{"id":8898,"date":"2026-04-13T16:17:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/how-ai-is-threatening-platforms-revenue-streams-harvard-business-review\/"},"modified":"2026-04-13T16:17:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-13T16:17:21","slug":"how-ai-is-threatening-platforms-revenue-streams-harvard-business-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/2026\/04\/13\/how-ai-is-threatening-platforms-revenue-streams-harvard-business-review\/","title":{"rendered":"How AI Is Threatening Platforms\u2019 Revenue Streams &#8211; Harvard Business Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"Byline-module-scss-module__bswM1G__byline\"> <!-- -->by<!-- --> <a href=\"\/search?term=Yuanyuan Gina Cui\" class=\"Byline-module-scss-module__bswM1G__author\">Yuanyuan Gina Cui<\/a>, <a href=\"\/search?term=Patrick van Esch\" class=\"Byline-module-scss-module__bswM1G__author\">Patrick van Esch<\/a> <!-- -->and<!-- --> <a href=\"\/search?term=Jan Kietzmann\" class=\"Byline-module-scss-module__bswM1G__author\">Jan Kietzmann<\/a><\/span><br \/>Over time, the sheer volume of online activity and the convenience of centralized digital services have turned us into a platform-dependent society, shaping markets and labor while seizing <a href=\"\/2022\/05\/the-next-great-digital-advantage\" class=\"ContentLink-module-scss-module__qKDjGa__anchor\">ever-greater shares of our time and daily activity<\/a>. Consumers overwhelmingly rely on the likes of Google for search, WhatsApp for communication, YouTube for entertainment, Instagram for social connection, and Amazon for commerce.<br \/>Harvard Business Publishing:<br \/>Copyright \u00a9<!-- -->2026<!-- --> Harvard Business School Publishing. All rights reserved. Harvard Business Publishing is an affiliate of Harvard Business School.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMie0FVX3lxTE9PTUFpbWNTUk1lRktFWnNlaGVBNURLTzQwQTdzTWlCZ0FZT2h5eFUyak9ITUFlbHQ4c214amNBU3MwN2pmaFJPaXlrSy01RmVCU09LbDlqZFFIdjliVG1PcHVwS1plWmNGSkpXLXYyYkxSQS1IVWpmZExvbw?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Yuanyuan Gina Cui, Patrick van Esch and Jan KietzmannOver time, the sheer volume of online activity and the convenience of centralized digital services have turned us into a platform-dependent society, shaping markets and labor while seizing ever-greater shares of our time and daily activity. Consumers overwhelmingly rely on the likes of Google for search, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8899,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8898","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8898"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8898\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8899"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8898"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8898"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/globalnewstoday.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8898"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}