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Ted Sarandos, Alexis Ohanian and Eli Manning are joining the board of trustees at the Paley Center for Media.

The Netflix co-ceo, Reddit co-founder and two-time Super Bowl champion are also joined by Gary Vaynerchuk, CEO of VaynerMedia, and David W. Checketts, managing partner of Checketts Partners Investment Management.

Jim Burtson, president of CAA, and Adam Mosseri, head of Instagram, Meta will join the Paley Los Angeles Board of Governors.

“We are proud to welcome these exceptional and distinguished leaders to the Paley Center’s Board of Trustees and Los Angeles Board of Governors,” said Maureen J. Reidy, president and CEO, The Paley Center for Media. “Their visionary leadership across media, sports, technology, business, and entertainment embodies the highest standards of excellence, and their collective expertise will be instrumental in advancing our mission and reinforcing Paley’s role as the leading nonprofit in the media industry.”

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Prime Video has ordered two new sports documentaries from Skydance Sports and NFL Films, a six-part series about the New York Jets and a feature-length documentary about Hall of Fame wide receiver Terrell Owens, along with a six-part docuseries about female CEOs, featuring and exec produced by Serena Williams. The news was announced during Amazon’s upfront presentation Monday at the Beacon Theater in New York City.

The Home Team: NY Jets is a six-part documentary series that follows six New York Jets players and their partners—including Quinnen & Maranda Williams and Alijah & Jessie Vera-Tucker—throughout the 2024-25 regular season. The series will “provide an authentic peek into the emotional journey these players and their families go on over the course of a 17-week NFL season,” according to Amazon.

Presented by Prime Video Sports and Skydance Sports, in association with NFL Films, The Home Team: NY Jets is produced by VaynerWATT.

Prime Video Sports, Skydance Sports and NFL Films are taking viewers into the lives of the New York Jets and Hall of fame wide receiver Terrell Owens off the football field in two new sports documentaries.

“The Home Team: NY Jets” is a six-part docuseries that follows six New York Jets players and their partners —including Quinnen & Maranda Williams and Alijah & Jessie Vera-Tucker—throughout the 2024-25 regular season. The project offers an authentic peek into the emotional journey they go through over the course of 17 weeks – from business endeavors to baby showers to family reunions.

In addition to Prime Video, Skydance and NFL films, the series is produced by VaynerWATT; Skydance Sports’ Jesse Sisgold, Jason T. Reed and Jon Weinbach; NFL Films’ Ross Ketover, Ken Rodgers, Jessica Boddy, and Keith Cossrow and VaynerWATT’s Eric Wattenberg, Gary Vaynerchuk, Matt Higgins, and Sam Brown 9.14 Pictures’ Sheena M. Joyce and Don Argott serve as executive producers.

Amazon Prime Video’s upcoming reboot of “American Gladiators” has set Mike “The Miz” Mizanin as host.

“American Gladiators” originally ran in syndication from 1989 to 1996 and saw amateur athletes compete against each other and a panel of “gladiators” in various strength and agility challenges. The new version features an “all star cast of gladiators for the modern era,” per Amazon, and will utilize new challenges while reprising some from the original series, including “Gauntlet,” “Hang Tough” and “The Eliminator.” The cast will include bodybuilders, former D1 athletes, crossfit champions and fitness trainers from throughout the world.

Mizanin, a professional wrestler, first broke out as a TV personality in 2001 when he joined the cast of “The Real World: Back to New York” on MTV. Besides that, he is best known for becoming a Triple Crown Champion and a two-time Grand Slam Champion in the WWE, his three-season USA Network reality series “Miz & Mrs.,...

On LinkedIn, some top creators are adding new connections — and reaping financial rewards in the process. The professional platform is realigning its BrandLink program, which will play matchmaker between advertisers and an initial group of 30 creators in the business category.

BrandLink first launched last June, when it was called The Wire Program. The ad product’s new complexion sounds similar to the Google program now known as YouTube Select: Like Select, BrandLink cordons off ad space next to videos from popular publishers and creators.

LinkedIn has cultivated a homegrown community of creators who offer unique perspectives on the professional world. The initial BrandLink cohort fits into that niche; it consists of creators who comment on business-to-business topics, including Diary of a CEO podcaster Steven Bartlett (pictured above) and longtime digital marketing operative Gary Vaynerchuk.

“We are entering one of the most interesting evolutions of influencer marketing—the extreme rise of the B2B influencer,...

Maury Povich is returning to his journalistic roots with On Par with Maury Povich, a new video podcast.

On Par with Maury Povich promises to offer thought-provoking conversations with cultural icons and industry leaders across media, sports, and entertainment — including Hall of Fame jockey Laffit Pincay, Jr., journalists Connie Chung and Jessica Yellin, serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, and broadcasters Michael Wilbon and Tony Kornheiser, among others.

The weekly podcast will be available on all major audio platforms starting March 31 with full episodes available to watch on YouTube.

