“The one thing that's important to know is Hulu's not looking for traffic to be sent to hulu.com from its relationships with Yahoo and Fancast and MSN.”
“We're simple-minded, the team at Hulu, which is, we think if we can obsess over quality and build a better mousetrap, that good things will happen. Users will adopt the service, advertisers will see great value in it, and that's what we're seeing.”
“I think the relationship between cable and satellite and telco pay TV service providers and the content industry is a very, very solid one.”
“I'm not the kind of guy who dabbles in a lot of things.”
“When we launched Hulu, everybody was saying, 'Oh, this is going to be a substitute for pay TV in the living room.'”
“When you're dealing with digital goods, you don't have to be tied to one URL.”
“History has shown that incumbents tend to fight trends that challenge established ways and, in the process, lose focus on what matters most: customers.”
“Imagine you're watching '30 Rock' and an ad comes on, but you don't like it. With Hulu Ad Swap, you can actually click the button and trade out the ad. So for the first time ever, a consumer is in control of their ad experience. For us, it's a big win because users are able to take control of what they see.”
“Initially, the television was seen as the devil incarnate by people that worked in the content industry. Now over time it turned out that that was one of the best things that ever could have happened to a content creator. I think the Internet is no different.”
“When I was 10, we drove to Disney World. When we arrived, what impressed me most was the meticulous attention to detail; there wasn't a gum wrapper anyplace.”