“As always, we’re looking to improve the experience with you in mind.”
An anonymous YouTube staffer, explaining how the site has “improved” its videos by overlaying ads on top of them, The YouTube Blog, 21 August 2007
Category: YouTube
LOSER-GENERATED CONTENT
“The Internet has made a platform where anyone can become a star.”
Larry Weintraub, CEO of Fanscape, an L.A.-based new-media marketing agency, on the puzzling success of freaky people on YouTube, News.com, 8 August 2007
ADVERTISER-GENERATED CONTENT
“We were running on fumes.”
Lonelygirl15 cocreator Greg Goodfried, explaining why the YouTube video series sold out and accepted an Icebreaker Sours gum product placement, NewTeeVee Pier Screenings, 24 July 2007
DON’T BE TRIVIAL
“Just a couple days ago, I was researching an old IBM mainframe system from the 1960s I had created on Google, and it never occurred to me to search for videos on that kind of query.”
Google cofounder Sergey Brin, trying to justify the $1.65 billion he spent on YouTube, SeekingAlpha, 19 July 2007
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