Nate Elliott Quotations

We're seeing a market that's maturing. A market this big can't continue to grow at 100, 80, or even 60 percent. It's not possible.

We have yet to see a viable long-term business model for social networks. We have yet to see anyone come close.

Online dating in the U.S. continues to grow. This is a half billion dollar industry and it is an industry that is still growing.

Nothing else we're seeing can return the growth rates paid search is delivering right now. People keep looking around for the next area that will grow by 100 percent, and those industries are rare.

Paid search alone drove online marketing last year. But the sectors are going to grow in harmony this year.

Local search advertising isn't doing anything right now,

You have to be able to go on the site on a regular basis and see enough profiles that you're not seeing the same people over and over again, which sounds easy and obvious, but it really depends on the depth of the search you're doing.

There's still a leap of faith involved for a lot of people when they go into online dating. Although the stigma has mostly gone away, they're still doing something that might feel a little bit uncomfortable, and to be able to take that step within a predefined community can improve the comfort level for certain users.

This is a new and better way to advertise online. Instead of having to get users to come to a video site to see full-motion video, you can bring it to them.

They're doing stuff now that Microsoft says they hope they can do in a couple years.

It's the natural growth curve of the industry. It took a while for it to gain traction, then we saw several years of explosive growth, and now it will slow down.

That market will exist at some point in the future. It is never a bad idea to start learning about the technology and how consumers want to use video on the go, and start the relationships with the content providers.