Toonz Media Group, in partnership with Gummybear International launced 13th the second season of their successful animated series Gummibär And Friends: The Gummy Bear Show. Toonz Media Group’s new non-dialogue comedy Boo Bah B also just launched exclusively on YouTube and the YouTube Kids app on 30th November, strengthening the partnership with the platform.
The hugely successful Gummibär And Friends: The Gummy Bear Show premiered on YouTube on 24th June 2016 with immediate success. The Surprise Egg, the most watched episode of season one, has alone generated more than 36 million views. Overall, the first season has received over 330 million total views on the Gummybear International YouTube Network – the Gummibär centric MCN. With over 12.6 billion total views and over 9 million subscribers, Gummibär is the most viewed animated character on the internet.
This second season of Gummibär And Friends: The Gummy Bear Show, 39×7, continues with the crazy and comical adventures of Gummibär, everyone’s favourite singing and dancing gummy bear character, and his two best friends, Harry the nervous, geeky and gadget-genius chameleon, and Kala the feisty, intelligent gung-ho serval cat.
Adding to the success of the Gummibär brand on YouTube, the outrageous and comical little green bear has become a global entertainment phenomenon with CDs and DVDs released in 27 different languages in over 40 countries and a highly successful consumer products business. The IP goes from strength to strength, and the production and premiering of this second season of the series on YouTube is a result of the huge following the first season generated on the platform. Toonz’s distribution arm, Imira Entertainment, handles worldwide sales of Gummibär And Friends: The Gummy Bear Show.
