We’re
#WildBrainSpark
, the premium kids and family AVOD network and studio. Content in our network reaches 1 in 3 kids globally with billions of monthly views.
Great news! We'll be launching a Mega Man: Fully Charged dedicated YouTube channel featuring clips, trailer previews and episode trailers on a weekly basis on the brand-new, WildBrain-created YouTube hub!
#MegaMan
Read more here:
Looking to build brand engagement with kids & teens on Roblox? Our clear and simple Roblox Advertising Guide will help you learn how to execute brand-safe, customized, authentic experiences in the metaverse through our partnership with
@gamefamstudios
.
We have some BIG news to share... From today, WildBrain will be known as WildBrain Spark. Our parent company, DHXMedia will be rebranded as WildBrain and we are now united under one name! Check out our shiny new logo below.
#WildBrainSpark
We’re feeling very inspired after two brilliant sessions at
@VidCon
with
@instagram
and
@facebook
- and we were lucky enough to hear
@JayShettyIW
speak about his meteoric rise on social media spreading his message of hope & wellness. 🙌🏽
#VidConLDN
#Pixobitz
enters the metaverse! We’ve teamed up with
@spinmasteruk
and
@Gamefamstudios
in an exciting new
@Roblox
in-game integration.
Players can re-create their favourite Pixobitz characters in weekly art contests to win a custom Pixobitz-themed booth and more!
We're proud to announce that we've been appointed by the award-winning
@IrishFairyDoor
company to produce a new original content series for YouTube, & manage their
#YouTube
&
#Facebook
channels.
We can't wait to get working on this wonderful brand:
No biggie, but we just hit 🎉 75 MILLION SUBSCRIBERS 🎉
We couldn't have done it without the wonderful families that watch our shows, our stellar team & the brilliant storytellers & toy companies we work with.
Read more about this momentous milestone >
🎉 Woah! 🎉 Our YouTube channel 'The Amazing World of Gumball' just hit 1 MILLION subscribers! As Gumball would say 'THIS IS BEAUTIFUL!'. Luckily, no errors on our side!
Our *amazing* production team and animators created these pretty special 3D renders of our Animal Mechanicals show! Who remembers Rex, Unicorn, Komodo, Sasquatch and Mouse from the original show?
If you want to up your video production game, get in touch!
#animation
Our partners at
#KeyringStudio
are kicking off
@YouTube
Kids’ "The Summer of Movies” initiative with
#SpookizTheMovie
, the first feature length film for
@Spookiz_world
, produced exclusively for YouTube. Available for kids and families to watch now →
Our YouTube Hub channels reached 1 billion views in 90 days for the first time! Shout out to our brilliant Tyrone Tagoe and the entire distribution and channel management team on achieving this exciting milestone.
#YouTube
#Kidscontent
#AVOD
Huge news for emojitown® as they reach 1M subscribers and achieve more than 415M views on YouTube! What’s more, emojitown® has also surpassed 200K followers across Facebook, Instagram and TikTok and counting.
#Animation
#YouTube
#emojitown
Beyblade Burst: Rising Champions – a six part mini-series hosted by BeyBlade Geeks - is coming soon! Get Ready to UP YOUR GAME with all the latest battle tricks and news on the official BeyBlade YouTube channel!
💕 Tiny sure is mighty!
The new Polly Pocket series is making huge international waves, as more than 15 new broadcasters have signed on to air the animated adventures of Polly and her friends.
Well done to our friends at
@Mattel
&
@dhxmedia
💕
We're absolutely over the moon to announce that we have reached 50 million subscribers on the channels across our network! What a great milestone to end the week with.
#FridayFeeling
It was a pawsome day in the office yesterday🐾
New ‘colleague’ Sox, the adorable sausage dog made lots of friends and had endless hugs and high-fives.... when she wasn’t helping her owner Sara Leeson and the Business Development team with very important work matters of course.
The
@TeletubbiesHQ
Ready Steady Go! album is now available on all your favourite music streaming platforms. Globally distributed by Universal Music Group and Virgin Music listen to the 10 awesome tracks anytime, anywhere. 🎶 .
Our favourite notebook characters Boy & Dragon are on an unstoppable path to victory! The YouTube channel has just surpassed 100 million views and counting – a true triumph for this original WildBrain Spark show. Huge congratulations team on this well-deserved milestone!
