According to IMDB, and many other sites I have come across, 'Adventure Time with Finn and Jake' is the most popular TV series on Cartoon Network, with a rating of 8.7 on IMDB and from 24,961 ratings and reviews.Also Ed, Edd, and Eddy, The Amazing World of Gumball, and The Regular Show are other popular TV shows aimed at a young audience. What is noticeable in these shows is that the main protagonist is alway quite thick, so the audience learn from their mistakes.
The three most successful animated feature length film at the box office released in 2013:
1) Frozen, with a gross of $396,581,728
2) Despicable Me 2, with a gross of $368,061,265
3) Monsters University, with a gross of $268,492,764
2012
1)Brave
2)Madagascar 3
3) Dr Suess Lorax
2011
1)Kung Fu Panda 2
2)The Smurfs
3)Cars 2
The trends found in these films is that a lot of them are either sequels, or franchise, which shows that a lot of people go to see the sequel to a film they know was good, and enjoyed. A lot of them appeal to a family audience, and there for more tickets are sold, and the genre for many of them is Adventure and Comedy. Almost all of them have Hollywood stars in them, for example, Steve Carrel, and Russel Brand star in the Despicable me sequel, and others include actors such as Michael Caine (Cars), John Goodman (Monsters University, and Jack Black (Kung Fu Panda 2).They also are 3D, and can be screened in 3D, and are computer generated.
The most watched animation on YouTube:
The Gummy Bear song with over 409 million views, and Tootin' Bathtub Baby Cousins, are two of the most watched animated YouTube clips, which most likely appeal to a younger audience, who probably watch it over and over again, where as the most watched animated short film on Vimeo is Muto, which only has a few million view in comparison to the popular youtube videos. The different between the most popular animated clip on youtube and Vimeo is that the Vimeo clips are more artistic and experimental, and the animation is more impressive, where as the YouTube clips animation is not so impressive, but the clips are humorous to a lot of people.
According to a few sites I came across, an animation called 'Fallen Kingdom' which is a Minecraft parody of Coldplay's song 'Viva la vida' was the most popular animation in 2013, with over 70 million views, although this year, with over 146 million view is a cover of a musical scene from Disney's feature length film Frozen, which was released in 2013.
From inspecting the genre, animation style, content and target audiences from each animation, I notice both similarities and differences. The similarities are that almost all of them are aimed at a young audience, and are bright, enthusiastic and positive. There is a range of both 2D and 3D animation, although the majority of the popular animations are 3D. The genres are similar, which are Adventure and Comedy for almost all off them, and the characters are all over exaggerated and have surreal features (excluding Frozen, which for an animation isn't that exaggerated in comparison). Lastly almost all of them appeal to both the female and male audience. The only one that doesn't apply to most of these similarities is the Mindcraft, as it is more popular with males, and aimed at a slightly older audience who play on the game.
Sources:
http://vidstatsx.com/youtube-top-100-most-subscribed-film-animation-channels
http://www.boxofficemojo.com/genres/chart/?id=animation.htm
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1305826/?ref_=nv_sr_3
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