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Boat Rocker’s Gia DeLaney looks at kids’ content trends in 2025

WBD's Sean Henry on the year ahead for kids’ content

Moving with the times at toddler channel ducktv

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 2

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 1

C21/New Forest's survey on AI in production reveals industry concerns, optimism

A look into 2025 with Trustbridge Entertainment's Bob Higgins

LRT follows its kids audience to YouTube

Edutainment takes Banijay on a learning curve

Sweet streams: Jam Media is awake to preschoolers' needs

AI needs your IP

Cartoon Business searches for next year’s model

The revolution is not being televised

Elysium Studios' Lucy Markovich on transforming storytelling

How French animation is weathering the storm

Skyship keeps it Super Simple

MipJunior faces up to YouTube and the dawn of AI

Top kids’ picks for Cannes

Taking the lead in the protection of public service media

Redefining family content for the multi-screen generation

Roblox and the impact of social gaming on children's content

Opening the gate to Berlin-Brandenburg

In a Hari to board YouTube

Animond eyes expansion beyond the Balkans

Mercury Filmworks on rising to the kids’ IP challenge

A look inside La Cabane

Bringing African animation home

E-Tele tracks down international copros

A view to Akili: Kenya's ambitious kidsnet

Live-action children's content with global appeal is not a lost art

How Edinburgh was overpowered by YouTube

BBC Children’s & Education: Why do we care?

Incentives to work in Serbia are stacking up

Time to put the Mouse House in order?

Standing up for children’s TV in the UK

This is Africa’s time to tell the stories

Rob Doherty on keeping kids' content relevant

How Banijay Kids & Family is bucking the commissioning downturn

Time to face up to the YouTube threat, CMC attendees told

Hidden Pigeon takes flight

Aaron Augenblick on how animation can keep in toon

Animaj goes everywhere kids are

Postcard from Annecy

Streamers out to make a bundle

Kenyan channel Akili Kids seeks educational content from local and int’l ...

Bridging the gap between animation and live action

Canadian SVoD regulation: seven questions following landmark decision

Time to reverse the skills brain drain

Drawing together: Animation's future lies in collaboration

The importance of Nickelodeon to Paramount Global

The popular IP driving Hasbro’s content strategy

The six main talking points at LA Screenings 2024

Channel 4's algorithm method in action

Getting on Netflix and retaining all rights, Duplass-style

Ellipse shapes new strategies to reach young viewers

Setting the table for FAST in Latin America

Folivari’s new division sets off on a global mission

The view from south of the border

Crisis to capitalisation: the bright side of distribution in 2024

Hollywood woes disrupt France's recipe for success

Kids companies set out to tell their own toy stories

'Shoots of positivity' at Cartoon Next

Going Dutch to finance film and TV production with the NFF

Why traditional TV should take notice of the $100m Dude Perfect deal

Sesame Street and the challenge of keeping a 55-year-old icon relevant

Lion Forge on the need for originality and diversity

Spring surprises: 21 shows to watch out for at MipTV

9 Story turns the page with Scholastic deal

Data and emotion in kids’ content development

Divided by a common language

New Nelvana boss Mellany Welsh sets out stall

Mixmups and the art of authentic representation

Industry reacts to increased tax relief for high-end TV and film

Incredible Film on the power of kids’ programming

Beyond the back-slapping at London TV Screenings

Nickelodeon on showing kids it's OK to not be OK

Hungary's TV2 keeps leading with linear

Sky's holistic approach to kids’ content

Keeping an open mind

Surviving or thriving? Reasons to be cheerful in 2024

Netflix: First mover to become FAST mover?

US kids’ commissions decline, acquisitions on the up

WBD, Paramount: A marriage made in heaven?

