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What if?

TNAP Platforms · What if?

What if the digital world were designed around the connections between people, discovery, intelligence, relationships and action — not just around individual platforms?

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Today’s question

What makes an ad worth your time?

The words in the video

Advertising · a question

Every ad you see has to work for four parties at once.

When they want different things, ads get in the way.

What if the best ad was one you were glad to see?

What makes an ad worth your time?

Tell us in the comments.

Much of today’s digital world is organised around disconnected incentives. Each platform is rewarded for what happens inside it, while the things people actually want to do cross many of them.

The five themes

This month we’re exploring that in the open, through five themes: advertising, AI agents, journeys that break between apps, creators and communities, and who benefits. Every day we ask a question. Every Sunday we publish what we heard: the strongest arguments, the disagreements and what we still don’t know.

  1. AdvertisingAttention versus value
  2. AI agentsIntelligence versus the ability to act
  3. Fragmented ecosystemsDiscovery versus completion
  4. People, creators and communitiesAttention versus lasting relationships
  5. Who benefits?Incentives