Mansha Daswani

SVOD and the need for stand-out brands are among the trends reshaping the kids’ content distribution business in Asia.

The head of global distribution shares his perspective on the company’s business in Asia ahead of ATF.

Recaps some of the children's programming news from the market.

CANNES: Catherine Balsam-Schwaber, chief content officer at Mattel, weighed in on key shifts in the children’s media business at MIPJunior before being interviewed on stage by Kristin Brzoznowski, the executive editor of World Screen.

CANNES: Kids’ producers and distributors must be more willing to look beyond the traditional 11-minute and half-hour formats, Deirdre Brennan, the VP of content at Corus Kids, said in her MIPJunior keynote.

CANNES: Canal+’s Laurence Blaevoet, Disney XD’s Marc Buhaj, CBBC’s Sarah Muller and Amazon Studios’ Tara Sorensen weighed in on how to serve kids’ audiences at MIPJunior this morning before each being presented with a World Screen Kids’ Content Trendsetter Award.

PARIS: Cyber Group Studios arrives at MIPCOM with six series that are in production, including Mirette Investigates, and seven development projects, encompassing a range of animation styles and target demos.

LONDON: Zodiak Kids Studios has been commissioned to produce an additional season of Secret Life of Boys for CBBC in the U.K. and ABC ME in Australia, as well as a third season of Millie Inbetween for CBBC.

LONDON: Maggie & Bianca Fashion Friends, the first live-action series from Rainbow, will be made available to Netflix subscribers globally in 2017.

MUNICH: The KETNET live-action kids' series Night Watch, represented by Studio 100 Media, is slated to soon launch on Nickelodeon in Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Poland and Norway.