The Nickelodeon Animation Studio has unveiled a magical "Meet the..." video featuring a interview with Valerie Walsh Valdes and Chris Gifford, the creators of Nickelodeon's hit animated preschool series "Dora the Explorer", "Dora and Friends: Into the City", and "Go, Diego, Go!", on their official YouTube channel, which you can watch in the super online streaming video clip below!:
In their interview, Valerie Walsh Valdes and Chris Gifford talk about how they developed "Dora the Explorer", how "Dora the Explorer" was originally intended to be a live-action series with puppet characters, the research they conducted with children to make sure the characters were loveable and hugable, including how they had to redraw Boots the Monkey, how they involve kids in all the production stages of each episode to make sure its just right, and what their professional relationship is like!
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Saturday, August 08, 2015
Viacom Boosts Its Data Strategy Team with Three Significant Executive Hires
Original Viacom Inc. Press Release via Business Wire:
Viacom Boosts Its Data Strategy Team with Three Significant Executive Hires
Key Staff Additions Will Expand the Company's Industry-Leading Advanced Data Solutions
August 05, 2015 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) today announced the addition of three executives with expertise in developing, marketing, and monetizing data products, boosting the company's industry-leading advanced analytic and marketing solutions.
Joining Viacom are Bryson Gordon as Senior Vice President of Data Strategy and Viacom Vantage; Gabe Bevilacqua as Vice President of Product Management for Viacom Vantage; and, Kodi Foster as Vice President of Data Strategy. Bevilacqua and Foster report to Gordon, who will manage the team under the leadership of Kern Schireson, Viacom Executive Vice President of Data Strategy and Consumer Intelligence.
Gordon and his team will be responsible for the development of innovative and game-changing data products for Viacom, which has taken an industry-leading role in introducing new marketing programs that precisely target consumers. They will build upon the success of advertising tools such as Viacom Vantage, which enters its second year as a market leader in advanced predictive targeting, analytics and custom data implementations for agencies and advertisers. This new technical and product expertise significantly accelerates Viacom's already robust data capabilities and product portfolio to more fully monetize the continued engagement around the company's programming and brands.
"Data Strategy plays a key role in Viacom's ecosystem because it marries world-class creativity with advanced analytics," said Schireson. "Bringing on Bryson, Gabe, and Kodi is a big step forward and reinforces our dedication to intelligent data solutions that benefit Viacom and our brand partners."
Bryson Gordon
Gordon spent more than a decade at Microsoft leading consumer marketing, product management, and business incubation teams across Windows, Xbox, Office, Microsoft Store, and most recently, Surface. Within the Surface business, he created an Audience Marketing discipline that defined high-value influencer-segments, establishing data-driven pathways to fan cultivation, while developing techniques to directly connect first-party quantitative research into programmatic advertising engines. Under his leadership, the Surface business grew to over $1B in fourth quarter revenue. Prior to Microsoft, Gordon led Consumer Product Management at McAfee Security, helping develop and market the company's direct-to-customer subscription services. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Cambridge University in the UK.
Gabe Bevilacqua
Bevilacqua has over a decade of experience in data-driven marketing technology. He was most recently COO at the company he co-founded, Rallyverse, a content marketing platform that powers social media and content campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Prior to that, he spent six years at Microsoft in their digital advertising platform, most recently as Director of the Advertiser Tools Business Group for the Atlas Advertiser Suite. Bevilacqua also held positions as Global Brand Manager for Guinness World Records, and held business development roles at Urbanfetch and Cductive. He is a graduate of Princeton and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Kodi Foster
Foster served as the Head of Brand Initiatives at Outbrain, where he led strategic account solutions and partnerships with Fortune 100 brands. In that role, he developed content marketing solutions and established the paid recommendations business for brands, helping to grow Outbrain into the largest content discovery platform in the world. Before joining the Outbrain team, he was the Vice President of Business Development at Sahara Media Holdings, a publicly traded investment company specializing in digital media. He is a graduate of Cornell University.
About Viacom
Viacom is home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form video, apps, games, consumer products, social media and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 165 countries and territories. Viacom's media networks, including Nickelodeon, CMT, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, TV Land, Nick at Nite, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, SPIKE, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Channel 5 (UK), Tr3s, Paramount Channel and VIVA, reach a cumulative 3.2 billion television subscribers worldwide. Paramount Pictures is a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment.
For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom's blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.
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Viacom Boosts Its Data Strategy Team with Three Significant Executive Hires
Key Staff Additions Will Expand the Company's Industry-Leading Advanced Data Solutions
August 05, 2015 09:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Viacom (NASDAQ: VIAB, VIA) today announced the addition of three executives with expertise in developing, marketing, and monetizing data products, boosting the company's industry-leading advanced analytic and marketing solutions.
