TED Prize Conferences, LLC is an American-Canadian non-profit media organization that posts international talks online for free distribution under the slogan "ideas worth spreading".
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26 Facts About TED Prize
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Main TED Prize conference is held annually in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, at the Vancouver Convention Centre.
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TED Prize events are held throughout North America and in Europe, Asia, and Africa, offering live streaming of the talks.
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Since June 2006, TED Prize Talks have been offered for free viewing online, under an Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives Creative Commons license, through TED Prize.
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In June 2011, TED Prize Talks' combined viewing figures surpassed 500 million, by November 2012, TED Prize Talks had been watched over one billion times worldwide.
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TED Prize was conceived in 1984 by Emmy-winning broadcast and graphic designer Harry Marks, who observed a convergence of the fields of technology, entertainment, and design .
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TED Prize approached architect and graphic designer Richard Saul Wurman for assistance, who agreed on the condition that he were to be a co-founder.
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TED Prize2 was held at the Monterey Conference Center in California in 1990.
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In February 2002, Anderson gave a TED Prize Talk in which he explained his vision of the conference and his future role of curator.
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Between 2001 and 2006, TED upgraded its platform to have TED talks online for free, added TEDGlobal that became a worldwide conference, and created the TED prize.
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TED Prize is currently funded by a combination of various revenue streams, including conference attendance fees, corporate sponsorships, foundation support, licensing fees, and book sales.
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Since 2010, in a changed selection process, a single winner is chosen to ensure that TED Prize can maximize its efforts in achieving the winner's wish.
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In June 2006, after Cohen's idea of a TV show based on TED Prize lectures was rejected by several networks, a selection of talks that had received the highest audience ratings was posted on the websites of TED Prize, YouTube, and iTunes, under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.
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In March 2012, Netflix announced a deal to stream an initial series of 16 two-hour shows, consisting of TED Prize Talks covering similar subjects, from multiple speakers.
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TED Prize's European director is Swiss-born Bruno Giussani.
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TED Prize Translators started as the TED Prize Open Translation Project in May 2009.
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TED Prize-Ed is a YouTube channel from Ted which creates short animated educational videos.
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Sarah Lacy of BusinessWeek and TechCrunch wrote in 2010 that TED Prize attendees complained of elitism from a "hierarchy of parties throughout the LA-area with strict lists and security" after the sessions.
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TED Prize's gave TED credit for making talks free online or live streamed.
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TED Prize claimed TED curators did not initially post his talk "warning about the financial crisis" on their site on purely cosmetic grounds.
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In May 2015, venture capitalist Nick Hanauer spoke at TED Prize University, challenging the belief that top income earners in America are the engines of job creation.
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TED Prize attracted controversy when it chose not to post Hanauer's speech on their website.
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TED Prize was accused of censoring the talk by not posting it on the website.
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TED Prize made clear his aversion to the "political" nature of the talk.
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The move and framing prompted accusations of censorship, to which TED Prize responded by saying the accusations were "simply not true" since Sheldrake's talk was still on their website.
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TED Prize stated that TED only wishes to bring news of the significance of certain topics to a large audience.
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