Ricky Van Veen famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

I think a mistake a lot of people make is to identify a target audience and then work backwards into creating a product for them.
-- Ricky Van Veen

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Smaller stuff tends to get shared more frequently.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Stuff
National Lampoon lost its audience when it went from monthly magazine to bimonthly to quarterly to annual to just making movies.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Magazines #Lost #National Lampoon
Viral videos arent just about being funny. Theyre about identity creation.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Identity #Video #Creation
Notional is a production company with the DNA of an Internet company that makes content for everything.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Dna #Internet #Company
If you're a content brand, you have to be in every place your audience is. Sometimes your audience is on the couch and wants to watch a 30-minute show, and sometimes they're checking their Facebook feed and want to see something that's only a minute long.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Long #Watches #Want
On the Web you have to sum up what your piece of content is in one link or nobody is going to watch it. That's the same thing I've been hearing from TV executives - is we need a program that you can have on the side of a bus and someone can watch it go by and get what the show is and want to watch it.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Needs #Pieces #Links
All Internet comedy is niche comedy. If you do an Internet video about Halo, every Halo fan will send it to every other Halo fan. But if you did an episode of a network comedy that parodied Halo, most of your audience wouldn't even get it.
-- Ricky Van Veen

#Fans #Halos #Video

This book has been a catalogue of mistakes by politicians, moral and practical disasters which led to wars, enslavement and wretchedness on a scale which no previous age could have dreaded or dreamed of.
Learn from the mistakes of others, and avoid being one whose mistakes are used as lessons by others.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isnâ€™t wishful thinking. Itâ€™s the rule.
Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'
A quotation is a handy thing to have about, saving one the trouble of thinking for oneself, always a laborious business.
I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.
Some of my academic friends think Ive fallen from a very special grace.
I think I feel rather differently about sympathy to what seems the normal view. I like just to feel it is there, but not always expressed.
The one thing that cannot be outsourced is creativity. We have to find ways to support creative people because the only way we are going to improve our laws... is by creating our way out of it.
The Government, being resolved to undertake the political and moral purification of our public life, are creating and securing the conditions necessary for a really profound revival of religious life

Ricky Van Veen famous quotes

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