Cocomelon

Cocomelon is an American children's educational program. It is aimed at parents and teachers of toddlers who speak English or are learning English as a second language, and parents of children with a learning disability, autism or delayed speech. The Cocomelon YouTube channel and website provide interactive media to help teach children. Their YouTube channel has over 2 billion views, and over 2 million subscribers.[2]

Cocomelon
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OriginUnited States
Websitecocomelon.com
YouTube information
Also known ascheckgate aka ThatsMeOnTV.com (2006–2013)
ABC Kid TV (2013–2018)
Channel
Years active2006–present
GenreEducation, nursery rhymes
Subscribers153 million[1]
Total views150 billion[1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg 100,000 subscribers 2014
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg 1,000,000 subscribers 2016
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg 10,000,000 subscribers 2018
YouTube Ruby Play Button 2.svg 50,000,000 subscribers 2019
YouTube Red Diamond Play Button.svg 100,000,000 subscribers 2020

Updated: February 4, 2023

History

In 2006, Jay Jeon created Cocomelon as a company that produces children's educational videos on DVDs. In March 2007, he launched a YouTube channel called ABCKidTV that gives the subscribers, all of Cocomelon’ existing videos ad-free and in high definition.[3]

In 2015, Cocomelon joined the Channel Frederator Network, and is the number one channel (by views) of the Multi-Channel Network.[4]

In April 2016, Cocomelon and ABCKidTV have both been added to Roku,[5] and Kidoodle.TV in September 2016.[6]

They have also created an app for iOS called Cocomelon Jukebox.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "About Cocomelon - Nursery Rhymes". YouTube.
  2. Anthony, John (2014-06-22) (in English). YouTube success with kids' videos. http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/small-business/10182275/YouTube-success-with-kids-videos. Retrieved 2016-11-01. 
  3. "Busy Beavers children's YouTube channel ready to take on world". Stuff. Retrieved May 29, 2017.
  4. "Top 100 Networked YouTubers in Channel_frederator_network Sorted by Most Viewed - Socialblade.com". socialblade.com. Retrieved November 1, 2016.
  5. (in en-US) New Roku Channels – April 8, 2016. 2016-04-12. http://suzguru.com/wordpress/index.php/2016/04/12/new-roku-channels-april-8-2016/. Retrieved 2016-11-01. [dead link]
  6. (in en-US) Kidoodle.TV Adds Four New Titles to Catalog - TVKIDS. 2016-09-05. https://worldscreen.com/tvkids/kidoodle-tv-adds-four-new-titles-to-catalog/. Retrieved 2016-11-01.