Tucker Max Quotes

Time Inc. has amazing titles - really great content.

You could have the biggest screen, you could have the clearest screen. But if there is not great content on this thing, that big-screen TV is not a huge value to you, even though it has the best picture on the planet.

You can have whatever platform you want, but without great content, you don't have anything.

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

Everyone talks about discovery, but I really believe that great content finds its audience.

I'm not able to make amazingly perfect, precious pieces of content, but I get to make awesome spontaneous content that's frequently ephemeral.

Never underestimate the intelligence of the audience; make good programmes, and they will come.

What's been important with Flickr is the community that's been there from the beginning and the serious photographers that are there creating and sharing great content. If we lose that at some point then I think we have potential issues, but so far we've been able to do a really good job of maintaining that.

The broader the topic, the easier it is, not only to fill a book, but to set the bar pretty high for really great stuff.

In the beginning, YouTube content wasn't up to the same standard as traditional media. Now, people are using it as a launchpad.

You know, even with the 'Awkward Black Girl' episodes, they come out once a month. That's great for me, it's comfortable, it gives each time to digest, time for new people to get on to it and caught up, but oftentimes I have people who are almost demanding a higher output from me.

One of the great joys of launching your idea on the web is that it's a meritocracy. The good stuff will rise to the top and find an audience, and you don't have to impress one idiosyncratic commissioning editor.

Content is king. When you are asking people to read you several times a day, you better have some fine content.

The question now is can better content be driven solely by more money. I have learned in 26 years that only money cannot give you best content.

My recommendation for SEO is very simple. It's Write Good Stuff. In my mind, Google is in the business of finding good stuff. It has thousands of the smartest people in the world, spending billions of dollars to find the good stuff. All you have to do is write the good stuff; you don't need to trick it.

Between podcasts and places like Funny or Die or CollegeHumor, there are so many venues to get the word out. It makes it difficult in that there's a never-ending desire for content, so you have to constantly be turning stuff out, but that makes you better and more prolific in general.

There are lots of channels and lots of companies looking for content, as they say, but it's quite difficult to get things off the ground.

One term that's used in this industry a lot is this notion of 'feeding the beast.' You've got all of these people whose livelihoods are dependent on it. There are enormous pressures to keep material going into it, and the pressures to feed it are not irrational. They're the basis of your business.

On YouTube, we were our own masters. We could sit on an edit until we got it right, we could choose quality over quantity.

I feel like we always kept our core philosophy of making content that we would wanna watch, and there's definitely a different scale we are offering that at today.

Good films with great content is what I dream about.

Even if you are a superstar, you have to give your audience some content. Because there is so much good content out there that people consume today. To sustain this, you have to nurture good content and writers.

As a content creator, all you can do is do your best work and then hope that it resonates somehow with an audience.

YouTube's audience is very specific. They are ready for great content. But you have to engage with the audience in a very direct fashion.

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