The Children’s Media Foundation (CMF)

The Children’s Media Yearbook

The Children’s Media Yearbook brings together the voices of media creators, researchers, regulators, policy makers  and advocates for children and young people.

The Yearbook is intended to stimulate debate on children’s media and the lives of young people. It is the annual ‘book of record’ for the key issues, innovation and development across the entire range of media that children experience.

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Supporters receive a free digital copy of the Yearbook.
Patrons receive a free paperback copy and a free digital copy.

 

The Children’s Media Yearbook 2026

Have a look at these preview articles:

‘Story’: Equipment for Life

Comedy: a Neurological Superfood

What the Social Media Ban has Meant for Australia

A Shifting Children’s Media Landscape

Children’s Public Service Media Needs a Home

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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2025

Have a look at these preview articles:

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

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

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

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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2024

Highlights in this edition:

Paul Lindley on “How to Build a Better Future for our Children”: High quality British children’s content will become scarce and could become extinct. Parents, politicians and producers all need to step up before it’s too late.

Patricia Hidalgo BBC Children’s and Education on “Why do we Care?”: We care so much about our audience that we have been prepared to radically redefine our children’s TV business in order to keep reaching them with public service content.

Plus: Bagpuss, Local TV, the Legacy of the YACF, Africa’s Kids’ Content, Bluey and Australian TV, Pocoyo, Toddler Attention, Rethinking Short-form, Digital Play Design, Kidinfluencers, Cosmic Kids Yoga and many more fascinating articles.

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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2023

Highlights in this “bumper” 150-page edition:

CMF’s annual review of political and regulatory issues in our troubled times: “Sleepwalking into the Future”.

Joe Godwin’s article on radical new `approaches to public service content for kids.  Insights from academia and commercial researchers. Features on fatherhood, children’s content in “smaller nations”, influencers, kids’ mental health, online and gaming safety and much more…

Anniversaries: Disney, Magic Light Pictures, Dr Who and a celebration of the Wombles!

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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2022

Previews of articles:

Industry Under Pressure, Audience Under Threat by Anna Home OBE, Chair the Children’s Media Foundation

Can we Help our Children Save the Planet by Gary Pope CEO of KI

The Metaverse: Words of Definition and Caution on the Word of the Year by Japhet Asher

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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2021
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2020
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2019
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2018
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2017
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2016
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2015
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2014
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The Children’s Media Yearbook 2013
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