Merry Nickmas! Celebrate the holidays with SpongeBob, Henry Danger and more!
Nickelodeon's full Nickmas highlights can be found here!: http://nickalive.blogspot.com/2020/10/nickelodeon-unwraps-holiday-programming.html
Saturday, December 19, 2020
🔴 LIVE: Nickelodeon Holidays + Christmas Marathon! | Merry Nickmas
🔴 LIVE: Nickelodeon Holidays + Christmas Marathon! | Merry Nick-mas
Merry Nickmas! Celebrate the holidays with SpongeBob, Henry Danger and more!
Merry Nickmas! Celebrate the holidays with SpongeBob, Henry Danger and more!
Classic Rugrats Comic Strip for Friday, December 18, 2020 | Nickelodeon
Classic Rugrats Comic Strip for Friday, December 18, 2020 | Nickelodeon
Rugrats, provided to Creators Syndicate by Nickelodeon, based off the popular animated television series has been created for children and family's to laugh and enjoy together.
Follow these comics and their take on real episodes of the show and their own spin on hilarious adventures.
Read more Rugrats comic strips!: https://www.creators.com/features/rugrats
More Nick: Nickelodeon Unveils First Look at CG-Animated 'Rugrats' and 'Big Nate'!
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Follow these comics and their take on real episodes of the show and their own spin on hilarious adventures.
Read more Rugrats comic strips!: https://www.creators.com/features/rugrats
More Nick: Nickelodeon Unveils First Look at CG-Animated 'Rugrats' and 'Big Nate'!
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Nickelodeon Animation Looking for Creatives to Join Their Amazing Teams
NICKELODEON IS LOOKING FOR CREATIVES TO JOIN THEIR AMAZING TEAMS!
Nickelodeon is looking for creatives to join their amazing teams!
Life has been full of changes this year, and for many, that has included job or career change. For creatives, this might be a time for rebooting the career path, so check out these cool opportunities at Nickelodeon Animation in Burbank, California.
Nickelodeon creates first-rate animation focused on kids of all ages from pre-school through big kids and if you’re a fit you might find just what you’ve been looking for.
Nickelodeon believes that great ideas come from everywhere, and they want to see and hear yours. Interested in joining a leading global premium content company? Show them what you’re made of!
Find out how you can join one of Nickelodeon's stellar teams of storytellers here: nickanimation.com/jobs
Original source: Positively Osceola.
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ViacomCBS' Top Milestones of 2020
ViacomCBS' Top Milestones of 2020
A look back at some of ViacomCBS’ major achievements in the first year since the merger.
Originally published by ViacomCBS
In an exceptional year, ViacomCBS accomplished a lot. We leveraged the power and value of our combined portfolio, while entertaining audiences worldwide during unparalleled times.
From across our company, here’s a roundup of the top 10 moments from 2020.
1. Year One: Unlocking the Power of Our Merger
ViacomCBS has a lot to celebrate in our first full year as a combined powerhouse with indisputable momentum. We expanded our cross-company distribution deals, continued to build strength in advertising that leverages the power of our combined portfolio, and accelerated our streaming business. We’re creating value on multiple fronts and have moved quickly to realize the power of ViacomCBS.
2. Establishing a Best-in-Class Leadership Team
This year, we appointed leaders in key areas of our business, including George Cheeks as President and Chief Executive Officer, CBS Entertainment Group; Naveen Chopra as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer; and most recently, Tom Ryan as President and CEO, ViacomCBS Streaming (seen here from left to right). More than ever, we’re poised to drive our business forward.
3. Next-Level Streaming
Free streaming soared in 2020, with Pluto TV reaching 28.4M domestic users and more than doubling ad revenue in Q3, with additional gains internationally as its expansion continues. Meanwhile, SHOWTIME OTT prevailed with hits like The Chi, Billions, and the final season of Homeland. In September, we announced that CBS All Access and its rapidly-expanding library of content (which now includes UEFA Champions League, 40+ ViacomCBS franchises and 100+ Paramount films) will be rebranded as Paramount+ in early 2021, complete with a unique slate of live sports, breaking news, and a mountain of entertainment — more than 30,000 episodes and movies.
