A monopoly platform hosts advertisers who compete on a market for horizontally differentiated products. These products … advertising reduces the platform's attractiveness but enhances advertisers' market power. If ads are uninformative, the platform … optimally attracts only niche advertising. This is however not feasible if search costs cannot be made su ciently low, in which …

This paper examines incentives for exclusive distribution of content in the presence of advertising. A monopoly seller …-maximising choice, even when distributors also sell advertising airtime. When distributors are purely advertising-funded, however, non …-exclusive contracting may instead be preferred. Advertising revenues accruing directly to the content provider may also generate a …