Over the past year, the number of licensed properties lending their names to crypto meme coins has started to rise. Meme coins are digital assets that are based on pop culture and social media trends. They are mostly non-licensed, either original or borrowing on the fame of an existing trend; the latter situation sometimes leads […]
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Pet Projects
The pet category has long been an active one for licensing deals and collaborations in the U.S., and new agreements are still being announced regularly, despite the crowded landscape. Recently, there has been a burst of activity outside the U.S., with new partnerships coming to light in the last several months across the globe: In […]
Kickstarting New Content
Some of the most successful crowdfunding programs to date have been those supporting the creation of new content based on classic characters: Aardman Animations ran a campaign to relaunch Morph, a stop-motion-animated character that had not appeared on television for 15 years. It generated £110,000 ($158,390) to fund 15 one-minute episodes for YouTube; U.K. children’s […]