“I began my career with a microphone in hand and a passion for asking questions that mattered. After six decades in television, On Par brings me back to the heart of it all — journalism,” said Povich. “This podcast is a return to where it all began, a chance to reflect on what I’ve learned, and to have meaningful conversations with remarkable people...

Tubi has slotted Thursday, February 6 for the premiere of The Z-Suite, its first in-house, live-action comedy series, starring Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls), Nico Santos (Superstore) and Madison Shamoun (The Lake). The eight-episode series will launch with the first two episodes, followed by one episode weekly each Thursday.

The Z-Suite is set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees collide. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency’s reigning executives are pushed out and the Z-Suite employees are suddenly put in charge, ultimately testing both generations’ skills and patience.

In The Z-Suite, advertising maven Monica Marks (Graham) and her loyal right hand executive Doug Garcia (Santos) have long been at the top of the Madison Avenue world. But after a record scratch blunder, they are suddenly canceled, pushed out and replaced by the agency’s...

Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls) and Nico Santos (Superstore) battle Gen Z in The Z-Suite. The Tubi original comedy is set to premiere with its first two episodes on Thursday, Feb. 6, followed by one new episode weekly.

The ad-supported streaming service released a trailer Monday (see above), which reunites Santos with Superstore co-star Mark McKinney.

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In The Z-Suite, “advertising...

The Funko booth at New York Comic Con (Nycc) 2024 offered an exciting and vibrant experience that was a must-visit for collectors and fans. Here’s a detailed review of what made it stand out this year:

Booth Design & Atmosphere

Funko’s booth was visually stunning and cleverly designed, embodying their signature playful, colorful style. The setup this year was themed as Funko Airways, providing plenty of perfect photo opportunities. The vibrant, oversized displays showcased the latest and most sought-after exclusives, instantly drawing the eye of fans and collectors alike. There were also themed sections based on popular franchises, making it easy to navigate the booth and spot the latest figures.

Check out our behind-the-scenes tour below:

@ageofthenerd Destination fun on Funko Airways!! Our behind-the-scenes tour of Funko at New York Comic Con 2024! #nycc #nycc2024 #funko #mondo #loungefly #collectibles #funkopop ♬ Get Ready – Steve Aoki Vocal Radio Edit – 2 Unlimited

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Tubi is filling out the cast for its Lauren Graham-starring workplace comedy The Z-Suite with new guest stars.

Rhys Darby (Flight of the Conchords), Mark McKinney (Superstore), Dani Kind, Nadine Djoury, Richard Waugh and Peter Keleghan have nabbed guest-starring roles. They join earlier-announced series regulars Graham, Madison Shamoun, Nico Santos, Spencer Stevenson, Anna Bezahler and Evan Marsh in the comedy shooting in Toronto.

The Tubi original is set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees clash. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency’s reigning executives are forced out and replaced by Z-Suite employees, whose skills and patience are tested.

Graham will play Monica Frazier, an ad agency mogul who is fired as CEO and has to claw her way back into the company she helped build. In the latest casting announcements,...

The VeeFriends have finally made it to the VeeDome.

“VeeFriends,” an animated series aimed at the 6-11 demographic produced by VaynerWatt and “Cocomelon” shop Moonbug Entertainment, premiered its first three episodes on Sept. 30 on the YouTube Kids section of the streaming giant.

The series, created by Vaynerchuk, is designed to encourage kids to embrace challenges and competition and how to learn from defeat and missteps. Characters, including Dialed-in Dog, Emphathy Elephant and Perfect Persian Cat, compete in the VeeDome with the goal of finding common ground but also expressing their own voices. The character of Dome Master “ensures that each battle runs smoothly and that every character who steps into the VeeDome comes out a little stronger and a lot more self-aware,” per the series description.

“VeeFriends” marks the first production to debut from VaynerWatt, the partnership formed in 2023 between serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk and CAA and Wheelhouse Entertainment alum Eric Wattenberg.

There’s a lot of news in the creator economy. Each week, we handpick a selection of stories to give you a snapshot of trends, updates, business moves, and more from around the industry. This week, one streamer drew praise from a Marvel superhero, but others behaved badly.

Creator commotion

“The amount of clips I’ve seen of Kick streamers harassing people at TwitchCon is insane.” That’s how Ludwig Ahgren described the mood at Twitch’s annual gathering. Reports of sexual harassment and stalking led to criticism of the Kick community from streaming bigwigs like Valkyrae and Tectone. One of the victims of those alleged transgressions, Felix “xQc” Lengyel, wants Kick to mete out “real repercussions” for the troublemakers. Will the platform listen?

Simu Liu thinks iShowSpeed is a “badass.” As the energetic streamer wrapped up his blockbuster tour of Southeast Asia, he met up with Shang-Chi himself in Singapore.

Exclusive: Tubi has rounded out the leading cast for The Z-Suite, its upcoming comedy series, starring and executive produced by Lauren Graham (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood), with Spencer Stevenson (Rosaline), Anna Bezahler and Evan Marsh (Shazam! Fury of the Gods). The multi-generational workplace comedy, from writer, executive producer and showrunner Katie O’Brien, is AVOD service’s first homegrown live-action original series, which begins production this month in Toronto.

