Cake Entertainment


Cake Entertainment Limited is an independent company specialising in the production, distribution, financing and development of kids' and family entertainment brands.
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History

CAKE works with producers of animation and live-action content, including Rovio Entertainment Ltd, Ragdoll Productions, Fresh TV, Channel X and Animation Collective.
In addition, CAKE partners with production companies such as Anima Estudios, Paper Owl Films, TeamTO, Thuristar, Cheeky Little Media and Kickstart Entertainment co-producing new entertainment material and developing these brands.
In late-March 2006, Cake Entertainment had enterted the distribution activities by partnerning with Dutch development & production company Hoek, Line & Thinker to form a joint-venture distribution division called Cake Distribution with Tom van Waveren becoming president of the new distribution arm.
In December 2009, Cake Entertainment enterted the video platform service by partnering with young animator Junior Jesman and London-based animation production studio Blue Zoo Animation Studio to develop & produce an animated web series entitled If I Was... for French streaming network Dailymotion with Blue Zoo Animation Studio would provide & develop animation services while Cake Entertainment would distribute the series online.
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.
In 2011, Spanish producer Zinkia Entertainment acquired a 51% majority stake in CAKE, who became the licensor for various Zinkia properties including Pocoyo. The stake was purchased back by the Cake's management in July 2014 after Zinkia Entertainment entered administration.
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.
In 2018, Cake was most voted "Best International Distributor" by Animation Magazine and No 2 Distributor in Kidscreen’s 2018 Hot50.
In March 2021, Cake Entertainment announced a restructure of its operations with them creating its own in-house production arm called Cake Productions Ltd that would support an increasing volume of its development and production activities such as Supa Team 4 whilst Cake Entertainment would distribute its upcoming in-house productions from its production division Cake Productions Ltd as the company had also restructured its distribution services with its co-founder & CEO Tom van Waveren stepping down his role at Cake Entertainment after 15 years as Cake Entertainment's CCO and managing director Ed Galton had become the new CEO of Cake Entertainment whilst its financial director Cat Seddon became Cake's newly created COO role.
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.
In 2024, Cake acquired the brand and back catalogue of Jetpack Distribution, which was liquidated and closed down a month earlier.
Cake Entertainment is based in London and is led by Ed Galton.

Distribution

Pre-school/Bridge

6-12

Live-action

Productions

Popcorn Digital

Founded by CAKE, Popcorn Digital is a kids' and family digital content creator. 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.