Little Baby Bum

Little Baby Bum
Personal information
Born June 22nd, 2011
Origin United Kingdom
Website littlebabybum.com
YouTube information
Channel LittleBabyBum
Years active 2011–present
Genre Education
Subscribers 8.6 million +
Total views 10.2 billion +
Subscriber and view counts updated as of 29 November 2016.

Little Baby Bum (also known as LBB and LittleBabyBum) is the number one educational channel on YouTube (by both number of views and subscribers, of all time),[1] with more than 8.6 million subscribers and over 10.2 billion views, making it the most viewed UK channel of all time,[2] and the 9th most viewed channel of all time (worldwide).[3][4]

Little Baby Bum specialises in 3D animation videos of both traditional nursery rhymes and their own original children's songs. London based Derek Holder teamed up with his wife to design videos that reflected classic nursery rhymes, with a modern aesthetic.[4] Little Baby Bum is also available in six additional languages; Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, German, French and Japanese. The Spanish LBB channel now has 1.8 million subscribers and 1.3 billion views as of 29 November 2016.

LBB Junior, a spin-off from LittleBabyBum, aimed at older children (4 to 6 years) was launched on 3 June 2016.

History

Little Baby Bum uploaded their first video, Twinkle Twinkle Little Star, to YouTube on 29 August 2011. This was followed up, four months later, with their second upload, Baa Baa Black Sheep, a more complex and slightly longer video.[4][5]

Little Baby Bum's popularity increased after the release of their 2nd compilation videos of approximately one hour of duration, simply by stringing individual videos into long form videos. The initial thinking was so that “parents wouldn't have to keep pressing the play button after each video had finished”.[4]

In 2014, the OpenSlate company published a list with YouTube’s 10 most profitable channels of 2014, including Little Baby Bum in 4th position.[6]

Rankings

With over 1.68 billion views, Little Baby Bum's “Wheels On The Bus | Plus Lots More Nursery Rhymes | 54 Minutes Compilation”[7] is the eleventh most viewed video of all time, the second most viewed non-music video of all time, and the thirteenth most disliked video of all time.[8][9] This video has the highest watch time of any video on YouTube, surpassing Psy's "Gangnam Style", is the first non-music video to reach 1 billion views and is the 10th fastest video to get to 1 billion views.[10]

Merchandise

LittleBabyBum signed a licensing deal to launch a set of plush toys of its main characters, extracted from the traditional English nursery rhymes, like Incy Wincy Spider or Baa Baa Black Sheep.[11] This deal has been signed with Commonwealth Toy, the same company that makes plush versions of Angry Birds, and also distributes products for Care Bears and SpongeBob.[11] This is the first time that a children's YouTube channel makes the move to physical toys.[11]

The plush toys went on general release on 18 May 2016.

Parragon Books have signed a multiple book deal with initial release dates for end of 2016.[12]

Other platforms

Little Baby Bum is now available on other video platforms including Netflix,[13] Sky TV [14] and Ketchup TV.[15]

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