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At Next New Networks we’re all super busy throughout the week buried deep into our individual roles.  Sometimes buried so deep in fact that we don’t get the chance to stop and admire all of the A+ work accomplished throughout the organization.  Weekly I do an all call for submissions for “Good News Fridays.”  Sometimes when reading the list even I stop to say whew!

Recently Fred Seibert suggested we’re doing so much so often we ought to share it more broadly with the Next New Networks community.  Below is the first public installment of GNF.  Eat it up!  And thanks for the continued interest in the continued innovation of TV for the Internet.

1. Amex Open Forum published the first episode (maybe 2 by now) of our new series, Small Business Rules, with Lindsay Campbell.  Maybe you’ve seen the tweets or the posts about it around the Web…it has indeed been well received.  First episode Gotham Dream Cars.
2. Channel Frederator visited with Chris Miller and Phil Lord to talk about their new film from Sony Pictures Animation, “Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs.”  We’ll be airing both of their college animations and interviews with the directors tomorrow.  Incidentally, CF will be the only place on the Web, or anywhere else for that matter, for anyone to see these films.
3. Officially passed the 600 million total views mark in August.
4. Launched the new home for Next New Networks on the Web. Check out http://www.nextnewnetworks.com
5. Launched our new player. This was a labor of love and tight budgets and took many people a great deal of work over a long period of time for a real triumph. We now have much more flexibility and easy access to catalog viewing.
6. Last week we officially became the first company to use FreeWheel on YouTube!
7. “The Real Sarah Palin” video we did for Lion’s Gate featuring Amber won the Adweek Buzz Award for “Best Viral Marketing” campaign
8. Barely Arcade’s “Rush Limbaugh Punch Out” had over 500k views in first 5 days