http://www.variety.com/article/VR111...ryid=1344&cs=1
excerpt from MIPCOM article:
MGM's chief operating officer Rick Sands turned to his fellow panelist, Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl, and said, "You, sir, are just a pipe."
Bottom line for Sands is that these folks with their pumped-up Powerpoint presentations need to pay for the content they stream.
And, he added, they need to stop waxing on about how great user-generated content is.
"There is a limit to the amount of this crap you can watch. I want you to watch 'Stargate,' " Sands said unapologetically.
Like the other Hollywood studios, MGM's business model hinges on getting viewers to watch its 4,000 movies and 10,000 hours of TV series.
As an exec who came out of the hardnosed Harvey Weinstein school of content, Sands is adamant that finding anything good in the real world, let alone the virtual content world, is no easy task.
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excerpt from MIPCOM article:
MGM's chief operating officer Rick Sands turned to his fellow panelist, Joost CEO Fredrik de Wahl, and said, "You, sir, are just a pipe."
Bottom line for Sands is that these folks with their pumped-up Powerpoint presentations need to pay for the content they stream.
And, he added, they need to stop waxing on about how great user-generated content is.
"There is a limit to the amount of this crap you can watch. I want you to watch 'Stargate,' " Sands said unapologetically.
Like the other Hollywood studios, MGM's business model hinges on getting viewers to watch its 4,000 movies and 10,000 hours of TV series.
As an exec who came out of the hardnosed Harvey Weinstein school of content, Sands is adamant that finding anything good in the real world, let alone the virtual content world, is no easy task.
*READ REST OF ARTICLE AT LINK ABOVE*
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Very nice to read.
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