Alan Schaaf Quotes

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Back in 2005-2006 when Tudou and Youku were founded, we saw the inflection point with the opportunity to build the leading PC-based video website.

YouTube's traffic continues to grow very quickly. Video is something that we think is going to be embedded everywhere. And it makes sense, from Google's perspective, to be the operator of the largest site that contains all that video.

YouTube is found footage. It's here to stay, and people will always come up with new concepts that will make sense for found footage.

My favorite web site is probably YouTube.

Our goal is to have YouTube on every screen - to take it from the PC to the living room and the mobile phone.

I choose YouTube over telly.

The lifeblood of YouTube is sharing.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

Everybody's got their phone up and everybody's taking recordings and posting it on YouTube and whatever and sending it to you, and it gets shown around the world.

Anything you need, you can get on YouTube. It's wacky.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

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

YouTube has so much great content. And it really has something for everybody. And people come up to me all the time and talk to me about how YouTube has changed their life, how they've been able to learn something they didn't think they could learn.

YouTube is the most popular video service in the world. It's how Americans, and the rest of the world, overwhelmingly search for videos.

YouTube is a free service that is extremely easy to use. There are no downloads, and hundreds of audio and video formats are instantly converted to Flash, which makes it fast and easy for the community to watch and share video.

I love online video. I've been obsessed with it since day one.

I've got a few things on YouTube and the most I've ever had is about 8,000 clicks over five years.

Every big platform wants to be the video platform.

YouTube is a platform, a distribution vehicle.

The YouTube industry is quite alien to a lot of people.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.

YouTube is a new experience for me-someone threw a laptop in front of me and showed me Nic Cage going mad, which has got to be the funniest thing on YouTube. He's so courageous.

OK, I wasn't really paying attention to YouTube in the year after it began. No one was. But its growth was remarkably rapid.