The original Angry Birds has been called "One of the most mainstream games out right now,"[5] "One of the great runaway hits of 2010",[6] and "The largest mobile app success the world has seen so far".

The deal was closed on 17 August 2023, rendering Sega the current owner of the Angry Birds brand alongside their subsidiary Rovio.

[56] To that end, Rovio has acquired a Helsinki-based animation studio to prepare Angry Birds short cartoons on for Nickelodeon Extra,[57][58] the first of which was a Christmas special named "Wreck the Halls" that debuted in December 2011.

Angry Birds Toons was released through third-party video distribution platforms, including Comcast's Xfinity On-Demand in the US, Samsung Smart TVs, and Roku set-top boxes.

On 3 July 2015, Rovio released the Rocket Science Show, an educational live-action-animated series, the NASA tell viewers facts about planets in the Solar System.

On 1 June 2018, U.S. television production company Big Fish Entertainment announced that they would be partnering with Rovio to create a game show based on Angry Birds currently[when?]

[67] An animated film adaptation, The Angry Birds Movie, was released on 20 May 2016[68] which fully anthropomorphizes the characters for the first time in franchise history, giving them limbs and voices.

Directed by the creator of The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack, Thurop Van Orman, the sequel breaks from the series' source material by having the Birds and Pigs ending their rivalry to form an alliance to battle a larger threat,[77] as well as becoming one of the most critically well-received video game film adaptations ever made, garnering an unprecedented score of 73% from Rotten Tomatoes.

[78] A second sequel, The Angry Birds Movie 3, was announced on 6 June 2024, with DNEG Animation and Rovio's new parent company Sega Sammy Group producing without the involvement of Sony Pictures.

[87] In 2012, Mattel produced Hot Wheels cars based on Angry Birds characters: Red, the Blues, Chuck, and a Minion Pig.

[88] In 2011, Rovio published a cookbook titled Bad Piggies: Egg Recipes, along with doodle books based on some characters of the game.

[95] In the summer of 2017, GoComics announced that it will be running a comic strip series based on the world of The Angry Birds Movie, with each issue available to view on its website.

[100] Visitors to the park use a large slingshot to launch stuffed versions of the bird characters at green balloons that represent the pigs.

[82] In March 2012, Rovio announced plans for an official Angry Birds Land, that opened on 28 April 2012, at the Särkänniemi adventure park in Finland.

The first one opened in Lightwater Valley, England, with dance floors, playgrounds that include slides, and touchscreen devices for visitors to play Angry Birds.

[citation needed] The attraction also opened in Vuokatti, Finland, with obstacle courses and races,[106] and a separate "Angry Birds Town" with kids' cars.

[109] Rovio opened a miniature Angry Birds golf course at American Dream Meadowlands in East Rutherford NJ USA on 1 October 2020.

The sketch received favorable coverage from a variety of independent blogs such as digitaltrends.com,[5] hotair.com[113] and intomobile.com,[114] as well as from online news media agencies such as Haaretz,[115] The Christian Science Monitor,[6] The Guardian,[116] and MSNBC.

[118][119][120] In the 30 Rock episode "Plan B", guest star Aaron Sorkin laments to Liz Lemon, "Our craft is dying while people are playing Angry Birds and poking each other on Facebook".

[citation needed] Angry Birds was referenced in the Family Guy episode "Turban Cowboy" where one failed skydiving attempt by Peter results in him landing in a level.

[124] At the 2011 South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, Nokia used scrims on a downtown building to project an advertisement for its new N8 handset that included the game's characters.

[128] Rovio has also prepared a number of web-based promotional variants of Angry Birds themed around creations of other companies, such as Finnish snack company Fazer,[129] Spanish pizza delivery chain Telepizza,[130] and Japanese television network Fuji TV,[131] as well as promotions of American brands including Cheetos,[132] Wonderful Pistachios[133] and Coca-Cola.

[136] In June 2016, Kurkure India started an offer to win daily themed prizes and a trip to Angry Birds Activity Park in Malaysia.

signed a deal with Rovio in 2017, whereby the Angry Birds logo appears on the club shirt's left sleeve beginning from the 2017–18 Premier League campaign.

[141] Another game, titled Chicks'n'Vixens and released in beta form on Windows Phone devices, replaces the birds and pigs with chickens and foxes, respectively.

[142] The developer of Chicks'n'Vixens intended the game as a challenge to Rovio Mobile, which stated at the time that a Windows Phone port of Angry Birds would not be ready until later in 2011.

Based on the Finnish national curriculum the program covers maths, science, music, language, arts & crafts, physical education and social interaction.

Focused on preschoolers of kindergarten age, the program introduced interactive learning material including books, posters, games and digital content.

[citation needed] During the 2023 Israel–Hamas war, graphic ads supporting Israel showed up in Angry Birds and other video games for children.

[155] In January 2014, it was revealed that Angry Birds was considered a "leaky app" and was used to collect data about its users including their sexual orientation and location by the National Security Agency (NSA) and GCHQ.