Chad Hurley Quotes

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

• Power

There are a handful of talented individuals that are always going to do a better job. If you look at the amount of TV shows or movies, there's only a handful that rise to the top.

• Job

I love video.

I think a platform such as YouTube has to respect local laws and customs.

• Respect

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.

• Great
• Movie

I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a newspaper than read all my digital books.

• Coffee

I look at building business as a creative process that I enjoy.

• Business

The iPhone will maybe become more of a video-conferencing experience - you pick up your phone, you answer it, you'll be talking to someone looking at their face.

• Up
• Experience

As long as I can remember, I was drawing or trying to create something.

• Long
• Trying
• Remember

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

• Champion

In the Internet world, especially in Silicon Valley, everyone is at the ready all the time, and turnaround is relatively short, if not instant.

• Time
• World

Content begets content.

I basically watch videos online all day long.

• Long

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

From time to time, I've experimented with sculpture or metal design. It's a good break from just sitting behind the keyboard.

• Time
• Good
• Design

I think you will see a point where the traditional model of advertising on TV or advertising online will go, and advertisers will cover one programme, no matter what platform it's being broadcast on. You'll see the same ads whether you are watching it on your TV, your computer or your phone.

• Model

The iPad - is that a phone or a computer? If I put it on my wall is it a TV?

• Wall

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

• Star

The whole purpose of MixBit is to reuse the content within the system.

• Purpose

I was one of those kids who took apart their toys to see how they work, just to see what they were made up of.

• Up
• Work
• Kids

With YouTube - with the Internet in general - you have information overload. The people who don't necessarily get credit are the curators.

• People

There's always going to be a place for YouTube.

The one thing with the established and traditional media industries is that whenever something new comes along, they don't know what to make of it, and the natural reaction is to fight it or push back.

Unfortunately, I think YouTube is going down the route of rewarding the select few around content creation, be it with partnerships or with ways of funding original content.