Moonbug Entertainment

In its first year under Candle Media’s ownership, Moonbug has continued to grow its vast portfolio of digital brands, adding nursery rhyme network Little Angel (88 million YouTube subscribers) and Singapore prodco One Animation, the producer of Emmy-nominated series Oddbods (19 million YouTube subscribers). The company also adopted an NFT strategy, launching tokens based on its popular IPs—including CoComelon and Blippi—on kids social media platform Zigazoo.

Climbing up one spot from 2021, the Toronto-based prodco boasts some impressive numbers: Its educational Xavier Riddle’s Museum Maker game has hit more than seven million plays on the PBS KIDS Games app and website; digital initiatives based on Karma’s World made more than 40 million impressions across all social media platforms; and the show’s fourth-season trailer is nearing seven million views on YouTube. To date, 9 Story’s in-house YouTube business spans 16 languages and has generated more than 14 billion lifetime views.