Busy Beavers

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Busy Beavers
Personal information
NationalityNew Zealand
Website busybeavers.com
YouTube information
Channel
Years active2007-2022
Subscribers2.97 million [1]
Total views3.14 billion [1]
YouTube Silver Play Button 2.svg100,000 subscribers
YouTube Gold Play Button 2.svg1,000,000 subscribers
YouTube Diamond Play Button.svg10,000,000 subscribers

Last updated: 10 July 2022

Busy Beavers is an online children's edutainment program. It is aimed at parents and teachers of toddlers who speak English or are learning English as a second language, and parents of children with a learning disability, autism or delayed speech. The Busy Beavers YouTube channel and website provide interactive media to help teach children. Their YouTube channel has over 2 billion views, and over 2 million subscribers with Billy Beaver and Betty Beaver. [2]

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History

In 2004, Dave Martin created Busy Beavers as a company that produces children's educational videos on DVDs. In March 2007, he launched a YouTube channel called Busy Beavers TV that gives the subscribers all of Busy Beavers' existing videos ad-free and in high definition. [3]

In 2015, Busy Beavers joined the Channel Frederator Network and is by views the number one channel of the multi-channel network. [4]

In April 2016, Busy Beavers and Baby Beavers have both been added to Roku, [5] and Kidoodle.TV in September 2016. [6]

They have also created an app for iOS called Busy Beavers Jukebox.

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