Today we're at
#VidConEU
and our head of strategy, Will, is on a panel debating how
@YouTube
can improve the experience of
#YouTubeKids
& attract more premium content creators.
The Smurfs paint
#YouTube
blue with 1 billion views! Our partner IMPS The Smurfs has reached a huge milestone on YouTube &
#YouTubeKids
, surpassing the 1bn global views mark! And this Autumn we’ll be rolling out moments from
#TheSmurfs
brand-new original CG-animated TV series.
Now we have
#280Characters
we thought we'd tell you about some of our amazing Kids YouTube channels!
👸 KiddyZuzaa
🐰 SunnyBunnies
🤖 Space Ranger Rodger
💜❤️💚💛 Teletubbies
👦 Caillou
🌲 In The Night Garden
🐤 Mother Goose Club
🖍️ CraftyKids
The Moomins hit 100K subscribers! WildBrain Spark partnered with
@GutsyAnimations
to develop a
#YouTube
strategy for the much-loved
@MoominOfficial
brand in 2019. Since then, we’ve grown views by 10.4M and continue to bring these charming characters to families around the world.
Here come the Power Players! We’re really pleased to announce we’ll be working with ZAG and On Kids & Family to bring the action-packed superhero television series,
#PowerPlayers
, to new global English markets on YouTube. Read more on the deal here:
Meet the newest (and cutest) member of the WildBrain Spark family, Pops! 🐶😍
We gave Pops a very important role for the day as our CMB…(Chief Morale Booster). Pops is a hypoallergenic dog which means she can be loved by anyone, and she certainly boosted the team morale today!
While 2020 hit pause on many things, our awesome
#WildBrainSpark
Studios team continued to create premium & brand-safe
#content
for our
#partners
& original shows. Here are some highlights that have brought so much joy to kids & families around the world this year. Onto 2021!
Great news! We're pleased to announce a brand new partnership with renowned German toy brand PLAYMOBIL®. We'll be exclusively managing their YouTube content for the next 2 years and we're thrilled to work with such a well-loved kids' brand.
Read more:
Horrid Henry is the kid that says what we're all thinking and that’s what makes him a much-loved premium kids brand. Since we began managing
@theHorridHenry
's
#YouTube
channels for
@novel_ent
in 2017, we are thrilled to share we have now hit an enormous 1 BILLION views!
We’re very happy to have made
@kidscreen
's annual
#Hot50
list which places
#WildBrainSpark
among the top 10 digital children's entertainment companies. And congrats to our friends at
@WildBrain
for their place on the Distribution and Licensing lists - a triple celebration!
The
@TeletubbiesHQ
global YouTube channel hits 3 million subscribers!
As we head towards the brand’s 25th anniversary in 2022, we congratulate all involved on continuing to make this iconic favourite a success on YouTube!
Check out this absolutely dino-mite collab with our friends at
@ToyLabTV
and
@UniversalPics
for
#JurassicWorldFallenKingdom
featuring Chris Pratt & Bryce Dallas Howard and the most epic Egg Surprise unboxing we've ever seen! > Watch now:
Meet our newest pawfessional team member... Frankie! With her wagging tail and
#pawsome
attitude, Frankie brightened up the office everywhere she went. Please give Frankie a big round of ap-paws and a warm welcome to the WildBrain Family. 🐾
#OfficeLife
#Dogs
#Cute
#Dogsatwork
We are very excited to announce that we are now a new distribution partner for Atem Entertainment. For the first time, Space Yoghurt TV show will be distributed on YouTube in the company of our other many great animated shows! Stay tuned for more updates 👀
Since it's
#ShowReelShareDay
check out ours featuring some fantastic shows we've been working on across formats from animation, to live action and puppetry!
🌙 In The Night Garden
🐡 Jelly Time
👽 Mish & Mash
🐧 Patty & Paz
🌶️ Dino Bites
🔤 Everything Beginning With
Meet
#Shimajiro
, the educational tiger and learning buddy from Japan who’s about to earn his stripes with global English audiences thanks to the
#WildBrainSpark
team.
