The advertising platform competition in the Bilateral market of TV media

Television Media Industry; Advertising Platforms; Two-sided Markets

Authors

  • Hong Zhang Chen Hongzhang Chen (1979—)male, born in Xinyu Jiangxi,Collaborative innovation center of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics,Lecturer, Ph. D.;Researching direction:theory and practice of industrial economy; Postal address:No. 169,East Shuanggang Street,Changbei Economic Development Zone, Nanchang city ,Jiangxi Province.
  • Chang nan Wu chang nan Wu(1970—)male, born in Jian Jiangxi,Institute of Industrial Economics of Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics ,Ph. D,Subdecanal,professor。
  • Wang Jianglu PhD student, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, research direction: public finance.

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TV media industry is a typical bilateral market, which takes TV station as the platform and the audience and advertising enterprises are its both side. In the competition between TV platforms, there are program innovation and imitation competition, differentiated program quality competition among TV stations. Competition among TV platforms is conducive to improving the quality of programs, however, the higher quality the TV station is, the higher advertising density would be, which would reduce the utility of consumers. Therefore, it's necessary to control the period and density of advertising insertion in TV stations.