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Sahil Patel Quotes

Total quotes: 8
“Podcasters debate following the ad tech trail blazed by the internet.”
— Sahil Patel, Podcast Industry Grapples With the Prospect of Automated Ads
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“What Apple offers is potential scale: Apple News users now read more than 5 billion articles per month, according to Apple CEO Tim Cook, not to mention the 1.4 billion devices that Apple says are currently 'active.'”
— Sahil Patel, Apple's subscription news and video services cater to media's middle class
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“Later, Univision wrote off its investments in FMG, GMG and The Onion, claiming a loss of $32.5 million in the fourth quarter of 2018.”
— Sahil Patel, Inside Univision's troubled acquisition of Gizmodo and The Onion
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“For many companies that are caught in the middle, Apple’s new services are an alluring option.”
— Sahil Patel, Apple's subscription news and video services cater to media's middle class
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“Today, Facebook’s top video priority is Facebook Watch, a 7-month-old tab on the platform that offers episodic video shows and some live sports....But for all this effort, few users are going to the Watch section, and of those that do, few are watching long enough to hit the mid-roll ad break.”
— Sahil Patel, Facebook's Silicon Valley approach has hindered its video ambitions
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes, Facebook, Facebook Ads
“86 percent of publishers make 25 percent or less of their video revenue on Facebook — which points to how unsuccessful Facebook has been in building an ad revenue-sharing product that works for media companies.”
— Sahil Patel, Facebook news-feed changes will cut into publishers' branded-content revenue
Tagged: Facebook, Revenue, Digital media, Digital Video
“Last year, GMG and The Onion combined generated roughly $80 to $85 million in overall revenue, according to three sources familiar with the matter. But with all expenses added up, the organization was tens of millions in the red, sources said.”
— Sahil Patel, Inside Univision's troubled acquisition of Gizmodo and The Onion
Tagged: Media Cliff Notes
“Facebook might be hosting upwards of 8 billion views per day on its platform, but a wide majority of that viewership is happening in silence.

As much as 85 percent of video views happen with the sound off, according to multiple publishers. Take, for instance, feel-good site LittleThings, which is averaging 150 million monthly views on Facebook so far this year. Eighty-five percent of its viewership is occurring without users turning the sound on.”
— Sahil Patel, 85 percent of Facebook video is watched without sound
Tagged: Facebook, Video, Social, Tech
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