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Kids Media Club Podcast
Podcast meets industry water-cooler. We host weekly conversations with producers, animators, media analysts, game designers and the toy brands shaping what young audiences and consumers watch and play - co-hosted with a rotating cast of friends from the Kids Media industry.
Episodes
Kids Media Club PodcastWhy the Next Big Kids IP Was Born on Roblox — with Twin Atlas
Recorded live at MIP Junior in Cannes, Jo grabs Andrew and Jonathan from Twin Atlas — the studio behind Creatures of Sonaria, one of Roblox’s deepest and most…
Kids Media Club PodcastWhy Reach Isn’t the Same as Trust
Emma Witkowski, VP of Media Solutions at WildBrain, returns to the podcast for a conversation that started as a LinkedIn exchange between her and Jo about…
Kids Media Club PodcastBeyond the Screen: Jon Mason on Why Kids IP Needs to Measure Impact, Not Just Views — Live from MIP Junior
A live recording from MIP Junior in Cannes, with Andy, Emily and Jo grabbing Jon Mason, founder of Jollywise and creator of Stan and Gran, for a conversation…
Kids Media Club PodcastFrom YouTube to Cinemas: The Moonbug Playbook
This pre-MIP Junior sponsored episode brings Nicolas Eglau, Managing Director of EMEA, APAC and Global Distribution at Moonbug Entertainment, into conversation…
Kids Media Club PodcastKids Media Club at Young Horizons Warsaw - bonus episode
A bonus mini episode from Jo, recorded at the Young Horizons Film Festival in Warsaw — a relatively small but well-curated industry event that she reports…
Kids Media Club PodcastBusiness of Children's Media Summit Announced, and Jeffrey Katzenberg on AI and the Soul of Hollywood
Jo is absent again, so Andy and Emily have a two-topic episode: first, the announcement of the Business of Children's Media Summit, taking place November 12th…
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Paramount Warner Merger, Digital-First Animation, and Why YouTube Alone Is No Longer Enough
Jo is thwarted by internet gremlins this week, so Andy and Emily press on without her. The Paramount-Warner merger has just cleared another significant…
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Kids Media Club on the Netflix Kids Report
t's Netflix report week, and Emily is in the Mastermind chair as Andy and Jo work through the findings of the latest Netflix Kids Content Performance Report…
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Breaking News: Netflix Ends Skydance Animation Partnership — What It Means for the Animated Movie Pipeline
A short emergency bonus episode with Emily, Andy, and Jo, recorded in real time as news breaks during Netflix report week. The Skydance Animation partnership…
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Band Back Together: Australia Debrief, the Social Media Ban Debate, and Why Kids Audiences Are More Valuable Than Anyone Admits
The full trio are back in the room for the first time since the summer, and the episode opens with Emily's debrief from the Australian Children's Content…
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Live from the Australian Children's Content Summit: The State of Australian Kids Media — with Jenny Buckland, Suzanne Ryan, and More
Emily has travelled to Coffs Harbour for the Australian Children's Content Summit, and this episode is her dispatches from the ground — a series of short…
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How Bonkers Toys Built a Business on Digitally Native IP — with Lisa Wright and Julie Splendoria
Emily is still in Australia, so Andy and Jo continue their deep dive into the toy industry with two guests from Bonkers Toys — Lisa Wright, Head of Licensing…
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Paw Patrol's Record Opening, the Bluey Movie Teaser, Coco 2, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit — Andy and Jo's Trailer Roundup
Emily is somewhere over the Middle East en route to Australia, so Andy and Jo have been let loose on the podcast control desk — new buttons and all. The result…
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Inside the Toy Industry's Purple Patch: Squishies, Kidults, Peppa Pig's Revival, and the Fast Fashion Toy Trend — with John Baulch of Toy World
John Baulch, publisher of Toy World magazine and the author of the Friday blog that has survived every newsletter cull Jo has ever attempted, joins Andy…
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Rerun: Original Animation IP and the Creator Cinema Revolution — Matthieu Zeller and Caspar Nadaud
