Hastings: Humans biologically separate passive storytelling from active gaming
“We're in lean back mode with a TV and we're mostly wanted to tell us a story. If you think of young kids, Two year olds. They're half of the time. They're like, you know, daddy, read me a story. And half of the time it's daddy play with me. And these like are …”
Sarandos: Netflix is optimizing games, including multiplayer party titles, for TV
“Now we're optimizing some of the games for TV as well, including a multi multiplayer party games and those kinds of things too.”
Wang: Costco had no market share for TVs around 2004-2005
“Around, I think, 2004, 2005, I used to sell computer monitor at Costco, so I know the people a little bit. I had a connection there, so at the time, Costco had no market share for TVs.”
Bokoff: Hotels Haven't Been Disrupted Since the 1950s TV Adoption
“Hotels haven't been disrupted since widely adoption of the TV in like the 19 fifties.”
Enjeti: Vision Pro struggles because television viewing is fundamentally social
“The problem with the entire Vision Pro right now is that it's just a singular experience. It's only happening when I'm by myself. And TV is actually way more social than people think.”
Top YouTube Creators Get Up to 90% of Viewership From TVs
“Like for example, this might shock some people in the audience, but for a lot of our biggest clients in my company, we're getting 6070, sometimes as high as 90% of our viewership. From TV. So from people watching on TV as their primary device type.”
Coogan: Mainstream broadcast TV news is truly gone
“Like, the mainstream just turn on the TV is, like, truly gone, so I'm excited.”
Hays: YouTube viewership is now predominantly on TV screens
“YouTube viewership is now, I think, predominantly on the TV.”
Devins: Vision Pro is the best single-person TV money can buy
“This is like the best TV money can buy. It's a TV for only one person, but if you're by yourself, this is a, this is by far the best television set you will ever experience.”
Lieberman: Future Vision Pro generations could replace phones, computers, and TVs
“As technology continues to improve, I would not at all be surprised to see a future generation of this product that not only is mass market, but is delivering society a better new version of phones, computers, TVs, and gaming consoles in a single experience.”
Isenberg: Broadcast TV Clips Spread Faster and Carry More Credibility Online
“And the clips, because you're on TV, because like, it's, it looks like TV. Everyone knows what TV looks like. There's more credibility. It spreads quicker, and it's just more viral.”
Sivanandan: India's television reach is approximately 800 million people
“The reach of TV, because you have to include free dish as well, right? The reach of TV is about eight hundred million people.”
Mehta: Ather, Ola, and TVS captured 50% of EV sales in FY23
“So, last year, I think about six, seven lakh vehicles were sold, ah, electric.
us, Ola, TVS were about, I think, 50% of it.
I think we did one lakh, I think Ola did 1.5 lakhs, and TVS did, again, just under a lakh.
So about three, three and a half lakh betwee…”
Kamath: Public Disenfranchisement Leads Viewers to Assume TV News Is False
“I think people are so disenfranchised by media per se, overall, that the go-to emotion of late is becoming whatever is coming on TV is probably false.”
Bedi: Print media will die in its current form within a decade
“I wouldn't invest in TV anywhere in the world, but I think over the next 10 years, print will die in my view in its current shape and form.”
Evans: Linear TV ad slots will disappear within 10 years
“Half of the ad, global ad industry is still on TV. And that's not going to be there in 10 years' time, or it won't be quote unquote TV. I mean, this is this whole, what is TV? You know, is Disney, you know, if you watch it on your smartphone, if you watch YouT…”
Gill: Digital tests creative concepts while scaled TV delivers cheaper reach
“I think the digital gives you a good way to experiment on your creative cons. And then if you think that it's working well, then you can actually take it to a much larger kind of a reach, right? And I think TV on a large scale turns out to be much cheaper way …”
Evans predicts TVs will become secondary display screens controlled by smartphones
“For the vast majority of people, the TV will be done whilst for the smartphone. Rather than, so it won't be a box that's plugged into your TV that runs your whole digital experience.”
Chris Dixon: Television and sports programming will unbundle and move to mobile
“Video, you know, TV is going to move to the mobile phone. HBO has already gone unbundled. Sports is going to go unbundled.”
Cowen: Contemporary television is overrated while movies are underrated
“I think movies are actually much better than TV. TV now is a bit overrated and movies underrated.”
Evans: TV sets are now a minority of video-capable devices
“Not the minority of consumption, which is still heavily on TV, But a minority of the devices that people can use. It's now heavily outnumbered by all these other screens.”