In addition to Graham, the trio joins Madison Shamoun and Nico Santos in the the comedy.

The Z-Suite is set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees collide. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency’s reigning executives are pushed out and the Z-Suite employees are suddenly put in charge, ultimately testing both generations’ skills and patience.

Stevenson plays Elliot, the manic-pixie-dream-boy of the...

Exclusive: Nico Santos is set as a lead opposite Lauren Graham and Madison Shamoun in The Z-Suite, Tubi‘s upcoming comedy series, starring and executive produced by Graham (Gilmore Girls, Parenthood). The multi-generational workplace comedy, from writer, executive producer and showrunner Katie O’Brien, is AVOD service’s first homegrown live-action original series.

The Z-Suite is set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees collide. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency’s reigning executives are pushed out and the Z-Suite employees are suddenly put in charge, ultimately testing both generations’ skills and patience.

Santos plays Doug, the exuberant and loyal right hand man to his CEO, Monica (Graham), at the Atelier Advertising Agency.

The series is also executive produced by Lance Samuels, Samantha Levine, and Daniel Iron...

It’s a gathering that will bring together CEOs and CMOs, owners of NFTs and MBAs, trading card and pin collectors and a healthy dose of social media creators, podcasters and influencers. VeeCon, which runs Aug. 9-11 in downtown Los Angeles, is at its core an expression of the multitudes contained by serial entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk.

“We want to be the coolest business conference,” Vaynerchuk told Variety. The event will highlight Vaynerchuk’s various businesses with a strong emphasis on his budding kids brand VeeFriends. It also hopes to buck the downtrend in the world of Web3, NFTs and disruptive digital technologies by growing the VeeFriends characters and storytelling eco-system through digital and video content.

“The world underestimates the sheer power and attention that sits on social media,” Vaynerchuk says. “A lot of people wish it wasn’t that way.”

Vaynerchuk’s VaynerWatt arm has teamed with “CocoMelon” producer Moonbug Entertainment...

In 2014 John Skipper, then the president of ESPN, and David Levy, then the president of Turner, signed the paperwork with the NBA to extend its TV deals with TNT and ESPN into 2025.

A decade later, and the veteran sports media executives are now teaming up to try and sell a new basketball league to TV networks and streaming services, one that they are betting will serve a fast-growing sector of the market: Women’s sports.

Skipper and Levy are among the investors in Unrivaled, a three-on-three women’s basketball league co-founded by WNBA stars Breanna Stewart and Napheesa Collier. Unrivaled will launch in January 2025, and Levy and Skipper will spearhead its media rights and sponsorship deals.

“We’ve known each other for years, and we’ve been competitors, but we’ve been peers and friends as well, and we’ve done a lot of business together over those times,” Levy...

If you're like us, the broadcast shows are not hitting their marks.

They're beyond formulaic (everyone's out to tear down Firehouse 51 on Chicago Fire? Give us a break already) and have lost their pizazz.

Watching TV barely cracks our faces with a smile.

But the streamer that is part of our return to classic TV (Dark Shadows? Check! Family? Check! Columbo? Check!), Tubi, has a new original series on the way starring Gilmore Girls and Parenthood star Lauren Graham.

Neither show is on Tubi, so why not create one to bring the talented actress into their world?

That's what Tubi is doing as the Fox Corporation's ad-supported VOD service announced today that it has greenlit the new original comedy series The Z Suite starring Graham.

Written by Katie O'Brien, who also serves as showrunner, the series is executive produced by Lance Samuels, Samantha Levine, and Daniel Iron of Blue Ice Pictures...

Exclusive: Fox Corporation’s Tubi has greenlighted The Z-Suite, a comedy series starring and executive produced by Lauren Graham. The multi-generational workplace comedy, from writer, executive producer and showrunner Katie O’Brien, is AVOD service’s first homegrown live-action original series.

The Z-Suite is set at a boutique New York ad agency where generational divides see the established C-Suite and rising Gen Z employees collide. After a company decision spirals out of control, the agency’s reigning executives are pushed out and the Z-Suite employees are suddenly put in charge, ultimately testing both generations’ skills and patience.

Graham plays Monica Frazier, an advertising agency mogul who is fired as CEO and finds herself clawing her way back into the company she helped build.

“When I first read the script for The Z-Suite I responded to Katie O’Brien’s fresh and funny take on the workplace,...

Fanatics, the sports-focused company led by CEO Michael Rubin, wants to create a Comic-Con for sports fans.

Fanatics is planning its first live flagship event, which it is calling Fanatics Fest, for Aug. 16-18, to be held at the Jacob Javits Center in New York City.

NFL legends Tom Brady and Peyton Manning, MLB legend Derek Jeter, and NBA superstar Kevin Durant are attached to participate, as is entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, Eli Manning, WNBA star Sabrina Ionescu, and wrestling legend Hulk Hogan. The company’s events division, Fanatics Events, is producing the show.

