About

Cocomelon (formerly ABC kidTV (2013 – 2018) and checkgate a.k.a ThatsMeOnTV.com (2006 – 2013)) is an American YouTube channel and streaming media show acquired by the British company Moonbug Entertainment and maintained by the American company Treasure Studio. Cocomelon specializes in 3D animation videos of nursery rhymes and original children's songs. As of July 2021, they are the most-viewed YouTube channel in the United States and the second most-viewed channel in the world, behind T-Series. They also are the most-subscribed children's channel in the world and the second most-subscribed channel in the world, behind T-Series. They became associated with memes about iPad Kids and Generation Alpha in general.

History

Videos

ThatsMEonTV

On September 1, 2006, Cocomelon was created on YouTube with videos "free education". Then known as ThatsMEonTV or checkgate, the channel uploaded two versions of the alphabet song to YouTube on first day The channel uploaded their third video 9 months later, titled "Learning ABC Alphabet – Letter "K" -- Kangaroo Game".^[1][2]

ABCkidTV

In 2013, the ABCkidTV era introduced a new intro and logo. The logo showed a TV with a ladybug on the upper left corner. The channel began remastering older videos followed by a transition from alphabet videos to nursery rhymes and longer video lengths. Within a few years the channel introduced 3D animation, with their first 3D character being used in Twinkle Twinkle Little Star on April 8, 2016. The video featured a 3D flying star guiding 2D characters through the sky. Towards the end of 2016, 3D animation video uploads became more frequent and longer.^[1][3]

Present day

In summer 2018, the company rebranded again to Cocomelon, introducing a new intro and outro to all their videos. They also added the present-day logo of a watermelon and a ladybug.^[1]

In April 2019, The Wall Street Journal estimated Cocomelon's yearly ad revenue at $120 million In late 2020, Cocomelon added content in Spanish and Portugues and in 2021 is added Chinese, German and Arabic^[1][2]

Rise in popularity

Cocomelon reached 1 million subscribers on May 16, 2016. Half month later, the channel reached one billion views. The following two years they grow with 400,000 subscribers per month to ten million subscribers and gained seven billion views. They started increasing rapidly with the release of "No No" Bedtime Song, released in July 2017 currently over 1 billion views.

Cocomelon had the second largest YouTube channel subscriptions gain in 2019 with an increase of over 36 million, ending the year on 67.4 million in channel subscriptions. In 2018, YouTube recommended Cocomelon's video "Bath Song" 650 times "among the 696,468 suggestions that Pew Research Center tracked" turning the most recommended video on YouTube. As of December 2021, that video has received over 4.7 billion views on YouTube and the 6th-most viewed video on the site. their second most popular video, "Wheels on the Bus", has received over 3.4 billion views.

In May and June 2019, Cocomelon received 2.5 billion video views. In July 2019, YouTube changed its algorithm after the Federal Trade Commission raised concerns over child safety. children's channels were affected, including Cocomelon, which "dropped from 575 million views the week before the change, to 436 million the week of, to 307 million the week after, and 282 million the week after that".^[1][2][4]

On December 12, 2020, Cocomelon became the third YouTube channel in the world to get 100 million subscribers.^[4]

Memes

Are We There Yet?

On Feb 28, 2018, Cocomelon Upload The Video Are We There Yet? | CoComelon Nursery Rhymes & Kids Songs
With +585 million views

On 10 Dez, 2018 SolarPhoofy Uploaded the first known and Most Viewed Video of ''Are We There Yet?'' meme, the video have 2.7 million views

in the meme have the song ''Are We There Yet?'' by Cocomelon and when in the song the Father Says let's play a game
the sound bursts with a car falling

PewDiePie Vs Cocomelon

On June 1, 2020, PewDiePie made his first video on Cocomelon, discussing about how they might end up being the biggest channel on YouTube. He mentioned T-Series and wanted to "team-up" with them to battle against Cocomelon. In addition, he said he would make a diss track on Cocomelon similar to the ones he made on T-Series.^[5]

Cocomelon Parody Intros

In PewDiePie's first video on Cocomelon, he mentioned how he wanted to get as popular as Cocomelon and decided to start putting in intro parodies of Cocomelon's intro into his videos. They were similar to the actual intros used in Cocomelon's videos but instead feature Felix's voice shouting "PewDiePie!" as well as the name PewDiePie in a similar font to that of what Cocomelon uses. Many fans of PewDiePie also contributed, making their own logo parodies using animation. As a result, many compilations of these intro parodies were made which became quite popular.^[5]

Disstrack

It is predicted Cocomelon will surpass PewDiePie at some point in 2021, becoming the second-most subscribed YouTube channel.In response to this, PewDiePie released Coco, a diss track targeted at Cocomelon on February 14, 2021. The video has since been removed from YouTube for harassment and cyberbullying policy.

Surpass

On 24/04/2021 Cocomelon Surpass PewDiePie

When PewDiePie Have 109,845,885 Subscribers(estimated)^[6]

Search Interest