San Diego, CA, February 12, 2025 - The Youth Media Alliance (YMA) wishes to congratulate the Canadian winners of the 2025 Kidscreen Awards, which took place last night as part of the Kidscreen Summit 2025 in San Diego, CA! The Kidscreen Awards celebrate excellence in youth production on an international scale. Kidscreen Awards is a high-profile celebration of children’s content excellence paying tribute to outstanding TV and digital media work that keeps kids and families entertained worldwide.

PRESCHOOL
Best Inclusivity
Let’s Go, Bananas! – 9 Story Media Group, Brown Bag Films

KIDS
Best Animated Series
LEGO Pixar – LEGO Entertainment, Atomic Cartoons
 
TWEENS/TEENS 
Best Kids–Only Streaming Service
TVOKids 

PRESCHOOL
Best Learning App—Branded
PAW Patrol Academy – Spin Master

KIDS 
Best Web/App Series—Original
Street Cents – CBC Kids

Best Alternative Game
Toca Boca World – Spin Master
 
 

Canadians on the Jury
Many Canadians were on the Kidscreen Awards jury this year:

 
2025 PROGRAMMING JUDGES 
Swin Chang 
Executive in Charge of Development 
& Production CBC Kids 

Kirsten Hurd 
Commissioning Editor 
TVOKids 

Marie McCann 
Senior Director, Children's Content 
CBC Kids 

Katie Wilson 
VP, Global Sales & Acquisitions 
WildBrain
 
2025 BEST INCLUSIVITY JUDGES 
Rennata Lopez 
Co-CEO, Executive Producer & Director 
Lopii Productions 

Tom McGillis 
President 
Fresh TV 

2025 DIGITAL JUDGES 
Steve Couture 
Chief Executive Officer, Epic Storyworlds and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Epic Story Media 
Epic Storyworlds 

Marc De Vellis 
Global Head of Studios, Digital Games 
Spin Master 

The Kidscreen Summit, North America’s largest international market for youth content, bringing together more than 2,200 participants from around the world, continues for its final day of conferences and special events organized by Brunico. The Canadian delegation, for its part, consisted of 225 delegates representing 132 companies. Now in its 16th year, the Kidscreen Awards program typically receives more than 500 entries from around the world in 50-plus categories spanning programming, broadcasting and digital media. Winners were announced at a prestigious awards ceremony during Kidscreen Summit 2025 (February 9-12, San Diego), the global kids entertainment industry’s largest gathering of the year.

Partners
YMA would like to thank its loyal partners, Creative BC, Ontario Creates, Société de développement des entreprises culturelles (SODEC), Téléfilm Canada and the Canada Media Funds (CMF).