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MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks won the prize for large brand of the year at the 2023 Shorty Awards on Wednesday (May 24) in New York City. The award is presented to the company that had the most overall wins in the competition, which seeks to “honor the best people and organizations on social media and digital.”
The 2022 MTV Video Music Awards, which aired on Aug. 28, won a pair of awards — multi-platform presence and live event coverage. The 2022 MTV EMA, which aired on Nov. 13, won an audience honor in localization and took gold in the aforementioned live event coverage category. Lastly, “The Daily Show – Put Police Chases in Car Commercials,” won in the Vertical Video category. All were produced by MTV Entertainment Studios & Paramount Media Networks.
The Shorty Awards honor the most innovative work in digital and social media, by organizations in all sectors and sizes, as well as individual creatives and creators from around the world. Entries are judged on the merits of creativity, strategy and engagement by the Real Time Academy, a body of industry experts and leaders.
Winners and other honorees of the 15th Annual Shorty Awards were announced in 148 categories. “Billboard Music Awards + TikTok: From Sound to Song,” produced by Dick Clark Productions and TikTok, took gold in the micro-site category. “The 94th Oscars Red Carpet Portrait Studio: In Partnership with People Magazine & Entertainment Weekly,” produced by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, took gold in the images category.
View the full list of winners and honorees here.
In addition, a new fund for creators was announced in partnership with the money management firm Wave. The Elevate Creatives Fund is aimed at providing a financial boost to creators looking to grow sustainable businesses; the initial fund of $100,000 will be distributed among five recipients, who will also receive bookkeeping and accounting coaching from Wave’s in-house experts. Applications are open between now and Sept. 15 on the Shorty Awards website. The recipients will be announced in November.
Eligible applicants include creators who produce commercial, editorial and/or fine-art digital content, such as social media or blog posts, podcasts, videos and short films, and freelance creatives or independent consultants such as designers, copywriters and producers who provide creative services. The applications will be judged by a panel of experts from the Real Time Academy based on the following criteria: the originality and creativity of the current and recent work; the quality, engagement, and effectiveness of the recent work; their entrepreneurial ambitions; and how they utilize their creative platforms and influence to create a positive impact.
“We are living in one of the best moments in history for creatives, with the democratization of media and an increasingly decentralized creative workforce enabled by technology,” said Shorty Awards managing director Junmian Sun in a statement. “We are excited to have Wave as a partner in our collective efforts to foster a stronger and more equitable creative workforce.”
Google has been ordered to pay Sonos $32.5 million for infringing one of its smart speaker patents, marking a significant development in a long-fought legal war between the two companies that’s spanned more than three years and multiple lawsuits.
Filed in a San Francisco court on Friday (May 26), the jury verdict awarded Sonos $2.30 for each of the more than 14 million Google devices that were sold incorporating the patented technology.
The jury found that Google had not infringed a second patent at issue in the case.
Sonos first sued Google in January 2020, claiming the tech giant had infringed multiple patents for its smart speaker technology after gaining access to it through a 2013 partnership under which Sonos integrated Google Play Music into its products. Just two years after that partnership was reached, Sonos alleged that Google then “flooded the market” with cheaper competing products (under the now-defunct Chromecast Audio line) that willfully infringed its patented multi-room technology. Sonos additionally claimed that Google had since expanded its use of Sonos technology in more than a dozen other products, including the Google Home, Nest and Pixel lines.
“We are deeply grateful for the jury’s time and diligence in upholding the validity of our patents and recognizing the value of Sonos’s invention of zone scenes,” said Sonos in a statement on the verdict. “This verdict re-affirms that Google is a serial infringer of our patent portfolio, as the International Trade Commission has already ruled with respect to five other Sonos patents. In all, we believe Google infringes more than 200 Sonos patents and today’s damages award, based on one important piece of our portfolio, demonstrates the exceptional value of our intellectual property. Our goal remains for Google to pay us a fair royalty for the Sonos inventions it has appropriated.”
In its own statement, a Google spokesperson said, “This is a narrow dispute about some very specific features that are not commonly used. Of the six patents Sonos originally asserted, only one was found to be infringed, and the rest were dismissed as invalid or not infringed. We have always developed technology independently and competed on the merit of our ideas. We are considering our next steps.”
The legal battle between the two tech companies has been protracted, with both sides going on the offensive at different points. In June 2020, Google filed suit against Sonos, alleging the smart speaker maker had actually infringed several of its own patents. Sonos subsequently filed two more lawsuits alleging that Google had infringed several additional patents it held.
Sonos filed one of those two cases with the U.S. International Trade Commission, which ruled in January 2022 that Google had infringed a total of five of Sonos’ audio technology patents and barred it from importing the infringing products from China. However, the commission also found that Google had successfully redesigned its products to avoid the Sonos patents and could continue selling those reworked versions in U.S. stores — an allowance Sonos had fought to prevent.
In August 2022, Google fired another volley with two additional lawsuits, claiming the smaller company used seven different patented Google technologies to instill the so-called “magic” in Sonos software.
Stock markets ended the week on a positive note as investors showed optimism believing that Congress can negotiate a deal to increase the nation’s debt limit and avoid a historic default. The S&P 500 increased 1.3% to $4,205.45, up 0.3% on the week, while the Nasdaq composite climbed 2.2% on Friday (May 26) to finish the week up 2.5% — its fifth straight week of gains. South Korea’s KOSPI index improved 0.8% to 2,558.81 while the U.K.’s FTSE 1000 dropped 1.7% to 7,627.20.
