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Why is Zen so much Better than TPA at Acquiring Licenses?
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<blockquote data-quote="vikingerik" data-source="post: 174944" data-attributes="member: 3745"><p>There's a selection bias in the data points that we see. Multiple endpoints. We only see Zen's successes. We never see what they couldn't manage. Zen has the luxury of a wide open range of material. They can go with easy licensors and ignore the difficult ones.</p><p></p><p>Farsight/TPA doesn't have that luxury. They're working from a limited constrained pool of material, that already has popularity in its own right regardless of the difficulty of the licenses. The licenses that TPA can't get are very visible sore points. The licenses that Zen can't get are invisible to us because they just do something else instead.</p><p></p><p>It's not that Zen is better, it's that we notice when TPA fails and don't notice when Zen does. Zen must have difficult or failed deals behind the scenes too, but it doesn't matter since we never see them, they can go do something else instead and that's all we will see.</p><p></p><p>This should cut to the chase. Neither TPA nor Zen has done a Simpsons deal with Fox. Only TPA gets heat for it. Zen doesn't.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="vikingerik, post: 174944, member: 3745"] There's a selection bias in the data points that we see. Multiple endpoints. We only see Zen's successes. We never see what they couldn't manage. Zen has the luxury of a wide open range of material. They can go with easy licensors and ignore the difficult ones. Farsight/TPA doesn't have that luxury. They're working from a limited constrained pool of material, that already has popularity in its own right regardless of the difficulty of the licenses. The licenses that TPA can't get are very visible sore points. The licenses that Zen can't get are invisible to us because they just do something else instead. It's not that Zen is better, it's that we notice when TPA fails and don't notice when Zen does. Zen must have difficult or failed deals behind the scenes too, but it doesn't matter since we never see them, they can go do something else instead and that's all we will see. This should cut to the chase. Neither TPA nor Zen has done a Simpsons deal with Fox. Only TPA gets heat for it. Zen doesn't. [/QUOTE]
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