HooplaKidz is a children's musical educational website and YouTube series aimed at pre-school kids. The site features educational videos and games that revolve around nursery rhymes, pre-k content, basic numbers and language learning, kids’ recipes, art and craft, and children's entertainment. HooplaKidz is owned by YoBoHo, which was acquired in April 2015 by BroadbandTV. The main HooplaKidz YouTube channel was opened on June 7, 2010, and HooplaKidz content typically centers around Annie, her dog Ben, and their monkey friend Mango. In 2015, the HooplaKidz website was launched.
YouTube
HooplaKidz's YouTube videos are held on separate channels, each of which is devoted to a specific topic.
HooplaKidz Recipes is a kids-centric channel that has videos related to cooking and healthy eating.
The HooplaKidz How To is an arts and crafts channel for kids. The videos encourage kids to watch and create simple crafts items using papers, scissors, glue, and play-doh.
The HooplaKidz Sing Along channel hosts karaoke videos of popular nursery rhymes for kids. These videos are animated versions of the rhymes and feature the HooplaKidz characters.
HooplaKidz Style is a channel with fashion and style content catering to kids. It has many DIY styled videos and trend tips.
HooplaKidz Doodle is a channel with designs and colors of several cartoon characters.
Characters
Annie: Annie is shown as an inquisitive and adventurous young girl that enjoys singing, dancing, collecting photographs and other mnemonics that remind her of the things she's learned.
Ben: Ben is Annie's pet dog and is often referred to on the show as her best friend. They are always seen together in every episode
Mango: Mango is a mischievous monkey that will do anything to get his favorite foods, bananas.
Merchandise
Several pieces of merchandise have been created such as DVD collections of the channel's content, keychains, and two mobile apps called HooplaKidz Rain Rain Go Away and HooplaKidz Preschool Party, the latter of which won a 2015 Parents' Choice Award.
Reception
rated the HooplaKidz website at three stars, praising the website for being kid safe while also criticizing its videos for featuring "pretty consistent advertising -- Google ads appear on-screen while kids play -- which parents may not be crazy about".
