Banijay Kids & Family

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Banijay Kids & Family
Formerly
  • Marathon Productions (1990–2001)
  • Marathon Media (2001–2015)
  • Zodiak Kids Studios (2016–2024)
Company type Subsidiary
Industry Television production
FoundedFebruary 1990;34 years ago (1990-02)
Founders
Headquarters,
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Benoît Di Sabatino (CEO) [1]
Parent
Website www.banijaykidsandfamily.com
Former logo as Marathon Media (2006-2012) Marathon Media logo.png
Former logo as Marathon Media (2006–2012)
Another former logo as Zodiak Kids (2020-2021) Zodiak Kids.png
Another former logo as Zodiak Kids (2020–2021)

Banijay Kids & Family (formerly known as Marathon Media, Marathon Animation, Marathon Productions, Marathon Media Group, Zodiak Kids, Zodiak Kids Studios and ZodiakKids & Family) is a French television production company owned by Banijay Entertainment based in Neuilly-sur-Seine. The company was originally founded as Marathon Productions, by Olivier Brémond and Pascal Breton in February 1990, and Vincent Chalvon-Demersay joined the team in 1999 to develop Marathon's animation programming, along with David Michel. [2] The company is best known for the animated series Totally Spies! and LoliRock .

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History

On September 20 2005, Marathon Media announced that they made a merger deal with the French division of the European private firm Bridgepoint Capital who owns Tele Images to create a major production and distribution group in France. [3] The merger was completed a year later in 2006.

In July 2007, it was announced that Italian-based holding company De Agostini they had acquired the TV production and distribution company Marathon Group from Bridgepoint Capital, thus turning De Agostini from a multimedia company into a major European content production company.

In February 2008, Marathon Group announced that they acquired French independent production company KM Production combining KM's operations with Marathon's. [4]

Marathon was acquired by Zodiak Media in 2008. In February 2016, Zodiak Media merged with the Banijay Group, [5] and Marathon was folded within the process.

In 2024, Zodiak Kids Studios was renamed as Banijay Kids & Family, the Zodiak name still lives on, as part of the French and British studios .

Animation

These are the animated series produced by Banijay Kids & Family:

Live action

Documentary

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