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Licensing


Share our characters with your worlds!


Immedium is an idea factory. Working with talented artists around the world, we aim to create new faces and narratives for contemporary kids and adults to enjoy.

The rights agency DropCap represents our books for foreign languages. Covering a rainbow of genres for leading publishers, DropCap has made contracts in 120 countries and in more than 180 languages.

Contact DropCap to sell our titles in your markets. Reach interested readers in other countries with our appealing stories.

The following are examples of our success stories!



A. The Octonauts


Dog As the publisher of the original four books in The Octonauts series, created by the authors Meomi, Immedium introduced the crew to appreciative American audiences. Due to popular demand, we published sequels to made a four book series that won unfettered acclaim.

Recently we've been proud that The Octonauts have launced as an animated TV show, which is sailing across the globe into the hearts of viewers.

Licensing Track Record


Property Licensee: Chorion UK

Broadcasters:
  • USA: Disney Junior in 2012
  • UK: BBC Cbeebies: www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/octonauts/
  • - Listen to the Theme Tune
    - Dance to the Creature Report
    - Play at the TV show's site: www.theoctonauts.com
  • France: TF1 Les Octonauts
  • Germany: "Die Oktonauten" on Super RTL and Disney Junior
  • Ireland: RTE
  • Canada: Yoopa
  • Portugal: RTP
  • South Africa: MNet
  • Japan: Disney Junior
  • Italy, India and SE Asia: Disney Junior
  • Thailand: Truevisions
  • South America: Los Octonautas on Discovery Kids
  • Brazil: Discovery Kids Brasil
  • Australia: ABC ABC
  • Scandinavia: YLE, DR and TV2 Norway
  • Middle East: Al Jazeera Children's Channel
  • Israel: Hop!

  • Toys: Fisher Price (worldwide master toy license)

  • Book Series: Foreign Rights Translations:
    - UK and non USA English speaking territories: Harper UK
    - Scandinavia and Germany: Sandviks
    - Brazil: Editora Saraiva
    - Our agents: Harper UK and Japan Uni (Japan)



    B. E-books


    Our children's books are now available online as e-books on platforms such as Epic, Apple iTunes, Google Books, Overdrive, Hoopla, and ComicsPlus. Certain titles are available on Amazon Kindle and Nook (Barnes and Noble).

    People can read our e-books by digitally reserving them through public libraries nationwide.

    All of Immedium's kids books are on Epic. Students love our adventures because of their vibrant illustrations and interesting subjects. Plus many of our stories on Epic feature audio with narration and sound effects!

    Designed for unlimited discovery and unmatched safety, Epic is the leading digital reading platform for kids. Built on a collection of 40,000+ popular, high-quality books, audiobooks and videos from 250+ of the world's best publishers, Epic reaches more than 75 million kids in homes and classrooms and fuels curiosity and reading confidence. Epic has made access free to educators and more than 2 million teachers use it in the classroom.



    We have dozens of more stories with tremendous potential, and look forward to hearing your interest.




    The Next Step


    Howl If you wish to license, serialize, or translate our material, please write Immedium. The books and media Immedium publishes are protected under copyright law, and no permissions are granted verbally or by email.

    We welcome your inquiries regarding copying material for educational use, or licensing subsidiary rights for republication, translation, adaptation into other media (TV, film, etc.) or merchandising. Your permission request should include the following:

    1) The book you are interested in
    - Title
    - Author
    - ISBN

    2) Your company information and proposal
    - title of your book, magazine, newspaper, or publication
    - proposed date of publication
    - price
    - print run (or number of copies desired)
    - territories you need permission for (US, US and Canada, world, etc.)

    3) Your contact information
    - contact name and mailing address
    - phone and fax number
    - email address and web site

    4) Any other information that may help us evaluate your request.

    Incomplete requests will be returned to you for completion. Permission fees may vary, since requests are evaluated on an individual basis.



    Where to send:


    Howl Send your complete proposal to:

    Licensing/Permissions
    Immedium
    P.O. Box 31846
    San Francisco, CA
    94131

    We aim to respond within one month, so please contact us if you have not gotten a reply by then.

    We look forward to hearing from you!