Ted Sarandos Quotes

To me, the print business model is so simple, where readers pay a dollar for all the content within, and that supports the enterprise.

In some respects, the video-game business is a lot like the razor business, which follows a simple model: Give away the razor, gouge 'em on the price of the blades.

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

It's nice that HBO is in business with the audience and not with the advertisers. There's a difference.

Textbook rental is a great concept. It is just a great business model.

You buy a movie, you should get it anywhere you want it. You pay for a network, you should have that anywhere you want. Same thing with a magazine.

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 very much want to be in the business of creating content, of doing stories all over the world rather than figuring out what the business model is for 'Newsweek' on the iPad, although that's very important work as well.

At CNN, our view is that good journalism equals good business.

And I really believe good journalism is good business.

Newspapers with declining circulations can complain all they want about their readers and even say they have no taste. But you will still go out of business over time. A newspaper is not a public trust - it has a business model that either works or it doesn't.

The best businesses that all of us have in the entertainment business are cable content channels, which have a dual revenue stream.

We knew when we started the Daily Muse, we wanted a recruiting-focused business model rather than an advertising-focused one. We felt like publishers were being forced to go to more and more extreme lengths to monetize through advertising.

If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

If people are given quality stuff to watch, they'll watch it.

I care deeply about journalism, but we need to be a business.

The TV Everywhere structure is good for all cable, satellite, and telephone distributors. It's good for all networks. It's good for studios that sell to networks, so it's basically good for everybody on the business side.

TV is such a success nowadays because it gives back in a way that features can't. If you go to a film, you only get two hours of great storytellers and performers, and you pay top dollar for that. If you're subscribing to premium channels and you're getting all of these amazing TV shows, and you're watching them as you want, where you want, when you want, on what you want, I think that is the "the golden era of TV" in what television shows are offering to audiences. We're giving them a lot more. It's quality.

There's no way to tweak your content in order to goose ratings. You do what you're good at and let people follow you.

Movies you pay for - well, sometimes they throw some ads at the beginning now - but generally you pay for ads. And that business model - actually, much more ancient, paying for stuff - is much more straightforward in terms of the incentives of the people who are then giving you the stuff.

Business Art is the step that comes after Art.

If you must use more than ten slides to explain your business, you probably don't have a business.

It's more important to get the right writer and the right take than it is to do something in a particular timeframe.

I think one of the big errors people are making right now is thinking that old-style businesses will be obsolete, when actually they will be an important part of this new civilization. Some retail groups are introducing e-commerce and think that the bricks are no longer useful. But they will continue to be important.

The subscription model of buying music is bankrupt. I think you could make available the Second Coming in a subscription model and it might not be successful.