“There isn’t a unifying event for sports, the way you see it in pop culture with Comic-Con, or for influencers with VidCon, or tech with CES or music with South By [SXSW], none of those platforms exist [for sports],” says Lance Fensterman, the CEO of Fanatics Events, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter. “It just became clear that...

Here’s a look at this week’s biggest premieres, parties and openings in Los Angeles and New York, including events for Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire, The First Omen and Palm Royale.

Human Rights Campaign dinner

Jean Smart and Sterling K. Brown were honored at Human Rights Campaign’s annual Los Angeles dinner on Saturday, which also featured a keynote speech from First Lady Jill Biden.

Jean Smart Tarell Alvin McCraney and Sterling K. Brown

Godzilla x Kong: The New Empire premiere

Rebecca Hall, Dan Stevens and Brian Tyree Henry joined director Adam Wingard at the L.A premiere of their MonsterVerse movie on Monday.

Adam Wingard, Brian Tyree Henry, Fala Chen, Rebecca Hall, Kaylee Hottle and Dan Stevens

Palm Royale Paley Center event

On Tuesday, The Paley Center for Media hosted “Kristen Wiig and Carol Burnett: A Night with Apple TV+’s Palm Royale” at The Paley Museum in New York,...

There are people who stay on message — and then there’s Ryan Serhant.

The celebrity real estate broker, who gained global fame for his appearances on Million Dollar Listing New York, is hyper-focused, direct and as polished as the gleaming surfaces of the mega-penthouses he sells in Manhattan. Not a bad look when you’ve just published your third book, a guide to branding oneself and one’s company.

Titled Brand It Like Serhant: Stand Out From The Crowd, Build Your Following, and Earn More Money ($30, Hachette Go), the book takes readers through chapters designed as a step-by-step program that includes identifying a core identity, advice on using social media, and exhortations to “shout it from the mountaintop,” i.e. confidently and emphatically promote oneself. It includes exercises at the end of each chapter and even includes photos of Serhant modeling outfits and showing poses that do and don’t...

HBO has unveiled the official trailer and premiere date for Alex Edelman’s upcoming comedy special, “Alex Edelman: Just for Us.” The special, which was recorded live at the Hudson Theatre in New York, will debut on HBO and be available to stream on Max April 6 at 10 p.m. Et/ Pt.

“Just for Us,” chronicles Edelman’s life as a Jewish man living on the east coast and revolves around how he once attended a meeting of White Nationalists after receiving antisemitic threats online. This is Edelman’s second comedy special, his first being “Alex Edelman: Live at the BBC,” which was an hour long set he performed for Netflix UK in 2016.

Edelman is currently on an encore tour of “Just for Us,” this week in New York. Later this month, he’ll be back at Los Angeles’ Mark Taper Forum, where his show earned raves last fall.

Alex Timbers...

The VeeFriends are getting their own original series on YouTube. The line of cute, cuddly characters is the inspiration for an upcoming animated series from CoComelon owner Moonbug and production house VaynerWatt.

VeeFriends, as the show will be known, is inspired by the entertainment brand of the same name, which was created by of VaynerWatt Co-Founder Gary Vaynerchuk. Gary Vee, as he is commonly known, has had a long career as a branded content guru, oenophile, and online video innovator. Now, his VaynerWatt studio (which launched last year) is joining forces with Moonbug to develop a 2D animated series that will be aimed at kids between the ages of six and 11.

The VeeFriends animated series will consist of three-minute episodes, which are expected to arrive over the summer. According to Deadline, the show will feature characters from the VeeFriends brand, including Gratitude Gorilla, Quick Quail, and Clever Crocodile. They’ll...

Exclusive: CoComelon owner Moonbug Entertainment is looking to emerging production studio VaynerWatt for its next kids and family franchise.

The companies have struck a strategic partnership deal and will work together to create a 2D-animated series for kids aged 6-11 called VeeFriends, which is based on Vaynerchuk’s existing kids franchise of the same name. It will launch on YouTube in September, with Candle Media-owned Moonbug and VaynerWatt both attached.

VaynerWatt co-founder Gary Vaynerchuk created VeeFriends, which is billed as a “contemporary entertainment company” focused on collectibles, events, games and technology based around characters who aim to make soft skills cool.

The series will be set in the VeeFriends universe, which features a collection of larger-than-life VeeFriends characters such as Gratitude Gorilla, Quick Quail and Clever Crocodile who will compete in the VeeDome, the “ultimate over-the-top challenge arena, to battle out the biggest issues facing tweendom today.” Every character...

There’s a new entry to the red-hot collectibles market.

Brent Montgomery is teaming with Reddit co-founder Alexis Ohanian to launch Mantel, a content platform created specifically for collectors of sports cards and memorabilia, comics, cars, watches and more.

Wheelhouse, the media and marketing company founded by Montgomery (Pawn Stars, King of Collectibles), and Ohanian’s Seven Seven Six tech and venture capital firm, launched the platform Tuesday in beta. The site will serve as a social media platform that will focus first on sports cards and memorabilia as well as trading card games (like Pokemon and Magic the Gathering, for example) before expanding to other facets of the collectibles industry. The site will also feature real-time discussion and connectivity with experts in the collecting space as well as original content, creating a one-stop shop for collectors, investors and more.