Jo and Emily are both away, so we’re revisiting two recent conversations that sit neatly together: one about the challenge of making original animated IP…
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Cartoon Saloon's Jason Tammemagi on Brave Storytelling, the Kilkenny Creative Hub, and Why Fear Is the Story Killer
Andy and Jo are joined by Jason Tammemagi, Chief Creative Officer of Cartoon Saloon — the Oscar-nominated Irish studio behind The Secret of Kells, Song of the…
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Rerun: Webtoon's Sydney Bright on Turning Webcomics Into Animation — and Why Fandom-Proven IP Is the New Development Superpower
We're revisiting one of our favourite conversations — Emily cornered Sydney Bright at Kids Screen after she got mobbed following her panel — dropped a card in…
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Chickenhare and Original Animation IP: How Belgium's nWave Is Out-Crafting Hollywood on a Fraction of the Budget — with Matthieu Zeller
Emily has been banging on about Chickenhare and the Hamster of Darkness for years, so she's delighted to have a professional reason to do it again. Matthieu…
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Netflix Kids Strategy, the Warner Deal That Wasn't, and Why K-Pop Demon Hunters was a Fluke?
A bonus episode timed ahead of Netflix's earnings call, with Andy and Jo putting questions to Emily as she and her team prep the next Netflix Kids Content…
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Run Monster Run: How the Creators Behind Solar Balls Are Building Their Next Big YouTube IP
Three guests on one episode — Oliver and Alvaro, co-founders of Telos Media and the team behind Solar Balls (half a billion views on the English channel alone…
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Amazing Digital Circus Box Office: How Creator-Made Films Are Conquering Cinemas — with Caspar Nadaud of Piece of Magic Entertainment
Caspar Nadaud, founder of theatrical distribution company Piece of Magic Entertainment, joins Andy, Emily, and Jo to unpack exactly how The Amazing Digital…
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The Perfect Picnic: Annecy FOMO and First Impressions — with Eric Calderon of Surviving Animation (Bonus Episode)
A crossover episode with Eric Calderon of Surviving Animation, recorded with Andy and Eric fresh off the ground in Annecy while Jo and Emily nurse their FOMO…
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Live from Annecy: AI in Animation, How the Festival Works, and Why the "AI Category" Won't Last
Andy is calling in from Annecy — sunglasses on, rosé imminent, 45 minutes from his accommodation in 38-degree heat — while Jo and Emily hold the fort from…
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Happy Birthday K-Pop Demon Hunters: One Year On, What Netflix Got Right — and What Comes Next
It's been a year since K-Pop Demon Hunters dropped on Netflix — quietly, in June 2025, without much fanfare, to a modest first week. The trio mark the…
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Amazing Digital Circus in Cinemas and Why Creators Are Rewriting the Rules of the Entertainment Industry
The band is back together — and Jo has news. She's joined Coolabi as SVP of Digital, with a brief that includes Warrior Cats: a book IP 74 volumes deep, a…
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Backrooms, Obsession, and the Creator Movie Moment: What It Means for Kids and Teens Media
A hosts' hangout with Andy and Jo, prompted by a conversation that has been running hot across LinkedIn all week: creator-made films are pulling audiences into…
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What Roblox Sports Data Tells Us About the Next Generation of Fans
A hosts' deep dive with Andy and Jo, recorded in the middle of a British heatwave with Emily absent. Jo has spent the last six months tracking the top 50…
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Wowsabout's Halle Stanford on Puppets, the Science of Awe, and Making Kids TV Without a Traditional Commissioning Deal
Halle Stanford has spent almost 30 years at the Jim Henson Company — executive producing Fraggle Rock, creating Sid the Science Kid — and has just launched…
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WEBTOON’s Sydney Bright on Turning Webcomics Into Animation — and Why Fandom-Proven IP Is the New Development Superpower
Emily cornered Sydney Bright at Kids Screen after she got mobbed following her panel — dropped a card in the middle of the crowd, said "come on the podcast,"…
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Was Bluey the Worst Deal Ever? The ABC, BBC Studios, and What the Viral Debate Gets Wrong