Joining Viacom are Bryson Gordon as Senior Vice President of Data Strategy and Viacom Vantage; Gabe Bevilacqua as Vice President of Product Management for Viacom Vantage; and, Kodi Foster as Vice President of Data Strategy. Bevilacqua and Foster report to Gordon, who will manage the team under the leadership of Kern Schireson, Viacom Executive Vice President of Data Strategy and Consumer Intelligence.
Gordon and his team will be responsible for the development of innovative and game-changing data products for Viacom, which has taken an industry-leading role in introducing new marketing programs that precisely target consumers. They will build upon the success of advertising tools such as Viacom Vantage, which enters its second year as a market leader in advanced predictive targeting, analytics and custom data implementations for agencies and advertisers. This new technical and product expertise significantly accelerates Viacom's already robust data capabilities and product portfolio to more fully monetize the continued engagement around the company's programming and brands.
"Data Strategy plays a key role in Viacom's ecosystem because it marries world-class creativity with advanced analytics," said Schireson. "Bringing on Bryson, Gabe, and Kodi is a big step forward and reinforces our dedication to intelligent data solutions that benefit Viacom and our brand partners."
Bryson Gordon
Gordon spent more than a decade at Microsoft leading consumer marketing, product management, and business incubation teams across Windows, Xbox, Office, Microsoft Store, and most recently, Surface. Within the Surface business, he created an Audience Marketing discipline that defined high-value influencer-segments, establishing data-driven pathways to fan cultivation, while developing techniques to directly connect first-party quantitative research into programmatic advertising engines. Under his leadership, the Surface business grew to over $1B in fourth quarter revenue. Prior to Microsoft, Gordon led Consumer Product Management at McAfee Security, helping develop and market the company's direct-to-customer subscription services. He is a graduate of the University of Western Ontario in Canada and Cambridge University in the UK.
Gabe Bevilacqua
Bevilacqua has over a decade of experience in data-driven marketing technology. He was most recently COO at the company he co-founded, Rallyverse, a content marketing platform that powers social media and content campaigns for Fortune 500 clients. Prior to that, he spent six years at Microsoft in their digital advertising platform, most recently as Director of the Advertiser Tools Business Group for the Atlas Advertiser Suite. Bevilacqua also held positions as Global Brand Manager for Guinness World Records, and held business development roles at Urbanfetch and Cductive. He is a graduate of Princeton and holds an MBA from Columbia Business School.
Kodi Foster
Foster served as the Head of Brand Initiatives at Outbrain, where he led strategic account solutions and partnerships with Fortune 100 brands. In that role, he developed content marketing solutions and established the paid recommendations business for brands, helping to grow Outbrain into the largest content discovery platform in the world. Before joining the Outbrain team, he was the Vice President of Business Development at Sahara Media Holdings, a publicly traded investment company specializing in digital media. He is a graduate of Cornell University.
About Viacom
Viacom is home to premier global media brands that create compelling television programs, motion pictures, short-form video, apps, games, consumer products, social media and other entertainment content for audiences in more than 165 countries and territories. Viacom's media networks, including Nickelodeon, CMT, Nick Jr., TeenNick, Nicktoons, TV Land, Nick at Nite, MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, SPIKE, Logo, BET, CENTRIC, Channel 5 (UK), Tr3s, Paramount Channel and VIVA, reach a cumulative 3.2 billion television subscribers worldwide. Paramount Pictures is a major global producer and distributor of filmed entertainment.
For more information about Viacom and its businesses, visit www.viacom.com. Keep up with Viacom news by following Viacom's blog at blog.viacom.com and Twitter feed at www.twitter.com/Viacom.
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Nickelodeon Partners With MIQ For Retail Expansion
Nickelodeon has chosen MIQ Logistics to manage its global supply chain including replenishment for its flagship store, and fulfilment of European on-line purchases.
The number-one entertainment brand for kids and families is expanding its physical presence in an effort to rival Disney, with the recent launch of The Nickelodeon Store, Nickelodeon's first European retail store, which is operated by Entertainment Retailer Limited, in London's Leicester Square earlier this summer.
MIQ has also won a supply chain management contract with Crew Clothing, which now has 76 stores and six outlets across the UK.
Andy Martin, MIQ's UK managing director, said: "The successful launch of the Nickelodeon store and its continuous replenishment is testament to the skill of my retail teams. The Crew Clothing appointment is particularly notable as MIQ were unknown when we entered the process."
MIQ recently opened a 30,000 sq ft retail distribution operation in Hemel Hempstead, and launched a South China consolidation centre. The US-owned forwarder has 150 offices in 80 countries.
