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Dynamic content ate the hosting companies' brainpower

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There's been a big dynamic content push. Yeah. And I think a lot of the hosting company brain power has been tied up in trying to get that up an

Episode 96: Foie Gras (episode page, opens in a new tab) 00:09:57 (play audio from this timestamp, opens in a new tab)

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Summary

Picking up Adam's point from the previous week, Dave agrees that hosting companies have all been in the same mindset of building dynamic ad insertion ('dynamic content', since not all of it is ads), which tied up the brainpower that could have gone to new features.

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    how many hosts are hosting companies. successful ones have just not embraced that at all. And it doesn't seem to be hurting their business one bit.

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