Jason Calacanis Quotes

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.

Today you can start a blog, build an audience, and give the advertising slots to AdBrite or Google AdSense.

People are looking for original content in many different places, as are advertisers. This takes us into a whole new ballgame.

I would imagine that if you had a media brand that is solely focused on publishing 5,000-word stories with beautiful proprietary photographs and highly-produced videos, it would be a tough thing to make that economically sustainable.

I'm focused on getting to a place where we can prove that journalism can make good money on the web.

People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.

As much as I love scores of wonderful sites across the web, most of them are driven by the daily grind of the display/pageview hamster wheel. They create 20, 30, 40 'content snacks' a day, and I miss far more than I consume.

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

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

If you want to make YouTube your career, you have to accept that it is also a business. I know everyone's like, 'It's my passion, it's my hobby.' And that's fine; I support that. But if you want to make it your career, it does have a business side.

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

I think if you create something and you get an audience for it, then the monetization part is really secondary.

By creating fantastic content and spending zero time on audience development, you are certain that you will not succeed on YouTube. You have to focus on audience development as much as you focus on creating content.

Do I think there's going to be a business in blogging? Yes.

The goal is to become the central hub of publishing, where we have all the written material - user-generated and professional. We want to be the place where people can publish instantly to their audiences... and to get there, it's just about doing things step by step.

As a publisher, you should decide what content is free and what you'd pay for. You have to get the packaging right, but people will pay for content.

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

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.

The Web is going to capture an increasing share of people's attention, and billions of dollars are going to flow in. What Web 2.0 is about is harnessing those dollars in highly leverageable ways.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

The best part of owning a blog is the fact that you are in control. You can write about anything you want to write about. You can decide how your blog looks. You can decide who to target. You can decide how to monetize the blog. You have full control!

Even in the days of early YouTube, we always focused on narratives, and we always focused on franchises. We didn't do a lot of vlogging and stuff like that.

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.

As long as we're monetizing our content... we still win at the end.