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Category: Yearbook 2025

Maddie + Triggs: It’s Amazing What You Hear When You Take The Time To Listen

In an article written for the Children’s Media Yearbook 2025. Colm Tobin, Managing Director, Turnip + Duck describes the creative development for “Maddie and Triggs” I should start by saying this: I’m probably not the guy you’d pick to make a groundbreaking, values driven, inclusive preschool series. At least, I wouldn’t be the obvious choice. […]

‘Linear TV Is Dead?’ Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Youtube

The Children’s Media Yearbook 2025 will be published in July. In this sneak-peak article, producer and CMF Deputy Director, Colin Ward faces up to the overwhelming challenges of media’s New World Order. So, just to be clear, that Dr Strangelove reference in the title does not imply that the irresistible rise of YouTube is in […]

Industry

Preschoolers And YouTube/Kids: What Do They Watch And What Are The Concerns?

Our Children’s Media Yearbook 2025 will be published in July. In this sneak-peak article, Jane O’Connor, Associate Professor of Childhood Studies, Birmingham City University, takes a closer look at what our youngest audience is watching and considers the implications for now and the future. YouTube/Kids is now the most watched form of media worldwide for 3- and […]

Research

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