Jim Bankoff Quotes

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

If you look at the Internet, it's been hard for a lot of the traditional media companies to launch viable brands.

The Internet is king. Newspapers are dead or dying. Magazines are shrinking every day. Ad budgets are being cut. The bottom line is now the only line in advertising.

You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.

The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

Once the words of a book appear onscreen, they are no longer simply themselves; they have become a part of something else. They now occupy the same space, not only as every other digital text, but as every other medium, too.

I think the Huffington Post has been inventive and presents what it aggregates well.

It became obvious to me that if Abril was to consider itself a communications group, it could not remain indefinitely in paper and ink.

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.

For kids growing up now, there's no difference watching 'Avatar' on an iPad or watching YouTube on TV or watching 'Game of Thrones' on their computer. It's all content. It's just story.

We are in the throes of a transition where every publication has to think of their digital strategy.

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

At DC Comics, it has been a top priority that DC forges a meaningful, forward-looking digital strategy.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

Premium content matters.

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.

I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

Our users have a relationship with our brand and are demanding more and more Bumble content, and we're committed to delivering that content with a team that's as talented as they are passionate about our mission.

Having spent five years in the technological domain, I see the experiences in the entertainment industry from a technological perspective.

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

Thriving in the digital space is about constant commitment and engagement rather than being hit-driven like traditional media.

New landscape of personal media has given us a vaster wasteland of cyberspace. But, luckily for us, there's some really wonderful stuff in it. And if history is any guide, as the media matures, the quality will continue to go up.