Viacom18 and Turner India announce tie up for kidstuff

By A Correspondent

Viacom18 and Turner India have announced a strategic tie-up that will see Turner’s popular kids shows play on Viacom18’s Voot. With this tie-up,Voot adds a list of almost 100 characters that cut through broadcast affiliations.

Said Siddharth Jain, Senior Vice President and Managing Director, South Asia, for Turner India: “We at Turner are dedicated in engaging consumers and collaborators in new ways to develop immersive worlds that enable our fans to experience our brands, franchises and content wherever, whenever and however they like. The collaboration with Viacom18 is a strategic move towards achieving this objective of being where our fans are and we know from our own New Generations 2016 research that 71 percent of today’s plurals are mobile phone users and 30 percent of them are on surfing the internet.”

Launched earlier this year, Voot has a differentiated offering in the kids’ space, housing “Voot Kids” an especially created destination for kids online. Kids are known to be loyal to characters and Voot has bet big on its kids’ content.

Sudhanshu Vats, Group CEO, Viacom18 said, “Online kids content is one of the major white spaces that exists in the country today. Through a dedicated offering within Voot, called Voot Kids we had started our journey to create the largest online destination for kids’ content in India. This vision saw us aggregate content from both within our network brand Nick and outside, to launch with over 7000 videos of kids content. This strategic partnership with Turner India will further bolster our content repository for Voot Kids. Additionally, this also brings two powerhouses of kids’ content on a singular platform to bring forth the best viewing experience for our loyal little viewers.”

“With close to one-fifth of all viewing on Voot coming in for Voot Kids already, we clearly have managed to catch the attention of one of the most discerning audiences and the true digital natives. With this multi-year strategic tie-up with Turner India, we are adding to the depth and variety of content for this audience,” explained Gandhi, COO, Viacom18 Digital Ventures.

This first ever industry strategic tie-up will see Voot hosting Turner India’s popular kids’ shows like The Powerpuff Girls, Ben 10, Dexter’s Laboratory, Roll No. 21, Samurai Jack, Johnny Bravo and M.A.D. In addition to this, Voot has its inhouse franchises like Dora, Motu Patlu and Sponge Bob, and all the Nick shows as well as over 7000 new videos on the app and website. Voot already hosts Chotta Bheem and Mighty Raju that run on Turner India’s broadcast channels Cartoon Network and Pogo, and Pokemon that airs on Disney’s broadcast network.

It surely means more fun for kids on the digital space.