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In June 2006, after Cohen's idea of a TV show based on TED lectures was rejected by several networks, a selection of talks that had received highest audience ratings was posted on the websites of TED, [[YouTube]] and [[iTunes]] under [[Creative Commons license|Creative Commons]] Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0.<ref name="giving">{{cite news |title=Giving Away Information, but Increasing Revenue |newspaper=The New York Times |date=April 16, 2007 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/16/technology/16ecom.html |access-date=September 30, 2018|last1=Tedeschi |first1=Bob }}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.youtube.com/user/tedtalksdirector|title=TED|work=YouTube|access-date=February 12, 2015}}</ref> Only a handful of talks was initially posted to see if there was an audience for them. In January of the following year, the number of talks on the sites had grown to 44, and they had been viewed more than three million times. On the basis of that success, the organization pumped hundreds of thousands of dollars into its video production operations and the development of a website to feature about 100 of the talks.<ref name="giving"/><ref name="CFP">{{cite journal|last1=Masson|first1=M|title=Benefits of TED Talks|journal=Canadian Family Physician|date=December 2014|volume=60|issue=12|page=1080|pmid=25500595|pmc=4264800}}</ref> In April 2007, the new TED.com was launched, developed by New York and San Francisco-based design company [[Method (company)|Method]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=The new TED.com launches today, Monday, April 16 |website=[[TED Blog]]|date=April 16, 2007|url=https://blog.ted.com/the_new_tedcom/#:~:text=%20was%20designed%20by%20New%20York,Method|access-date=October 5, 2022}}</ref> The website has won many prizes, including seven [[Webby Award]]s, iTunes' "Best Podcast of the Year" (2006–2010); the ''[[Communication Arts (magazine)|Communication Arts]]'' Interactive Award for Information Design (2007); the OMMA Award for Video Sharing, the Web Visionary Award for Technical Achievement, and [[The One Club|The One Show Interactive]] Bronze Award (2008); the [[AIGA]] Annual Design Competition (2009); and a [[Peabody Award]] (2012).<ref>{{cite web|url=http://bibliotech.stanford.edu/conf11_speakers|title=2011 Speakers {{!}} BiblioTech Program|website=bibliotech.stanford.edu|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-date=June 24, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160624053929/http://bibliotech.stanford.edu/conf11_speakers|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://method.com/about/awards|title=Work|website=Method|access-date=June 18, 2016|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130807060646/http://method.com/about/awards|archive-date=August 7, 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.peabodyawards.com/award-profile/ted.com|title=TED.com|website=peabodyawards.com|access-date=June 18, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=TED Review|publisher=[[MacWorld]]|url=http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=707209|date=December 22, 2009|access-date=December 23, 2009|archive-date=October 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101019073803/http://www.macworld.com/appguide/app.html?id=707209|url-status=dead}}</ref><!---Not sure if is exactly the right link. If not please search the app listing and replace---> In January 2009, TED videos had been viewed 50 million times. In June 2011, they reached 500 million views;<ref name="mashable.com"/> and on November 13, 2012, they reached their billionth video view.<ref name="billion"/> In March 2012, Chris Anderson said in an interview: {{blockquote|It used to be 800 people getting together once a year; now it's about a million people a day watching TED Talks online. When we first put up a few of the talks as an experiment, we got such impassioned responses that we decided to flip the organization on its head and think of ourselves not so much as a conference but as "ideas worth spreading," building a big website around it. The conference is still the engine, but the website is the amplifier that takes the ideas to the world.|sign=Chris Anderson,<ref>{{cite web|first=Julie|last=Coe|url=http://www.departures.com/articles/teds-chris-anderson|title=TED's Chris Anderson|website=Departures|access-date=June 18, 2016|archive-date=April 26, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140426214919/http://www.departures.com/articles/teds-chris-anderson|url-status=dead}}</ref>}} In March 2012, [[Netflix]] announced a deal to [[streaming media|stream]] an initial series of 16 two-hour collections of TED Talks on similar subjects. It was made available to subscribers in the United States, Canada, Latin America, the United Kingdom, and Ireland.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/ericsavitz/2012/03/15/netflix-to-stream-ted-talks/|title=Netflix To Stream TED Talks|last=Savitz|first=Eric|website=Forbes|access-date=June 18, 2016}}</ref> Hosted by Jami Floyd, ''[[#TED.com|TED Talks NYC]]'' debuted on [[NYC Media|NYC Life]] on March 21, 2012.<ref>{{cite news|title=TED TALKS IN NYC –FEATURING WORLD-RENOWNED TALKS FROM TED.COM – PREMIERES ON NYC LIFE |url=http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/html/news/tedtalksinnycpremieres.shtml |access-date=January 17, 2012 |newspaper=.nyc.gov |date=March 15, 2012 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121103151258/http://www.nyc.gov/html/media/html/news/tedtalksinnycpremieres.shtml |archive-date=November 3, 2012 }}</ref> As of October 2020, over 3500 TED talks had been posted,<ref name="numbertalks" /> and five to seven new talks are published each week. 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