HeyJaredKids Media Club Podcast
Kids Media Club Podcast is a podcast hosted by Jo Redfern, Andy Williams, and Emily Horgan. In each episode they chat with a different guest about the world of Kids Media. The podcast covers everything from trends in animation to the rise of Edtech.
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- Sep 3, 2026
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- Jul 9, 2026
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Live from the Australian Children's Content Summit: The State of Australian Kids Media — with Jenny Buckland, Suzanne Ryan, and More (opens the original)
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Emily has travelled to Coffs Harbour for the Australian Children's Content Summit, and this episode is her dispatches from the ground — a series of short, sharp conversations captured across the event with some of the key figures shaping Australian kids content right now. First up is Jenny Buckland, CEO of the Australian Children's Television Foundation, who gives the clearest account of what happened to the Australian kids content industry when commercial broadcaster quotas were dropped in 2020
How Bonkers Toys Built a Business on Digitally Native IP — with Lisa Wright and Julie Splendoria (opens the original)
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Emily is still in Australia, so Andy and Jo continue their deep dive into the toy industry with two guests from Bonkers Toys — Lisa Wright, Head of Licensing, and Julie Splendoria, VP of Marketing. It's a conversation that traces the arc from Slither.io and JoJo Siwa's bow to the present day, and makes a compelling case that Bonkers saw the YouTube-to-toy-aisle pipeline coming before almost anyone else in the industry. The origin story is a good one: Bonkers' CEO spotted the opportunity literall
Paw Patrol's Record Opening, the Bluey Movie Teaser, Coco 2, and Oswald the Lucky Rabbit — Andy and Jo's Trailer Roundup (opens the original)
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Emily is somewhere over the Middle East en route to Australia, so Andy and Jo have been let loose on the podcast control desk — new buttons and all. The result is a slightly more multimedia episode than usual, with trailers played in and reacted to in real time, and a genuinely good conversation about what the summer's animation slate says about where the industry is heading. Four things get the treatment. Paw Patrol: The Dino Movie has just posted the franchise's strongest opening weekend ever
Inside the Toy Industry's Purple Patch: Squishies, Kidults, Peppa Pig's Revival, and the Fast Fashion Toy Trend — with John Baulch of Toy World (opens the original)
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John Baulch, publisher of Toy World magazine and the author of the Friday blog that has survived every newsletter cull Jo has ever attempted, joins Andy, Emily, and Jo for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of the toy industry in 2026 — which, it turns out, is in remarkably good shape. John makes the case that the toy market is in a genuine purple patch: not driven by one breakout product creating supply chain chaos, but by four or five things working well simultaneously — Squishies, Po
Rerun: Original Animation IP and the Creator Cinema Revolution — Matthieu Zeller and Caspar Nadaud (opens the original)
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Jo and Emily are both away, so we’re revisiting two recent conversations that sit neatly together: one about the challenge of making original animated IP outside the Hollywood system, and one about the new frontier of creator-led cinema distribution. First up is Matthieu Zeller, president and CEO of Belgium's nWave Studios and the team behind the Chicken Hare franchise — a case study in how a European studio can build original animated IP on a fraction of a US studio budget, through loyal distri
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