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- Your Family Entertainment AG is a Germany-based media and entertainment company engaged in the production, acquisition, licensing, and broadcast distribution of family-friendly and children's content across linear television, digital streaming, and connected television platforms worldwide. Founded in 1981 as Ravensburger Film + TV GmbH and headquartered in Grünwald, Germany, the company operates primarily through two core business segments: Content Production and Licensing, and Broadcasting and Digital Platform Distribution.
The company's core product and service portfolio comprises: linear television channels, including Fix&Foxi Channel, an international pay-TV and FAST channel broadcasting animated and live-action children's entertainment across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, and the Americas; RiC TV, a free-to-air family and children's television channel broadcast across German-speaking Europe in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland; and RiC International (RiC.today), a multilingual educational and entertainment channel delivering language-learning programming in English, German, and Spanish; proprietary content licensing and syndication services, managing an intellectual property library of more than 3,500 half-hours of non-violent, prosocial animated and live-action programming featuring European animation classics and contemporary franchises such as Fix and Foxi, Urmel, Dragon Hunters, Shadow of the Elves, Altair, Bob's Beach, and various literary adaptations; and digital streaming, video-on-demand (VOD), and free ad-supported streaming television (FAST) solutions, delivering branded applications and linear streaming feeds through connected TV manufacturers, mobile platforms, and OTT aggregators including Samsung TV Plus, LG Channels, Rakuten TV, Pluto TV, VIDAA, Xiaomi TV+, and Amazon Freevee.
Your Family Entertainment AG serves television broadcasters, telecommunications operators, cable networks, IPTV providers, and global digital streaming platforms across Europe, the Middle East, Africa, Asia-Pacific, and the Americas, maintaining distribution partnerships with major network operators such as Deutsche Telekom, Vodafone, Orange, A1 Telekom Austria, Etisalat, and StarTimes.
In recent strategic developments, the company formed a major global alliance with US-based entertainment company Kartoon Studios (formerly Genius Brands International, Inc.), which acquired a significant controlling equity stake in Your Family Entertainment AG to accelerate global content expansion, shared IP monetization, and international distribution; launched and expanded international localized feeds of Kartoon Channel! across Europe, the Middle East, and Asia-Pacific utilizing the company's European broadcast licenses; accelerated the expansion of its FAST and digital platform distribution through multi-territory pacts with smart TV operating systems such as VIDAA OS, Titan OS, and Netgem; integrated artificial intelligence-assisted localization and dubbing technologies to optimize multi-language adaptation and rapid international distribution of its content library; and expanded its direct-to-consumer and FAST monetization network through programmatic digital advertising partnerships.