>Long tail/"short tail" paradigm is about the distribution of purchases/views/streams etc. A statistical property, not about mere quantity. not exactly, it is

>Long tail/"short tail" paradigm is about the distribution of purchases/views/streams etc. A statistical property, not about mere quantity. not exactly, it is also about narrowing of people's interests based on the wider range of opportunities. If the wider range of opportunities means that the people can now stop wasting their time on Sexy nurse stories and Voracious Space Aliens by narrowing in on their true interests - Sexy Nurses that marry voracious space aliens to exclusion of other stories - but if instead what happens is a wider range of media being consumed without narrowing in on very specific sub categories then what has happened is not a long tail but simply consumers expanding their range of choice. Both of these phenomena - long tail and expansion of choice would lead to limits of viewership because there is in either case more media fighting over the viewership but while the result is pretty much the same the causes are slightly different.