Jonas Akerlund Quotes

YouTube, as longer form, the content you make there has to keep you entertained for three minutes - or five minutes.

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

Your YouTube channel is your show. I think it's a wonderful platform for anyone who wants to have stronger creative control over their content, their message, their vision and their branding.

I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.

When we started doing YouTube, the goal was, hey, let's make stuff that we want to see, that entertains us.

I started a YouTube channel called Days of Dre. There's a lot of content on there.

YouTube opened up a lot of doors.

YouTube, for me, is the primary platform.

Remember, when YouTube was founded in the U.S., America's Funniest Home Videos had been around for a long time. In China, the history of TV as well as user-generated video is very, very short. So, we've actually had to do a lot of things to motivate that.

YouTube is akin to having my own network.

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

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.

You can do anything. Put stuff on YouTube. You can create your own media, which you couldn't do not so long ago.

YouTube is, like, the new reality television.

TV has been my goal since before I started YouTube.

YouTube is my first love.

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

I think the next set of media companies are going to be created on the web and that YouTube is going to be a big part of that.

The thing that has made YouTube so successful is that you can relate to the people you're watching to a much higher degree than to the people you see on TV.

To see how YouTube has become part of pop culture, it's been just amazing.

People forget that YouTube is the second-largest search site on the Web. It just tells you the power of how many people live on YouTube.

YouTube came out when I was a sophomore in college, and I feel like I was one of the first people to put musical theater stuff online.

I think the advent of things like YouTube have made it possible for creators to tell stories cheaply and efficiently and to have a built-in audience.

When we started out doing YouTube videos, I think we were very, very early on in terms of people doing a behind-the-scenes component.

The thing I love about YouTube is it's almost like having an instant audience for improv.