Niklas Zennstrom Quotes

So many people are are using the Internet now to watch movies and TV shows online.

Just as the cable revolution overturned broadcast, the net is destined to become the dominant mode of video, both in terms of transit and programming.

When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'

It is obvious that the Internet has become such a video-driven entity. With broadband becoming ubiquitous, viewers and advertisers are looking for professional-quality videos.

I think there will be 20 years of evolution from linear broadcast to internet television.

I ain't gonna work on YouTube's farm no more.

The online video business started in both China and the US around 2005/6, when broadband penetration grew big enough.

Blip.tv is growing its audience by forming partnerships with traditional TV manufacturers and a new breed of company in the set-top box market that lets consumers connect to the Internet via their televisions.

People think about the world of TV and the world of online video as being different ways to distribute video. But what happens when every TV is connected to wi-fi with a browser?

I like YouTube; it's really entertaining. A lot of it is crappy stuff, but there are a couple diamonds in the rough there.

My children do not know what it's like to flip around channels. They either go to Netflix, Apple TV, or they pull up YouTube, and they can watch their shows.

Flash Video made platform sites like YouTube possible as well, and helped kick-start the online video revolution.

Every big platform wants to be the video platform.

The YouTube industry is quite alien to a lot of people.

We started on April 1, 2003. So long ago, you couldn't watch video in a web browser; you had to watch it in a different player, like in Quicktime player or something like that.

Everything from now on will be done online - physical music media like the CD are dead in the water.

We all know that technology has advanced to the point of watching TV online.

Video is growing very quickly on Facebook. A lot of people compare that to YouTube. I think that kind of makes sense. YouTube isn't the only video service, but I think it's the biggest, and it probably makes more sense to compare Facebook video to YouTube rather than Netflix because that's a completely different kind of content.

The combined entity Youku Tudou Inc. represents a dominant leader in online video sector in China with the largest user base, most comprehensive content library, most advanced bandwidth infrastructure, and most effective monetization capability.

In seven to ten years video traffic on the Internet will exceed data and voice traffic combined.

If Youku had adopted YouTube's business model, we just would not be here. We would not exist.

I love Netflix and Amazon and watching movies on streamers as much as the next person.

Streaming TV shows, movies, and other types of video over the Internet to all manner of devices, once a fringe habit, is now a squarely mainstream practice. Even people still paying for cable or satellite service often also have Netflix or Hulu accounts.

Netflix is just wonderful.

We firmly believe the future of television is online, and Hulu has recognized the value of quality long-form series.