'Smart funny' ways to tackle kids' lost learning

Kids' TV and the ethics of AI

Magnificent seven: the Hispanic Kids Programming Pitch

Blue Ant's Mark Bishop on what’s in store for 2024

Teamwork makes the dream work

Paving the way for new opportunities

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 5

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 4

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 3

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 2

KiKA's 'ethical vision' for AI

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 1

Lupus Films on bringing Mog to life

Get ready to roll with the AI punches

Cottonwood Media goes back to its roots

Transformational thinking

Deep dive into Submarine

NEWS

TikTok’s US shutdown short-lived as Trump calls for joint-venture ownership to allay China spying fears

Human rights harms evident across post-production in UK, new research shows

Anime platform Crunchyroll launches on Sky in UK, Ireland

Mellany Welsh to exit role as head of Corus kids studio Nelvana to take up ‘new opportunity’

Brazil’s Miralumo Films takes musical children’s animation Lulumos to YouTube

UK consultancies VJC Media, Liberi Consulting team up to offer pre-investment advice

Welsh prodco Boom appoints Angela Oakhill as director of operations, Elen Rhys as head of kids

Gian Paolo Tagliavia joins Italian prodco Rainbow Group as exec VP for TV, digital and talent

Miam! Distribution gets rights to Tweedy & Fluff

Sony bugs out for Oggy and the Cockroaches

YouTube’s preschool learning sensation Ms Rachel set to debut on Netflix via non-exclusive licensing deal

Boat Rocker’s Gia DeLaney looks at kids’ content trends in 2025

BBC bolsters commissioning team in Northern Ireland with Jason Butler, Guy Phenix hires

Universal Kids to shutter in March, won’t be part of Comcast’s cable spin-off  

US studios and streamers pledge millions for relief as economic toll of LA fires estimated at $250bn

Italy’s Rainbow Group gets $92m investment from The Equity Club

European broadcasters France Télévisions, RTBF, SVT, YLE join First Line in teen drama pick-up

APAC streaming services predicted to overtake linear by 2027, driven by demand from China and India

WBD’s Cartoon Network visits Nice Ninja’s Apple Hills in Danish series pick-up for YouTube channel

CBeebies commissions Numberblocks spin-off Wonderblocks to teach kids pre-coding skills

‘Bad eggs’ in UK television multiplying according to freelance TV producer shifting to digital content

YouTube levy on the table as industry execs search for answers to funding crisis in UK kids’ sector

Senior Warner Bros Discovery APAC marketing exec Daniel Tan to exit

Jan Koeppen steps down as Disney restructure sees Tony Chambers promoted to president of EMEA

Sinking Ship Entertainment inks deal with Hispanic network HITN for kids’ series Media Stamped

KO Distribution takes int’l rights to Canadian preschool toon Adventures of Toopy & Binoo

WBD’s Sean Henry on the year ahead for kids’ content

Canada’s WildBrain hires former Moonbug executive Emma Witkowski as VP of media solutions

Agnese Štrause-Kubliņa becomes head of entertainment and documentary content at Latvia’s LTV

Netflix, Canada’s Family Channel are Finding Her Edge in teen figure skating drama adaptation

Australia’s Nine Network adds M&A specialist Tim Longstaff to board and refinances debt after difficult 2024

Australia’s live-action kids series Planet Lulin expands orbit to UK and Ireland with Nickelodeon UK

Industry veteran Michael Carrington announces retirement following stellar career

Moving with the times at toddler channel ducktv

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 2

Australia’s Screen NSW supports new wave of TV and feature projects with latest development fund

UK government urged to be ‘bolder and more robust’ in talks with YouTube about boosting quality of kids’ content

New year, new priorities, trends and challenges – pt 1

Global kids’ TV industry ‘is on its knees’ says BBC Children’s and Education director Patricia Hidalgo

Ex-Netflix Canada public policy chief Stéphane Cardin named head of Quebec Film and Television Council

C21’s most read stories of 2024

Sky Kids picks up two new series of Wiggles content from ABC Content Sales

Aussie commercial broadcasters get pre-election tax boost from government

AI content licensing outfit Calliope Networks snapped up by New York newbie Protege

