Nancy Dubuc Quotes

The idea that content is king has long rested on the notion that distribution - in whatever form it takes - is a low-margin commodity, and the biggest share of profits flows to the creators of original programming, who can sell to the highest bidder.

If you wanna compete, you've got to get into the original content game.

Content is power in today's world, and if you can own that content, create it and make interaction more of an experience than a transaction, you create a different kind of loyalty.

Both YouKu and Tudou do original content for a number of years, and we position it based on our difference in terms of age demographic. And so the content itself is really more suitable for the brand itself.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

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.

FX is a network; that's their whole model, letting creators make the thing they want to make and then marketing it really well.

For SpringHill, it's always important that the content find the right platform, not the other way around.

My focus - even before becoming CEO - has always been memorable and unique content. And one of the most important things we did to reinforce that was create A+E Studios.

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

It's a good time to be in the content business though, the branded content business.

Hollywood wants to own everything. I don't want to own anything. I don't want people just to make content, I want to empower and teach them to create content they own that they can exploit in any medium.

I just believe that whatever I post should be my content.

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

One of the hardest things to do when you launch a channel is find a voice.

My company is in the business of content, delivering content, so whether you see it or taste it or hear it or smell it, that's what I do every day.

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

There are literally tens of thousands of very good content providers in the world that don't distribute their content through TV channels.

For the vlogging channel, I wanted to build the infrastructure and build up all the personalities in a way that felt like weren't just forcing the audience to watch everyone we have.

I think we can launch - successfully, high quality - around 20 original scripted shows a year, which means every 2 1/2 to three weeks you're launching a new season or a new show on Netflix meant to be for really diverse tastes all around the world.

Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.

We saw simply distribution was changing, content, premium content, premium stars; we're going to be able to do more in the world as it evolves.

I don't think Hollywood will be the place that innovates great technology, but if people underestimate how they monetize content, they're sorely mistaken.

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

I think of myself as a content creator and, hopefully one day, a content enabler and supporter of others, so that's what my immediate and hopefully future journey is.