want easily and immediately.
olivia sterns looks at the
implications and future at an
entire community at our
fingertips. >> andrew has been anything but
i got my june and july ones,
too. pretty booked all the time,
seven days a week.
>> his schedule booked, his lawn
care business booming and his
new customers in the suburbs of
columbus, ohio, they are
streaming in from a novel
source, an online platform
called next door.
>> before i got the app next
door i passed out fliers and
went door to door.
after i went next door, got a
lot more customers, making me
>> andrew is part of the rapidly
growing on demand economy that
attracts more than 20 million
customers spending close to $60
billion a year.
customers that aren't just in
the big cities.
in fact, most of them are in
rural areas and suburbs like
andrew's while only one-third
are in urban areas like san