Cocomelon

Cocomelon is an American YouTube channel and streaming media show that mainly focuses on 3D animation videos of both traditional nursery rhymes and their own original children’s songs. As of July 2021, they are the most-viewed YouTube channel in the United States and second most-viewed channel in the world behind T-Series. They are also the most-subscribed children’s channel in the world and the second most-subscribed channel in the world also behind T-Series. As they are within our licencing portfolio, we thought we would delve into the history of Cocomelon…

Who created Cocomelon?

The company began with creator Jay Jeon who founded the animation studio, Treasure Studio Inc. taking his experience as a filmmaker and storyteller and collaborating with his wife, who had experience as an illustrator for children’s books.

When did it first air?

While Cocomelon is the name synonymous with the couple’s creations today, the channel began as ThatsMEonTV before being changed to ABCkidTV, where they uploaded their first animated short on 1st September 2006. The couple chose to change the name of the channel again later in their endeavour as they felt ABCkidTV “wasn’t as fun as Cocomelon for kids”.

Who voices the characters?

There are plenty of cast members working on the show, however, some of these talented voice actors and actresses take on the duties of multiple characters. According to IMDb, these are the current voices behind the cast:

Ava Madison Gray: JJ, Bella.

Hannah An: Yoyo, Tomtom, as well as the collective School Children.

Alice Cho: Cece, Nina.

Kristen Princiotta: Mom and Mimi the Mouse.

Brittany Taylor: Cody’s Mom, Doctor, and Miss Appleberry.Jake Turner: Boba, Dad, Grandpa, and Wally.

Brody Yun: Cody and Nico.

What’s Cocomelon’s Net Worth?

As of 2022 the company has multiple sources of revenue from Netflix to YouTube to countless other opportunities. They are estimated to be worth a staggering $790 million.

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NERF

When you think of Nerf, you likely have fond memories of using a variety of colourful and exciting blasters to fire an endless barrage of foam darts at your friends and family. Nerf have now taken it to the next level with the company’s first-ever mascot, Murph!

Murph is an anthropomorphic character made out of hundreds of Nerf darts, who the company says has no set sex or gender and uses they/them pronouns. Made completely out of official NERF dart materials, “Murph is the personification of the playful spirit – the one that can only be unleashed with NERF. They’re a natural athlete, great at NERFoop and an expert at surprise NERF Super Soaker ambushes. They can also toss a NERF Vortex Football like no other and, of course, are a fantastic trick shooter with any NERF blaster.”

Murph is their choice to lead Nerf’s new campaign, called “Unleash the Play in You”, which aims to get more kids and adults outside having fun in the sun. Hasbro’s SVP and GM, Adam Kleinman, calls Murph a “playful spirit and gifted athlete.” He also said “We wanted to introduce a mascot that represents this ageless, unbridled fun that lives in all of us and creates a physical embodiment of that feeling you get when you play with Nerf,”.

As Nerf are within our licencing portfolio, we are excited to see how the company proceed with Murph and looking forward seeing what he will do next.
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It’s SpongeBob’s Birthday

The Krusty Krew’s hardest worker is celebrating another year under the sea. On July 14th, SpongeBob SquarePants was showered with love from fans all across the world in honour of his 36th birthday. As SpongeBob is apart of our licencing portfolio, everyone here at Misirli would like to wish SpongeBob a very happy birthday!

Nickelodeon posted a celebratory tweet, reading, “every day is a @SpongeBob day, but today is extra special.”

As SpongeBob is loved by children and adults all around the world, we were excited for Paramount+ to announce in February that there will be three brand-new SpongeBob SquarePants movies coming to the streaming platform, with the first one dropping in 2023. The films will focus on the show’s original characters, including SpongeBob’s BFF Patrick Star, Squidward, Mr. Krabs, Sandy Cheeks and more. Additionally, the streamer noted that a fourth SpongeBob project is currently in progress and is stated to be released in Cinemas.

