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Toon Goggles Picks Up Four Animasia Toons
Online free kids portal Toon Goggles has signed a deal with Malaysia-based Animasia Studios several of its children’s properties to Toon Goggles’ growing audience. The news was jointly announced today by Stephen Hodge, Toon Goggles’ exec vp of new media and Edmund Chan, Animasia’s managing director. The acquisition includes animated [...]
‘City of Friends’ Launches New Interactive Initiatives
Norway’s CreaCon Group is enhancing its digital presence by launching a new interactive website for its animated preschool series City of Friends. Launching this month, www.cityoffriends.com was developed by digital agency Bionic Communications and offers fans of the hit television series the latest news and character-based games. The new, interactive English-language website [...]
Clever Sci-Fi Toon ‘New Eden’ to Hit the Web
A new animated show about a pair of bickering space travelers called New Eden is set to debut on May 29 on the Web. Created and produced by Brett Snelgrove and Freek van Haagen, the series follows the adventures of odd couple Murray and Hamilton, two starship crewmen marooned and [...]
SMOSH’s Shut Up Cartoons Delivers Strong Numbers
Since its debut on April 30, Alloy Digital/Smosh’s Shut Up! Cartoons has ranked first or second in growth and registered close to 2 million video views. The toon-centric channel broke into the top-500 of all of YouTube’s hundreds of programming channels within the first 24 hours of its launch. Its [...]
Bill Plympton Launches New ‘Cheatin” Vlog
Indie animation titan Bill Plympton has just launched a new video blog, documenting his progress on his latest feature, Cheatin’. The director will deliver new installments every two weeks, in which he’ll discuss the project from inspiration to finished feature, offering fans a special peek at his creative process. You [...]
TED-ED Site Uses Animation for Education
Over the past few years, TED’s thought-provoking conferences have offered a great way of sharing ideas, stories and methods of understanding our world. Now the non-profit group behind TED has launched a new website devoted to video lessons which blend animation and live-actions to help teachers and inspire students online. [...]
Hasbro Signs Multi-Year Deal with Netflix
Hasbro Studios, the L.A.-based TV production and distribution division of has made a multi-year deal with Netflix to make its content available for streaming beginning today. Transformers Prime, My Little Pony, Pound Puppies, G.I. Joe: Renegades and The Adventures of Chuck & Friends are now available to instantly watch on [...]
Turner Launches Virtual World Across EMEA
Turner Broadcasting has launched of a new online virtual world for kids called Toonix across EMEA, following a beta launch in the U.K. in the beginning of 2012. Available at www.toonix.com the site calls on kids to ‘Be Whoever You Want To Be’ by creating and customizing their own unique avatars [...]
FUNimation Goes Mobile, Adds 2 Series
FUNimation is going mobile and adding the series Sankarea and Shangri-La to its slate. The company announced at Sakuracon in Seattle the release of its first-ever mobile app, created with Phunware and available now in the iTunes App Store and Google Play for iPhone, iPod Touch and Android devices. Two versions [...]
Kidvid Site Kidobi Adds Animasia’s ‘ABC Monsters’
Malaysia-based Animasia Studios has granted digital preschool platform Kidobi the subscription video-on-demand rights for the animated preschool series ABC Monsters in Canada and the United States. The educational preschool series will be available to subscribers on Kidobi.com later this spring. “The deal with Kidobi is a great step forward for [...]
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