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LOCAL PARENT-RUN BUSINESS REACHES 185 MILLION
GLOBAL VIEWS AND 200,000 YOU TUBE SUBSCRIBERS
Entertainment channel and YouTube sensation Toddler Fun
Learning, founded by Wirral parents Amalie and Christian
Hughes, is celebrating a busy month as they hit 185 million
views and reached 200,000 subscribers of their YouTube
channel. They have also launched a new app that allows their
content to be watched on the go and have been shortlisted
for the Family Entrepreneur of the Year category at the 2017
NatWest Great British Entrepreneur Awards.
Amalie and Christian created the channel when they became
frustrated that they couldn’t find the kind of content they were
looking for their then toddler. Fast forward four years and they
now have three full time staff and a talented team of over 20 local
creatives working on all elements of the business from design to
music and technology.
With a library of videos teaching children everything from
numbers, to telling the time and explaining gravity, Toddler Fun
Learning aims to create content that both parents and children
enjoy. The channel also includes shows such as Gecko’s Real
Vehicles which teaches children about important vehicles and
the dedicated crew that operate them such as volunteers from
the RNLI, or the North West Ambulance service. Christian and
Amalie live in West Kirby with their three children.
The new Toddler Fun Learning App has been developed following
requests from their audience who wanted to access the content
on the go. Rated 5* on the Educational App Store, their App
helps parents manage screen time - and avoid potential toddler
meltdowns - with the clever Parent Timer function. Creating a
safe environment for children to watch it allows parents to set a
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timer for five minutes up to one hour and when that time is up
the Goodbye Song plays, with the characters from the channel
singing goodbye and telling the child it’s time to go and play.
Amalie Hughes Co-Founder: “We’re so proud to have hit 185
million views of our content worldwide. What started as an idea
when our eldest son Josh was 2 has now turned into a business
where we can work with a local network of brilliant people. Being
parents ourselves definitely helps guide us – we create content
that we know our kids will love watching and a lot of the ideas
come from what our kids are interested in. We’ve now created
the App as we wanted the ability to download videos to watch on
the move but also control how much time they spend watching
the content. Kids are clever. They know when something hasn’t
finished and it causes meltdowns. No-one wants that, we’ve
learnt the hard way with that one, so now other parents don’t
have to.”
All of Toddler Fun Learning’s content is made with an educational
element and the App is supported by The Educational App Store
with a five-star rating. The Toddler Fun Learning app is free to
download and includes samples of the Toddler Fun Learning
content and the Parental Timer. For £1.99 per month, subscribers
get access to the full library of content as well as including new
weekly content, the Adventure Mode which allows them to
download videos to watch anytime, anywhere. The Toddler Fun
Learning app is available on the App Store for iPhone, iPad and
Apple TV.
For more information, please visit Toddler Fun Learning’s videos
at https://www.youtube.com/user/Toddlerfunlearning