Excited to share that we are part of
#CampYouTube
this summer - a virtual camp for kids of all ages, featuring our very own family favourite show
@YoGabbaGabba
. Parents, check it out here →
Summer is here and
#CampYouTube
is in session. For the next two weeks, check out
#LearnatHome
for art, STEM, adventure, and sports camps plus virtual field trips, crafts, campfire talks and more →
❤️ Sharing the love this
#ValentinesDay
with some sweet moments from our fave kids' shows:
In The Night Garden
Boy & Dragon
Teletubbies
Caillou and more! ❤️
April is
#AutismAwarenessMonth
, and the latest episode of Caillou's New Adventures teaches kids to better understand how to help those who may suffer with autism through difficult times. The episode is almost at 1 million views across 7 languages!
New milestone alert! Boy & Dragon -
#WildBrainSpark
original series, turned YouTube triumph - has reached 300K subscribers! Interested to see how the hand-drawn animation comes to life? Check out this video:
It’s party time in emojitown® as the YouTube channel reaches 200K subscribers! 🙌
This awesome milestone for the hit animated series comes less than 6 months since launch. Huge congrats to all at WildBrain Spark and to our partners emoji® company GmbH.
@emojitownTV
#emojitown
We’re incredibly proud to have worked on a brand new 2D animation for classic cartoon, Peanuts, featuring Charlie Brown and Lucy. Check out the first episode on YouTube:
@Snoopy
Our latest
#Caillou
episode has hit 1 million views just over a week! This web series support kids’ development with compelling content that keeps family audiences glued. Well done
#WildBrainSpark
team for a very important episode and spectacular result!
The brand new and reimagined 'Animal Mechanicals' is back in 3D! The new series is launching this Saturday. This robot slapstick comedy is perfect for kids between the ages of 3 and 6. Watch tomorrow on our channel!
Yes, it's true! SEGA’s legendary video game icon Sonic the Hedgehog will star in a new 3D animated series from
@SEGA
,
@WildBrainStudio
and
@ManOfActionEnt
premiering on Netflix in 2022.
It’s a Happy New Year from the emojitown gang as the official YouTube channel reaches
#300k
subscribers!
Congratulations to the WildBrain Spark team in partnership with the emoji company - super proud to achieve this milestone only 9 months from launch.
Looking for your next challenge? We're hiring:
⭕ Head of Post Production
⭕ Media Operator
⭕ Front End Developer
⭕ Channel Manager
⭕ Talent Acquisition Partner
⭕ Office Assistant
⭕ Finance Analyst
⭕ Insights Analyst
LIVE ROLES:
Charles Gabriel joins WildBrain Spark in a newly created position of VP & Head of US Advertising Sales. Charles will lead the expansion of our digital AVOD sales efforts to partners, US media agencies, + US brands that reach kids & families.
The official
@Chuggington
channel hits 1 MILLION subscribers! This well-deserved milestone follows on from reaching 1 billion lifetime views across all Chuggington YouTube channels last year. Congrats to our partners at Herschend Family Entertainment on this continued success!
Did you know? Amongst the most popular kids TV shows 87% of the girls/women shown on screen are underweight. What message does this send to little ones? Read more:
CC
@CommonSense
Huge news for
@WildBrainHQ
on partnering with
@ThatKevinSmith
for an original animated series of
#GreenHornet
, for family audiences. The new series will feature ‘Black Beauty’ and the characters that fans know and love, re-imagined.
Our
#Caillou
channel just hit a huge ONE MILLION SUBSCRIBERS on
#YouTube
It's the first
@dhxmedia
brand to have hit this milestone, and we're so proud of the team's achievement on a show we all have a lot of love for.
Here's to the next million!
💛💛💛
Eh-oh! Get ready for the musical comeback of the decade as the Teletubbies reunite to drop their brand-new album Ready, Steady, Go. Huge congrats to our digital studios on bringing these awesome tracks to life. Now let’s get the Teletubbies to No.1! 🙌🏽
A total knock-out! In the latest issue of
@ToyNewsOnline
, Ryan Denham, our Senior Creative Producer, shares insight into the development of new animated YouTube series Akedo & how digital content is an integral part of a toy launch. Check out pages 16-21:
How kids and families found comfort in content this year: viewing trends from the
#WildBrainSpark
network show that kids and families are seeking premium entertainment and new viewing patterns on
#AVOD
emerging. Find out more here (data from YouTube analytics and
@TubularLabs
).
We're pleased to announce the launch of
#KiddyzuzaaLand
, the much anticipated animated series for the popular Kiddyzuzaa YouTube channel!
