Jason Silva Quotes

We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves.

When you think about it, media's the intersection of content and technology - it's all about storytelling, like photography and the camera.

I just liked making funny videos, content that people would enjoy. The likes and retweets - that was, like, a plus.

For blogs today, it's really about content creation and partnering with a brand. You can get the news in so many forms and so many places. A tweet now is enough to tell you about a story. People don't have to click to go to your site.

I do media work but I don't do broadcast on TV. I'm a content producer and creator, so I just go out there and produce awesome content.

The YouTube revolution isn't a revolution in content consumption, although there's a huge number of content consumers. It's about how anybody with a camera or a smartphone can create a video and share it with the whole world.

I've just always been making videos. And then I just put them online and, luckily, they all took off.

In Vice, I saw all of it in one. I saw a studio. I saw a content creator. I saw an agency. I saw a distributor. We want to learn from them. They're talking to a generation we're struggling to connect to as an industry.

Everybody's a filmmaker today.

I have a production company where we create socially conscious media and content.

We're going to see a lot of companies that have been portals of entertainment become producers.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

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

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

I love making videos on my couch. You can put those on the Internet fast. I can express myself.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

Because storytelling, and visual storytelling, was put in the hands of everybody, and we have all now become storytellers.

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

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

I've done 20 takes of a Vine before it goes out.

If you put music into your Vine, and it's really jumpy, just do it over again.

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.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

'Wag' is not some kind of documentary; it's just looking at the tools that are available. Now you've got more tools - you've got social media - and just post stories through all types of back channels that can get some traction.