Original source: Logistics Manager.
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The number-one entertainment brand for kids and families is expanding its physical presence in an effort to rival Disney, with the recent launch of The Nickelodeon Store, Nickelodeon's first European retail store, which is operated by Entertainment Retailer Limited, in London's Leicester Square earlier this summer.
MIQ has also won a supply chain management contract with Crew Clothing, which now has 76 stores and six outlets across the UK.
Andy Martin, MIQ's UK managing director, said: "The successful launch of the Nickelodeon store and its continuous replenishment is testament to the skill of my retail teams. The Crew Clothing appointment is particularly notable as MIQ were unknown when we entered the process."
MIQ recently opened a 30,000 sq ft retail distribution operation in Hemel Hempstead, and launched a South China consolidation centre. The US-owned forwarder has 150 offices in 80 countries.
Original source: Logistics Manager.
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Infinity Product Group To Develop Comfy Critters Based On Hit Nickelodeon Properties
Original Infinity Product Group Press Release via InfinityPG.com:
Infinity Product Group To Develop Comfy Critters For Nickelodeon
Infinity Product Group to develop "Comfy Critters" stuffed toys featuring characters from Nickelodeon’s top animated shows.
ROGERS, AR (August 1, 2015) – Infinity Product Group has just finalized a licensing deal with Nickelodeon to develop Comfy Critters toys for four of the cable network's most popular animated shows: "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "PAW Patrol" and "Blaze and the Monster Machines." The new characters are expected to debut in the fall of 2016.
"Infinity Product Group is excited to partner with Nickelodeon. IPG has a long history of providing retailers with great products and services and we look forward to bringing a new product to the market with Nickelodeon," says Doug Keller, President and CEO of Infinity Product Group.
Comfy Critters are multitasking stuffed animals for the 21st century. Each Comfy Critter is large enough to be used as a pillow, blanket, or anything you want to make it! Comfy Critters patented design makes transitioning from a stuffed animal to a blanket quick and easy. The full range of Comfy Critters includes prehistoric, farm, sea and fantasy animals and launches holiday 2015.
About Infinity Product Group
Founded in 1997 by President and CEO Doug Keller, Infinity Product Group is a privately owned, national company headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas. IPG is a leading manufacturer, merchandiser and marketer of headwear, apparel, accessories and novelty products to many of the world's leading retailers and consumer product companies. For more information, visit www.infinitypg.com or contact Drake Taylor at [...].
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Additional source: PRWeb.
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Infinity Product Group To Develop Comfy Critters For Nickelodeon
Infinity Product Group to develop "Comfy Critters" stuffed toys featuring characters from Nickelodeon’s top animated shows.
ROGERS, AR (August 1, 2015) – Infinity Product Group has just finalized a licensing deal with Nickelodeon to develop Comfy Critters toys for four of the cable network's most popular animated shows: "SpongeBob SquarePants," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles," "PAW Patrol" and "Blaze and the Monster Machines." The new characters are expected to debut in the fall of 2016.
"Infinity Product Group is excited to partner with Nickelodeon. IPG has a long history of providing retailers with great products and services and we look forward to bringing a new product to the market with Nickelodeon," says Doug Keller, President and CEO of Infinity Product Group.
Comfy Critters are multitasking stuffed animals for the 21st century. Each Comfy Critter is large enough to be used as a pillow, blanket, or anything you want to make it! Comfy Critters patented design makes transitioning from a stuffed animal to a blanket quick and easy. The full range of Comfy Critters includes prehistoric, farm, sea and fantasy animals and launches holiday 2015.
About Infinity Product Group
Founded in 1997 by President and CEO Doug Keller, Infinity Product Group is a privately owned, national company headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas. IPG is a leading manufacturer, merchandiser and marketer of headwear, apparel, accessories and novelty products to many of the world's leading retailers and consumer product companies. For more information, visit www.infinitypg.com or contact Drake Taylor at [...].
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Additional source: PRWeb.
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Friday, August 07, 2015
The Nickelodeon Store Launches Official Website
Following the grand opening of Nickelodeon's first flagship Nickelodeon Store in London's Leicester Square on Saturday 30th May 2015, The Nickelodeon Store has today launched it's official website, NickelodeonStore.co.uk!
The Nickelodeon Store's official online shop is packed full with merchandise based on your favourite Nickelodeon shows, such as "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Dora the Explorer", "Bubble Guppies", "PAW Patrol", "Fanboy & Chum Chum" and "Winx Club", including clothing, sleepwear, accessories, plushes, toys, housewares, gifts, stationery, apparel, homeware and souvenirs, plus products exclusive to The Nickelodeon Store and The Nickelodeon Store website, such as Union Jack-branded merchandise!
