Kedoo Expands Booba’s Footprint With Two New Series and a Raft of Broadcast Deals
Monday 25th November, London
Today, international content, production and distribution company Kedoo Entertainment announces exciting expansion plans for its kids offer, with the growing footprint of the award-winning global YouTube sensation (and top ten Netflix series) Booba. A non-dialogue animated preschool and family series produced by Kedoo’s production arm 3D Sparrow.
Brand new Season Five of Booba, now available for TV distribution, comprises 26 x 7-minute episodes of stories encouraging social emotional learning for kids. It further explores Booba’s characters and worlds, including alternative Boobas and new characters such as Dinosaurs from the prehistoric world and Robot from the futuristic world.
Kedoo also announces the launch of 4 x 15-minute episodes of a brand new edutainment live action series The Booba Show, helping kids develop social skills.Here - for the first time - Booba is stepping into the real world, interacting with a child host and showing children how to make friends. The series debuts on YouTube in January 2025.
Alongside Booba’s growing YouTube and digital presence, recent broadcast deals will see the series air in 2025 and beyond on ITVX in the UK, Nine Networks in Australia, Star Channel in Greece, RTL in Croatia, VOYO in CEE and CDA Premium in Poland.
Booba recently hit 20 billion views on YouTube and has 19 million subscribers. It is available on channels and networks in 45 countries around the world. Booba targets two-to-eight year old kids and their families and teaches kids empathy and resilience through fun and joyful and entertaining situations.
“In Booba we’ve seen how powerful YouTube can be for creating a hit global franchise and building a huge global community fan base. The series which now lives on multiple platforms - broadcast, digital, retail and experiential - around the world.”
Olivier Bernard, COO and
Co-Founder of Kedoo Entertainment
“Despite challenging times for the industry, we are committed to Booba’s ongoing growth and success and can attest to the series’ popularity with huge engagement figures.”
About Kedoo
Kedoo is an international entertainment company that specialises in producing, distributing and managing premium kids and general entertainment content.
Headquartered in Dubai with offices in London, Cairo, Kiev and Moscow, Kedoo creates and produces high-quality content and IP for diverse audiences across the globe. From fun and educational animation for kids to films and series including factual entertainment and travel documentaries for families.
Kedoo is a major distributor of curated content from a library of 1000+ half-hours of general entertainment series and 400+ half-hours of kids and family series. The company’s distribution network encompasses digital and streaming platforms including YouTube, Netflix and Amazon Prime Video, FAST services like Samsung TV Plus, as well as local and international TV broadcasters.
On YouTube alone, Kedoo’s content is watched by more than 120 million subscribers, collecting 1.5+ billion views every month worldwide.
Stand-out shows within the company’s comprehensive portfolio include top ten Netflix series Booba (that recently hit 20 billion YouTube views) Sonya From Toastville, Vamos/Let’s Go!, The Wonder Guys, Conviction and more.