Over time, the series gained cult status, with critics praising it for writing, the variety of genres among episodes, including their philosophy, references to other works and the visual style.

[7] English-language distribution rights to the series were acquired by 4Kids Entertainment from worldwide distributor Fun Game Media, Munich[8] and began airing as part of The CW4Kids programming block on The CW on September 13, 2008, under the name GoGoRiki, and continued to air until November 14, 2009, when The CW's broadcasting rights and 4Kids Entertainment's license to the series expired.

It is made with the help of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation and with the participation of the company "Master-Film" at the computer animation studio "Peterburg", which was created in March 2000 specifically for Smeshariki.

On January 24, 2007, it was announced that a Smeshariki/Kikoriki feature film was to be made by the St. Petersburg company "Marmelad-media" (which owns the brand) to be released in December 2011.

"The ABCs of Safety of the Kikoriki" (Russian: Азбука безопасности Смешариков) is a series of instructional and educational short cartoons.

"Pin-Code" (Russian: Пин-код) is an educational spinoff designed to develop interest in inventing, programming and science in children from 4 to 14 years old.

Initially, it was supposed to be done in flash-animation (such as the pilot episode "Runaway Rocket"), but later this idea was abandoned and production began in 3D computer animation instead.

The plot of the second season "Jump to the Future" is built around time travel, in which the characters are sent using the unique invention, the "Spheroscope-3000" (Russian: Шароскоп-3000), capable of answering any scientific questions.

[28] In May 2019, in Beijing as part of the talks between Asian civilizations, Russian and Chinese animators have made two agreements regarding cooperation, one of which involves the joint creation of the cartoon entitled Panda and Krash [ru] (Панда и Крош, 'Panda and Krosh').

[29] After 8 years of break, the show has been renewed for a fourth season, which serves as a continuation for the original 2D animated series; it has been sponsored by Yandex and the new 52 episodes will be available exclusively on a streaming service Kinopoisk HD.