Zanny Minton Beddoes Quotes

Consumers are freeing up an enormous amount of time that they were spending with stereotypical old media, and clearly, that time is going primarily two places: videogames and online.

Pretty soon we will no longer have movies. We will have television series only.

Technology is changing, so the viewership is getting broken up. My kids watch everything downloaded; they have no idea what the numbers or the names of the channels mean, except 'FX makes the show that I see on my computer.'

I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors. TiVo! I was out there before TiVo came out, man.

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.

It's hard for me to accept the argument that millennials are not watching TV. I'm not one to believe that our culture of TV consumption is changing dramatically. It's just how we consume and where we consume it that's changing.

Obviously with the Internet and increased access to other means of watching shows, the audience has dispersed and is all over the place and that is a challenge.

I still buy CDs and DVDs, but generally for more obscure material.

Now it's all about the word of mouth, and watching a series on Netflix. That's the way people actually consume this stuff now, instead of waiting for a DVD release you're not really sure you want to buy. And I think it's fantastic, because then I can watch the shows that I missed, over a weekend. I love doing that.

The market groups and demographics said, 'Teenage guys don't read magazines.'

People are on their computers more than watching TV, because you can only watch voyeur TV, which is basically what reality shows are, for so long.

Luckily for both the tech industry and Hollywood, there is only one thing that counts - use of the Internet is still growing exponentially, as consumers shift to digital everything from analog.

I am away so much, so I rarely see live TV, but I use iPlayer to catch programmes.

The U.K. has been very progressive about on-demand, and the iPlayer has been a great invention. It has trained a generation of viewers to expect on-demand - unfortunately, it trains them to expect free!

Right now, more people enjoy movies, music, television and movies than they do video games.

American newspapers are dying mostly because they were so dull for so long, a whole generation gave up on them.

I know so many people who actually just watch television on their computers now and don't even really watch their TV anymore.

It is a significant acknowledgment that the way people are watching television is changing and the model is quickly changing.

You know, when we were kids, we had to go to a theater to see a movie. And then television came in and you had to wait until midnight to see the one you wanted to see. Now, all you've got to do is go to a store and buy it and you can watch it whenever you want!

And the consumer doesn't care. They don't watch networks, they watch TV shows.

There's something extremely bizarre about the way people consume media now.

I think Netflix is responsible for what will become how we view television.

People are really into on-demand consumption. I watch everything myself on demand.

We live in an age where people will watch epic entertainment on their phones.

We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.