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About our Guest

Fred Seibert is the co-founder and Creative Director of Next New Networks.

In 2007, Emil Rensing, Herb Scannell, Fred Seibert, Tim Shey, and Jed Simmons founded Next New Networks, a media company that brings the voices of the new pop culture to television and the internet. With 18 branded networks launched (and 101 planned) and over 150,000,000 video views, Next New Networks has already become YouTube’s top independent content partner.

Seibert has been the President of Hanna-Barbera Cartoons was the original creative director of MTV. He launched Channel Frederator: Cartoon Central for the Internet, in 2005. He has been a jazz record producer, advertising agency owner, and television producer. He currently is producing animated TV series and feature films.

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About This Webcast

Live from the ScribeMedia studio in downtown NYC, Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media sits down for a live video Webcast interview with Fred Seibert, network television veteran and founder of new media poster child Next New Networks.

Topic

Fred Seibert is not only an award-winning cartoon producer who lead the remake of Nickelodeon into a leading cable network and was the original creative director for MTV. He also is the co-founder of Next New Networks, the Web-based home of Barely Political (hosted by Obama Girl) and ultra-niche networks for auto racing fanatics, comic-book enthusiasts. NNN has raised more than $23 million in funding from high profile venture firms like Spark Capital and Goldman Sachs, and recently brought on former MTV and Nickelodeon exec Lance Podell as CEO.

Seibert is plain-spoken and refreshingly candid about everything from how he’s raised money, to whether Web-based video like his can turn a profit, how he goes about finding talented people and turning their ideas into a businesses like the new blogging tool Tumblr and more — all while admitting huge failures, including one just a decade ago that cost him nearly every dollar he had.

Naked Media host Dorian Benkoil and Seibert will talk about the plans for Next New Networks, being an entrepreneur, and what anyone can learn from his triumphs and mistakes. Expect a wide-ranging, fun and frank discussion instructive for anyone in the media business today.

About Naked Media

Through interviews with cutting edge leaders and thinkers from the media industry, Naked Media explores the nexus of content, advertising and technology — all with an eye toward measurable goals in the digital age. Naked Media peels back the covers to show in stark reality how it’s done, what media managers are doing even as the landscape shifts beneath their feet. The show may attract some media stars but will not be about their stardom. Rather it’s the goals they are trying to achieve and how they get there. The show’s guests are as likely to be dynamic speakers from small- and medium-sized media influencers as from the behemoths.

Hosted by award-winning journalist and media veteran Dorian Benkoil of Teeming Media, and enhanced through viewer participation, Naked Media cuts through the bloviation, challenges the conventional wisdom and gets at real issues that provide “aha” moments for the executives who are watching and participating. Whether in one-on-one interviews or panel discussions, it will explore a wealth of issues, everything from making money from the latest ad technologies to the privacy issues surrounding behavioral targeting to the buzz around social media and widgets to the financials of media deals. The show will include a mix of live in-studio interviews, on-site events and on-demand offerings, and will include audience questions and discussion areas.

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