Mark Suster talks about the rise in premium content creation that isn't coming from the huge production houses like WB, Paramount, Pixar. In a new trend, Netflix, Hulu, Youtube and Amazon are investing hundreds of millions in creation of original content. Suster calls this "torso tv" meaning it's not the blockbuster head-end and not the UGC long-tail. Torso TV is being created internationally at huge scale for an order of magnitude less cost. In my opinion, the only question that remains, is how to discover this content? I don't think traditional taxonomy is going to work and the aggregators like Youtube will face the challenge of which content to promote. I believe that the masses should help the cream rise to the top and that online communities should be able to find this collection from their social and interest graphs. A platform for social curation. That's what I'm talking about.
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