“Some ViacomCBS employees have already been told that their jobs are set to be eliminated.”— Daniel Holloway, variety.com
“2017 was an incredibly difficult year for digital media. Small and more challenged digital media companies have been hit hard. This is a time for companies with cash flow and capital to start acquiring the more challenged digital assets.”— Bryan Goldberg, bloomberg.com
“And there’s an integrity to the Whole Foods culture. And I think they are gonna respect that integrity. They’re really smart people. They’re not stupid enough to go in and trash the very asset that they are spending billions of dollars to acquire.”— John Mackey, sec.gov
“One of the things they do better than us, they are more customer-centric than we are. They really are. And one of my takeaways is that, by God, we're gonna become as customer-centric as Amazon. We're gonna— we're gonna— we're gonna import their passion about that.”— John Mackey, sec.gov
“Apple Music said in December that it had more than 20 million subscribers, most of whom pay $9.99 a month; Spotify counted more than 40 million paying subscribers in September.”— Ben Fritz, Hannah Karp, Tripp Mickle, wsj.com