Sunday, September 01, 2013

Kirkcaldy Inline Skater Tony Hoggan Vies For Nickelodeon Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013 Award

The Fife Free Press, a Scottish regional newspaper which covers Kirkcaldy and the surrounding area of Scotland, has posted a short profile of Kirkcaldy inline skater Tony Hoggan, who has been nominated to win the coveted Best Skater award at the Nickelodeon Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013, the awards show which honours kids across the UK who have seriously impressive skills such as street dancing, skateboarding, BMXing and a host of active skills in-between!

Nickelodeon's Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013 will be hosted by British diver, London 2012 Summer Olympic Games medalist and Kids' Choice Awards winner Tom Daley at London's O2 Indigo Arena, situated on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, UK, on Saturday 7th September 2013, and shown the very next day, Sunday 8th September 2013, at 5.00pm (repeated from 6:00pm on Nick UK's plus-one timeshift channel, Nick+1)!

The individual awards will be presented by some of the biggest names in sport, film and television, alongside live music performances, including by Nickelodeon Star Brad Kavanagh, who plays the character Fabian Rutter in Nickelodeon's hit mystery drama series "House of Anubis", who will be making his first musical TV performance, Union J, The Vamps and The Luminites!:

Skater boy up for top award

Tony Hoggan from Kirkcaldy

Kirkcaldy skater Tony Hoggan has been nominated for a top award.

The 12-year-old schoolboy has been put forward for the title of best under 16 skater in the UK as part of the Nickelodeon Fruitshoot skills awards.

The award ceremony is being held at the O2 Arena in London on Saturday, September 7, and will be live on Nickelodeon TV, hosted by Olympic diver Tom Daly.

The winner will be decided by online voting, and Tony is the only Scot among the four skaters nominated.

Tony is hoping that the Fife public [has helped] him win the title by voting for him at http://fruitshoot.nick.co.uk/upload-your-skills-video/vote/. Voting [ended] Saturday [31st August 2013].

Tony has been skating since the age of eight and is competing in national competitions. He has already caught the eye of Brian Aragon, the 2009 world champion, who has posted a video of Tony on his Facebook page.

Tony’s skating career was also given a boost in January when he secured sponsorship from Prolinekates.com, the UK’s biggest skateshop located in Cardiff, to add to his skatepark sponsor, Unit 23 Skatepark in Dumbarton.

He was also featured in an article in the Bleach Collective action sports magazine’s first issue, based in the north of Engalnd, that was published in July.

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Viacom18 Partners With Amagi Media Labs To Deliver Regional Hindustan Unilever Commercials On Nickelodeon India

exchange4media, a website which focuses on the broadcasting, media, advertising and marketing industries in India, is reporting the Nickelodeon International news in the following article that Viacom18, the owner of Nickelodeon India, and Amagi Media Labs, a targeted television advertising company based in Bangalore, have announced a partnership to increase advertising effectiveness on television! Using Amagi's DART technology platform, Viacom18 will enable Hindustan Unilever, a Indian consumer goods company based in Mumbai, Maharashtra, to simultaneously air different TV advertisements in different regions of India on Nickelodeon, which will allow Hindustan Unilever to micro-target its communication in each region, similar to Nickelodeon UK's Irish feeds for Nickelodeon, Nick Jr. and Nicktoons.:

Viacom18 & Amagi partner to enable HUL micro-target comm in each region

Viacom18 and Amagi Media have announced an alliance that claims to increase advertising effectiveness on television. In a day and age where geo-targeting is the way to go, using Amagi’s DART technology platform, Viacom18 will enable Hindustan Unilever to simultaneously run different television advertisements in different regions on Nickelodeon.

This innovation will allow Hindustan Unilever to micro-target its communication in each region. Amagi calls this ‘creative-versioning’ where different television creative in terms of product variant or a different creative rendition of the same advertiser is played in different regions on the same channel simultaneously, shared an official release.

Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18 said, “As a leading broadcaster, Viacom 18 has been pioneering several innovations and has been at the forefront of providing newer platforms for improved customer deliveries. This initiative further builds on our strategic thrust of sharper segmentation. We are pleased to partner with Amagi and Hindustan Unilever on this unique concept of micro-targeting.”

Creative versioning addresses critical needs of both, broadcasters and advertisers seeking to optimise their Return on Investment (RoI) from the television spot. Given TRAI's recent 12-minute ruling on advertising, broadcasters and advertisers have been seeking ways to optimise RoI and stretch the time within the limited inventory.

Srinivasan KA, Co-Founder, Amagi Media said, “We are happy that we have been chosen as the partner to enable this innovation. This is the first time worldwide in television advertising that a single spot bought nationally has been used to communicate different brand messages in different regions. Such micro-targeting is going to be the future of television advertising.”

