Jason Seiken
Senior Vice President, PBS Interactive
@jseiken
Jason oversees PBS’ award-winning new media services, including pbs.org, pbskids.org, pbskidsgo.org, and the PBS mobile products, such as PBS for the iPad. He also is responsible for revenue from new media and from worldwide DVD distribution and download to own.
PBS during the past two years has become an industry leader in the new media space. In a little more than a year, the number of videos viewed on PBS Web sites rose from 2 million a month to 88 million a month. The PBS Kids sites are now the most popular children’s sites on the Web for viewing video, according to comScore. And PBS for the iPad became the #1 most popular free iPad app within 24 hours of launch.
In addition, PBS has introduced a number of industry firsts. PBS was the first site to integrate interactive games into television video (pbskidsgo.org). PBS was the first organization to debut a television program on Facebook and, a few months later, the first to debut a program on the iPad. Recently, PBS became the first organization to use augmented reality as an educational tool.
Before joining PBS, Jason was based in London, where he led content development for AOL’s businesses in the UK, France, and Germany as Vice President, Content and Programming for AOL Europe. In addition, Jason was the founding Executive Editor of washingtonpost.com, leading the team that created one of the premier newspaper Web sites in the world.
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