WildBrain’s Rev & Roll zooms into the global market

The CGI-animated preschool series has been picked up in more than 25 territories, including China, Germany, France, Italy, Russia and Australia.

WildBrain and Alpha Group’s preschool series Rev & Roll has been sold to more than 40 broadcasters from over 25 territories.

Season one of the CGI-animated series, which follows the adventures a young boy and his lively truck companion, has landed on a number of channels in China, including CCTV-14, Golden Eagle Cartoon, Haxuan Cartoon, JiaJia Cartoon and Youman Cartoon, as well as on SVOD platforms IQIYI, Manga TV, Tencent and YOUKU. WildBrain inked a deal with Alpha Group in 2018 to distribute Rev & Roll toys in China, as well as additional territories in Asia, MENA and Russia.

Additional territory sales include in Germany (SUPER RTL), France (TF1), Italy (Turner’s Cartoonito), Russia (Karusel), Mexico (TV Azteca), Australia (Channel 9), Ireland (TG4), Portugal (Canal Panda), Norway (NRK Super), Sweden (SVT), Israel (Hop!), Indonesia (RVT) and New Zealand (TVNZ), to name a few.

In Canada, the series is available on WildBrain channel Family Jr., Radio-Canada’s ici.tou.tv Extra and Télémagino, as well as on Amazon’s Prime Video. It has also been made available on AVOD platforms such as YouTube channel WildBrain Spark, Tubi, Pluto TV, XUMO, Ketchup TV, Crackle and the Roku Channel, with distribution in Canada, the U.S., Brazil, the U.K. and Australia.

“Bolstered by its strong performance on our WildBrain Spark YouTube network, we think Rev & Roll has excellent potential as a global brand, and we’re equally excited about the toy program rolling out from Alpha Group,” said WildBrain president Josh Scherba in a statement.