Content Platforms Quotes

There was a time and a place when a pure content start-up had a chance, and that time has passed.

Google can say they are not in the content business, but if they are paying people and distributing and archiving their work, it is getting harder to make that case.

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.

Hollywood is just a bunch of middlemen, people trying to facilitate content transfer between creators and viewers.

There's only a few platforms that really aggregate content well together, Facebook being one of the best, probably the most diverse of all of them.

The landscape of professional creation continues to get more complex. Organizations and platforms of all sorts are vying for a slice of the value created by the relationship between creators and their audiences.

There is a huge market for interesting content to be made by interesting creators.

Movies are movies, television is television.

The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we've got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content.

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.