LiveNation Entertainment CEO Irving Azoff tells filmmaker Judd Apatow how hard it is to make it in the music industry, American Idols and Lady Gagas notwithstanding

Kickstarter co-founder Yancey Strickler holds forth on the value of "staying small," the meritocracy of crowd-funded projects and his site's biggest film project yet 

Executives from Maker Studios, Bedrocket Media and NBC Universal's president of digital talked growing online video audiences and advertising revenue at TheGrill 2012

Seth MacFarlane on making the leap from "Family Guy" to "Ted" and his control-freak creative process

"What we're trying to do is bring quality, must-see TV back," Jennifer Salke, president of NBC Entertainment and Universal Television, told TheGrill

And good news for marketers from Ipsos MediaCT's Vincent Bruzzese: Those who take to Twitter primarily post to boost a movie they're excited about -- not to warn people about a turkey

Netflix Chief Content Officer Ted Sarandos tells TheWrap's Brent Lang about the company's evolution from distributor to programmer 

"I don’t know that [sports] gets its full appreciation and credit for both ground it broke and the size of its influence on the market,” Geoff Reiss, CEO of the professional bowlers’ association, tells TheGrill

"We're not Amazon, we're not an aggregator of products -- we're a curator of products," HSN CEO Mindy Grossman told TheGrill

Studios still play a critical role in the media ecosystem, just not as large and domineering a position as in the past, AllThingsD's Kara Swisher tells TheWrap's Sharon Waxman at TheGrill

Sacca, founder of Lowercase Capital, and Jordan, a director of Pinterest and OpenTable talk about why it's a great time to be a content producer

The popular internet radio's co-founder isn't worried about the lack of profitability --or a challenge from Spotify