- Pixar’s Turning Red is heading straight to streaming, and not every staffer is happy about it (Variety)
- Baby Shark has become the first YouTube video to hit 10 billion views (Tubefilter)
- Singer Mariah Carey is writing her first children’s book (People)
- Facebook’s parentco Meta is facing a class-action lawsuit that could cost it more than US$3 billion (TechCrunch)
- Powered by tentpole films, Cineworld Group is starting to generate positive cash flow again (Deadline)
- Video game publishers are starting to turn play into work (Wired)
- More than 80 fact-checking orgs slammed YouTube as a hub of disinformation in an open letter to its CEO (Tubefilter)
- TikTok is fuelling Hollywood marketing campaigns for blockbuster films (Deadline)
- Consumer media usage growth slowed in 2021, after a big uptick in 2020 (Advanced Television)
- Spotify has closed its in-house podcast studio and laid off several staffers (Tubefilter)
- This year’s Oscar race for original song is packed with the who’s who of music (Variety)
- Twitter is trying a new approach to position itself as a prime partner for studios (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A live-action NFT series is in the works, and viewers will have to buy a token to watch it (Deadline)
- Why does Disney keep sending Pixar movies straight to streaming? (Variety)
- iHeartMedia is creating a new podcast about kids entertainer Raffi Cavoukian (Deadline)
- A virtual reality concert platform has secured US$15 million in new funding (TechCrunch)
- If you’re feeling overwhelmed, you should consider a “someday-maybe-later” list (Wired)
- Disney’s Encanto wins Best Animated Motion Picture at the Golden Globes (Deadline)
- …Meanwhile, Spider-Man: No Way Home is already the eighth highest-grossing movie in history (Variety)
- Africa’s pay-TV market is taking off, thanks to three companies (TBI Vision)
- Twitter is hopping on the reaction video bandwagon with a new feature (Tubefilter)
- The NATPE Miami Conference has cancelled its in-person event later this month (Broadcasting+Cable)
- Everyone is talking about the metaverse at CES 2022…and not much else (TechCrunch)
- Here’s a look at what producers need to consider when picking a distributor (TBI Vision)
- LinkedIn is hopping on the Clubhouse bandwagon with an audio events platform (Tubefilter)
- Film critics have gained a lot of power, but what does that mean for the industry? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The race is on to create a cross-screen method for measuring audiences (Variety)
- ViacomCBS and WarnerMedia are reportedly looking to sell teen-skewing channel The CW (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The directors behind Avengers: Endgame are embracing video games in a new deal (Deadline)
- France has slapped Google and Facebook with huge fines for not letting users decline cookies (TechCrunch)
- Superheroes might be the safest box-office bet this year…but what does that mean for everything else? (Variety)
- Moonbug’s new owner takes a minority stake in Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith’s prodco Westbrook (Deadline)
- HBO Max and HBO ended 2021 with 73.8 million subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Look out TV sets—TikTok is ready to grow beyond smartphones (TechCrunch)
- Greg Childs at the Children’s Media Conference was awarded a Queen’s OBE for his work in kids media (Animation UK)
- Bob Iger is on a final goodbye press tour, talking about how he transformed Disney (Variety)
- …And why he’s leaving the company (CNBC)
- Frequent Netflix collaborator Dark Hose Comics has been bought by Embracer Group (The Hollywood Reporter)
- It’s been a great year for animation; here’s a look back at some of the best work (Vulture)
- The UK and Australia have a new co-pro treaty that lets producers make smaller minimum financial contributions (Deadline)
- How Batman inspired Julia Donaldson’s latest holiday special about a…worm? (Variety)
- Brands are flocking to TikTok because it’s such a “sunny” place to advertise (New York Times)
- A backstage look at the birth of Sesame Street (Vulture)
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