C21/New Forest’s survey on AI in production reveals industry concerns, optimism

UK government proposes letting tech giants use copyrighted work to train AI

Initial offers come in for stricken French animation giant Cyber Group Studios

Bluey destined for big-screen debut after BBC Studios, Disney deal for animated feature

EXCLUSIVE: OpenAI’s Chad Nelson on how Sora will supercharge creativity

Eccho Rights co-founder Fredrik af Malmborg returns with AI dubbing start-up, hires former Endemol Shine, Kanal D execs

A look into 2025 with Trustbridge Entertainment’s Bob Higgins

ZDF Studios makes Magic Moves

Screen Australia drama report reveals production spending decline, with kids TV on brink of collapse

Sesame Street seeking new home for next season as Warner Bros Discovery deal lapses

Disney picks up animated science fiction adventure series Messi and the Giants

Paramount-owned Network 10 snaps up Southern Cross Austereo regional TV stations

Australian pubcaster ABC appoints former Nine boss Hugh Marks as new MD

Australia’s multi-cultural broadcaster SBS appoints Nicholas Pappas to board

Wattpad Webtoon Studios hires former Jim Henson exec Shane Mang to spearhead L&M

ITV strengthens ties with YouTube by allowing full episodes to be streamed, sets up dedicated sales team

Warner Bros Discovery stock leaps 15% after restructure news as investors cheer dealmaking opportunities

Less than half of Australians watch linear TV as streaming hits tipping point

Pokémon, Aardman ‘special project’ coming in 2027

LRT follows its kids audience to YouTube

Cake embarks on The Mindful Adventures of Unicorn Island with Headspace and YouTuber Lilly Singh

Ted Sarandos rejects idea Trump-fuelled M&A wave could shake up media landscape and boost Netflix’s rivals

Vivendi shareholders vote to split up French media giant, with Canal+ to list on London Stock Exchange

Report into Netflix data dump shows Moonbug’s CoComelon dominates kids’ viewing on the streamer

Edutainment takes Banijay on a learning curve

Sky, Warner Bros Discovery extend long-term partnership, settle lawsuit over rights

Anima Kitchent, Able & Baker launch Monkeys & Dinos animation service studio

Moonbug Entertainment launches content on Deutsche Telekom’s MagentaTV

Miraculous Corp adds Mercury Filmworks’ Heath Kenny and Paramount’s Ashley Depp to global team

OpenAI’s Sora Turbo given wide release as industry braces for impact of revolutionary text-to-video tech

UK’s ITV among global buyers enchanted by magical ballet series Spellbound

Your complete round-up of coverage from Content London 2024

Creative team discuss evolving the ‘language of magic’ for HBO’s Harry Potter series

Nickelodeon picks up Sonic Prime from WildBrain

Riva Studios’ takeover of French animator TeamTO wins go-ahead from Paris court

AI will bring about the ‘greatest IP theft in history’ in 2025 says Simon Mirren

Next version of OpenAI’s Sora coming ‘very soon’ with potential to upend film, TV

AI can cure TV industry’s ‘Stockholm syndrome’ by improving work/life balance

Apple TV+ orders more Eva the Owlet 

Fremantle Australia secures multi-title deal with Round the Twist author Paul Jennings

Sycamore Studios options Ben Hatke’s bestselling trilogy Zita the Spacegirl

BBC tells Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir

Baboon, Custom Nuts, AZCorp launch Pakistan office to reimagine local stories

BBC Children’s commissions TV drama based on Marilyn Kaye’s Gifted novels

Baby Reindeer wins drama category at Rose d’Ors as Netflix takes trio of prizes

Sweet streams: Jam Media is awake to preschoolers’ needs

Australia’s ABC among latest nets to take kids’ shows from Canada’s Sinking Ship

ABC chair Williams calls for more ‘fuel’ to win back ‘unsurpassed storytelling mantle’

