James B. Stewart Quotes

Everyone is hungry for content and you are content creators and if you are not negotiating a good price no Robinhood is coming to save you.

Owning content and original content has been our lifeblood - we've never been a suite of brands that's been reliant on a movie library or on rented series from other networks.

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

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

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.

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.

We're a content company. And if we create the best content, every distributor will want what we have.

People may be prepared to buy services from Apple and Amazon if they feel these companies do a good job, but we need to ensure that we can speak up when our content is used by other people for their profit. An activist amateur culture will constantly challenge and say, 'This is mine, you're not doing that with it.'

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.

If the search engines don't respect the creators, there won't be anything to search in the future because creators have to make a living too.

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.

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

As content creators, we're benefitting YouTube every day. YouTube couldn't do what they do without us, so do not underestimate your power.

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.

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.

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

The digital world is one that has sort of a unique characteristic, where it's a place in which it's very easy for the value of content to fall.

We have to understand that content is king now. And it doesn't matter what the source of the content and where it's coming from, as long as it is workable.

People say that making money in the content-media game is hard, and that is just, like, not my experience. It's super-confusing, 'cause everyone's like, 'Oh, how are you going to monetize?' It's easy: just start talking, and then money rolls in.

If you really care about content, you should pay for it.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

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

You can monetize yourself if and only if you develop a reason to monetize your services and or talents. In other words, you must have a unique proven talent, track record that will make people want to pay for that service or product.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.