Jason Barnard is an award-winning entrepreneur, innovator, author and keynote speaker. He’s the CEO and founder of Kalicube, a premium Digital Branding Consultancy in France and the United States. Jason specializes in Precision Brand Intelligence, giving business leaders control over how decision-makers perceive them on Google and AI when million-dollar decisions are at stake.
The Pattern of Success:
As founder of UpToTen Ltd., Jason built a global children's Entertainment: Entertainment refers to any activity, event, or media content designed to amuse, engage, or give pleasure to an audience. This can range from watching movies, attending concerts or plays, reading books, playing games, to" href="https://babyboomer.org/entertainment/">Entertainment powerhouse from the ground up. Starting with uptoten.com, he created an innovative edutainment platform offering over 1,000 educational games, songs, and activities for children aged up to ten. The website's success was phenomenal, exceeding 60 million visits and one billion page views and ranking among the world's top 10,000 most visited websites in 2007. The website won two Davey Awards from the Academy of Interaction & Visual Arts.
The company expanded into television, producing a 52-episode series with ITV International that aired on Playhouse Disney, competing directly with industry giants PBS, Sony Entertainment, and the BBC. UpToTen's success attracted significant partnerships with ITV International, Disney, Lagardere, and Orange telecommunications. Sir Tony Robinson narrated the first audio book in the Boowa and Kwala series and Jason lent his voice to a character in the TV series, a cartoon blue dog named Boowa.