Mara Brock Akil Quotes

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

Yes, the world is now flat for publishing as well.

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

To me, mass media is when you are able to use a platform to reach an audience on a large, global scale, and I think YouTube has certainly achieved that and is still finding ways to bring a wider range of content to its audience.

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

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

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

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

Just like the VCR opened the film and TV industries to unimaginable new revenue streams, search, RSS and the Internet will do the same for marketers and media companies.

Digital is a different world because you are sitting at home and a hi tech piece of equipment today is within reach of most people, so they are watching a pretty hi tech version of whatever you've done.

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

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

At Verizon, we've been strategically investing in emerging technology, including Verizon Digital Media Services and OTT, that taps into the market shift to digital content and advertising. AOL's advertising model aligns with this approach, and the advertising platform provides a key tool for us to develop future revenue streams.

On my end, I am still surprised that many media organizations are unable to adapt to new media formats and, more importantly, new network behaviors.

One of the things that technology has is a direct relationship with its users. We talk about newspapers. But the biggest newspapers in the world right now are Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram.

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.

Google is a global Rorschach test. We see in it what we want to see. Google has built an infrastructure that makes a lot of dreams closer to reality.

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

I am so inspired by new media.

If it doesn't come through the Internet, it's not really compelling to me.

To build a digital media company, you have to focus equally on content and technology. In content, you have to focus equally on the written word and video.

More people are watching college football on Snapchat than they are on television.

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.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.