YouTube’s ninth-largest channel gets bought out
By Bloomberg
15 September 2018 |
7:57 am
Little Baby Bum, YouTube’s 9th most-watched channel, has been bought by an agency called Moonbug, which may use the channel to pursue other YouTube-based companies in hopes of building scale and pooling resources, according to Little Baby Bum co-founder Derek Holder.
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