Barry Ritholtz Quotes

Online advertising works, although it lands especially on search engines like Google and Yahoo. They achieve much higher revenues online than the websites of publishing companies.

Mahalo's business model is advertising. Yahoo, Google, Ask, AOL and MSN are all advertising-based. So I don't see anything wrong with advertising-based search.

Everybody's enamored of the iPhone, the Google phone. But the applications are going to change. You know, we're going to start using our phones for shopping. It's going to change the nature of advertising.

I think for business reasons, fiscal reasons, I think these cable networks can take greater risks and I think with a risk comes better programming. And I think USA has got an amazing identity to it now that is clearly defined with its 'Characters welcome' tag.

See, what we were going to do was say, the Internet is this great business strategy tool.

We've got to lift our game tremendously. We'll sell our business news and information in print, we'll sell it to anyone who's got a cable system, and we'll sell it on the Web.

It's very possible that advertising business models will simply never do as well on mobile devices as those oriented around transactions.

The reason we make money is because we have a few different business models. One is ads: we get incredibly high click rates because most people on Scribd are searching the site for something, or they came from a search engine, and they're looking for something specific.

Personally, I'd love to see more social media firms develop business models that aren't reliant on advertising. If you're a social media firm selling ads, your goal is to get people to interrupt what they're doing all day long so they come and stare at your service as much as possible.

All media owners want to attract advertising revenue. Google is no different.

We aren't into the consumer space because that space is largely dominated by search and advertising, and it has a consumer face to it.

What we'd like to think of YouTube as is a part of Google with very overlapping goals and values. We're a fundamental part of the advertising business for Google.

When you break it down, Yahoo! is a Very Large Display Advertising business, with a hefty side of search and a bit of this and that on top.

My concern is the really great concepts that are features, not companies. There isn't enough advertising to support all those features, and in compression times, advertisers tend to flock to safe names and sites that have real traction.

I mean, you can't have advertising be the only official business of the information economy if the information economy is going to take over.

I think mobile advertising is going to be huge.

We have the capital, the resources, and the technology that we need to build a mobile advertising platform across the planet.

Google views Facebook as a threat to its business and has been trying to launch a social-networking service to compete with it.

The sole purpose of business is service. The sole purpose of advertising is explaining the service which business renders.

My view is that, just as in many businesses, brands really matter. There will always be a role for destination sites. Eighty million users come to our destination. I think that will be the vast majority of our future business.

Google is a business that gets paid when users want to see - want to click on - the ad. If we show ads that no one wants to see, we don't generate revenue.

People used to say that advertising wasn't in Google's DNA, and that's obviously not true anymore. They used to say that display advertising isn't in Google's DNA, and that's not true any more.

This [Asia, Australia & New Zealand] is going to be the world't largest market. If we're not there setting the rules, then somebody else is.

To control the American market is to own America.

There is no resting place for an enterprise in a competitive economy.