Twenty years ago, there were dozens and dozens of independent television producers. There are a couple now, at the most. Mark Burnett, Endemol. It’s gone. Everybody works for the Man now. And it’s natural law, how that happened: Nobody prescribed it, but it’s how things worked out and how it has been for decades, period. Barry Diller Read Quote
I like businesses in transition, first of all. If ever there were a business in transition, it is publishing. Barry Diller Read Quote
Napster has pointed the way for a new direction for music distribution, and we believe it will form the basis of important and exciting new business models for the future of the music industry. Barry Diller Read Quote
Urbanspoon is a nice, little application and it’s perfect, of course, for CitySearch because of the reviews it contains and the ability for CitySearch to use that content. Barry Diller Read Quote
The directories businesses still make nothing but money. They’re overleveraged, they’re bankrupt entities, but they still are the largest. This is all going to move online over time. Why Citysearch and Service Magic are so important to us, is because nobody has really colonized it yet completely. Barry Diller Read Quote
The business model for content is to be paid for it. You can be paid for it either though advertising or subscriptions or some new invention, but right now what we’ve got is advertising revenue and subscription revenue as the only way to be paid for content. Barry Diller Read Quote
Ticketmaster does not set prices. Live Nation does not set ticket prices. Artists set ticket prices. Barry Diller Read Quote
Who ever knows what will happen with the economy, and will it affect the Internet? There’s so much pouring into the Internet; I would doubt it, but I’m not the greatest predictor. But more than any media sector, I think the Internet will hold up. Barry Diller Read Quote
