Thursday, April 18, 2019

Ariana Grande Uncovered BTS Footage! 🙃 | #TBT | Nickelodeon

Ariana Grande Uncovered BTS Footage! 🙃 | #TBT



Ariana Grande on the set of Victorious and Sam & Cat is the ultimate throwback!

What’s your favorite BTS moment? Watch more of your favorite shows on Nickelodeon!

What is YOUR favorite Ariana Grande song of ALL TIME?! 🎤🎶

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Ryan's Mystery Playdate Trailer 🤩 | New Show Premieres April 19th on Nickelodeon

Ryan's Mystery Playdate Trailer 🤩 | New Show Premieres April 19th on Nick



Ryan, the star of Ryan ToysReview, is coming to Nickelodeon and he’s bringing mystery surprises, massive messes, and fun challenges! His new television show, Ryan's Mystery Playdate, premieres Friday April 19th at 12:30 p.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon USA. You can find more of your favorite shows weekday mornings on Nickelodeon, and everywhere you find Nick Jr.! Visit http://www.nickjr.com/ryans-mystery-play-date/ to find out more about Ryan’s Mystery Playdate!


More Nick: Nick Jr. Live! "Move To The Music" U.S. Theatrical Tour To Debut Fall 2019!

Kids can watch their favorite Nick Jr. shows weekdays on Nickelodeon and all week long on the Nick Jr. channel: http://nickjr.com/tvschedule/

Preschoolers can watch full episodes online, play games, and discover silly surprises in the free Nick Jr. App and at NickJr.com. Stream Nick Jr. for free in the Nick Jr. App on Roku and Apple TV or download full episodes for offline viewing on iTunes or Google Play.

You can also download premium apps featuring your child's favorite Nick Jr. shows on iTunes, Google Play, and Amazon, including Nick Jr. Draw and Play and Nick Jr. Let’s Learn!

More Nick: Nickelodeon to Premiere 'Ryan's Mystery Playdate', Brand-New Preschool Series Starring YouTube Superstar Ryan of Ryan ToysReview, on Friday, April 19, 2019!
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Wednesday, April 17, 2019

Viacom Will Debut 15 Channels Based on Flagship Brands on Pluto TV to Bolster its Upfront Pitch

Viacom has revealed plans to distribute some of its TV programming on its newly acquired streaming video service Pluto TV, as part of an effort to address ad buyers’ concerns about reaching fewer people through its TV networks, thanks to declining TV viewership, Digiday has learnt.


Viacom will debut up to 15 channels on Pluto TV that will be tied to its linear TV networks later this spring, such as one that will air old episodes of MTV’s The Hills and channels from other Viacom-owned networks such as Nickelodeon, Comedy Central and BET, that will similarly feature full episodes from Viacom’s library of past shows. The move is meant to highlight Pluto TV — which Viacom announced in January that it had acquired for $340 million — as the digital centerpiece of the TV conglomerate’s upfront pitch to advertisers this year.

In the fourth quarter of 2018, viewership across Viacom’s cable TV networks dropped by 13 percent year over year when using Nielsen’s C3 rating that counts live and on-demand viewership for the first three days after a show airs, according to Ad Age.

A streaming video service that features channels consisting of online videos stitched together into 24/7 feeds as well as a library of on-demand programming, Pluto TV attracts 15 million unique viewers per month — up from roughly 12 million monthly viewers at the time of the acquisition’s announcement — and half of those viewers are between the ages of 18 and 34 years old, according to John Halley, Executive Vice President (EVP) and Chief Operating Officer (COO) of Viacom Ad Solutions. “Half [of that audience] don’t watch pay TV, so it’s incremental audience,” he said.

Advertisers’ interest in TV-like digital video streamed on TV screens continues to grow as a way to offset traditional TV’s diminished reach and rising ad prices. “Viacom has obviously been struggling with linear ratings for the past few years. They’re very smart to look at their portfolio and see what they can do to offset some of this,” said an agency executive.

Viacom will include Pluto TV within broader ad packages that include linear TV and digital.

The company will also offer Pluto TV for digital-only buys, which can require less of a financial commitment from advertisers and appeal to digital advertisers that may not yet be a part of the TV company’s client base. “Digital doesn’t require a half-million dollar budget to play in these pools,” said Halley.

