Independent content production companies Audily and The Pop Ups today announced that they have joined forces in a business combination to bring first-class children’s musical and podcast content as well as live event services to the market from the Audily media collective.

Led by co-founders and three-time Grammy nominees Jason Rabinowitz and Jacob Stein, The Pop Ups are known as the go-to audio & musical production studio for well-known brands like Nickelodeon and for successfully bringing shows like Guy Raz’s “Wow in the World” into the live event space with partners including Live Nation, Wondery, Tinkercast and UTA. They describe themselves as a full-service creative audio production studio bringing humor, awesomeness, educational utility, and wild creativity to children's media.

“Jason and Jacob are extraordinarily creative and innovative both in what they’ve built and how they’ve built it,” said Matt Wells, president and co-founder of Audily. “Their productions are catchy,...