Leonardo Madio
@leonardomadio.bsky.social
Addociate Professor in Economics @ University of Padova & CESifo Affiliate
Research interests in Industrial Organisation, Digital Economics and Competition Policy
www.leonardomadio.eu
Research interests in Industrial Organisation, Digital Economics and Competition Policy
www.leonardomadio.eu
Thanks a lot @mikybartoli.bsky.social for presenting our paper on content moderation in a dominant (adult) platform at the Paris Digital Conference
April 11, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Thanks a lot @mikybartoli.bsky.social for presenting our paper on content moderation in a dominant (adult) platform at the Paris Digital Conference
Our findings:
📉 Traffic to MindGeek dropped 41% in a month.
📌 That’s despite ~3M verified videos remaining on the platform.
🧨 The traffic never fully recovered.
📈 Meanwhile, fringe sites gained 55% in traffic.
Users actively sought out non-verified content elsewhere.
Often on smaller, riskier sites
📉 Traffic to MindGeek dropped 41% in a month.
📌 That’s despite ~3M verified videos remaining on the platform.
🧨 The traffic never fully recovered.
📈 Meanwhile, fringe sites gained 55% in traffic.
Users actively sought out non-verified content elsewhere.
Often on smaller, riskier sites
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Our findings:
📉 Traffic to MindGeek dropped 41% in a month.
📌 That’s despite ~3M verified videos remaining on the platform.
🧨 The traffic never fully recovered.
📈 Meanwhile, fringe sites gained 55% in traffic.
Users actively sought out non-verified content elsewhere.
Often on smaller, riskier sites
📉 Traffic to MindGeek dropped 41% in a month.
📌 That’s despite ~3M verified videos remaining on the platform.
🧨 The traffic never fully recovered.
📈 Meanwhile, fringe sites gained 55% in traffic.
Users actively sought out non-verified content elsewhere.
Often on smaller, riskier sites
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT?
🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).
🧵👇
🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).
🧵👇
April 7, 2025 at 1:29 PM
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN A DOMINANT PLATFORM SUDDENLY MODERATES A LARGE SHARE OF ITS CONTENT?
🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).
🧵👇
🚨 With Matt Mitchell, Martin Quinn & @mikybartoli.bsky.social, we study one of the largest moderation shocks ever: Pornhub’s 2020 purge of 10M+ non-verified videos (80% of content).
🧵👇
🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨
With Yassine Lefouili, we critically review recent studies on mergers and investments.
We explore:
1️⃣ How horizontal mergers impact firms’ incentives for product development and cost/quality investments.
With Yassine Lefouili, we critically review recent studies on mergers and investments.
We explore:
1️⃣ How horizontal mergers impact firms’ incentives for product development and cost/quality investments.
January 15, 2025 at 1:13 PM
🚨 New Working Paper! 🚨
With Yassine Lefouili, we critically review recent studies on mergers and investments.
We explore:
1️⃣ How horizontal mergers impact firms’ incentives for product development and cost/quality investments.
With Yassine Lefouili, we critically review recent studies on mergers and investments.
We explore:
1️⃣ How horizontal mergers impact firms’ incentives for product development and cost/quality investments.
Do you want to know what is the effect of price transparency in peer-to-peer markets? Check out our new study on the 2019's Airbnb fee transparency agreement with the European Commission
#airbnb #pricetransparency
#airbnb #pricetransparency
December 16, 2024 at 12:41 PM
Do you want to know what is the effect of price transparency in peer-to-peer markets? Check out our new study on the 2019's Airbnb fee transparency agreement with the European Commission
#airbnb #pricetransparency
#airbnb #pricetransparency
Our work on privacy regulation and quality-enhancing innovation (with Yassine Lefouili and Ying Lei Toh) is finally out in the Journal of Industrial Economics
Link at the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Link at the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
November 16, 2023 at 10:45 AM
Our work on privacy regulation and quality-enhancing innovation (with Yassine Lefouili and Ying Lei Toh) is finally out in the Journal of Industrial Economics
Link at the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Link at the paper: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....