iflix Launches New Dedicated Kids’ Channel

iflix has launched a brand-new children’s channel, iflix Kids, offering hundreds of hit movies and TV series for youngsters from a number of popular studios and brands for both streaming and download.

The channel will feature Cartoon Network’s Adventure Time, Ben 10, The Amazing World of Gumball, Clarence, Regular Show, We Bare Bears, Uncle Grandpa, Steven Universe, The Powerpuff Girls and Mighty Magiswords. Nickelodeon and Nick Jr. shows include Avatar: The Legend of Aang, iCarly, The Thundermans, Blue’s Clues, Wallykazam! and Blaze and the Monster Machines.

Disney movies on offer are Tomorrowland, Alice in Wonderland, The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Big Hero 6, Brave, The Jungle Book, Zootopia and Tangled. Disney-Pixar Animation Studios films include Inside Out, Finding Dory, The Incredibles, Ratatouille and Good Dinosaur.

iflix also recently added Rango and The Adventures of Tintin, as well as local hits Upin & Ipin and Upin & Ipin: Jeng Jeng Jeng to its children’s portfolio.

Sean Carey, iflix’s group chief content officer, said: “Kids is a core segment we are focusing on this 2018. User metrics reveal increasing and sustained engagement. We have seen tremendous growth in usage stats, with a 74 percent increase in session times on kids’ content, including a 630 percent jump in minutes viewed in 2017 compared to 2016. We are thrilled that both our young and young-at-heart users can now easily discover and enjoy some of the world’s best studios, brands and titles for kids—unscheduled and on-demand.”