Ankama has announced a major agreement with Netflix, the world’s leading online TV network which brings the hit animated series “Wakfu” to a global audience of over 50 million Netflix members.
Ankama is an independent French media group headquartered in Northern France.
Wakfu is an epic fantasy adventure series that has already captured the hearts of the French public. The two season series has won numerous awards including International Studio of the Year at the 2010 Cartoons on the Bay awards in Italy. It was also named the best non-Japanese animated series of 2011 by readers of French magazine Animeland.
“This partnership represents very high visivility and a strong growth opportunity for Ankama,” said Olivier Comte, Managing Director and Chief Operating Officer at Ankama.
“We are very excited to be working with Netflix. We can now take a great French series across the globe, with just one agreement. It is incredibly motivating for our young and growing team of about 500 employees.”
Netflix delivers a broad variety of content across 40 countries – TV series and movies including many titles for kids.
The Wakfu series spans across two seasons featuring 52 episodes of 26 minutes each.
The Wakfu series is now available (from 14 Sept) in the US, Canada, UK, Ireland, Netherlands and Nordics. Wakfu will debut in France, Germany, Belgium and Luxemburg and across Latin America this fall.
Initial reactions
Having met up with the Ankama team in Kuala Lumpur recently, you can be sure of more good things to come from the French company including the Wakfu series coming to Malaysian TV.
If you’ve played their critically-acclaimed MMORPG Wakfu, then you’ve already had a taste of what this company can do. In fact, unknown to most in this region – Ankama is a trans-media company involved in online games, animation, publishing, press, music, merchandise, toys, games for consoles and mobile devices.
