As the digital services economy – also known as the application programming interface (API) economy – gains momentum, companies in every industry are focusing on joining it. Leading players want to establish digital platforms, the linchpins and marketplaces for API economy value chains, to rival those of the successful webscale players. As key connectors of such value chains, communications service providers (CSPs) have an excellent opportunity to influence the API economy and exploit their insights into its workings, as well as to contribute revenue-generating digital platform services of their own