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According to our best estimates, TED has surpassed a billion video views! Our most recent metrics show that TED Talks are being viewed at a rate of 1.5 million times a day -- which means that a new viewing commences 17 times a second. We in the TED office cannot thank you enough for helping us reach this milestone of 1,000,000,000 views -- nine wonderful zeroes.

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I've written about TED videos before, but this number (1,000,000,000) blows me away. Plus, this post is neat because of the playlists it contains from some pretty influential people.