{"id":8604,"date":"2019-02-19T18:43:03","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:43:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/digital.hbs.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/can-short-form-video-sustain-a-new-platform-quibi-believes-it-can\/"},"modified":"2019-02-19T18:43:03","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T23:43:03","slug":"can-short-form-video-sustain-a-new-platform-quibi-believes-it-can","status":"publish","type":"hck-submission","link":"https:\/\/d3.harvard.edu\/platform-digit\/submission\/can-short-form-video-sustain-a-new-platform-quibi-believes-it-can\/","title":{"rendered":"Can short form video sustain a new platform? Quibi believes it can."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Quibi will soon be launching their innovative new platform to deliver high quality short form video content to users. In July of 2018 the Quibi team announced they raised a one billion dollar series A round that included Alibaba and all 6 (now 5) major Hollywood studios as investors [2]. This ambitious blending of Silicon Valley and Hollywood is being led by two of the most successful members of each community with Meg Whitman [CEO Ebay 1998-2008, CEO HP\/HPE 2011-2018][3] spearheading the technology and Jeffrey Katzenberg [Chair The Walt Disney Studios 1984-1994, Co-Founder & Chairman of Dreamworks SKG\/Dreamworks Animation 1994-2017][4] bringing a career of media expertise.<\/p>\n

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Quibi will be a short form content video platform with several key differentiators from other digital video companies. Like YouTube, Quibi will be a platform that hopes to connect an ever growing user base with many producers of content and a network of advertisers in a virtuous cycle that makes the platform more valuable to each side with each additional participant. Quibi intends to differentiate itself from YouTube by supporting a much higher quality product than currently exists on the YouTube platform (up to $6 million per episode [5]). On the other end of the spectrum they intend to differentiate themselves from Netflix by focusing on the building of a multi-sided platform rather than simply controlling and providing content.<\/p>\n

Some innovative pieces of Quibi’s planned model:<\/p>\n