Ross Levinsohn, the head of Fox Interactive, did a Q&A at Web 2.0.
—GoogTube: It was the right deal for YouTube and interesting tool for Google….it would have been a fun process to watch, had we participated in it. I think it is going to successful. We wouldn’t have been able to participate at the price that came down.
—Google CEO’s visit afterwards: It was pretty genuine of Eric Schmidt and others to come down….we have put our deal up with Google in beta across a few areas just two days ago.
—MySpace deal: We are in a frenzy and it is a really hard business. It is slogging every single day of my life. That’s why we have all our attention on MySpace.
—Traffic on MySpace: It is a seasonal dip…most sites are down from August to September. We added 320K yesterday, so the growth is still phenomenal. 38 billion pageviews.
—Acquisitions: We are looking for more acquisitions…if you are not looking, you are not doing your job. To me this is the greatest time to be in media business.
—A feature does not make a company, and we have a lot of great features out there…if you are building a feature, you should sell it. If you are building a next Google, you should not sell it.
—Brad Greenspan: Life’s too short…