The easiest analogy I can make is, someone COULD rent their room/apartment out through Craigslist and that's what people did before Airbnb. Craigslist was a hor

The easiest analogy I can make is, someone COULD rent their room/apartment out through Craigslist and that's what people did before Airbnb. Craigslist was a horizontal platform that had no concept of renting out your room though, whereas Airbnb was specifically designed to do just that and make the process as seamless as possible. Patreon is the same way where it's just a horizontal platform for content creators that has no concept of scheduling games, and if you go there, you have no idea if it actually has that or if it's actually going to get fulfilled, because they don't help you if it doesn't. Whereas Gamerize is this curated experience designed to make that as efficient as possible for both the fan and the gamer, just like Airbnb is for renting a room/apartment/etc.