Tivify

The Spanish streamer has added Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. channels from Paramount to the programming catalogue for its premium service in a bid to attract more kids and family subscribers with hit shows including SpongeBob SquarePants, Henry Danger, PAW Patrol and  this year’s Nick Jr. reboot of Dora the Explorer. Tivify also licensed multiple MTV channels, each centering around a different decade of pop culture, as part of this broader deal with Paramount.

Wind Sun Sky

Educational kids streaming service Da Vinci has come on board as a key partner in Wind Sun Sky’s Future Chicken franchise (pictured). The platform, which reaches 250 million households globally, will offer a collection of short-form Future Chicken content. Da Vinci is also planning to develop branded quizzes to roll out on its Kahoot! learning platform, which has more than 1.5 million active users. Billed as “ecotainment” for six- to 10-year-olds, Future Chicken launched in November on Roblox, YouTube and CBC platforms, centering around a time-traveling fowl named Potato.

BBC Studios
The Beeb’s commercial arm has bought ITV’s 50% stake in the streaming service BritBox International for US$322 million. This will give BBC Studios complete ownership of the service, which specializes in British content, including kids titles like ’90s toon Fantomcat and cutout animation classic Ivor the Engine. ITV and BBC Studios originally launched BritBox in 2017. The international service has attracted around 3.75 million subscribers in eight countries—the US, Canada, Australia, South Africa, Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. ITV will maintain its ownership of BritBox UK.