In-demand chart: Kids TV Europe (September 11-17, 2017)

The top ten kids shows in Europe show old favourites reigning supreme across 34 territories.

Nickelodeon’s Spongebob Squarepants nabbed the top spot. Parrot Analytics data shows that 1.94 out of every 100 people in the territories have shown demand for the show.

The popular demand for the show worldwide has seen Spongebob receive the greenlight for its twelfth season, which will premiere in 2019 its 20th anniversary year.

Another Nickelodeon favourite, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, came in second place with 1.36 out of 100 people in the territories demanding the show. Nick’s iteration of the cartoon classic sees Donatello and co. as CGI animated characters, and the series has just reached its fifth season.

Rainbow’s Winx Club was the third most in-demand show in Europe, despite the fact that it’s currently on hiatus. It drew in 1.24 per 100 people. The eighth season is scheduled to premiere towards the end of 2018.

New iterations of classics such as My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic and Star Wars Rebels were also featured in the list with 0.76 and 0.63 out of 100 people demanding the shows, respectively.

Russian animated series Masha and the Bear featured in sixth place on the list with 0.79 out of 100 people demanding the show in Europe.

Cartoon Network’s popular toon Adventure Time also brought in 0.79 out of 100 people in the region.

Newer favourites on the list include Paw Patrol, which drew in 1.20 out of 100 people, Gravity Falls which drew in 1.06 and Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug and Cat Noir which drew in 0.67.

Shows produced, created and distributed by Nickelodeon performed the best, with three out of the ten shows appearing on Nick.

The countries queried between September 11-17 included: Albania, Austria, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Macedonia, Malta, Monaco, Montenegro, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Russian Federation, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, and United Kingdom.

Source and methodology: Parrot Analytics assesses demand for popular shows through various ‘demand expression platforms’ including social-media and photo-sharing platforms such as Facebook and Instagram, blogging and microblogging platforms such as Tumblr, wikis and informational sites, peer-to-peer protocols and file-sharing platforms. Parrot’s artificial-intelligence systems assess billions of data points to reach the overall demand rating.

To assess ‘demand expressions per capita’ Parrot evaluates the total audience demand being expressed for a title, within a country, on any platform, per 100 capita.