Moonbug Entertainment
, or simply referred to as Moonbug, is a British entertainment company based in London and founded on February 9th, 2018 by René Rechtman and John Robson, the latter of which left in December 2024. It specializes in distributing and producing children's audiovisual content and runs a multi-channel network on YouTube, with many of their programs being on various streaming services and television channels internationally. Since 2021, Candle Media, based in Los Angeles, currently owns it as a subsidiary.
They're most notable for owning shows including CoComelon, Blippi, and Little Baby Bum, each of its associated channels garnering millions of views every month.
List of Moonbug shows:
- ARPO: the Robot for All Kids
- Blippi
- Blippi Wonders note
- Blippi's Treehouse
- Blippi's Job Show
- CoComelon
- Cocomelon Lane note
- CoComelon Classroom
- The Melon Patch
- Gecko's Garage
- Glove and Boots
- Lellobee City Farm
- Little Angel
- Little Baby Bum
- Little Baby Bum: Music Time
- Mia's Magic Playground
- Go Buster!
- Playtime with Twinkle
- KiiYii
- Digley and Dazey
- My Magic Pet Morphle
- Oddbods
- Minibods
- Om Nom Stories
- The Ring-a-Tangs
- The Sharksons
- Supa Strikas
- T-Rex Ranch
Tropes associated with (and related to!) Moonbug:
- All-CGI Cartoon: Most of the shows, including CoComelon, Little Baby Bum, Morphle (since 2022), Blippi Wonders and Oddbods, for example.
- Early-Installment Weirdness: When the company was founded in 2018, it was initially called "Project ABC Holdings Limited" until acquiring some more franchises and creating original productions, resulting in a name change in November of that year.
- Hong Kong Dub: Some of the shows with its own dubs of a specific language, especially Japanese and Russian, had a character's lip-sync not match the translated dialogue, although it can be easily as noticeable.