A viral YouTube video calling Bluey's deal with the ABC "the shittest deal ever" has set Australian media alight — and sent Andy, Emily, and Jo straight to the…
Kids Media Club PodcastWhy Ad Dollars Haven't Followed Kids Audiences — and How to Fix It, with WildBrain's Emma Witkowski
The second episode in the Kids Media Club's sponsored series with WildBrain Media Solutions brings in Emma Witkowski, WildBrain's VP of Media Solutions. The…
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Re-Run: Safe Spaces Online: Zigazoo's Ashley Mady and Club Penguin's Chris Heatherly on Building Kids Social Media That Actually Works
Episode Title: This is a special compilation episode revisiting two of the Kids Media Club's most popular conversations on kids online safety — with Ashley…
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Bonus episode: Content Europe Lisbon Debrief: What Is a Hit Anymore, the Ad-Funded Kids Media Problem, and Why Patient Capital Matters — with Andy and Jo
A bonus episode with Andy and Jo, fresh off the plane from Content Europe in Lisbon, where both were on panels and Jo was moderating. Emily is absent this…
Kids Media Club PodcastWildBrain's Kate Smith on Why YouTube and FAST Are the Kids TV Network of Today — and What Advertisers Are Missing
This episode of the Kids Media Club Podcast is part of a sponsored series produced in partnership with WildBrain Media Solutions. We get together with Kate…
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Netflix Playground: Is Netflix Building the Answer to YouTube Kids? — A Kids Media Club Bonus Episode
Episode Title: Netflix Playground: Is Netflix Building the Answer to YouTube Kids? — A Kids Media Club Bonus Episode Episode Summary: A short bonus episode…
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Indie Animation Rising: YouTube's New Wave Report, Tiny Chef's Hustle, and Strawberry Vampire's Kickstarter — with Emily Brundige
Episode Summary: Jo is away in Lisbon for this episode, leaving Andy and Emily Horgan to kick things off with a discussion about a timely YouTube Culture and…
Kids Media Club PodcastDeddy Bears: From Shelf to Screen, Building IP Without Content First — with Gavin Lawler and Chris Dicker
This episode, sponsored by Innov8 Creative Academy and Deddy Bears, sees Andy and Emily joined by two guests who met through a thoroughly Irish chain of mutual…
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BBC's New Direction, Danny Go's Netflix Deal, and Why You Can't Speed Run Fandom — A Kids Media Club Hosts' Hangout
With Emily otherwise occupied, this episode is a hosts' hangout — just Andy and Jo, with a car pickup deadline providing a natural time limit. The conversation…
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Kids Media Industry in Crisis: Kids Screen Summit Cancelled and World Screen Shuts Down — A Kids Media Club Emergency Episode
This is a short, unplanned emergency episode — Andy, Jo, and Emily jumping on a three-way call in real time to react to a double dose of seismic industry news…
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Inside Animation Dingle: Storytelling, the Original IP Crisis, and Student Animation from the Festival Floor
This bonus episode takes a different format, with Emily reporting live from the Animation Dingle Festival in County Kerry, Ireland. Rather than a single guest…
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Safe Social Media for Kids: How Zigazoo Is Building the Alternative to TikTok for Gen Alpha — with Ashley Mady
In this episode, Andy, Jo, and Emily are joined by Ashley Mady, President of Zigazoo — a social media platform built specifically for kids that has been…
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Netflix Kids Content: Paw Patrol, SpongeBob, Cocomelon and What the 2025 Streaming Data Really Tells Us — with Emily
This bonus episode of the Kids Media Club sees Andy and Jo joined by Emily, who has just published her latest Netflix Kids Content Performance Report — a deep…
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Kids Online Safety, Club Penguin's Moderation Playbook, and Why Roblox Is the New Console — with Chris Heatherly (Part 2)
This is the second half of the Kids Media Club's conversation with Chris Heatherly, the former Disney executive who oversaw Club Penguin at its peak. The…
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Club Penguin: The Game That Could Have Been Roblox — Inside Disney's Most Beloved (and Misunderstood) Platform | Part 1
In this episode, Andy, Jo and Emily sit down with Chris Heatherly — former Disney executive, Club Penguin General Manager, and the man who ran the world's…