Viacom is emphasizing that it is the only company able to sell ads across Pluto TV’s platform. While other media companies like NBC and CBS are sometimes able to sell ads against their own content that they distribute on Pluto TV, they are limited to that inventory and, as a result, typically use it as supplementary digital inventory.

Viacom will allow advertisers to target their ads on Pluto TV using the traditional age-and-gender categories deployed for traditional TV buyers. It will also enable advertisers to target their ads to more specific audience segments using advertisers’ own data as well as third-party data to identify those audiences. Advertisers will be able to measure their Pluto TV ads’ performance using Nielsen’s Digital Ad Ratings system, Halley said.

Halley said the average Pluto TV viewer spends two to three hours at a time watching videos on the service, according to Halley, mimicking behavior similar to linear TV.

Being able to offer up that TV-like audience for advertisers to reach through a digital platform that resembles traditional TV is compelling to ad buyers. “Pluto is interesting because it’s OTT but you’ve got that [programming] guide that looks really similar to live linear TV. It’s different than what we have been thinking about as OTT for the past few years,” said the agency exec.

As much Viacom is positioning Pluto TV to appeal to digitally curious TV advertisers, the company is also taking aim at digitally native advertisers that may concentrate their ad spending on Google and Facebook. The addition of Pluto TV’s TV-like inventory to Viacom’s digital packages could help the company to attract more digital advertisers, like direct-to-consumer marketers that are looking to spend more money on TV-like programming but may struggle to meet traditional TV’s higher budgetary requirements.

The courtship of these mid- to long-tail advertisers could help to reinforce the TV network’s business by bringing in new competition to push up its digital ad prices and counter any reduced spending from traditional TV advertisers that may reallocate their ad dollars across a broader set of TV networks, digital platforms and publishers as they bring their TV budgets online.

“OTT is a TV product. OTT is not a kid watching Netflix on the subway on his phone. OTT is people watching full-episode programming, typically in the living room, often with other people,” said Halley.

Update (4/17) - From Cord Cutters News:

Viacom Plans to Add 15 Channels to Pluto TV With Content From Comedy Central, Nickelodeon, BET, MTV, & More

Last week Cord Cutters News broke the news that Viacom planned to add more content to Pluto TV from Viacom networks. Now it is being reported that Viacom will be adding 15 new channels to Pluto TV including content from MTV including shows like “The Hills” and content from Comedy Central, BET and Nickelodeon according to DigiDay.com. Sadly no date has been announced for when this new content will be added.

Last week at NAB Glenn Goldstein from Viacom talked about the future of Pluto TV. Goldstein once again announced plans to bring Viacom-branded content to Pluto TV. This news comes as Pluto TV announces a new deal to bring BBC content to Pluto TV. This was first hinted at when Viacom purchased Pluto TV. Now it is reconfirmed that Pluto TV will be slowly adding Viacom content from places like MTV, Paramount, Comedy Central, and VH1.

A few months ago, Viacom announced plans to buy Pluto TV. The CEO of Pluto TV said: “Since our launch less than five years ago, and particularly over the past year, Pluto TV has enjoyed explosive growth and become the category leader in free streaming television.” Pluto TV CEO and Co-Founder Tom Ryan continued, “Viacom’s portfolio of global, iconic brands and IP, advanced advertising leadership and international reach will enable Pluto TV to grow even faster and become a major force in streaming TV worldwide. Viacom is the perfect partner to help us accomplish our mission of entertaining the planet.”

Viacom has been clear that they plan to keep Pluto TV free. Viacom’s CEO Bob Bakish on CNBC pushed the idea of how Pluto TV as a free service is important to Viacom. “We love how (Pluto TV) fits in with over 12 million active users. We have a ton of (ads) to sell and that is where Pluto TV comes in.”

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From The Streamable:

Classic TV Shows from MTV, Comedy Central, BET, and Nickelodeon Coming to Pluto TV

According to a report from DIGIDAY, Viacom will launch 10-15 new channels based on their library of content. Viacom has confirmed to The Streamable that the channels will launch later this spring and include variations of their flagship channels like MTV, Nickelodeon, BET and Comedy Central. They are also expected to debut "pop-up" channels like "The Hills", which will return to MTV this summer, to promote shows on their linear channels.

Viacom has been using these new networks as part of their upfront pitch to lure advertisers. Unlike other networks, the company no longer does a massive upfront pitch in May to announce programming, instead they set-up Presidents Dinners with agencies which started at the beginning of April.

