Michael Eisner Quotes

Downloading and Web 2.0 have famously led to new ways of accessing culture. But these have tended to be parasitic on old media. The law of Web 2.0 is that everything comes back, whether it be adverts, public information films or long-forgotten TV serials: history happens first as tragedy, then as YouTube.

I think of us as journalists; the medium we work in is blogging.

With platforms like Netflix, things are evolving as they are making content-driven films and series.

I don't think there are too many traditional media guys who really understood what the new digital media is about.

Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.

I am so inspired by new media.

What's amazing is that the Web enables you to build a kind of channel that wouldn't have made sense for cable, in the same way cable enabled you to build content that wouldn't have made sense for broadcast. You couldn't have done CNN with the broadcast networks; you couldn't have done MTV with the broadcast networks.

I don't think that Yahoo or any other Internet company should try to become a television network. We will be nowhere if we have to create our own content.

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

Sooner rather than later, any other form other than digital media will be a thing of the past. It won't vanish, but let's face it, this is seemingly the way of the future.

One of the things that is counterintuitive about BuzzFeed is that there's not a natural corollary to what we're doing because it isn't possible to distribute content through word-of-mouth in print.

The future is electronic. It's radio, television and the Internet; it's not really newspapers anymore.

Things that are interesting, people will pass around the Internet, around the world. And the blogosphere is only the tip of the iceberg.

Podcasts themselves cannot exist without the Internet - in a way, they are a microcosm of the Internet.

Internet journalism is not a world we know very well at all. It's conducted more on the screen and less in bars, which makes it rather less useful for getting stories about people throwing up over one another, which is what one's after.

Just as soaps were very pivotal in the transition from radio to television, they will be right in the thick of things again in the transition from television to the Internet. Exciting news.

By the time I'm in the studio recording my parody, 10,000 parodies of that song are on YouTube.

We do live in this age of new media.

Newspapers are busily experimenting with different models. Traditionally, and I suspect in hindsight very mistakenly, online news was free. And once given free access readers felt it was their entitlement.

I don't think there are any new media I'd like to cover.

I've always thought that gaming and YouTube and the web is a very post-punk extravaganza.

The next wave of the Web is going to be user-generated content.

Digital platforms are worthless without content. They're shiny sacks with bells and whistles, but without content, they're empty sacks. It is not about pixels versus print. It is not about how you're reading. It is about what you're reading.

As one of the first creators on YouTube, I've been fortunate to sit in the front row, witnessing the remarkable evolution of digital media. The experiences and knowledge I've been afforded are invaluable, and I'm excited to take that skill set, together with Endemol Beyond, to build a reliable, reputable business.

When Google reached out to me in 2011, they wanted me to build out their female lifestyle vertical. When they were starting with that initiative, they were giving each production house a million dollars to produce content.