Digital Media
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Musk: Live events will become the scarce commodity in digital media
“Actually, I think live events, when digital media is ubiquitous, and you can just have anything digitally, you know, essentially for free, or very close to for free then I, the scarce commodity will be live events.”
Dave Morin: Digital media is the most undervalued asset class right now
“I think digital media is the most undervalued asset class right now.”
Jessica Lessin: There will not be a wave of digital media acquisitions
“I'll make the bold predictions that you will not see a wave of digital media acquisitions.”
Vance: Building physical world businesses is harder than digital media
“And they know that as hard as it is to build a business in digital media, it's still harder to build one in robotics or life sciences or energy in what we call the world of atoms.”
Hayes: Attention mirrors hunger and digital media is in its 1970s junk-food era
“I always compare it to food a lot because I think attention and hunger function similarly. They're like, they're both biological inheritances, but also reflections of our deep identity as humans. And, you know, I think we're kind of in the, like, late seventie…”
Andreessen: Younger generations will navigate digital media better than elders
“New generations are going to be like much better at dealing with this whole media politics, you know, kind of matrix.”
Solana: Chasing Ad Traffic Homogenized Digital Media and Destroyed Trust
“That, that led inevitably to everybody who was writing, trying to sort of fish for that traffic to sounding totally identical in the first place. And being completely bombastic in the second, and it eroded trust. So you have now nobody trusting you, and also y…”
Modern digital media publications struggle to survive without a subscription paywall
“If you don't have a paywall, You're struggling.”
Friedberg: Digital media accelerates human consumption towards base instincts
“What's happening in social media is within seconds, you make evolutionary votes on kind of what you want in the media cycle. And then all of a sudden, a few hours later, you're getting exactly what you want over and over again, and you can't say no. And that's…”
Lombard: Digital media should no longer be called 'new media'
“Sometimes people call digital new media and I'm like, ah, it, it's been around for over 20 years so I think we need to Stop using the word new.”
Peretti: 100x internet reach compensates for lower per-user monetization rates
“So, so they're not the same, and also it's possible to reach more people than ever before, and so even if they didn't, if, even if things were monetized at a lower rate, the fact that you're able to reach a hundred X more people means that you can build a real…”
Dixon: Digital media is limited to paywalls, native ads, crowdfunding, or billionaires
“You're left with a paywall model, which the New York Times and the Journal are, you know, and other, and the FT maybe are experimenting with. There's some other experiments going on with, like, crowdfunding and things, and then there's native advertising, and …”
Britton: TV and digital convergence will return power to ad agencies
“When TV and digital come full circle, it's going to go right back into the hands of the agencies and it's already starting to go in that direction as everything kind of starts to shake out in that space.”