At these events, they have been promoting their recently acquired ad-supported streaming service, Pluto TV, as a way to assail fears of cord-cutting. Viacom has told advertisers that they will launch linear networks on the service that will be made up of classic shows from their various properties like MTV's The Hills. It is expected that they will do similar with their library of shows from Comedy Central, BET, and Nickelodeon.

Last week, Pluto TV Co-Founder & CEO Tom Ryan shared that since Viacom acquired Pluto TV in January, the company grew from 12 million to 15 million unique monthly active users. It's expected that they will offer advertisers inventory on Pluto TV as part of bundled ad packages that include their linear channels, but also as digital-only buys.

In February, Viacom said that they plan to use their infrastructure to expand Pluto TV’s footprint in the United States and around the world. The company also hopes to expand on the platform's 100 live linear channels with their deep library genre-specific content - kids (Nickelodeon), African-American (BET), reality (MTV & VH1), and comedy (Comedy Central).

Viacom also sees Pluto TV as a marketing engine to sell their own OTT services -- Noggin, Comedy Central Now, and Nick Hits. But don't expect first-run content to appear on Pluto TV, as Viacom says they will keep that content for their own linear channels.

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From Appleosophy:

Pluto TV to Get 15 Viacom Channels

According to Cord Cutter News, Pluto TV will be adding not one, but 15 Viacom channels to its free live TV streaming service. These channels include Nickelodeon, MTV, Comedy Central and BET, just to name a few.

We did publish an opinion article last week about how Viacom should bring a Nickelodeon channel to Pluto TV. This would include making sure that there are channels set up for watch TeenNick shows like Drake and Josh and iCarly, as well as a channel that could be dedicated to just showing reruns of Spongebob Squarepants.

Even though this does sound like it would be expensive for both companies, Viacom has said that they do plan on keeping Pluto TV a free service. Viacom’s CEO Bob Bakish said to CNBC:

“We love how (Pluto TV) fits in with over 12 million active users. We have a ton of (ads) to sell and that is where Pluto TV comes in.”

This comes at a time where Pluto TV recently announced a partnership with the BBC to air old BBC TV shows such as Classic Doctor Who.

At this time, there is no set date as for when the 15 Viacom channels will be coming to Pluto TV, nor is there a set date for when the older BBC TV shows come to service either.

Pluto TV is available for free on the iPhone, iPod Touch, iPad, Apple TV and Mac.

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More Nick: Nickelodeon Embarks on New Direction with its Biggest, Most Wide-Ranging Content Slate Ever | Nick Upfront 2019!

Originally published: Tuesday, April 16, 2019.
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Tee Shirt Palace Launches 'Power Rangers Beast Morphers' Clothing Collection

Fans of Power Rangers Beast Morphers can now rock their favorite Ranger!


Tee Shirt Palace, an online retailer specializing in clothes for pop culture brands including Rugrats, Power Rangers, Ghostbusters, Airplane, DC, Back to the Future, I Love Lucy, Game of Thrones, The Golden Girls, The Andy Griffith Show, Rick & Morty, Looney Tunes, Family Guy and more, has released a brand-new clothing line inspired by Power Rangers Beast Morphers Power Rangers Beast Morphers, the 26th season of the long-running TV series.

The glowing line trace design line features three different designs of Power Rangers morphed into action, alongside their respective Beastbots: Devon and his Beast Bot Cruise, Ravi and his Beast Bot Smash and Zoey and her Beast Bot Jax. The line includes button up shirts, hoodies, tank tops, premium slim fit t-shirts, zip hoodies, heather hoodies, tall t-shirts, sweaters, heather t-shirts, long sleeve shirts, v-neck t-shirts, and slim fit t-shirts in a wide range of sizes for men, women, juniors, kids and baby & toddlers, across multiple price points, starting at $21.95 YSD.

At this time, there are no t-shirts available for Blaze, the Gold and Silver Rangers, or for villains, such as Roxy, but that could change in the next few weeks as more Beast Morphers merchandise rolls out.

The Power Rangers Beast Morphers range of clothing is available to purchase now on teeshirtpalace.com!

About Power Rangers Beast Morphers:

Set in the future, a secret agency combines a newly discovered substance called "Morph-X" with animal DNA to create the Power Rangers Beast Morphers team. The Rangers must fight off an evil sentient computer virus bent on taking over the source of all Ranger power, the Morphin Grid itself.