Evan Parker, the former Gm at The Athletic, serves as CEO of Mantel.

Meta‘s “Twitter killer” Threads is here, and Mark Zuckerberg says it got 30 million signups within its first 24 hours of going live. That’s around 15% of Twitter’s daily active user base.

But it’s not clear if all those signups will convert to active users–and, even more importantly, some of the 30 million might regret signing up, because it turns out once you make a Threads account, you can’t delete it without also deleting your Instagram account.

Why? Well, Meta considers Threads part of a user’s Instagram account, a sort of textual counterpart to Intagram’s photo focus. Meta has said its “vision is that Threads will be a new app more focused on text and dialogue, modeled after what Instagram has done for photo and video.”

This isn’t to say Threads bars users from posting photos and videos. It’s essentially a Twitter copy in terms of content.

Telly, a startup led by a co-founder of Pluto TV, is taking a novel tack in promoting its dual-screen smart TV sets.

After emerging from a 24-month stealth period, the company says it will offer its first 500,000 mass-produced models for free to consumers when they start shipping this summer. Ilya Pozin, founder and CEO of Telly, told Deadline in an interview that the 55-inch sets, which have 4K Hdr picture quality and a built-in premium sound bar, would retail for more than $1,000.

Telly says it is bringing to market the first dual-screen smart TV. Below the main panel, a smaller screen is a conduit for sports scores, news, weather, display ads and other supplemental information. The bottom screen can also go dark, for example when a movie is playing on the bigger screen.

The free giveaway is an effort to upend the prevailing business model in streaming and have advertising...

SlamBall is officially bouncing back.

The alternative sport — which combined elements of basketball, American football, ice hockey, and trampolines — has closed an $11 million Series A round led by Roger Ehrenberg’s Ia Sports Ventures and Eberg Capital as well as strategic investors across sports, gaming, entertainment, and media.

“It’s an incredible feeling to be back, and especially by popular demand,” said Mason Gordon, CEO and co-founder of SlamBall. “I want to thank SlamBall’s persistent and passionate fans for making this comeback possible and our investors for helping make the dream real. This is a true Cinderella story–only with helmets, pads and trampolines.”

SlamBall will relaunch with a six-week season this July in Las Vegas followed by a seventh playoff week. Domestic and international touring stops will follow. Talks are currently underway for distribution, while a docuseries about the league is in development via Mike Tollin’s Msm.

Exclusive: Gary Vaynerchuk, internet marketing expert and Resy founder, has teamed with former CAA agent and Wheelhouse exec Eric Wattenberg and Matt Higgins, who co-founded investment firm Rse Ventures with Miami Dolphins owner Stephen M. Ross, to launch a new production studio.

The trio are launching VaynerWatt.

The company will produce original long and short-form content for linear networks and streaming services.

It marks the first TV production company for Vaynerchuk, the founder of communications company VaynerX, who is best known for his work in digital marketing.

Wattenberg, who will be CEO of the new company, joins from Wheelhouse, the company set up by Brent Montgomery, where he was Chief Content Officer. Prior to joining Wheelhouse, he was Co-Head of Alternative Television at CAA, where he represented talents including Kelly Ripa, Andy Cohen, Nick Cannon and Billy Porter. It was via CAA that Wattenberg and Vaynerchuk met.

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Pencils of Promise is prepping to mount its first in-person gala after a two-year hiatus due to the pandemic and has selected its global ambassador Meadow Walker for honors.

Walker, daughter of the late Paul Walker, will receive an Activist Award for her advocacy work, specifically for efforts on behalf of Pencils of Promise and its programming including work with water, sanitation and hygiene aka its Wash program.

Walker serves as founder and president of the Paul Walker Foundation and as an advocate for Unfpa, the United Nations sexual and reproductive health agency. In 2020, Walker and the Paul Walker Foundation teamed with Pencils of Promise to build Jasikan College of Education Demonstration Primary School in Ghana.

The event is scheduled to be held at the Museum of the Moving Image on Oct. 20. Past Pencils of Promise gala honorees and performers include Justin Bieber,...

New Delhi, Aug 23 (Ians) The non-fungible tokens (NFTs) owners have zero intellectual property ownership of their content and only one Nft collection in the top 25 platforms by market capitalisation has attempted to confer intellectual property rights to the purchasers of digital arts, says a report.

Most of Nft operators “appear to have misled Nft purchasers” about the extent of their rights.

The Creative Commons license, seen as a solution to the restrictive licenses used by most projects, “renders Nft ownership obsolete from a legal perspective as it moves the intellectual property fully into the public domain, making it impossible for Nft holders to defend their ownership rights in court,” according to the report by Galaxy Digital Research.

The report mentioned that without improvements in the on-chain representation and transfer of intellectual property rights from Nft issuers to Nft token holders, the expansive vision of Web3 will remain unrealised.