4. Securing Key Partnerships
We grew our connections in distribution, including major cross-company contract renewals with Comcast and Verizon and agreements with Meredith, Nexstar, Sinclair, and Cox. In May, we held our first-ever virtual Upfront @Home to safely reach advertising partners in a new way. That same month, we debuted an expanded, multi-year deal with YouTube TV, adding 14 cable channels to its service, including BET, MTV, Comedy Central, and Paramount Network. In August, we announced the launch of our EyeQ platform, providing advertising partners with a single transactional point of entry for our digital video content.
5. Captivating Content
ViacomCBS maintained its position as #1 in share of viewing, with more top 30 cable networks than any other media family. CBS remained the most-watched network across primetime, daytime, and late night during the 2019-2020 broadcast year, with the top 3 dramas, 8 of the top 10 comedies, and 5 of the top 6 returning new series. SHOWTIME was the home of the top 2 premium scripted series. ViacomCBS International continued its growth in linear viewership and ViacomCBS International Studios has ramped up content production in Latin America and is expanding its presence in Southern Europe.
6. Stronger Together
ViacomCBS quickly shifted into action following the effects of COVID-19 on the communities we support, pledging $100M to support impacted personnel and leveraging our platforms for the #AloneTogether PSA campaign. Our brands also created timely entertainment, with CBS’ One World: Together at Home special, BET’s Saving Our Selves, Comedy Central’s The Daily Social Distancing Show With Trevor Noah, and others. We also hosted our first-ever Virtual Community Day, mobilizing employees worldwide to volunteer safely with communities and organizations of their choice.
7. Strengthening Our Culture of Inclusion
After the murder of George Floyd and many other events of racial injustice, we used our platforms to condemn systemic racism and drive change, from the powerful 8:46 PSA across our MTV Entertainment Group to the Justice Now: A BET Town Hall special, to the Kids, Race, and Unity: A Nick News Special and more. Our third-annual Inclusion Week went virtual with more than 80 sessions offered to employees globally. We also launched multiple diversity initiatives worldwide, including ViacomCBS U.K.’s “No Diversity, No Commission” policy and new diversity targets for CBS’ writers’ rooms and unscripted casts.
8. Amplifying Civic Engagement
ViacomCBS brands put early voter registration and getting out the vote in the spotlight this fall, with inventive campaigns like Vote Early Day, Vote For Your Life, and #ReclaimYourVote, BET’s partnership with the National Urban League to recognize National Black Voter Day on September 18. Nickelodeon elevated young voices with its Kids Pick the President special and throughout Election Day, CBS News covered the returns from their new state-of-the-art studio, headquartered at 1515 Broadway in Times Square.
9. Supporting Sustainability
This year, we initiated our first-ever report on our Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) to provide transparency and determine our areas of greatest impact through our content, corporate culture, and more. Our ESG Materiality Assessment was our first step to strengthening our approach to ESG topics to serve our partners, audiences, employees, and shareholders — and to enhance our success as a business.
10. Forging Our Path
For the first time ever, ViacomCBS created and shared a common mission, values, voice, and design system with employees. We’ll continue to build on this work within our organization through workshops, toolkits, and a speaker series as well as unveiling it to the industry in 2021.
