Media Integration Quotes

My goal is to bridge the gap between social media and traditional media.

Rather than lose the public because television is here, wouldn't it be smart to adopt television as our instrument?

In August of 1921, one of the great American combinations was unveiled—even better than the peanut butter and jelly sandwich. This fortuitous new blend was radio and baseball.

I think that we are trying to put data communications, telecommunications and media communications together and be the No. 1 player there.

I work with companies like Audiostiles to put together mixes for my restaurants. I even created a soundtrack for my television show.

Entertainment and information work well together.

I don't think there's a... boundary between digital media and print media. Every magazine is doing an online version.

We don't want to turn the TV into a computer.

As a visual storyteller, a lot is learning what to include so you're not being redundant between images and text.

Television and web are merging.

For somebody like Kanye, fame is the fullest realisation of his art in a way. It's like an Andy Warhol dream or something. He's able to marshal all of these different artforms and media into his story, in this very layered, idiosyncratic way.

I think that the Internet and print behave in a complementary manner.

We're busy people; we need media that's multitask-able. I want games I can play while I'm watching television. 70% of Americans are on the Internet while they watch TV. We all multitask now, and we need media to reflect that.

If there's one thing that 2009 showed us, it's that everything is happening everywhere, across multiple platforms, each one making waves that end up crashing against each other and commingling into one giant media sea.

When you listen to the music, you can also see the film or read the article, and it's all part of the same journey that you get to take with the artist you're interested in. It's a balancing act.

While strides are being made in the social-media space, the newspaper and news business should continue to embrace social media.

Hosting and surfacing legacy media content isn't all about YouTube trying to abandon its core, it's about inviting a broader variety of viewers to the platform.

UTV's uniqueness is that it is an integrated media company.

What happens with any announcer when he comes into an area, if he stays four or five years and does a fairly decent job, people accept him and he becomes part of the family.

I want to find the intersection between digital media and traditional media and be pioneering the endeavor to merge the two worlds.

I don't know if it's a movement, but the only thing new that's happening is that I think music and art and video and fashion are all kind of thrown into one big ball that's on television, and people see that all the time - you see a fusion of all those things.

Why stick to just prose or just music or just newspaper or just video? Why not create new models for information that combine elements of them all?

I do not think that there need be the conflict between books and videos, that one would drive out the other. It certainly is possible to watch the screen for some things and for others to sit down and read, because the screen is easier to do, to watch is easier than to read because you don't have to contemplate anything. Someone else has done the work of putting it on the video.

Digital brand integration is part of the evolution of product placement. It's simply another tool marketers use to get products integrated into shows. If you can put it in a package, we can put it in a show.

HSN is uniquely positioned to present the seamless connection between media and commerce.