Kids Media Club Podcast

Why Ad Dollars Haven't Followed Kids Audiences — and How to Fix It, with WildBrain's Emma Witkowski

The second episode in the Kids Media Club's sponsored series with WildBrain Media Solutions brings in Emma Witkowski, WildBrain's VP of Media Solutions. The topic is one the podcast has been circling ...

2026-05-07

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Re-Run: Safe Spaces Online: Zigazoo's Ashley Mady and Club Penguin's Chris Heatherly on Building Kids Social Media That Actually Works

Episode Title: This is a special compilation episode revisiting two of the Kids Media Club's most popular conversations on kids online safety — with Ashley Mady from Zigazoo and Chris Heatherly, form...

2026-04-30

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Bonus episode: Content Europe Lisbon Debrief: What Is a Hit Anymore, the Ad-Funded Kids Media Problem, and Why Patient Capital Matters — with Andy and Jo

A bonus episode with Andy and Jo, fresh off the plane from Content Europe in Lisbon, where both were on panels and Jo was moderating. Emily is absent this week, so the two debrief on the themes that d...

2026-04-27

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WildBrain's Kate Smith on Why YouTube and FAST Are the Kids TV Network of Today — and What Advertisers Are Missing

This episode of the Kids Media Club Podcast is part of a sponsored series produced in partnership with WildBrain Media Solutions. We get together with Kate Smith, EVP of Audience Engagement at WildBra...

2026-04-23

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Netflix Playground: Is Netflix Building the Answer to YouTube Kids? — A Kids Media Club Bonus Episode

Episode Title: Netflix Playground: Is Netflix Building the Answer to YouTube Kids? — A Kids Media Club Bonus Episode Episode Summary: A short bonus episode with Andy and Emily Horgan, recorded to re...

2026-04-20

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Indie Animation Rising: YouTube's New Wave Report, Tiny Chef's Hustle, and Strawberry Vampire's Kickstarter — with Emily Brundige

Episode Summary: Jo is away in Lisbon for this episode, leaving Andy and Emily Horgan to kick things off with a discussion about a timely YouTube Culture and Trends report — Animation's New Wave: How...

2026-04-16

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Deddy Bears: From Shelf to Screen, Building IP Without Content First — with Gavin Lawler and Chris Dicker

This episode, sponsored by Innov8 Creative Academy and Deddy Bears, sees Andy and Emily joined by two guests who met through a thoroughly Irish chain of mutual acquaintances and ended up building some...

2026-04-09

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BBC's New Direction, Danny Go's Netflix Deal, and Why You Can't Speed Run Fandom — A Kids Media Club Hosts' Hangout

With Emily otherwise occupied, this episode is a hosts' hangout — just Andy and Jo, with a car pickup deadline providing a natural time limit. The conversation covers three topics: the appointment of ...

2026-04-02

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Kids Media Industry in Crisis: Kids Screen Summit Cancelled and World Screen Shuts Down — A Kids Media Club Emergency Episode

This is a short, unplanned emergency episode — Andy, Jo, and Emily jumping on a three-way call in real time to react to a double dose of seismic industry news landing in the same day. First came the a...

2026-04-01

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Inside Animation Dingle: Storytelling, the Original IP Crisis, and Student Animation from the Festival Floor

This bonus episode takes a different format, with Emily reporting live from the Animation Dingle Festival in County Kerry, Ireland. Rather than a single guest, the episode brings together three separa...

2026-03-27

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Safe Social Media for Kids: How Zigazoo Is Building the Alternative to TikTok for Gen Alpha — with Ashley Mady

In this episode, Andy, Jo, and Emily are joined by Ashley Mady, President of Zigazoo — a social media platform built specifically for kids that has been quietly growing its user base to over 10 millio...

2026-03-26

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Netflix Kids Content: Paw Patrol, SpongeBob, Cocomelon and What the 2025 Streaming Data Really Tells Us — with Emily

This bonus episode of the Kids Media Club sees Andy and Jo joined by Emily, who has just published her latest Netflix Kids Content Performance Report — a deep dive into Netflix's engagement data cover...

2026-03-20

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Kids Online Safety, Club Penguin's Moderation Playbook, and Why Roblox Is the New Console — with Chris Heatherly (Part 2)

This is the second half of the Kids Media Club's conversation with Chris Heatherly, the former Disney executive who oversaw Club Penguin at its peak. The discussion picks up where part one left off, d...

2026-03-19

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Club Penguin: The Game That Could Have Been Roblox — Inside Disney's Most Beloved (and Misunderstood) Platform | Part 1

In this episode, Andy, Jo and Emily sit down with Chris Heatherly — former Disney executive, Club Penguin General Manager, and the man who ran the world's biggest kids' playground for nearly a decade....

2026-03-12

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KidScreen & MIP London 2026: No More Hierarchies, Hard Truths, and the BBC's YouTube Bet

This episode brings Andy, Jo, and Emily back together after a busy fortnight that saw the Kids Media Club divide and conquer — Emily and Andy heading to KidScreen in San Diego while Jo hosted the Kids...

2026-03-05

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Bonus Episode - The Best Worst Kids Screen Ever: Dispatches from San Diego

Episode Summary: In this bonus episode, Andy Williams and Emily Horgan join Eric Calderon of Surviving Animation for a candid debrief straight from the Kids Screen conference floor in San Diego. With...

2026-03-03

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BeddyByes: Building a Preschool Franchise from the Ground Up — Live from KidsScreen

In this special live episode, recorded at KidsScreen in San Diego, Andy and Emily take to the stage to moderate a deep-dive panel on one of the most talked-about new preschool IPs in the market right ...

2026-02-26

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YouTube Is TV, Disney Missed a Trick, and Club Penguin Could Have Been Roblox

This week the Kids Media Club team is back for another Host’s hangout - Andy returns from a ski holiday (not in a cast, luckily) — and he's joined by co-hosts Jo and Emily for a wide-ranging house cha...

2026-02-19

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"Thank You to Viewers Like You" — PBS Kids, Federal Defunding, and the Fight for Children's Media

This week the Kids Media Club welcomes Sarah DeWitt, SVP and GM of PBS Kids, for a conversation that covers a lot of ground — and covers it brilliantly. For international listeners, Sarah begins by u...

2026-02-12

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From Stop Motion to Always On: How Aardman Connects with Modern Audiences

Aardman Animations, renowned for its innovative and beloved characters such as Wallace and Gromit and Shaun the Sheep, is undergoing a significant transformation in its approach to audience engagement...

2026-02-05

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