Streaming platforms face significant challenges in content distribution across global markets due to licensing agreements and regional preferences. Wh...
GMAT Craft and Structure : (Structure) Questions
Streaming platforms face significant challenges in content distribution across global markets due to licensing agreements and regional preferences. When popular shows are heavily promoted in certain territories, the resulting viewer demand can create serious imbalances in server load and bandwidth allocation. Media analysts use viewership data and predictive modeling to forecast when concentrated marketing campaigns are likely to result in certain regions becoming _____ high-traffic content while leaving other markets underserved.
Which choice completes the text with the most logical and precise word or phrase?
dependent on
inundated with
isolated from
restricted by
Step 1: Decode and Map the Passage
Create Passage Analysis Table
| Text from Passage | Analysis |
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| 'Streaming platforms face significant challenges in content distribution across global markets due to licensing agreements and regional preferences.' |
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| 'When popular shows are heavily promoted in certain territories, the resulting viewer demand can create serious imbalances in server load and bandwidth allocation.' |
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| 'Media analysts use viewership data and predictive modeling to forecast when concentrated marketing campaigns are likely to result in certain regions becoming ______ high-traffic content while leaving other markets underserved.' |
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Provide Passage Architecture & Core Elements
Main Point: Streaming platforms face distribution challenges when concentrated marketing creates regional imbalances in content demand.
Argument Flow: The passage starts with the general problem of global content distribution, then explains how promotional campaigns create server load problems, and concludes with how analysts predict these regional impacts.
Step 2: Interpret the Question Precisely
This is a fill-in-the-blank question asking us to choose the best logical connector. The answer must create the right relationship between what comes before and after the blank.
Step 3: Prethink the Answer
- Looking at the context, concentrated marketing campaigns create viewer demand that leads to server imbalances
- The sentence talks about certain regions having a relationship with high-traffic content while other markets are underserved
- When there is heavy promotion and resulting high demand, those regions would be experiencing an overwhelming amount of high-traffic content
- The word needs to show that these regions are receiving too much high-traffic content as a result of the concentrated marketing
dependent on
- This suggests the regions rely on high-traffic content, which does not match the context of marketing creating demand imbalances
inundated with
- This means overwhelmed or flooded with something
- It perfectly captures how concentrated marketing leads to regions being overwhelmed with high-traffic content and matches the cause-effect relationship established in the passage
isolated from
- This would mean regions are cut off from high-traffic content, which contradicts the passage logic about marketing creating demand
restricted by
- This suggests regions are limited by high-traffic content, which does not match the flow of marketing creating overwhelming demand