AI needs your IP

Kartoon Channel picks up Talewind’s animated kids’ series Turbozaurs

Sky exec Karl Holmes named general manager and SVP D2C for Disney+ EMEA

Kedoo Entertainment to launch live-action spin-off of YouTube series Booba

Cartoon Business searches for next year’s model

SPA calls for industry-wide overhaul as content development faces ‘crisis point’

US Animation Guild strikes three-year deal with AMPTP after tense negotiations

Turkey’s TRT picks up Unicef-backed educational series Kozalak Preschool

Cake CEO Ed Galton ‘wrestling’ with potential AI licensing animation deal

US platform DirecTV axes deal to buy Dish due to bondholder opposition

NZ on Air supports drama, documentaries and kids TV in latest funding round

Netflix stock hits a high after Tyson-Paul fight, WBD, Paramount, Disney shares also climb

Finland’s YLE could cut over 300 jobs in bid to slash budget by $69m

Sesame Workshop hires social enterprise exec Onyinye Nwaneri as MD for South Africa

Superprod goes on Beast Quest with Coolabi to adapt fantasy book series

Fox partners Toys”R”Us Studios to develop family competition format set in toy store

2025 slate from Australia’s ABC led by kids, drama and comedy commissions

MP Caroline Dinenage calls for UK industry to stamp out bullying and elitism

Court filing shows Riva Studios offering $2.7m in takeover bid for TeamTO

WBD scouring YouTube for shows to join online Cartoon Network, Cartoonito channels

French and German PSBs feel vulnerable as politics casts shadow over budgets

WBD’s Vanessa Brookman: YouTube series Skibidi Toilet may be a ‘flash in the pan’

Mint Copenhagen starts production on kids’ animation Tim Rex in Space for Paramount

Canadian studios greenlight Galapagos X S2

Comcast poised to confirm cablenet spin-off, Mark Lazarus to lead new company  

The revolution is not being televised

Epic Storyworlds’ Guiby the Super Baby heads to Télé-Québec, YouTube and Roblox

PBS to launch more than 150 FAST channels on Amazon’s Prime Video in the US

Sandbox launches PlayKids Learning service on Prime Video in New Zealand

Disney+ won’t ramp up EMEA, APAC spend until int’l churn issues addressed says Iger 

Kids’ veterans Marion Edwards, Jodie Morris, Chris Rose launch Creative Sprouts

CoComelon producer Moonbug makes cuts to teams in LA and London

Netflix’s YA, faith and holiday film exec Niija Kuykendall to depart amid reshuffle

Animaj unveils ‘new era’ AI tool to disrupt traditional kids’ animation industry

Disney board casts net outside company in long-running search for Iger successor

Distribution, animation chief Andrea Lok steps down at Malaysia’s Media Prima

Elysium Studios’ Lucy Markovich on transforming storytelling

Cleo & Cuquín lands at TelevisaUnivision’s Channel 5

RTÉ Kids asks What’s Next? in environment-themed kids’ series from HopSkip

Drama Ladies in Black joins kids and factual on ABC Commercial slate for ATF

Dandeloo reaches high with 2D toon Tuiga

Administrator appointed as Cyber Group Studios’ financial difficulties continue

Samsung TV Plus launches in Southeast Asia

Seven West Media chairman rails against inertia on streaming regulation at AGM

ACTF has bumper year in global sales but warns of looming crisis in kids’ content

ABC chair Kim Williams demands more media reform and investment in Australia

Mr Men Little Miss gets animated series reboot as Watch Next Media picks up rights

Entrepreneur John Gore acquires Kaleidoscope, Platform, Icon owner KFilm

Boat Rocker, CBC, WBD expand Dino Ranch universe with Island Explorers spin-off

How French animation is weathering the storm

Spin Master alum Alice Burden tapped for creative producer role at Toon2Tango

Australian kids missing out on local content thanks to algorithms, research finds

