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NewTeeVee Conference Videos

The NewTeeVee Live conference, which took place today in San Francisco, has posted video of their panels and interviews up at livestream.com.

Some highlights:

• Reed Hastings NetFlix CEO
• Jason Seiken, PBS
• Amy Banse, Comcast
• Murali Nemani, Cisco

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Top Web TV Series for October has over 19 million viewers

Mashable has a story up comparing the Top 10 Most Watch Web Series in October and the overall ratings astonished me. The number one show Happy Tree Friends has 19 million viewers.

In comparison a top rated show broadcast TV show like NCIS has around the same number of viewers in a week. Now these are obviously some apple and orange comparisons happening here (the methodology for collecting online views, “impressions” versus “views”, series versus episode), but it’s still astounding to me the heights to which online video has reached.

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