Podcast Quotes
In everyday life we can always find a dead lyric that fits any circumstance—good or bad, happy or sad, stressful or not.
Vite + React
If you're going to try new shit, at least half of it's not going to work. Absolutely. And when we get ready to try something, I go, guys, don't get too carried away. 50-50 chance, it works
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The strategic rebranding of Nickelodeon and MTV's revolutionary approach, which made the network itself the primary destination
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The genesis of MTV: innovating in a limited media landscape by adapting TV to music's emotional form.
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The success of a business or brand like MTV relies on balancing 'math' (analytics) with 'magic' (creative intuition).
The success of a business or brand like MTV relies on balancing 'math' (analytics) with 'magic' (creative intuition).
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The 1980s media shift from limited network control to consumer choice with the rise of 24-hour cable channels.
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pm.rev.vet“MTV was the first network where people say, I'm tuning in to watch MTV, see what's on. They're going to MTV, not a program. Yeah.
And Nickelodeon began to do that. I'm going to turn on Nickelodeon. What's on? I don't know. I'm going to Nickelodeon.
That the network became the object of desire. And that sort of changed how people did TV networks. And after us, other people had success with that as well.”
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pm.rev.vet“You have a podcast called Math and Magic. To me, it's always been my thing. By the way, Buzzy Bennett said that, because I thought it was the greatest program ever. He said, it's the analytics, but it's also, you got to have the magic. I can do all this survey data and tell you what people want, that to make it exciting. I now have to have the magic to make it exciting. And I believe that's true with every business, every project is the math and magic. ”
The 'Math and Magic' business philosophy: balancing data-driven analytics with creative intuition, exemplified by MTV and Steve Ross