paidContent:UK: Round-up of Sly Bailey comments at Digital Britain summit
April 20th, 2009Posted by Laura Oliver in Editors' pick, Events, Newspapers
Trinity Mirror CEO Sly Bailey reiterated her thoughts about Google and newspapers at Friday’s Digital Britain summit in the UK.
“[U]nique users don’t pay wages,” stressed Bailey.
“We’ve been playing in to the hands of the very businesses that play so fast and loose with our content in the first place. We’ve become dependent on pats on the back from new kids on the block who tell us what the rules are.”
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April 20th, 2009 at 3:24 pm
She’s right: unique users don’t pay wages. Page views do. Duh.
April 20th, 2009 at 3:29 pm
Reading your comment, the Goldie Lookin’ Chain song ‘Guns don’t kill people, rappers do’ popped into my head. I feel a YouTube turn coming on…