John Cabrera Quotes

People are willing to support and watch web series as a legitimate form of entertainment.

You can be in Ohio and shoot your own web series, if you want. If this had been around when I was in high school, I can guarantee you that my friends and I would have been shooting our own television shows and putting them online and trying to get as many hits as possible.

The Internet has been a great outlet for storytelling. After all, there are web-based shows that have started online and have then gotten picked up. I think it's a great opportunity for artists to get through the network roadblock. It just allows us another venue to be creative in.

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

There's a new success model, and us and some of our peers are now starting to prove that TV and very traditional content also works on the Internet, specifically on YouTube, and it can rival television audiences and television production value. 'MyMusic' is proof of that, having a successful run and now coming back for a second season.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

Needless to say, I was impressed by Felicia [Day] and her moxie with how to do a web series. I mean, she's the queen of the web.

The problem is, we’re all using social networks as distribution instead of native platforms to actually tell stories.

Television is very much like the motion picture; you need high-end product that will first go on broadcast or cable and eventually on the Internet, and then the lifespan of this content being distributed worldwide.

My career wouldn't exist without blogs, electronic text, hyperlinks, and mass online audiences.

For the BBC and others, a free website is an obvious and relatively cheap addendum to their main purpose of streaming news and entertainment on screen to a mass audience.

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.

I think, because of the Internet, we're not looking at the very, very narrow channels for distribution that there used to be.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

Don't tell television, but there is some superior programming being made on the Interwebz.

On NBC, MSNBC and Hulu, you can size and cut clips to whatever length you want. Do online clips affect the TV market? I'm guessing not really.

'Content is King,' and with more screens needing entertaining content now than at any time in history, that statement is truer than ever.

Sustaining an audience with a web series is an impossible task.

I think people seem to want to read pieces that are shorter but not as short as the pieces they can read in small bites on the Internet. It may be that the sort of long essays are hitting a sweet spot between the tiny morsels online and the full-length book.

I have been given permission to announce that I and others from 'All My Children' have been approached by the company Prospect Park, who bought 'AMC,' with the intention to move it online.

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon.

We just sort of thought a Web series would be a cool thing to be able to send to our parents to show them that we were, in fact, actually doing comedy.

We need Netflix. We in the independent sector more than anybody need Netflix, because they care about what we do.

I think that we're gonna start seeing more and more people who started as a YouTube personality and now have their own studio, and they're gonna start creating things: story-driven stuff, longer-form stuff that people have an opportunity to enjoy.