Modern Voices

Grand Theft Auto Good for the Economy

"Grand Theft Auto IV single-handedly propped up the U.K. economy."

-- Ben Feder, CEO Take-Two Interactive Software

based on $98.2M Q2 profit from launch of the game

Not Getting Today's Media Environment Makes You a Silent Screen Stars

"It's like the Clintons, both of them, had sort of a 'Sunset Boulevard' thing going on. They were silent screen stars who couldn't make the transition to talkies."

-- Michael Cornfeld, professor and new media analyst, George Washington University

Time Should Have Broken Clinton RFK Comments

"Hillary Clinton's comments about RFK’s assassination should’ve been broken by Time magazine. She said it to Time already, but it was the [Sioux Falls] Argus Leader that had it on video."

-- Tammy Haddad, video producer, Newsweek

 

Magazines are Underleveraged Storytellers

"The magazine industry has the most “underleveraged storytellers on the planet.”

"There is no other platform, no other train coming - your audience is consuming more and more video every day.”

Paul Speaker, president, Time Inc. Studios

Video Entertainment Hours Will Equal Sleeping

By 2013, U.S. consumers will spend as much time consuming video as they do sleeping within the next five years.

The average American 12 and older spends about six hours a day with video-based entertainment.  That number will increase to about eight hours in 2013.

-- Solutions Research Group
via TV Week

YouTube is a Must For Studios

"A studio declining to do business with YouTube would be like a cereal maker not dealing with Wal-Mart.

-- Bobby Tulsiani,JupiterResearch analyst
via Forbes

Page View Slavery

“It’s wonderful to have the feedback that you get online, but you need enlightened ownership so that you are not a slave to page views."

--Steve Fox, former editor in chief of InfoWorld

“If we were chasing page views, all we’d ever write about is H1-B visas for tech workers, Macs and how bad Microsoft is."

--Eric Knorr, editor in chief, InfoWorld

regarding the move to "multimedia" at MediaWeek