The end-of-the-week rally didn’t get music stocks into positive territory, however. The Billboard Global Stock Index fell 1.9% this week as 15 of the index’s 21 stocks lost ground. Most of the companies’ performances fell into a narrow band of gains and losses in the low single digits. Two companies had double-digit losses: iHeartMedia fell 10.5% to $2.39 and has lost 61% year to date as the radio business experiences a soft advertising market. LiveOne, which announced on Tuesday it will acquire certain assets of podcast network Kast Media, dropped 15.2% to $1.28.
The index’s top performer was Round Hill Music Royalty Fund Ltd., which gained 3.3% to 0.775 pounds ($0.96). Madison Square Garden Entertainment and Sphere Entertainment Co. gained 2.2% and 1.7%, respectively. The two companies were under the same roof until Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s concert promotion business was spun off from the remainder of the company on April 21. Sphere Entertainment Co., which includes the Sphere venue set to open in Las Vegas on Sept. 29 with a U2 residency, declined 3.4% to $24.02 on Friday as Morgan Stanley set a post-spinoff price target of $26 per share.
K-pop stocks were uncharacteristically quiet this week. Shares of HYBE fell 3.9% to 270,000 KRW ($204.02) despite the company announcing on Wednesday its music will be available on Tencent Music Entertainment’s streaming platforms in China. SM Entertainment declined 2.6% to 104,800 KRW ($79.19). After strong quarterly earnings boosted YG Entertainment and JYP Entertainment last week, both stocks were in line with their peers this week: YG Entertainment was flat at 92,000 KRW ($69.52) and JYP Entertainment dropped 1.7% to 113,700 KRW ($85.91). Still, K-pop stocks are arguably music’s bright spot in 2023. Year-to-date, the four companies’ stock have gained an average of 67.4%.
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The “greatest spectacle in racing” returns to the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for Memorial Day weekend. The 107th running of the Indianapolis 500 takes place on Sunday (May 28).
This year’s starting lineup will include Alex Palou, Pato O’Ward, Scott Dixon, Katherine Legge, Alexander Rossi, Tony Kanaan, Takuma Sato, Rinus VeeKay, Helio Castroneves, Colton Herta, Devin DeFrancesco, Sting Ray Robb, Jack Harvey and Graham Rahal, who is replacing Stefan Wilson after he was injured during practice earlier in the week.
Legge returns to the race track as the only female driver in the 2023 Indy 500 and the ninth woman to race overall.
Sato will attempt to become the first driver in history to win three Indy 500s with three teams, while four-time Indy winner Castroneves will try his hand at a record fifth win.
Academy Award-nominated actor Adam Driver will serve as the Indy 500 honorary starter.
Read on for more details on Indy 500 and ways to stream from anywhere.
How to Stream the Indy 500 Live
Coverage of this year’s Indy 500 will begin at 9 a.m. ET on Peacock and 11:00 a.m. ET on NBC and NBC.com.
How can you watch the Indy 500 live on TV? Catch every lap live on NBC and Peacock. You can stream NBC and other local and cable channels on platforms such as SlingTV, DirectTV, Hulu + Live TV and Fubo.
Is the Indy 500 free on Peacock? Peacock isn’t free but it’s on sale! Save 60% on Peacock Premium when you subscribe to the annual plan for $19.99 (regular $49.99). The limited deal ends June 12 (use code: SUMMEROFPEACOCK to redeem the discount).
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Peacock Premium is available as a monthly plan as well for $4.99/month. Want free Peacock? If you’re a Spectrum or Xfinity customer, you might be eligible to receive a free Peacock subscription before the promo officially ends.
Peacock is packed with entertainment for sports fans. Stream the Indy 500 to WWE Night of Champions, MLB Sunday Leadoff and other sporting events on Peacock, along with a large selection of movies and TV shows including Peacock Originals such as Bupkis, Mrs. Davis, Based on a True Story and Poker Face; and hit shows like Vanderpump Rules and Yellowstone.
What apps can you use to watch the Indy 500? You can watch the Indy 500 on your smart TV, phone, computer or tablet via the Peacock app, NBC app and any of the other apps mentioned above (stream internationally with Express VPN).
Who Is Performing at the Indy 500?
Grammy winner Jewel is slated to perform the national anthem on Sunday. World-renowned opera singer and Indianapolis-native Angela Brown will sing “God Bless America” during the pre-race ceremony. Brown last performed the song at the Indy 500 in 2017.
Jonas Brothers were Amelia Dimoldenberg’s latest lunch guests on her popular Chicken Shop Date segment, and she didn’t hold back on asking the hard-hitting questions.
“How did you guys all meet?” she hilariously asks the siblings at one point in the video. “It happened in stages, and these other two people introduced us,” Kevin Jonas jokingly replied, before Joe Jonas added, “We met through our parents.”
And yes, Nick Jonas still loves a “red dress,” which Dimoldenberg made sure to wear to their date in reference to the 30-year-old singer’s famous ad-lib in the group’s 2008 hit, “Burnin’ Up.”
“It was just a pure coincidence,” the journalist jokes of her outfit choice. “Looking through my wardrobe, I thought, ‘Oh, look at that –“
“Red dress!” Nick interjects in the tone from “Burnin’ Up,” before teaching Dimoldenberg how to sing it properly.
Joe’s wife, Game of Thrones star Sophie Turner, also makes an appearance at the end of the episode, when the host cuts her date with Joe short to hang out with his wife instead. “I’m bored. Can we go?” Turner asks Dimoldenberg from a table nearby, before the two happily leave the restaurant together.
The Jonas Brothers are fresh off the release of their sixth studio album, The Album, which gave the band their fourth No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Album Sales chart (dated May 27). The trio previously led the list with Happiness Begins (2019), Lines, Vines and Trying Times (2009) and A Little Bit Longer (2008).
Watch the Jonas Brothers’ Chicken Shop Date in full below.
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