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  • ChuChu TV: It began with a dad’s love for his daughter

    By Rediff.com in rediff.com

    It started simply enough. Vinoth Chandar wanted to amuse his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Harshita, affectionately nicknamed ChuChu. That is how the Chennai-based techie made an animation character based on her. It sang nursery rhymes and songs, and his daughter loved them; but so did thousands of kids from around the world when he uploaded a couple of videos on the Web in 2013. Chandar then got together with four friends to set up ChuChu TV Studios. B M Krishnan rewrote the lyrics...Read Full Article

     
  • How ChuChu TV is reinventing kids’ entertainment

    By Kohli-Khandekar in Business-Standard.com

    It started simply enough. Vinoth Chandar wanted to amuse his two-and-a-half-year-old daughter Harshita, affectionately nicknamed ChuChu. That is how the Chennai-based techie made an animation character based on her. It sang nursery rhymes and songs, and his daughter loved them; but so did thousands of kids from around the world when he uploaded a couple of videos on the Web in 2013. Chandar then got together with four friends to set up ChuChu TV Studios. B M Krishnan rewrote the lyrics of...Read Full Article

     
  • An Indian dad turned his daughter’s favourite nursery rhymes into a million-dollar business on YouTube

    By Manu Balachandran in QZ.com

    Vinoth Chandar has music in his blood. Through the 1980s and 90s, his father Chandrabose had been a music composer in Tamil Nadu’s film industry. He had worked in over 250 movies, including those featuring superstar Rajinikanth. Yet, Chandar himself never showed much interest in the field. However, things changed in 2011, when the software engineer became a dad—he fondly calls his daughter Harshita, Chu Chu. Over the next few years, Chandar would sing lullabies at night to put her to...Read Full Article

     
  • Local edutainment channel mulls merchandising route

    By Bijoy Bharathan in dtnext.in

    ChuChu TV Studios, a media and technology firm based in the city, is the creator of the YouTube channel that has the distinction of being the fastest growing in the edutainment and pre-school learning space on the video-sharing site. The group of channels in ChuChu TV gets about 800 mn views a month. C Vinoth Chandar, CEO and Creative Director ChuChu TV tells us, “Our first animated video Chubby Cheeks, had about six iterations and garnered about 3 lakh videos in two weeks, post upload. When...Read Full Article

     
  • YouTube Celebrates Tamil Nadu-Based Content Makers Chu Chu TV, Vikatan TV & Others

    By Sanjana Chakraborty in Silver Screen

    Earlier this afternoon, YouTube celebrated the work of high-profile content makers from Tamil Nadu for their contribution to local language online content. The panelists at the event included Tamil Nadu’s top content makers – Chu Chu TV, Vikatan TV, SIMCA, C4ETech, Sreenath Recipes, Put Chutney, and producer Kalaipuli S Thanu. It was an unlikely troupe: a software engineer, a former radio writer, a producer, an editor, and an HR professional. All of them are now creating original content...Read Full Article

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