The report analysed major Nft projects,...

Shark Tank casting goop—err, scoop!

Oscar-winning actress (and goop founder) Gwyneth Paltrow is one of two new guest Sharks joining Season 14 of ABC’s Shark Tank, Deadline reports. An airdate for her debut has not yet been disclosed.

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Also new to the Tank is DoorDash CEO and co-founder Tony Xu. Both Paltrow and Xu will appear alongside Mark Cuban, Barbara Corcoran, Lori Greiner,...

“Fate of a Sport,” premiering at the 2022 Tribeca Film Festival, has unveiled its first trailer exclusively to Variety.

Covering the world of professional lacrosse and one of its most controversial and high-profile stars, Paul Rabil, the film deals in much more than triumph on the pitch — encompassing millions in capital fundraising, talent poaching and lawsuits from legacy athletic clubs, all against the backdrop of a global pandemic.

“Even in the regular lacrosse league, guys still have to have a second job,” a narrator explains in the clip, alluding to the fact that professional lacrosse is nowhere near as well-funded or rewarding for its players on the national stage. So Rabil and his brother Mike decided to break ranks and potentially sacrifice Paul’s decorated career to launch a league of their own (the Premier Lacrosse League).

Directed by Michael Doneger and written by Dan Crane, the project features executive producers LeBron James,...

Exclusive: Comedian, actor and host Hasan Minhaj today announced the launch of his production company, 186K Films, as well as For the Culture, a new film he’s set to produce and star in for Amazon Studios, which he’s scripting with long-time collaborator Prashanth Venkataramanujam.

Minhaj founded 186K Films with Venkataramanujam and will serve as the company’s Chief Executive Officer, with Venkataramanujam serving as Chief Content Officer, and Tyler Babin as Chief Digital Officer.

186K’s first feature, For the Culture, landed with Amazon Studios following an eight-studio bidding war. It’s billed as a raucous comedy set in the cut-throat world of collegiate Bollywood dance competitions—a vibrant, joyful celebration of Indian-American culture that bridges the gap between Western audiences and those who grew up watching Bollywood films in the U.S. and India.

Rideback’s Dan Lin and Jonathan Eirich will produce alongside 186K.

“When we first started our careers,...

Seven-year-old YouTube phenom Like Nastya, who counts 220 million subscribers across her global channel portfolio -- is launching her first-ever merch program with a bit of crypto twist.

Accompanying the debut of her first physical toy line at Walmart, Target, Amazon, and Claire’s, Nastya -- whose last name is Radzinskaya -- is also partnering with Gary Vaynerchuk on a collection of NFTs, or non-fungible tokens.

The physical toy line was designed by manufacturer Jazwares, and ranges in price from $5 to $40. Princess dolls, collectible figures, bedroom playsets, plush toys, and headbands will be available in the U.S. and U.K. this fall, before rolling out globally through spring 2022. The collection arrives after Radzinskaya inked a global licensing pact with Img last year.

Rather than a traditional Nft launch, however, which typically arrives as digital artwork that lives on the blockchain, Radzinskaya's NFTs will endow holders with real-world utilities, explains her manager...

Netflix released a trailer for Season 6 of “Nailed It!,” which premieres Sept. 15.

In the new season, the bakers face even tougher challenges than ever before, including making paranormal pastries, celebrating Black history by creating edible versions of historical icons, and recreating chocolate masterpieces inspired by judge and chocolatier Jacques Torres.

The trailer, which you can watch below, begins with host Nicole Byer playing with edible versions of herself, Torres and assistant director Weston Bahr as she gears up to have the contestants create pastries in their likeness for a competition.

“I just love seeing the misfortune of others,” says actor Jack McBrayer, who appears as a contestant this season. Naturally, this line of dialogue is followed by him making a mistake of his own while baking.

While McBrayer is the only celebrity contestant this season, celebrity judge in Season 6 include Wayne Brady, Sam Richardson, Reggie Watts, Big Freedia, June Diane Raphael and Sasheer Zamata.

There’s a line outside of Atlanta’s Premium Kicks. Makes sense. Ask any rapper, athlete or local with decent fashion sense and they’ll tell you it’s the place to go for new Jordans.

But something’s different about this line. You don’t see the twentysomethings in Supreme hoodies impatiently pecking away at their phones; nah, these are older white guys in trucker hats.

When the security guard motions them in, they don’t walk to the left towards the wall of Air Maxes; they go to the right,...

A savvy sense of nostalgia -- as well as a purported boom in trading cards -- is fueling Logan Paul’s latest content series-turned-charity venture: a YouTube live stream where he unboxed $200,000 worth of rare Pokemon trading cards.

Paul grew up watching the Pokemon series and playing its accompanying games, and noted in a recent video that he'd been tipped off to a resurgence in the trading card economy by his friend, the entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk. And so, he started building his own collection. His biggest-ever investment in the space was a so-called First Edition Booster Box, which contains 36 packs of first edition Pokemon cards -- 12 of which were guaranteed to include ultra-rare holographic cards. Paul purchased the box at online auction for a cool $200,000.

