Working Paper

Information Discovery and the Long Tail of Motion Picture Content

Anuj Kumar, Michael D. Smith, and Rahul Telang

Jul 1, 2011

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Investigates “information availability” as the cause of skewness (that is, the lack of a “Long Tail”) in movie sales distribution. Uses data on 314 movies on four U.S. pay-cable networks from January 28 to March 2010 to estimate the differential discovery of popular movies and less popular movies.

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