Mike McCue Quotes

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

Premium content matters.

We realized the best way to monetize content was through a subscription model.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

You really can create a lot of value by putting content and distribution together, particularly if the content is cable content.

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

Getting 10,000 listeners for a free podcast novel is a lot easier than selling 10,000 hardcover novels at $25 a pop.

People have paid for content. They always have.

We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

I'm very big on content. I kind of feel like content is king and will continue to be that, so I'm just going to give the fans what they want.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

Think of any news site on the web that sells subscriptions; AOL has four times as many people as the largest subscription service. We have people who pay to use our products and services, and they are heavily engaged in our content.

You can get any film now basically for free, and that's where I think the model we're talking about is - if you give people what they want, how they want it and when they want it, they're more likely to pay for it.

If I said I was going to make a newsletter that made $2-$3 million a year, no one would question me. If I say, 'It's a blog,' everyone questions me.

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

The power lies with content creators now, but if you can't reach people, there's no point.

Youku Tudou has helped transform how media and entertainment-related content is distributed and marketed since our inception.

An e-book distributor is not a publisher, but rather a purveyor of work that has already been created.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

The original idea was to make it easy to publish content on the Web and find an audience. What we learned from publishers is that the thing they want the most is more readers and more revenue.

New York's niche is content, and content is becoming more valuable. Just think about what is more valuable: MTV or the cable system that you use to get MTV? Howard Stern or the radio station you use to listen to him? Ultimately, technology becomes a commodity, and content - real, true branded content - becomes more valuable.