To celebrate the grand opening of their online shop, The Nickelodeon Store has launched a special offer which is offering customers 15% of kids apparel and 50% of selected items!
The Nickelodeon Store's brand-new eShore also ships orders to many countries across Europe - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden - with free shipping available for orders over certain amounts!
The official Nickelodeon Store website accepts American Express, Discover Card, MasterCard and Visa as payment methods.
If you're in London, don't forget to visit The Nickelodeon Store! Bursting with technology and interactive content, specially designed in-store zones bring Nickelodeon's world famous characters and properties to life. A green slime staircase will take shoppers up to Bikini Bottom where they can come face to face with the world's favourite sponge in daily meet and greets with a life-size SpongeBob SquarePants costume character. Additionally, the store will offer a preschool zone, and Union Jack-branded gifting, stationery, apparel, homeware and souvenirs.
The store is right on Leicester Square and is Nickelodeon's first flagship store in Europe. It offers kids and families the opportunity to experience and interact with one of the world's leading children's brands as well as Nickelodeon's beloved properties including global animations "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and Nick Jr. pre-school hit, "Dora the Explorer", in an exciting, tangible way currently unavailable in London. You will have access to even more products in every property. The Nickelodeon Store spans over two floors, over 4500 square feet and features a glass frontage of 1250 sq meters looking out onto Leicester Square[Pants]. The store offers products exclusively created for The Nickelodeon Store and not available anywhere else. There are over 40 LCD screens and unique elements including the Dora Tree where you can sit and colour, the Pineapple iPad Bar where you can get a peek into SpongeBob's underwater world or try some of the latest Nickelodeon apps, a New York City skyline graffiti-decorated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle area and a aweslime green slime staircase! Visitors can also have their InstaClam photo taken with the life size SpongeBob Costume Character.
Recognising London as the world's most global city and Leicester Square as a top tourist attraction with projected tourist footfall set to hit 18 million in 2015, the store's 70-strong staff provides capability in at least twelve different world languages. The Nickelodeon Store is open daily from 10am-9pm with extended operating hours in the evening at weekends.
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The Nickelodeon Store's official online shop is packed full with merchandise based on your favourite Nickelodeon shows, such as "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles", "Dora the Explorer", "Bubble Guppies", "PAW Patrol", "Fanboy & Chum Chum" and "Winx Club", including clothing, sleepwear, accessories, plushes, toys, housewares, gifts, stationery, apparel, homeware and souvenirs, plus products exclusive to The Nickelodeon Store and The Nickelodeon Store website, such as Union Jack-branded merchandise!
To celebrate the grand opening of their online shop, The Nickelodeon Store has launched a special offer which is offering customers 15% of kids apparel and 50% of selected items!
The Nickelodeon Store's brand-new eShore also ships orders to many countries across Europe - Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Portugal, Spain and Sweden - with free shipping available for orders over certain amounts!
The official Nickelodeon Store website accepts American Express, Discover Card, MasterCard and Visa as payment methods.
If you're in London, don't forget to visit The Nickelodeon Store! Bursting with technology and interactive content, specially designed in-store zones bring Nickelodeon's world famous characters and properties to life. A green slime staircase will take shoppers up to Bikini Bottom where they can come face to face with the world's favourite sponge in daily meet and greets with a life-size SpongeBob SquarePants costume character. Additionally, the store will offer a preschool zone, and Union Jack-branded gifting, stationery, apparel, homeware and souvenirs.
The store is right on Leicester Square and is Nickelodeon's first flagship store in Europe. It offers kids and families the opportunity to experience and interact with one of the world's leading children's brands as well as Nickelodeon's beloved properties including global animations "SpongeBob SquarePants", "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and Nick Jr. pre-school hit, "Dora the Explorer", in an exciting, tangible way currently unavailable in London. You will have access to even more products in every property. The Nickelodeon Store spans over two floors, over 4500 square feet and features a glass frontage of 1250 sq meters looking out onto Leicester Square[Pants]. The store offers products exclusively created for The Nickelodeon Store and not available anywhere else. There are over 40 LCD screens and unique elements including the Dora Tree where you can sit and colour, the Pineapple iPad Bar where you can get a peek into SpongeBob's underwater world or try some of the latest Nickelodeon apps, a New York City skyline graffiti-decorated Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle area and a aweslime green slime staircase! Visitors can also have their InstaClam photo taken with the life size SpongeBob Costume Character.
Recognising London as the world's most global city and Leicester Square as a top tourist attraction with projected tourist footfall set to hit 18 million in 2015, the store's 70-strong staff provides capability in at least twelve different world languages. The Nickelodeon Store is open daily from 10am-9pm with extended operating hours in the evening at weekends.
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