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Despite COVID-19 Disruption, ViacomCBS Keeps Its Commitment to the Next Generation
Despite COVID-19 Disruption, ViacomCBS Keeps Its Commitment to the Next Generation
Reviving a mentoring program that was assumed to be postponed until further notice
2020 has been a year filled with uncertainty, shifting paradigms, political and social tension, and a global pandemic that no one could’ve predicted. Imagine now that all of these factors are stacked on top of the already present challenges of remote learning, maintaining a social life, and a solid GPA for students matriculating through school this year. Reports have shown that adolescent students are struggling with their mental health, looking to feel connected with their peers, and trying to find ways to productively occupy their time. Despite these compounding negative factors, students are more eager than ever to learn new skills, engage with new learning models, and receive guidance on how to navigate these uncertain times. In response, the ViacomCBS Social Responsibility team partnered with Reel Works and the Nickelodeon Creative Marketing team to revive UP Creative, a mentoring program that was assumed to be postponed until further notice.
UP Creative is the eccentric, younger sibling to ViacomCBS’s broader mentoring initiative called (U)nlimited (P)otential Mentoring. After seeing the success of the original mentoring program the team saw the need to create a program that offered support and guidance to aspiring creatives. Even though NYC is one of the media capitals of the world, the industry remains mystified to so many of the city’s natives as access has historically and systemically been a barrier of entry. To meet that challenge the ViacomCBS Social Responsibility team partnered with Reel Works, a local non-profit that seeks to empower the next generation of creatives and filmmakers, and the Nickelodeon Creative Marketing team to create UP Creative in 2016. During the 6-week program Reel Works students learn how to create promotional short-form content using iconic Nickelodeon IP while gaining career advice from seasoned Nickelodeon writers and producers. The program culminates in a competitive showcase where creative executives judge and provide constructive feedback, giving the students a sense of what it’s like to produce promotional material for a giant brand. For that short 6-week run, the students are creators whose work is judged and critiqued, for better or worse, as if it's our own.
Typically the UP Creative program occurs inside the ViacomCBS headquarters located in the heart of Times Square, NYC. Students and mentors gather on the Nickelodeon floors which are covered floor to ceiling with quirky drawings, figurines, and apparel of legendary Nickelodeon shows found in stores around the world. Then Covid-19 (coronavirus) hit. The logistical uncertainty, pivoting business models, and government prescribed quarantine mandates gave the impression that the program wouldn’t be possible. Mentoring is based on connection, and for a moment, the program had lost its core driver. In spite of those factors, the team used adaptive creativity to alter this year’s curriculum and accommodate a virtual pivot. With a combination of zoom breakout rooms, a video syncing tool called Watch Together, and a modified virtual curriculum created in partnership with the Reel Works teaching staff, the program was able to come to life and continue. The show must go on.
Mentoring typically is most effective when conducted in person, however, a virtual program yielded a few unforeseen benefits. From allowing a California student to join the NYC-based students to saving money on transportation. Mentors were more readily accessible to guide students on the editing process and students were able to collaborate on the creative process in unexpected yet highly-productive ways. To foster connection and comradery, the Reel Works and Nick staff engaged in trivia, energizing ice breakers, and collectively reviewed iconic promotional trailers to nurture conversation and interests.
Although UP Creative isn’t the one-stop-shop solution that provides the level of guidance that underserved students need, the impact of the program helps fill a gap now exacerbated by the pandemic. Students walk away with a better understanding of how content gets marketed to consumers as well as the technical ins and outs of voice-overs and video editing.
Upon completion, the students were given a program evaluation survey and when asked “What were your favorite things about being part of UP Creative,? Or what stood out to you?” Joseph Sexton replied, “Getting to hear back from Nick executives was invaluable. Realizing that our efforts were considered professional by their standards gave me a huge boost in confidence and motivation. ”Moreover, the impact of the UP Creative program is bi-directional. The mentors increase their communication skills and take on leadership roles their day-to-day positions may not afford them. Additionally, UP Creative provides the Nick employees a sense of purpose, allowing them to use their skills and talents to pour into the next generation, ultimately engaging in social impact.
The takeaway from this year's program is that impact is always worth it, even if it takes a little persevering to achieve. In our current societal state holding fast to moments that illuminate the best parts of humanity provides glimmers of light and hope that give the energy to keep moving forward. Ultimately, the act of giving unlocks a feeling that things are getting better.
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