SpongeBob’s Top 100 launched in April and asked SpongeBob fans across the country to vote for the best of Bikini Bottom to find the nation’s favourite SpongeBob SquarePants episode.

Over 160,000 votes were cast online at nick.co.uk with Band Geeks emerging as the winner.

Over the June Diamon Jublilee weekend, the entire 100 was broadcast with celebrity fans such as Pixie Lott and the cast of VicTORious introducing their top episodes.

THE NEXT NORMAL will be presented by Christian Kurz (Vice President of Research, Insights and Reporting for Viacom International Media networks) alongside a panel including William Highman (Consumer strategist, futurist, author and CEO of Next Big Thing) and Kerry Taylor (Senior Vice President & Director of Television for Viacom International Media Networks UK, Australia, Hungary & Russia).

The event is taking place on Wednesday 20^th February at 9:30 – 11am (doors at 8:45am for complimentary breakfast) in the Century Club, 61-63 Shaftesbury Avenue, London, W1D 6LG.

The event is invite only, if you’d like to attend please email talkinshop@beviacom.com to confirm your place.

The brand-new venue will Host the 2013 MTV EMA – and it’s the 20th anniversary of our global music event, so you know this show is going to be beyond epic!

The MTV EMA is a massively star-studded music extravaganza watched around the world on TV, online, and on mobile devices.  Millions of fans, from everywhere on earth, will vote on mtvema.com to pick the winners from a crop of awesome artists.  And it’s safe to say that a good number of those artists will join us in Amsterdam for the show of the year!

With its vibrant music and nightlife scene, the discotheque-doted Dutch city is a natural home for the EMA.  The cutting-edge, state-of-the-art Ziggo Dome just opened in 2012 and has already hosted A-list acts like Lady Gaga, Rihanna and One Direction.  Clearly it’s the perfect spot to stage this year’s crop of evenlope-pushing EMA performances!

Stay tuned to mtvema.com for the latest news on the 2013 MTV EMA! We. Can. Not. Wait.

Sticky Millennials talk about who they are and the factors shaping their identity… everything from emigration, adapting to new cultures, living with diversity, finding inspiration in a recession and being part of a global community driven by online access and connection.

Amongst the subjects explored this month we look at:

• Born in the USA: Millenials are driving a ‘post-racial’ country
• Inspiration in a recession: finding inspiration within a difficult economic context in Southern Europe
• Growing up in SE Asia: Family ‘happens’ before friends then shapes future relationships
• Embracing Cultural Diversity: Adapting to a new country is easy because diversity is ingrained in to my life

As fans across the globe cast 184 million votes, Taylor Swift scored three awards at the 2012 MTV EMA in her debut, with Justin Bieber also winning three awards, continiing his dominance at the world’s biggest music event.

Hosted by Heidi Klum, MTV’s 19th annual EMA, held Sunday November 11th in Frankfurt, Germany, was a beautiful, jaw-dropping spectacle, filled with aerialists, pyrotechnics, lasers, elaborate light shows, and incredible choreography, delivering on what Klum had promised would be a magical night.

To help decide the 2012 “MTV EMA” winners fans casted a record-breaking 184 million votes online and on their mobile devices.

This year’s sponsors included Microsoft, Replay and Renaissance alongside local sponsors across Europe and Monster DNA Headphones integrations.

To find out more about MTV EMA 2012 visit www.mtvema.com

The beautiful Mediterranean island of Malta will once again play host to international superstars as Be Viacom, Viacom International Media Network’s brand engagement division and Malta Tourism Authority announce a three-year partnership to produce the music spectacular that is Isle of MTV.

Today’s announcement, made at London’s World Travel Market, marks the seventh consecutive year that MTV and MTA will collaborate  in producing the MTV live event in Floriana’s beautiful, historic Il-Fosos Square.  Fifty thousand music fans descend on the island for one of the must-attend highlights of the summer music calendar.  Next year’s extravaganza has been confirmed for June 26^th 2013.

Since Isle of MTV has been held in Malta, the number of visitors to the island, younger than 24, has increased by 88 percent and now account for 20.3 percent of all tourists.

Isle of MTV is considered one of the coolest and most eclectic free European summer music events and has built a reputation for showcasing some of the biggest names from the international music scene. Previous performers have included will.i.am, Flo Rida, Lady Gaga, Snoop Dogg, The Black Eyes Peas, LMFAO and David Guetta.

The open-air concert combines live performance and is filmed and edited into a 60-minute special that is broadcast across 20 MTV channels throughout Europe.

The talent line-up and further details for Isle of MTV 2013 will be announced in the spring.

www.isleofmtv.com

Panellists included Geoff Seeley (Gloval Communications Director, Unilever), Michelle Klein (VP, Smirnoff Global Marketing) and Alex Bec (Director, It’s Nice That / INT Works).

As findings from a newly developed Music White Paper confirm that whilst access has increased, it’s identified an issue with overload, BE VIACOM Talking Shop asked Albert Schilcher (VP, Talent and Music International, MTV) exactly what are the best ways for brands to interact with fans in this new music landscape.

Panellists included Ted Chung (Senior Partner Stampede Management and Chairman, Cashmere Agency) and Umut Ozaydinli (Chief of Possibilities, Deviant Ventures).

The birth of MTV made what an artist looks like as important as what they sounded like.  No one has bridged the gap between fashion and music more than MTV over the last 3 decades.  With teh launch of District MTV, Editor in Chief Melanie Hick took to the stage with some of the most influential voices in fashion, including Princess Julia, Lulu Kennedy and Quentin Jones, to discuss how both music and fashion influence one another as artists and brands continue to collaborate at pace in order to connect with today’s fashion super consumer.

Panellists included Princess Julie (DJ and Editor at Large at GQ Style), Quentin Jones (Illustrator and Film-maker), Lulu Kennedy (Fashion East Founder), Charlie Porter (Guardian Fashion Editor) and Yasmin Sewell (Fashion and Retail Consultant).