“You have to be very cautious not to get caught in the math, because you’ll end up making the same thing over and over again. And the data just tells you what happened in the past. It doesn’t tell you anything that will happen in the future.”— Ted Sarandos, vulture.com
“The success of Google and Facebook rests largely on the fact that both have spent so much money building data centers and filling them with hardware and software designed by an elite, in-demand set of engineers. In this way they resemble the telegraph giants, with investments in physical infrastruct…”— Christopher Mims, wsj.com
“Indeed, we've pointed out that the setup of the GDPR is such that it's becoming a regulatory nightmare because the compliance costs are high, and the setup of the rules are so vague that the liability risk remains high.”— Mike Masnick, techdirt.com
“If the purpose of this tour was to stop Europe from being worried about Facebook, the exact opposite has occurred: Facebook should be worried about Europe.”— Joumanna Bercetche, cnbc.com
“There is a substantially increased risk that any given branded content campaign will receive little traction when distributed on Facebook. This, in turn, will impact the return on investment of the campaign. The higher the cost of content creation, the more challenging it will be for marketers to to…”— Eric Berry, forbes.com
“The fact remains that Facebook has been the most effective driver of affordable traffic, meaning there is now a pronounced gap in the efficiency of branded content.”— Eric Berry, forbes.com
“Unfortunately, publishers haven’t done a very good job developing attribution products to prove that premium content works. We’ve done enough studies to say that when you run advertising across good-quality publishers it works better. At the same time, we need a better measurement source.”— Stephanie Layser, adexchanger.com
“The Facebook content is overwhelmingly product reviews. That’s the only thing that works on Facebook. It’s Facebook’s problem that they made a very square box that only one type of content fits in...Whatever traffic [Facebook] sends you, it’s just not real. I would do the weird product review videos…”— Jon Steinberg, digiday.com
“After each strategy shift at Medium, partner publishers have said they felt the rug being pulled out from under their feet, with no notice.”— Shan Wang, niemanlab.org
“All in all, what is happening is that the last decade of digital services is essentially over. The challenge and opportunity is now to invent a new set of service to meet the future needs of companies.”— Unknown, digiday.com
“Instagram, with its 800 million monthly active users, has been slowly rolling out products to make the process of selling vintage clothes—and anything else, for that matter—easier for big retail partners and small businesses that use platforms such as Shopify and BigCommerce.”— Alexandra Stratton, Kim Bhasin, bloomberg.com
“Public relations hits from an ad appearing next to jihadi propaganda is one form of pressure, but it amounts to nothing in the battle for marketing results. And that pressure has grown as digital advertising has grown up — brand managers everywhere now have to account for how dollars are spent. Comb…”— Shareen Pathak, digiday.com
“Flickr has survived through thick-and-thin and is core to the entire fabric of the Internet.”— Don MacAskill, usatoday.com
“Fake news, the Russia misinformation scandal, and all of these issues that are at the top of the Zeitgeist at the moment are all symptoms of a fundamental problem that information moves too fast and at too large a scale for us to be able to reliably parse it and understand the world as human beings.”— Nathaniel Barling, motherboard.vice.com
“Netflix can afford it. It added about 19 million streaming subscribers in 2016 and 23.8 million 2017. If it keeps growing by 20 million subscribers a year on average, Mahaney estimates Netflix will add about $2.5 billion in new revenue a year to its top-line.”— Ashley Rodriguez, qz.com
“Its not crazy but having small groups of creative people and giving them freedom and power to try to new things. And then lowering the risk of failure so if they do something and it doesn't work it doesn't hurt the Company. But if they success it has unlimited upside.”— Jonah Peretti, wsj.com
“Chrome came to liberate us from the shackles of IE, but like many revolutionary leaders, too many years in power have corrupted Chrome’s original mission. [...] that’s kind of the whole reason for me to avoid Chrome: someone has to keep using the alternatives so as to give them a reason to exist.”— Vlad Savov, theverge.com
“Pot publications are one of the few growth areas in media. High Times Media, which has delayed but not canceled plans to become a publicly listed company, said Thursday it is buying Green Rush Daily for $500,000 cash plus $6.4 million in stock.”— Keith J. Kelly, nypost.com