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KidScreen & MIP London 2026: No More Hierarchies, Hard Truths, and the BBC's YouTube Bet
This episode brings Andy, Jo, and Emily back together after a busy fortnight that saw the Kids Media Club divide and conquer — Emily and Andy heading to…
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Bonus Episode - The Best Worst Kids Screen Ever: Dispatches from San Diego
Episode Summary: In this bonus episode, Andy Williams and Emily Horgan join Eric Calderon of Surviving Animation for a candid debrief straight from the Kids…
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BeddyByes: Building a Preschool Franchise from the Ground Up — Live from KidsScreen
In this special live episode, recorded at KidsScreen in San Diego, Andy and Emily take to the stage to moderate a deep-dive panel on one of the most…
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YouTube Is TV, Disney Missed a Trick, and Club Penguin Could Have Been Roblox
This week the Kids Media Club team is back for another Host’s hangout - Andy returns from a ski holiday (not in a cast, luckily) — and he's joined by co-hosts…
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"Thank You to Viewers Like You" — PBS Kids, Federal Defunding, and the Fight for Children's Media
This week the Kids Media Club welcomes Sarah DeWitt, SVP and GM of PBS Kids, for a conversation that covers a lot of ground — and covers it brilliantly. For…
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From Stop Motion to Always On: How Aardman Connects with Modern Audiences
Aardman Animations, renowned for its innovative and beloved characters such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, is undergoing a significant…
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Beyond Micro Dramas: How Major Media Companies Are Winning with Vertical Video Strategy | OTT Question Time 2025
Episode Overview In this episode of the Kids Media Club Podcast, hosts Jo, Andy, and Emily reunited in person at London's OTT Question Time event. Between…
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Beyond the Sub Count: Netflix's Engagement Era
Jo is away so Andy gets Emily perspective on Netflix's latest earnings report. In a recent strategic shift, Netflix are moving away from the subscriber count…
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Kids Media Club: Guest Jesse Cleverly on the perfect media storm incoming
The landscape of children's entertainment is shifting—fast. In this eye-opening conversation, multi-award-winning creative executive Jesse Cleverly shares why…
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Kids Media Club: New Year, New Youtube Regulations
In this episode we discuss the evolving regulatorary landscape around kids content on YouTube and social media. The wild west era of children's content on…
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Kids Club Podcast Year in Review: our standout conversations from 2025
In this special New Year episode of the Kids Club Podcast, we reflect on our favourite Podcast conversations of 2025 and share eight moments that stood out for…
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🎄 Kids Media Club: Christmas Special 2025
The team dives into Netflix's Christmas movie dominance, shares heartwarming holiday TV traditions from around the world (including Ireland's legendary Late…
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Kids Media Club: Netflix Buys Warner Bros and What It Means for Kids Media
The Kids Media Club crew tackles the biggest media story in years: Netflix's acquisition of Warner Brothers. Andy and Jo dive deep into what this seismic deal…
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KMC: special guest Louis Grenier's no punches pulled take on kids media
Episode Summary: Andy, Jo, and Emily are joined by marketeer and 'recovering French man' Louis Grenier to give an outside perspective on kids media. Louis…
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Kids Media Club: guest, Louie Stowell on why children’s publishing needs more anarchy
Author Louie Stowell (Loki series) joins the Kids Media Club to make the case for more chaos in children's books. Why do young readers crave mischief? How do…
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Kids Media Club: The YouTube challenge for Kids IP Creators (listener’s digest episode)
In this special listener's digest episode, we examine the challenges and opportunities of creating children's content on YouTube. We listen back to three…