“As we’ve known with Nickelodeon’s long-standing success, the kids and family audience are incredibly loyal,” chief content officer for Paramount+ Brian Robbins said in a statement Feb. 15, “and we see that on Paramount+ as well, with kids and family ranking as one of the strongest genres on the service in terms of both engagement and subscriber acquisition.” He continued, “So, as they stay for our shows and look for even more of them, we’re doubling down on giving them what they want by expanding the universes of the characters they love the best.”

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Eternals

As Marvel Studios releases many different movies and series, it’s hard to keep up with certain story lines and often you may miss a film. Eternals is an incredible film that we feel isn’t talked about enough and therefore missed. As Marvel and Disney are a part of our licencing portfolio, we thought give you a brief synopsis and hopefully encourage you to watch it on Disney+.

Marvel Studios Eternals features an exciting new team of Super Heroes in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, ancient aliens who have been living on Earth in secret for thousands of years. Following the events of Avengers: Endgame, an unexpected tragedy forces them out of the shadows to reunite against mankind’s most ancient enemy, the Deviants.

The film is directed and co-written by Chloé Zhao and stars Gemma Chan as Sersi, Richard Madden as Ikaris, Kumail Nanjiani as Kingo, Lia McHugh as Sprite, Brian Tyree Henry as Phastos, Lauren Ridloff as Makkari, Barry Keoghan as Druig, Don Lee as Gilgamesh, Harish Patel as Karun Patel, Bill Skarsgård as Kro, with Kit Harington as Dane Whitman, with Salma Hayek as Ajak, and Angelina Jolie as Thena.

Eternals is the twenty-sixth film in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the seventh instalment of Phase Four. The film was released on November 5, 2021.

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Boofle

Boofle is a major brand across the world! More than 70 million Boofle greetings cards have been sold by UK Greetings since its launch in 2008, with annual sales now at 10 million. As they are within our licencing portfolio, we thought we would give you all a brief history to Boofle. So you can get to the know the names behind the well-known character.

Boofle is the ultimate, loveable knitted pup! Owned by leading card publisher, UK Greetings and created by award-winning duo, Sarah and David Blake, Boofle stands out as an original and refreshing 3D alternative to the traditional illustrative style of “cute” brands.

Combining distinctive photography and illustration with a fresh colour palette and contemporary patterns, the brand is genuinely unique. Boofle has a friendly, homemade appearance; knitting and patchwork give him a warm, natural feel, and this is reflected in the accompanying easy and expressive copy style.
Boofle also plays a very active part in the social media world, with 21.5k engaged Facebook fans and over 12.8k followers on Twitter. Boofle has an increased presence on YouTube, plus Boofle has his own Virtual Reality experience and two Apps including mini games and a ‘photo-boof’.

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What If…?

With the release of Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness, we realised that to get a better understanding of the Multiverse we need to watch the animated series ‘What if…?’ on Disney+. The first season is the fifth instalment of Phase Four of the Marvel Cinematic Universe. It premiered on August 11th 2021, and concluded on October 6th 2021. Both Disney and Marvel are within our licencing portfolio allowing us to create designs based on all the characters within their worlds.

What if instead of Steve Rogers, Peggy Carter (Hayley Atwell) became the first Super Soldier? That creative brainstorming exercise is the heart of What If…?, the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first animated series. Throughout the series there are numerous major events that happen from the movies we know but are now massively different in game-changing ways.

Many of the major actors that played characters within the live action movies also voice them within the animated series. It stars Josh Brolin, Samuel L Jackson, Jeremy Rayner, Tom Hiddleston and many others. It also features Chadwick Boseman, who was able to reprise T’Challa via voice work before his passing.

We feel like this series has grave importance to the Marvel Cinematic Universe as it moves forward into the new era. We would urge you to watch it before you watch the new Doctor Strange film. Fans all over the world have given it high praise with its certified fresh on Rotten Tomatoes and has a score of 7.4/10 on IMDb.

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