His aim was to pull a first edition holographic Charizard card, which refers to a character in the franchise whose card Paul said represents “the holy grail of Pokemon collecting.

Meek Mill, Justin Bieber and Miguel are among the artists who have risen to the challenge to donate “once-in-a-lifetime” fan experiences and rare items to raise money to feed those in need amidst the Covid-19 crisis. The All In Challenge, operated by the All In Challenge Foundation, will benefit Meals on Wheels, No Kid Hungry and America’s Food Fund, which is directly benefiting Feed America and World Central Kitchen.

The brainchild of Fanatics founder and Philadelphia 76ers partner Michael Rubin, he teamed up with Alan Tisch and Gary Vaynerchuk to launch the challenge,...

CBS’s research team is getting a faster read on how viewers respond emotionally to its TV shows — by using the dispassionate logic of machines.

The broadcaster is using the data-analytics platform developed by New York startup Canvs, which uses proprietary artificial-intelligence processing to parse natural-language comments.

CBS started using the Canvs Surveys tool to automate the coding of open-ended responses to surveys fielded by its research team starting in the fourth quarter of 2018. It now uses Canvs to process feedback on its entire slate of programming and tentpole events, including viewer response to this month’s Super Bowl Liii and Grammy Awards broadcasts.

The real power of the AI system is its ability to crunch unstructured data far more efficiently than human researchers can, said Radha Subramanyam, chief research and analytics officer at CBS. In Las Vegas, the CBS Television City Research Center in Las Vegas currently conducts more...

Atlanta has been in full Super Bowl mode all week, and not surprisingly, the dozens of events taking place in town in advance of the big game reached a peak on Saturday. Along with concerts by Bruno Mars and Cardi B (more on that in a minute), there was the Maxim party with Future, Diplo and Jamie Foxx; the Foo Fighters DirecTV concert; the Sports Illustrated party with Lil Wayne; and the Rolling Stone fete with Young Thug and Ludacris.

The day started off with the Fanatics party held at the College Hall of Fame and hosted by Philadelphia 76ers co-owner and Fanatics executive chairman Michael Rubin. Celebrities including Kevin Hart, Yo Gotti, Emily Ratajkowski, Gary Vaynerchuk, and Dr. Oz were treated to a feast of fresh served sushi and sashimi, shrimp and grits and mac and cheese while mingling with past and present athletic greats like Julius Erving, Dez Bryant,...

The Iab has unveiled the initial lineup of content creators for the first-ever Digital Content NewFronts West, a two-day marketplace event to be held at NeueHouse Hollywood this fall.

The event is designed to introduce brands and media buyers to the latest in original digital video programming and showcase advertising opportunities across emerging media, including podcasts and virtual reality.

Presenters at the inaugural L.A. event, to be held Oct. 9-10, will include: Digitas, Ellen Digital Network, Gary Vaynerchuk’s Gallery Media Group, Jukin Media, LiveXLive Media, the Los Angeles Times, Meredith, the New York Times, Snap (parent company of Snapchat), SoulPancake, Unity Technologies, Viacom Digital Studios, Vice Media, and FameBit By YouTube.

In addition, Iab announced several “insights sessions” sponsors, which will each share research during the event: BBC News, Charter’s Spectrum Reach, 21st Century Fox’s true[X], and Zefr.

The Digital Content NewFronts — the online-video biz’s...

Kate Mitchell is leaving Oprah Winfrey’s Own to join Gallery Media Group — the digital-media holding company established by serial entrepreneur and investor Gary Vaynerchuk last year — as its first chief revenue officer.

Mitchell most recently was Svp of sales at Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network, which is majority owned by Discovery. Before joining Own in 2014, she spent nearly a decade at Discovery, where she helped launch Own in 2011.

Gallery Media was formed when Vaynerchuk and Rse Ventures, a venture firm led by real-estate developer and Miami Dolphins owner Stephen Ross, acquired women’s lifestyle digital publisher PureWow in January 2017. In June, Gallery Media launched One37pm, a brand aimed at young men that blends “culture, style, music and sports, through the lens of entrepreneurship,” according to the company.

Gallery Media CEO Ryan Harwood, who founded PureWow in 2010, said he interviewed more than 100 candidates for the Cro position before selecting Mitchell.

Gary Vaynerchuk is proving you don't need to be an NBA superstar to land your own shoe deal. The social media entrepreneur has attached his personal brand to the GaryVee 001 and GaryVee 002, a pair of sneaker designs launched by K-Swiss.

Both items in the GaryVee line feature black and green in their respective color schemes, though they are stylistically distinct. The 001 retails for $110, while the 002 sells for $85. Both footwear choices can be found on the K-Swiss online store, though at the time of this post, the men's versions of them are sold out. For women, both designs are still in stock. If you absolutely must get your hands on the GaryVee line, you can look for it among the handful of brick-and-mortar retailers that are listed on the K-Swiss website.

