Starting in January 2020, parents and toddlers can tune into the brand new re-imagined Elmo’s World, with five-minute interactive episodes, fun and basic pre-school topics, live action films and co-operative thinking games such as matching, sorting and counting.
Sesame Workshop announced today that Whit Higgins has joined as Vice President, International Media Distribution and Business Development. Higgins will be responsible for the development and execution of international content distribution strategy for all Sesame Workshop properties, including the iconic Sesame Street series, which celebrates 50 years in 2019. He will also cultivate commercial growth and corporate partnerships across Consumer Products, Sponsorship, Live Events, Themed Entertainment, and Education.
Hasbro’s President of North America, Eric Nyman, joins this episode of aNb Media’s ShopTalk, to discuss the harm on knockoffs in the toy business, the relaunch of Power Rangers and how the action figure category is now broken into three segments. Additionally we dive into the topic of the continued resurgence of the board game category and the impact sharing on social media channels have in creating a game’s success.
Hasbro is launching Nerf Ultra, the next evolution of the Nerf brand, featuring cutting edge technology, enhanced blaster action, and an all new Nerf dart.
Entertainment One (eOne) has announced that Nick Jr. and Channel 5’s pre-school programming block, Milkshake! will join an impressive list of international broadcasters airing series 1 of its highly anticipated new show. Ricky Zoom will debut on October 5th on Nick Jr. before zooming over to Milkshake! in May 2020.
Hog Wild Toys, LLC has named industry veteran Joshua Loerzel to the newly-created position of Vice President of Sales and Marketing for North America.
44 Cats, from Rainbow Group, has partnered with Franco Manufacturing for bedding and room decor collections in the U.S. and Canada.
Independent content creation and distribution company Epic Story Media Inc. (ESM) has signed an agreement to develop transmedia content for DHX Media’s internationally property Slugterra, including new animated ‘Slugisodes’ and a live action competition game show, based on a new location-based VR game which is being launched later this year, as well as launching a new mobile game for the property.
DHX Media announced that it will change its name to WildBrain and has begun rolling out a new corporate brand identity.