Cast: Rorrie D. Travis (Devon / Red Ranger), Jazz Baduwalia (Ravi / Blue Ranger), Jacqueline Scislowski (Zoey / Yellow Ranger), Colby Strong (Blaze Ranger), Liana Ramirez (Roxy), Abraham Rodriguez (Nate), Kristina Ho (Betty), Cosme Flores (Ben).

Hasbro’s Power Rangers Beast Morphers toys will begin hitting store shelves in Spring 2019.

Catch Power Rangers Beast Morphers, the latest season of Power Rangers, Saturdays at 8:00 a.m. (ET/PT) on Nickelodeon USA!

Connect with Power Rangers: powerrangers.com | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | YouTube

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Sources: That Hashtag Show, Power Rangers NOW.
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Nick Jr. Too UK to Premiere 'Digby Dragon' Season 2 on Monday 6th May 2019

Say "hello" to brand-new tales with Digby Dragon! Meet brand-new friends, cast brand-new magic spells, and see Digby as you've never seen him before! Don't miss brand-new episodes of Digby Dragon, weekdays at 6:00pm from Monday 6th May 2019, on Nick Jr. Too (UK)! Each all-new episode will encore the following weekday morning at 1:00pm and 6:15pm, as well as at weekends.


Brand New Series Digby Dragon - Nick Jr Too - April 2019 from Maya Lakhani on Vimeo.

Set in the colourful and enchanted Applecross Wood, the series follows Digby, a young dragon learning to fly. Digby and his best friends Chips, the scatter-brained squirrel, fairy Fizzy Izzy and Grumpy Goblin take on magical adventures meeting friends from Applecross Wood along the way.

Season two (26 brand new 11-minute adventures) sees Digby lead his friends on new quests to exciting and adventurous places, where they rise to the challenges that unfold. The world feels a much larger place, and the young audience will be willing Digby and his friends along at every stage of their journey.

Below is a list of currently announced all-new episodes of Digby Dragon, along with each episodes description, set to premiere on Nick Jr. UK & Eire in May 2019!:

Monday 6th May 2019 - Stinky Goblin Cheese: Digby needs to find Spellbook's missing page so that Fizzy can complete a spell and stop Grumpy's stinky cheese running amuck around Applecross.

Tuesday 7th May 2019 at 6:00pm - The Wobbly Horn: Digby gets a wobbly horn but doesn't want his friends to know in case they think only having one horn makes him less of a dragon.

Wednesday 8th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Chips' Gift: Chips makes a statue of Digby for a gift but Digby finds the statue really ugly and tries to get rid of it.

Thursday 9th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Shrinky Dragon: Digby and Archie get caught up in a magic spell gone awry and end up tiny. They have to find a way to Fizzy's cottage for the spell to be reversed before they get squished!

Friday 10th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Smart Mungo: Digby decides to use magic to make Mungo more intelligent but he ends up a genius and starts causing trouble.

Monday 13th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Fairy Flu: Digby insists on dragging Fizzy along to see the annual 'Sprite Flight' despite her having a bad case of fairy flu. Fizzy's magical sneezes cause all sorts of mayhem!

Tuesday 14th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Cuddlenut: Digby accidentally loses Chips' cuddlenut but doesn't want to admit it and instead convinces Fizzy to cast a spell to help Chips sleep, but the spell turns Chips into a baby!

Wednesday 15th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Wishing Cave: Digby and Chips ignore Grumpy's warning and get trapped by the rising tide in what they think is a magical wishing cave.

Thursday 16th May 2019 at 6:00pm - Digby's Egg: Digby adopts an egg with legs, believing it's a dragon egg but he soon learns that the responsibility of his new pet is more than he expected.


Online at nickjr.co.uk and the Nick Jr. Play app, parents and preschoolers can find out more about the show, PAWsome colouring in activities and exclusive video clips and games. Fans can also like the official Nick Jr. UK & Ireland Twitter, Facebook and Instagram pages and sign up to the official Nick Jr. Fan Club for the latest Nick Jr. news, highlights, video clips, competitions and more.

Digby Dragon, based on original work from Sally Hunter (Humphrey’s Corner), is produced by London’s Blue-Zoo, the studio behind shows like Go Jetters, Miffy’s Adventures Big and Small and Tree Fu Tom.

More Nick: Nick Jr. UK Launches Nick Jr. Parents!

Originally published: Monday, April 15, 2019.

Schedule Source: Digiguide.
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