“My top priority has always been our social mission of connecting people, building community and bringing the world closer together. Advertisers and developers will never take priority over that as long as I’m running Facebook.”— Mark Zuckerberg, docs.house.gov
“Facebook’s mission is about giving people a voice and bringing people closer together. Those are deeply democratic values and we’re proud of them. I don’t want anyone to use our tools to undermine democracy. That’s not what we stand for.”— Mark Zuckerberg, docs.house.gov
“People think of fake news as politically motivated, and a lot of it is, but even more of it is economically motivated.”— Sheryl Sandberg, dailymail.co.uk
“I don't mind the fact that Glee made $1 billion and I didn't make anywhere near that. Like, I signed the contract. But I want to be able to move in the world and know, OK, where are my shows selling? Can I be involved in the selling of them? Can I have a say in where they're going? And I was never a…”— Ryan Murphy, hollywoodreporter.com
“It’s easier to talk to an advertiser not just when you have big view counts but multiple platforms that are paying for your content and not just have a card at the beginning of a video, but I can actually run a commercial. It can’t just be hands and pans and say that’s equal to a television show.”— Rich Antoniello, digiday.com
“We’re seeing more requests for access to publishers’ first-party data. Everyone’s trying to claim they should own the data in the marketing relationship. It’s an aggressive ask, so hopefully publishers are considering the ramifications.”— David Spiegel, digiday.com
“Despite bringing in leaders with a new vision, Condé Nast is still about $100 million a year in red ink.”— Alexandra Steigrad, nypost.com
“In the rush to get our content on other platforms, let's not forget about our own.”— S. Mitra Kalita, poynter.org
“There’s a strong likelihood that the redesign of our application will be disruptive to our business in the short term, and we don’t yet know how the behavior of our community will change when they begin to use our updated application.”— Evan Spiegel, variety.com
“We’re not going to traffic in your personal life. Privacy to us is a human right, a civil liberty.”— Tim Cook, theguardian.com
“This is one of the craziest things about the modern age. We would never let the government or a corporation put cameras/microphones in our homes or location trackers on us. But we just went ahead and did it ourselves because — to hell with it!”— Dylan Curran, theguardian.com
“Snap is building out the same kind of API that just got Facebook into a whole mess of trouble.”— Kurt Wagner, recode.net
“Just like with the rise of digital, the agency business isn’t going away anytime soon. Instead, a trend toward client control will end up benefiting nimbler agencies over massive ones and project work over retainers. As always, adaptability will ensure survival.”— Ilyse Liffreing, digiday.com
“The Zoe Report is a great example of what the company intends to do. It is a property with significant revenue, because of its authority in a specific category. Our scale and infrastructure allows us to grow that revenue, while limiting the impact on marginal operating costs.”— Bryan Goldberg, axios.com
“To me, this is the universal litmus test of branded content. It has to live natively in-feed, it has to adhere to the same editorial standards of the publication, and, most importantly, it has to add value to the consumer.”— Ingrid Kesa, adnews.com.au
“The old model favored certain gatekeepers, but today, artists can produce and release their own music.”— Daniel Ek, bloomberg.com