Barry Diller Quotes

Instagram is a media company. I think we're about visual media.

Imgur isn't about following a celebrity, and it's not about following a person in real life. You don't have to build up a massive following and use that to get your distribution.

Think of Slide as a giant media network for people to transmit information. The content that's in there now has been provided by users - it's whatever they want it to be.

I've always hated Zagat. If I'm going to listen to someone else's opinions on restaurants, I don't care if I agree or not. I just want to know who they are.

The main Facebook usage is so big. About 20 percent of the time people spend on their phone is on Facebook.

4chan is a framework of pictures and text. I've always been extremely hands-off with dictating what gets posted, past general categories and rules. I support providing a place to discuss anything, although I don't agree with everything that's posted.

When you look at things like Flickr and Youtube, they are specialised blogging systems, so why hasn't blogging encompassed that ease of functionality?

Consumers are empowered by Yelp and tools like it: before, when they had a bad experience, they didn't have much recourse. They could fume, but often nothing else other than tell their friends.

I'm very lucky because people send me a lot of stuff and post cool articles and pictures on my wall, which does make life a lot easier for me. When we were at 60,000 or 100,000 'likes,' I was still having to source the content myself, and I was constantly trolling the Internet, whereas now things are sent to me, which does make it a lot easier.

Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr are all 'User First, Brands Second' services. The brands are all over these services now. But for the most part, these services didn't do much to bring them. The engaged users did.

Viral word-of-mouth marketing for GoPro is massive. Video is really the conduit.

I am on Vine. It's another early-adopter kind of thing. I'm trying to figure out what I'm going to do with it. What's interesting about it is that everybody knows these amazing restrictions we've put on it: I have to use my iPhone, I can only use one continuous take, I cannot edit afterwards, I cannot put sound afterwards.

Because now it's the fans out there that are entertaining us, the developers, with their creations!

In the context of social media, reddit is more about the media than the personalities.

I think that's one of the most unique and potentially powerful things about reddit - people come for the news, and stay for the community.

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Snapchat's the place where people are hearing and learning about culture.

It's amazing what social media has done for entertainment.

By 2013, we had 200 million people using 'Instagram' every month and over 20 billion photos stored.

We recognized from the beginning that we could create profiles for the bands and allow people to use the site any way they wanted to. We didn't stop people from promoting whatever they wanted to promote on MySpace.

In the old world, people used to have to go to focus groups and ask people what they thought. Now, people are writing all over the Web what they think about things.

Having built-in video recording capabilities for a game that focuses on user-generated content might be a very good thing.

Our goal is to allow people to use whatever app they want to get photos into 'Instagram'.

I think reviews have lost a lot of their importance now because of the Internet; everyone is experiencing things at the same time.

I think Yelp is neither good nor bad for the food industry. I find it useless.