- Moonbug Entertainment and mindfulness/meditation-focused Headspace Studios have teamed up to launch a CoComelon podcast all about helping kids get to sleep. The Welcome to Wiggle Down podcast (pictured, 10 x 20 minutes) launches October 23 on major podcast sites, as well as on the Headspace app and YouTube. In it, sleep experts and meditation teachers, with the help of CoComelon star JJ, guide kids through stretches and deep-breathing exercises, as well as bedtime stories, to help them settle down for bed.
- 604 Records in Canada has signed a record deal with Kevin Gillis’ Run With Us Productions to create five albums for the 40-year-old animated series The Raccoons. The albums, which are set to come out in mid- to late November, will feature tunes from the eco-focused series. The series is about a family of raccoons who try to protect their forest. Gillis has brought the series back to modern audiences over the last few years with a remastered version of the original 60 x 30-minute 2D-animated series, which Crave streams in Canada.
- Nurture, an interactive subscription-based learning app, has signed its first-ever brand deal, and it’s a partnership with Crayola. Nurture, which is aimed at four to sevens, features games and content that teach skills like emotional regulation and critical thinking. In the Crayola partnership, kids will be able to play drawing, racing and puzzle games featuring Crayola’s washable coloring figure brand, Scribble Scrubbie. Nurture launched last year with original characters, with the aim of later adding third-party characters and brands.
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