Top 79 Quotes & Sayings by Chad Hurley - Page 2

If you're creating an entertainment site, you want the content to be the star.

People just don't sit down and just watch TV at night. Between cellphones, television, video games, the Internet and instant messaging, people are just spending their time in different places.

Google has a great product. They've built a great business.

Football has limited success in Europe.

I basically watch videos online all day long.

No matter what industry you're in, there will be naysayers. So you have to be your own champion.

There's not really any safe places on the Internet.

I feel like there's a lot of noise in the social space. The Vines and Instagrams of the world are gaining traction, and their solutions are perfect for their communities.

I'm probably not creative or talented enough to create an especially compelling piece of content, but I really do enjoy watching a great movie or TV show.

I think Facebook, Twitter and YouTube are the cornerstones of any social media strategy.

I love my baseball, and I love my Phillies.

The power of digital distribution over physical retail outlets is you have a chance to create a global audience.

When you limit the length of the video to something under two minutes, it gives everyday people an opportunity to make something entertaining. It's harder to tell a story or create an entertaining piece of content that is based around the time slot model, television shows being 22 minutes long.

Many large brands are now just marketing machines for what's being made offshore.

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As you start building the product, don't assume that you know all the answers. Listen to the community and adapt. We had a lot of our own ideas about how the service would evolve. Coming from PayPal and eBay, we saw YouTube as a powerful way to add video to auctions, but we didn't see anyone using our product that way, so we didn't add features to support it.

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who dont necessarily get credit are the curators.

I think the success around any product is really about subtle insights. You need a great product and a bigger vision to execute against, but its really those small things that make the big difference.

We started YouTube to democratize video distribution. Now, we are democratizing video creation.