If your little ones love the 2 million-strong subscriber Kiddyzuzaa, they'll love our new series! 🏰🏰🏰
Episode 1:
THE SMURFS have reached 2 million subscribers on their YouTube channels and the
#WildBrainSpark
team went BLUE to celebrate! Congratulations to our partners
@SmurfsMovie
. In 2020 we’ve seen over 3 billion minutes of The Smurfs content watched across our network.
#SmurfHappiness
Did you know? Animation is one of the fastest-growing verticals on
@YouTube
right now? In fact, it's growing 79% more rapidly than all other YouTube kids content. 🎨 🎨 🎨
Check out our showreel & get in touch if you need animation help!
#KidsContent
#Animation
#YouTube
Parents - here's some great learning resources from our good friends at
@Snoopy
to encourage learning at home with fun, educational activities inspired by Charlie Brown and the Peanuts Gang with topics around Space & STEM.
💡 Did you know? 💡We have an internal pitching process quarterly where our production team welcomes ideas and concepts for shows from the wider WildBrain team.
The latest show to make it through the process is Jeremy Krause's 'Jelly Time' which is an underwater adventure show.
Caillou’s New Adventures airs on Cartoonito! From this week, the series created by WildBrain Spark, sees Caillou become part of
@cartoonnetwork
and
@hbomax
preschool programming. A great example of how to grow and maximise legacy brands for digital audiences on
#AVOD
platforms.
Looking back to what was good about last year 😉. Our partner Keyring Studio produced Spookiz The Movie, and as of December it reached nearly 90M views on
#YouTube
and
#YouTubeKids
! High average view duration also shows the popularity of long-form, quality content.
@Spookiz_world
emojitown® is LIVE! The highly anticipated animated series
#emojitown
® has launched on
#YouTube
with the first two episodes from Season 1. Watch the official series trailer here:
Together with
#ANIPEN
, we’re excited to be bringing characters from our favourite shows to life through
#AR
. Kids and families will be able to create their own stories with characters they know and love through the AnibeaR app later this year. More info →
Our incredibly talented
#WildBrainSpark
Studios team in London create a wealth of premium and brand-safe content for our original shows and for our partners. Here, we look back on their proud moments of 2020 and share their excitement for the year ahead.
This Movement Monday we're doing a throwback to the wonderfully fun
#YoGabbaGabba
! DJ Lance and his crew get kids dancing & moving. Our fave ep (with a huge 47 million views on our YouTube channel) is 'I LIKE TO DANCE'
We've made the top 3 in Kidscreen’s Hot50 2021 for digital media!
Spark placed 3rd in digital media. WildBrain CPLG came 2nd in Licensing and WildBrain Studios joined the list with 7th place in the Production category and 3rd spot for Distribution.
In an exciting double announcement from
@WildBrainHQ
Studios and
@Mattel_Inc
, Fireman Sam’s 13th season and Polly Pocket’s 3rd season get the green light. Expect new content from next Summer!
Tune in on Sept 8, 12PM (PT) for
@dmwnews
’s
#LetsDEWLunch
webinar, featuring Jon Gisby,
#WildBrainSpark
’s Managing Director, and
@DavidBloom
, Senior Contributor at Forbes, as they discuss 'The Future of Entertainment’ on
#AVOD
and beyond.
Sign up here:
Have you ever wondered how THE LEGO® MOVIE™ WORLD came to be? Our digital studios team created an awesome stop motion video for LEGOLAND California on what it might have looked like!
Congratulations to the team on the project.
Watch it here:
Excited to confirm that we’re taking part in the
#LicensingLeadershipSummit
, where Steve Manners, VP, Business Dev,
@CPLG_hq
and
#WildBrainSpark
, and Jon Gisby, Managing Director, WildBrain Spark, will be running a keynote session.
Following huge success across our
#WildBrainSpark
network, we’re pleased be launching the first-ever exclusive YouTube channel for Eeena Meena Deeka, as well as managing global distribution and co-producing the third series with Cosmos-Maya. Read more:
Hokey Smokes!
@WildBrainHQ
and Jay Ward Productions are joining forces.
This exciting collaboration will see legendary classics including Rocky & Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, Mr. Peabody & Sherman, and more joining WildBrain.
Read all about it here: