Om Malik Quotes

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

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

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

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

When I talk about the Internet, it's because young people are there. TV and radio are still what moves the masses, and you can't ignore that. But you also have to feed that monster that grows daily, which is the Internet.

I am not one of the new media experts working all the time with my computers and the PowerPoints and things of that sort.

The sea change that has come is the information age. We don't have to just read The New York Times anymore. We can pull up something on the Internet and get any news that we like.

The plate tectonics of media have shifted where NBC had to become a new media company from an old media company.

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

There are not that many new media brands you can say that about nowadays.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

As a medium, electronic screens possess infinite capacities and instant interconnections, turning words into a new kind of active agent in the world.

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.

The digital native doesn't send a letter to the editor anymore. She goes online and starts a blog.

I am looking forward to work on digital platforms more often than not.

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

Client companies and advertising agencies are old-world-order places. The systems and processes and structures come from a time when you shot the TV commercial, then you did the print ads, then you did everything else - including the website. Everything has changed, but the systems haven't.

I am so inspired by new media.

I believe we should celebrate new possibilities of combining the printed codex with electronic technology... The information ecology is getting richer, not thinner.

We do live in this age of new media.

The influence of blogging is overall a very positive force in the media.

Social and digital media is a bullet train, and that bullet train is not coming home.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

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

Blogging and traditional media work together. Twitter complements traditional media.