Paris, 12 July 2023: Emmy Award-winning French animation production and distribution company Dandelooo has announced a deal for several of its successful animated series.

The package deal finalized by Dandelooo’s International Sales & Acquisitions Manager Melissa Vega sees Youku, one of the leading online video and streaming platforms in China, acquire over 420 episodes for its kid’s channel Youku Kids.

Programmes in the deal include the preschool series Hungry Bear Tales, Our Piggy, Kiwi, Kosmix, Cubs, and Pompon Little Bear.

“We are excited to work with Dandelooo to bring its great content to Youku and China,” said Ms Shuhsin CHENG Head of International Animation Acquisition & IP Investment Youku Kids. “Youku Kids provides young viewers with enriching and engaging content that broadens their global horizons, through captivating aesthetics, storytelling, and creativity. We are looking forward to introduce more inspiring and diverse content to our young audience in China.”

About Dandelooo
Dandelooo is a French award-winning creative company based in Paris dedicated to the development, production, and distribution of original and ambitious animated programs.

Dandelooo has commenced production on the ambitious The Upside Down River (8 x 22′), a serialized series for kids based on the cult novel by Jean Claude Mourlevat and the pre-school series Billy the Cowboy Hamster (52 x 11′), set for delivery in Q1 2024. The company’s key productions include the hybrid pre-school series The Treehouse Stories (three seasons on air, the 4th season now complete and airing on Canal+ and two theatrical films), which won an International Emmy Kids Award in 2017, Stinky Dog (52 x 11′) for France Televisions and TV3 Catalunya, the wonderful TV Special Mum is pouring rain (winner of a Jury Award for a TV Special at Annecy 2021) for Canal+, Chico Chica Boumba commissioned by M6 and the animated feature film Houdini. Introduced at Cartoon Forum 2022 A Day with the Dogs is now in development and financing stage. Dandelooo is also developing loguis, an original project to initiate yoga for pre-schoolers and Let’s Go Gaston! targeted at 4- to 7-year-olds.

On the international sales front, Dandelooo is very proud to distribute a selection of the best TV Specials such as Shooom’s Odyssey (Annecy Cristal 2020 as best TV Special), the deeply meaningful Dounia and the 2D animation Margot and The Robot.

Dandelooo has its own studio, Ooolala, in la Cartoucherie (Valence, France) and sales offices in Barcelona and Milan.

About Youku
Youku is the third largest online longform video platform in China in terms of monthly active users in March 2022, according to QuestMobile. It enables users to search, view and share high-quality video content quickly and easily across multiple devices. Youku is part of Alibaba Group’s Digital Media and Entertainment Group.