Vaynerchuk, a leader in the social marketing field thanks to his company VaynerMedia, began his partnership with K-Swiss earlier this year.

StockX, the world’s first online “stock market of things” for high-demand consumer products, today announced that it has partnered with hip-hop icon and Detroit native Eminem to launch a hurricane relief campaign to aid victims of recent events in Texas and Florida.

Starting on Tuesday, September 19, everyone will be able to make $10 donation(s) at Stockx.com/Hurricane-Relief, the first $250,000 of which will be matched by The Marshall Mathers Foundation. For each donation made, eligible donors will be entered for the chance to win a pair of rare or expensive sneakers donated by celebrities, including – besides Eminem himself – Pharrell Williams, LeBron James, Mark Wahlberg, Snoop Dogg, Virgil Abloh, DJ Skee, Steve Aoki, 2 Chainz, Don C, Jon Buscemi, Karlie Kloss, Gary Vaynerchuk, Stadium Goods, Emily Oberg, Russell Wilson, and Stephen Curry.

“As we watched the tragic events unfold in Florida and Texas, we wanted to leverage our position as a...

On September 25, one day before the annual Streamy Awards, the first-ever Purpose Awards will celebrate online video creators who have championed just causes over the past year. Adjacent to that ceremony, some of the event's honorees and advisory board members will have a chance to practice the upstanding principles they preach. On the day of the show, they will join UnitedHealthcare and the Los Angeles Dodgers for a "Day of Service and Play" that will include volunteer work at a local elementary school.

The Day of Service is part of UnitedHealthcare's Do Good Live Well campaign, which aims to create healthier communities by reminding people to eat right and exercise regularly. This year, the Day of Service will take place at La's Allesandro Elementary School, where members of the Dodgers and Purpose Awards figures will interact with students. One stated goal of the initiative is to promote the "100 Mile Club,...

The Streamy Awards, working in tandem with the Force Multiply agency, is set to present the first-ever Purpose Awards, which will honor creators and brands that strive for social good. All of the honorees who will be celebrated at the show have taken great strides to make the world a better place, but only a handful of them will be selected to receive Inspiration Awards, which will be handed out at the Purpose Awards ceremony on September 25 in Downtown Los Angeles.

The body that will select these Inspiration Award winners is the Purpose Awards Advisory Board, and it consists of creators, executives, and other notable figures within the worlds of online video and social justice. Its roster of members, as shared by the Streamys and Force Multiply, includes YouTube star Tyler Oakley, digital media entrepreneur Gary Vaynerchuk, activist and videomaker Raymond Braun, YouTube Director of Diversity Oona King, and United Talent Agency exec Brent Weinstein,...

Many have heard the stranger-than-fiction stories on Aaron Mahnke's podcast, and soon it will be time to see some of them come to life on Amazon's new series Lore, premiering on Prime Video beginning Friday, October 13th, and you can watch a new teaser video for the new series right now.

Press Release: Seattle--Aug. 29, 2017-- (Nasdaq:amzn)—Amazon announced today the Amazon Original Series Lore will premiere on Friday, October 13 on Prime Video. Based on the popular podcast of the same name, which has an average of five million monthly listens, the anthology series presents the frightening and often disturbing tales based on real people and events that have led to our modern-day myths and legends. All six episodes of the series, from Executive Producers Ben Silverman (The Office), Howard T. Owens (The Biggest Loser), Gale Anne Hurd (The Walking Dead), Brett-Patrick Jenkins (Face Off), Glen Morgan (X-Files), Jon Halperin...

It’s that time of year. Mary Meeker puts out her state of the Internet report, filled with a thousand little brain bombs, then Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference rolls out a batch of intriguing hardware and software goodies. In both, we see hints of where we’re headed with tech and the entertainment that tech now brings us.

And darned if mobile doesn’t look like it’s hitting important inflection points this year, shifting how we entertain ourselves, and how content is being paid for. There’s lots of money still left in traditional media, and lots more on the desktop PC, but long-arriving shifts toward mobile are finally here.

Consider these data points from Meeker’s mammoth 355-page presentation:

About 3.4 billion people, roughly half the world’s population, now use the Internet.

Around 2.8 billion people have smartphones.

U.S. adults now spend an average 5.6 hours a day watching digital media.

Apple Music is hoping to compete with Netflix, Amazon Prime, and other subscription video on demand (Svod) platforms, and its most significant foray into that industry (so far) is now live. At the 2017 edition of Apple’s Worldwide Developers Conference, the tech company premiered the first episode of Planet of the Apps, an unscripted series about mobile entrepreneurship.

Planet of the Apps, which has been in the works for more than a year, is stylistically similar to ABC’s Shark Tank, but with a specific focus on mobile development. Guests pitch their app ideas to a panel that includes Gwyneth Paltrow, Jessica Alba, Gary Vaynerchuk, and series co-creator Will.i.am. The best ideas have a chance to earn funding from Vc firm Lightspeed Venture Partners.

"The question when you have ideas is how to take those to fruition," said Apple Svp of Internet software and services Eddy Cue, who recently made headlines of his own.