Cake Entertainment

Cake Entertainment Limited^[1] (stylised as CAKE, formerly Cake Distribution) is an independent company specialising in the production, distribution, financing and development of kids’ and family entertainment brands.^[2]

Cake Entertainment Limited

Formerly	Cake Distribution
Company type	Private
Industry	Entertainment
Founded	2002; 23 years ago (2002)
Headquarters	London, England, UK
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	Edward Galton
Services	Production Distribution
Divisions	Cake Distribution
Subsidiaries	CakeStart Entertainment (joint-venture with Kickstart Entertainment)
Website	cakeentertainment.com

History

CAKE works with producers of animation and live-action content, including Rovio Entertainment Ltd, Ragdoll Productions, Fresh TV, Channel X and Animation Collective.^{[citation needed]}

In addition, CAKE partners with production companies such as Anima Estudios (Space Chickens in Space for Disney EMEA), Paper Owl Films (Pablo for CBeebies), TeamTO (Angelo Rules, Mighty Mike), Thuristar (Mush-Mush and the Mushables), Cheeky Little Media and Kickstart Entertainment co-producing new entertainment material and developing these brands.^{[citation needed]}

At the start of September 2010, Genevieve Dexter who had co-founded British entertainment & distribution company Cake Entertainment had sold her majority stake of the distirbution company Cake Entertainment to co-founder & co-director of the company Tom van Waveren.^[3]

In 2011, Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment acquired a 51% majority stake in CAKE, who became the licensor for various Zinkia properties including Pocoyo.^[4] The stake was purchased back by the Cake's management in July 2014 after Zinkia Entertainment entered administration.^[5]

In March 2017, Cake Entertainment teamed up with Australian animation production company Studio Moshi to establish a joint-venture Irish animation production company based in Dublin called Gingerbread Animation with the new Irish joint venture animation production studio would produce & develop its own animated series whilst Cake Entertainment would handle distribution to Gingerbread Animation's productions as the new joint venture animation studio would also handle production services for third-party companies.^[6][7]

In 2018, Cake was most voted "Best International Distributor" by Animation Magazine^[8] and No 2 Distributor in Kidscreen’s 2018 Hot50.^[9]

In May 2021, Cake Entertainment announced it had partnered with Canadian animation studio & production company Kickstart Entertainment with the establishment of their joint-venture production company named CakeStart Entertainment that would develop and produce kids & family live-action films and television series with former Disney Branded Television original series alum Kory Lunsford leading the joint-venture production company CakeStart Entertainment as its president whilst Cake Entertainment would handle distribution to CakeStart's productions worldwide.^[10][11]

In 2024, Cake acquired the brand and back catalogue of Jetpack Distribution, which was liquidated and closed down a month earlier.^[12][13]

Cake Entertainment is based in London and is led by Ed Galton.^{[dubious – discuss]}

Distribution

Pre-school/Bridge

• Kiri and Lou^[14]
• Pablo^[15]
• Kiddets^[16]
• The WotWots
• Space Racers
• Ready Jet Go!^{[citation needed]}
• Olobob Top
• Wanda and the Alien
• Toby's Travelling Circus
• Ellen's Acres
• Lah-Lah’s Adventures
• Woozle & Pip
• Ella Bella Bingo
• Tish Tash
• Tom & the Slice of Bread with Strawberry Jam & Honey
• Poppy Cat
• Get Well Soon
• Aesop’s Theater
• The Razzberry Jazzberry Jam
• Tiny Planets
• B.O.T. and The Beasties^[17]
• Weather Hunters
• Lucas the Spider

6-12

• Mighty Mike
• Angelo Rules
• My Knight and Me
• Angry Birds Toons
• Angry Birds Stella
• Piggy Tales
• Angry Birds Blues
• Angry Birds: Summer Madness
• Bottersnikes & Gumbles
• Trunk Train
• Plankton Invasion
• Dennis the Menace and Gnasher
• Clay Kids
• Doodlez
• Stoked
• King Arthur's Disasters
• Kappa Mikey^{[citation needed]}
• Hareport
• Eliot Kid
• Three Delivery
• HTDT
• Thumb Wrestling Federation
• Frozen in Time
• The Naughty List
• Abominable Christmas
• Under Wraps
• A Monsterous Holiday
• Dear Dracula
• Jorel's Brother

Live-action

• So Awkward
• The Sparticle Mystery
• Incredible Crew
• Dead Gorgeous
• Aifric

Productions

Title	Years	Network	Notes
Total Drama	2007–present	CBBC[18][19] Cartoon Network Canada (Canada) Cartoon Network[20] (United States)	co-production with Fresh TV
Skunk Fu!	2008	BBC One/CBBC TG4/RTÉ One (Ireland)	co-production with Cartoon Saloon
Oscar's Oasis[21]	2010–2011	Canal+ Family, Teletoon+ & TF1 (France) EBS (South Korea)	co-production with TeamTO and Tuba Entertainment
Olobob Top	2017–2019	CBeebies S4C (Wales)	co-production with Beakus and Cloth Cat Animation
Space Chickens in Space[22][23]	2018–2019	Disney XD 9Go![24] (Australia)	co-production with Gingerbread Animation, Ánima Estudios and Studio Moshi
Dodo[25]	2021–present	Sky Kids	co-production with Wildseed Studios, Telegael, Toonz Media Group and Ingenious Media
Pretty Freekin Scary[26]	2023	Disney Channel	via CakeStart Entertainment co-production with Disney Branded Television, Cloudco Entertainment, Kickstart Entertainment and Apt. 11H Productions
Supa Team 4[27]	2023	Netflix	Previously titled as Mama K Team 4[28] co-production with Triggerfish Animation Studios and Superprod Studio
Armorsaurs[29]	2025–present	Disney XD[30]	co-production with MGA Entertainment and MGA Studios

• Angry Birds: Summer Madness
• Pablo (CBeebies, RTÉjr)
• Angelo Rules (TéléTOON+, Super RTL, France Télévisions)^[31]
• Bottersnikes and Gumbles (Netflix, CBBC, 7 )
• Hareport
• Nikhil & Jay (CBeebies)

Popcorn Digital

Founded by CAKE, Popcorn Digital is a kids' and family digital content creator.^[32] It works with leading brands including Angry Birds, Pablo, Ferly, Angelo Rules and Oscar’s Oasis.

Popcorn Digital is led by Matt Lieberman, a producer of YouTube content with over 10 years experience in the digital media industry and a deep passion for animation, audience development, and emerging technologies.

Matt has driven over 1M followers and 500M views for clients including Warner Bros Discovery, FOX Entertainment and Group Nine Media.