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Big programming announcements and star-studded pitches to advertisers used to be reserved for the largest TV networks, but today digital content has claimed an equally flamboyant seat at the media table.

The recently concluded Digital Content NewFronts, which saw digital players like YouTube and Yahoo going to great lengths to sell advertisers on their perks and audiences, flowed so seamlessly into this week's Upfront presentations by TV networks, you'd be hard pressed to tell the difference.

So what did we learn from this year's NewFronts announcements and conversations around the hottest trends in digital content? Will online video and TV content soon become indistinguishable? And where does that leave the kinds of scrappy amateur content creators who made sites like YouTube and Vine into hubs of viral content?

We'll tackle these and more questions (including how Verizon's $4.4

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