Phil Elverum Quotes

I get paid to put tweets out sometimes.

Without the nontraditional methods we used to promote 'Jericho'... we wouldn't have been able to get the traction we did.

The more followers you have, the more you can promote your movie. You know? It's all, like, a business thing.

Every time a U.S.A. Today slides underneath my door, it's like they're saying, 'Hey, you're not that smart, right?'

Anyone with a cellphone essentially is their own broadcast network. If you can build a reach for yourself, you're essentially an influencer.

Prior to the online platform, I had to make sure I go around and have conversations and go to schools and make appearances. But now with online presence, I try to put out videos and different posts every day. I try to inspire.

I've never spent any money on advertising.

Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube have sparked a booming industry of so-called influencers - people with large-scale followings who are paid considerable sums by large companies to tout their products or ideas.

I had no idea at all how to model, but people would start to follow me. So, I would go to these start-up companies and say, 'I have all these followers... how can we work together?'

I actually find prank CDs pretty annoying.

As an industry, YouTube and digital content have a huge upside to creation and virally reach fans, and there's a multi-billion dollar business of advertising attached to that.

Ads are cool.

'X Factor' did a lot for me, but things truly started to take off for me when I went to social media.

I feel like more and more advertisers are coming to YouTubers.

Just because #ad or #spon is there doesn't mean I'm only doing it for money. I make sure, in the text, that it's very obvious that I'm having fun.

Having even just one relationship with an online influencer can have a significant impact on your business.

When you say 'follow me on Twitter,' and you get 10 million people to follow you - you just leveraged your influence to add value to an app that you have no ownership in.

I've never done much to try to build an audience.

Money is flowing out of traditional advertising into experiential, social, and sports.

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

There is nothing so annoying as a good example!!

Annoyance is a physical malady that is in no way cured just because the annoying situation that causes it is eliminated.

You're awfully small to be so hugely irritating.

how can a little thing be so annoying?

Whenever there's active promotion on the part of somebody else, whenever I see somebody all dolled up for a fancy photograph and someone's handing out flyers or whenever there's active promotion for something like that, as an imposition on my day, I hate all those people and I want them to fail. I have a visceral reaction to advertising and promotion. There's just something about salesmanship that grates on me on a very base level and I react very negatively towards it. I want those people to suffer and I want their enterprises to fail.