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The Stars Of Nick Jr. UK's "The Go!Go!Go! Show" To Perform Live At Nickelodeon's Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013

"The Go!Go!Go! Show" has announced in a Tweet (post) on their official Twitter profile page (@GoGoGoShow) the exciting news that the stars and cast of Nick Jr. Channel UK and Ireland's popular brand show, "The Go!Go!Go! Show", will be performing live at Nickelodeon's Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013, the awards show which recognises and celebrates talented young people from across the UK with serious skills, at London's O2 Indigo Arena (also known as the indigO2), situated on the Greenwich peninsula in South East London, England, UK, on Saturday 7th September 2013, and shown the very next day (Sunday 8th September 2013) at 5.00pm (repeated from 6:00pm on Nick UK's plus-one timeshift channel, Nick+1)!:

1 week to go until we perform at @indigO2atTheO2 for the @NickelodeonUK Fruit Shoot Skills Awards! #Excited #IndiGoGoGo!

Nick Junior's The Go!Go!Go! Show will be joining previously announced headliners The Vamps, Union J, The Luminites, and Nickelodeon Star Brad Kavanagh, who plays the character Fabian Rutter in Nickelodeon's hit mystery drama series "House of Anubis", who will be making his first musical TV performance at the awards ceremony!

Hosted by British diver, London 2012 Summer Olympic Games medalist and Kids' Choice Awards winner Tom Daley, the Nickelodeon Fruit Shoot Skills Awards 2013 ceremony promises to be bigger and better, packed with more skills, more awards, and more slime than ever before!

"The Go!Go!Go! Show", launched in 2010, has received outstanding reviews and to date has completed over 100 live performances in London's West End and on tour around Britain. The family musical act features a cast of six: Carl, Gemma, Jade, Holly, Steve, the inquisitive Mr. Baffled and his sidekick, the sock-munching Fluffalope performing a unique and interactive mix of pop music, dance and comedy. For Nick Jr.'s popular series, the live show experience has been translated to create specific content for Nick Jr. to encourage audience interaction and physical movement. With songs incorporating themes such as fitness, friendship and healthy eating, the Go! Go! Go! bespoke interstitial spots feature follow-along dance routines and original music written by UK pop supremos Mike Stock and Steve Crosby. With songs incorporating themes such as fitness, friendship and healthy eating, The Go!Go!Go! Show covers all of the Nick Jr. day parts, changing from lively morning songs to calming before bedtime segments. Embedded into the continuity of the Nick Jr. schedule, the Go! Go! Go! spots announces upcoming programming as well as providing a human face for the channel.

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Happy 20th Birthday Nickelodeon UK!

NickALive! would like to wish Nickelodeon UK, the number one commercial kids' television network in the UK and the best Nickelodeon channel in the universe, a very Happy 20th Birthday!!

Nickelodeon launched in the UK at 7:00am on Wednesday 1st September 1993 as part of the then new Sky Multi-Channels package, and are this year celebrating their landmark 20th Birthday!

What are your favourite Nickelodeon UK memories? Let NickALive! know on Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, on Instagram, and/or Facebook! Use hashtag #HappyBirthdayNickUK!

Nickelodeon UK, the first international version of Nickelodeon, has changed a lot over the years. You can view Nickelodeon UK's first ever television schedule, plus take a trip down memory lane and look through the first 10 years of Nickelodeon UK using Nickelodeon UK's Timeline, which Nickelodeon UK debuted to mark Nickelodeon UK's 10th Birthday in 2003, right here on NickALive!.

NickALive! is also very proud to present the following selection of great videos to celebrate Nick UK's 20th Anniversary on air! Hope you enjoy!

Happy Birthday, Nickelodeon UK!!

Here's to the next twenty slime-tastic aweslime years!!
To celebrate and promote the launch of Nickelodeon in the UK, Nick UK used the following special on-air promo called "What in the world is Nickelodeon?" to introduced viewers to the world of Nickelodeon, which featured a montage of all the great shows Nickelodeon UK had in store for British kids!:

What in the world Is Nickelodeon?

[Background music bed starts: "Nickelodeon Video Open" Nickelodeon On-Air Music]

Nickelodeon is THE new channel for kids.

Nickelodeon is coming to Sky on the first of September [1993].

[HUH!]

Nickelodeon Is Kids!

If you believe that kids deserve the very best, get connected to Nickelodeon, the new channel for kids.

Coming to Sky the first of September [1993].

Nickelodeon arrived in the UK Nickelodeon style - with a epic transatlantic sliming, and the first Nickelodeon sliming on British soil! John Eccleston, the presenter of the British version of the Classic Nickelodeon game show "Get The Picture" slimed kids in a studio within the UK whilst the British actress and voice actress Moira "Mo" Quirk, the referee of the Nickelodeon game shows "Nickelodeon GUTS" and "Global Guts", simultaneously slimed American kids in front of the famous Nickelodeon Slime Geyser at Nickelodeon's First World Kids Headquarters located at Nickelodeon Studios in Orlando at Universal Studios, Florida, USA!

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