Genius Brands - M&A Summary and Business Overview

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Genius Brands M&A Summary

Genius Brands has acquired 1 company, including 1 in the last 5 years.

Genius Brands’ largest acquisition to date was in 2021, when it acquired WOW! Unlimited Media for $53M. The Company’s most targeted sectors include digital media (100%).

Genius Brands Business Overview

Where is Genius Brands headquartered?

Genius Brands is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California.

What is Genius Brands’ revenue?

Genius Brands disclosed revenue of 2M USD for 2020 and 6M USD for 2019.

What sector is Genius Brands in?

Genius Brands is a digital media company.

When was Genius Brands founded?

Genius Brands was founded in 2006.

M&A Summary

  • M&A Total Activity1
    • M&A Buy Activity1
  • Total Sectors Invested 1
  • Total Countries Invested 1

Genius Brands

Genius Brands International, Inc.

190 North Canon Drive 4th Floor,
Beverly Hills, California 90210
United States,
(310) 273-4222
www.gnusbrands.com

Genius Brands is a global kids media company developing, producing, marketing, and licensing branded children’s entertainment properties and consumer products for media and retail distribution. The Company’s ‘content with a purpose’ portfolio includes Stan Lee’s Superhero Kindergarten, starring Arnold Schwarzenegger, on Kartoon Channel!; Shaq’s Garage, starring Shaquille O’Neal, coming to Kartoon Channel! in 2022; Rainbow Rangers on Kartoon Channel! and Netflix; Llama Llama, starring Jennifer Garner, on Netflix; award-winning toddler brand Baby Genius; adventure comedy STEM series Thomas Edison's Secret Lab; and entrepreneurship series Warren Buffett's Secret Millionaires Club. Through licensing agreements with leading partners, characters from Genius Brands’ IP also appear on a wide range of consumer products for the worldwide retail marketplace. The Company’s new Kartoon Channel! and Kartoon Classroom! are available in over 100 million U.S. television households via a broad range of distribution platforms, including Comcast, Cox, DISH, Pluto TV, Sling TV, Amazon Prime, Amazon Fire, Apple TV, Apple i0s, Android TV, Android Mobil, Google Play, Xumo, Roku, Tubi, KartoonChannel.com, Samsung Smart TVs and LG TVs. Genius Brands was formed in 2006 and is based in Beverly Hills, California.


M&A Summary

Buy vs Sell

Year ≤ '19 '20 '21 '22 '23 '24 T
Buy (0.2/yr) # - - 1 - - - 1
vol $53M $53M
Sell (0.0/yr) # - - - - - - 0
  1

Most Recent M&A

Company Date Value Type
WOW! Unlimited Media, Inc. 2021-10-27 53M USD Add-on Acquisition
Vancouver, British Columbia · www.wowunlimited.co
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M&A by Sector

Sector Buy # Value Sell # Value
Digital Media 1 (100%) 53M (100%) - -
Total 1 $53M - -

By Geo

State/Country Buy Value Sell Value
Canada 1 53M - -
  British Columbia 1 53M - -
Total 1 $53M - -

Deal Values

buy # Total
< $100M 1 $53M
TOTAL $53M
Largest WOW! Unlimited Media, Inc.
$53M (2021-10-27)

Company Summary

SECTOR

Digital Media

Revenue

2   67% 2020
6   2019
(millions of USD)

Established

2006

Public

NASDAQ: GNUS

Former Name

Pacific Entertainment Corp.

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