hallmark cards, heart-shaped boxes of chocolate, teddy bears and occasionally, love. PYMNTS.com has asked the team at Market Platform Dynamics to participate in our Valentines Day series looking at the payments industry and providing a “Loves Me” or “Loves Me Not” perspective. […]

IQPC recently hosted a summit on Mobile Commerce on the waterfront in the City by the Bay and invited Market Platform Dynamics to keynote. The event, hosted in San Francisco at the nexus of technology innovation, drew a diverse mix of mobile start-ups, payments companies, major retailers, and online media properties. The conference focus was […]

“Network effect” strategy – once you tip the scale, growth is (hopefully) soon to follow. At least that’s what long time platform master Microsoft has experienced and what

David Evans’ paper, Markets with Two-Sided Platforms, discusses how these two-sided platform businesses serve distinct groups of customers and need each other in some way. They provide these customers a real or virtual meeting place, and they facilitate the interactions between members of these customer groups. They essentially act as intermediaries between the two groups […]

The Review of Network Economics Journal features “The Economics of the Online Advertising Industry” by David S. Evans.
This article considers the Internet-based technologies that are revolutionizing the global advertising industry and the public policy issues they engender. Will a single ad platform emerge or will several remain viable? What are the consequences of alternative […]

The Federal Trade Commission will hold two days of workshops today and tomorrow, December 1st and 2nd to explore how the Internet has affected journalism.
Watch David Evans present live at 4:30 PM EST Today, December 1st.
The workshop will assemble representatives from print, online, broadcast and cable news organizations, academics, consumer advocates, bloggers, and other […]