Mainframe senior VP of content Gregory R Little exiting Canuck studio

France’s TF1, Italy’s Rai tell Tulipop Tales in acquisition of Icelandic preschool series

Bruno Zarka steps down as president of Toonz Media Group’s TV division

A Productions, Graphilm, Scrawl stress independence as Cyber Group struggles

Gigglebug Entertainment appoints Lorna Withrington as head of development

Cartoon Network bringing Totally Spies! to gaming platform Roblox for first time

Riva Studios on course to buy French animator TeamTO as rival bids withdrawn

Bectu: promising signs in UK Budget must be backed by industrial strategy

Linear content demand among US kids slumps, The Insights Family survey shows

SVT appoints Anne Lagercrantz as next CEO following Hanna Stjärne’s departure

US firms Riva Studios and Lex & Otis table joint bid for French animator TeamTO

Blippi & Friends expand across MENA as Moonbug strikes deal with Yango Play

The Insights Family taps ex-WildBrain exec Jack Day as global strategic account director

Netflix appoints Ampersand alum Nicolle Pangis to lead North American ad business

Skyship keeps it Super Simple

AnimFrance: crisis facing French animation industry ‘cannot be underestimated’

RTÉ, Czech Television and Hot among latest nets to shop for kids at Banijay

Corus buys time with amended debt terms, co-CEOs coy on what comes next

Australian comms minister Michelle Rowland announces broadcast spectrum review

Dolphin Medien, Sense of Media to shop The Raccoons

C21’s complete Mipcom 2024 news round-up

Trustbridge’s Higgins forecasts ‘buying frenzy’ when kids commissioning slump ends

Wildbrain to shop 2D preschool toon Hey Toma from Hangzhou Younuo in China

Skybound taps ex-Disney exec Alex Teslik

Turbozaurs land on Brazil’s TV Cultura

Aardman partners toyco Mattel to reboot classic kids’ stop-motion property Pingu

Kids buying will rebound once streamer sports spending cools, 9 Story’s Commisso 

Stan Lee’s superheroes The Excelsiors to be reborn for graphic novel, TV and movies

MipJunior faces up to YouTube and the dawn of AI

Cyber Group Studios cuts staff as French animation industry woes continue

Pluto TV’s Olivier Jollet calls for FAST, AVoD players to collaborate and consolidate

AI animation start-up Mini Studio comes to Cannes with kids’ series Fuzzlets

Morgan Stanley’s James Gorman to succeed Mark Parker as Disney chair 

If you don’t listen to staff aged under 35 your company is ‘f**ked,’ warns Evan Shapiro

Spin Master, 9 Story Media Group alums launch IP outfit Victura Media in Cannes

Global Citizen’s YouTube channel gets on board Sinking Ship’s Media Stamped

Sinking Ship, Aussie entertainment group The Wiggles partner on animated series

Brazilian toon Bia and the Beats strikes the right chord at MipJunior pitch competition

Evan Shapiro, Barb warn of bleak prognosis for UK TV if change not embraced soon

Mattel’s Josh Silverman talks up moves into live-action scripted children’s content

Sky on the hunt for ‘prestigurals’, high-end drama, premium docs and kids’ content

WBD pivots to first windows on YouTube and Roblox to target Gen Alpha

France Télévisions to increase focus on docs, live-action drama for kids

Mako Kids seeks partners for AI-themed animated children’s series

Children’s industry urged to experiment with AI tools despite ‘threat to livelihoods’

Hit YA streamer series inspire BBC to bet on longform content for older kids

Korean, Spanish series lead non-English content on Netflix, says Omdia

Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir to get character spin-offs

End of an era declared as children’s TV industry needs ‘complete re-invention’

‘Our biggest competitors are kids,’ children’s TV producers tell MipJunior delegates

Toonz, RFK partner on teen superhero detective series

Pubcasters are ‘jewel in the crown’ of kids’ content, says Ampere Analysis

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