Platform Strategies
Paul BelleflammeDiscover concise and insightful case studies on the strategies of leading digital platforms. These engaging analyses are perfect companions to the book "Platform Strategies," co-authored with Nicolas Neysen and published by Routledge.
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When Uber Eats the Hero
In a previous post, I argued that “DoorDash’s acquisition of Deliveroo is no surprise.” The point was simple: in food delivery, once the dust of the startup era settles, large platforms start behaving in very predictable ways. They chase sc...
Beyond Enshittification (2): Negative external effects
In the first post of this series, the focus was on enshittification: the way platforms can gradually reallocate value away from users and towards themselves, until the experience deteriorates for everyone involved. In the second post, the l...
Beyond "Enshittification": Mission Drift
In a recent post, I critically analysed the thesis of “enshittification”, which describes how platforms can decay over time. In that story, a platform starts by being very generous to one group of users, then gradually rebalances value towa...
“Enshittification”, Explained
This post is a shortened, non‑technical summary of a longer article I published in the CPI Antitrust Chronicle (October 2025), in which I take a closer economic look at Cory Doctorow’s “enshittification” thesis and its implications for digi...
Substack’s Tax, Etsy’s Lesson
According to The Verge, Substack is under pressure because its 10 per cent revenue share increasingly pushes high‑earning writers to look for cheaper, flat‑fee alternatives like Ghost and Beehiiv. There seems to be a “new wave” of creators...
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Professor of Industrial Organization at UCLouvain (Belgium), specialized in the economics of digital platforms.
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