- Peacock has reached 26 million subscribers since launching in July (Digital TV Europe)
- Viacom is on the verge of winning an exec poaching lawsuit against Netflix (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Former BBC Children’s boss Alice Webb takes charge of a new Universal Music content studio (TBI Vision)
- COVID-19 is driving a major increase in app spending and downloads (Tech Crunch)
- How did Fortnite and Roblox become the social media platforms of the future? (Digiday)
- Legendary Entertainment, which financed two upcoming Warner Bros. movies, is not happy with its HBO Max plan (Variety)
- …And many others involved in the films say they were blindsided by the decision (The Hollywood Reporter)
- BBC is changing up its structure, scrapping the controller role to focus on streaming (Deadline)
- Disney+ is looking to hire in Southeast Asia, which could signal a launch in the region soon (Digital TV Europe)
- The problem with an all-streaming future for movies is that if theaters die, movies might as well (Variety)
- TikTok might not get sold after all—talks are on hold as the US government figures itself out (BNN Bloomberg)
- Nickelodeon has partnered with a trans actor to find a trans or non-binary kid to be its next star (Pink News)
- WarnerMedia plans to launch its entire 2021 movie slate in theaters and on HBO Max simultaneously (Variety)
- …And the media giant is set to launch its SVOD in Europe and LatAm next year (TBI Vision)
- Layoffs are underway at Walt Disney TV Group after a restructure to focus on streaming (Deadline)
- …On top of all that, Radio Disney is shuttering after two decades in operation (Los Angeles Times)
- Industry dream job shifts from running a channel to running a streaming studio (Variety)
- …Speaking of which, Discovery is planning to roll out its new streamer in January (Deadline)
- New research shows just how badly kids are being affected by COVID (CNN)
- Is TV teaching kids the wrong things about pain? (Science Daily)
- Netflix has changed its mind and is no longer renewing its first African original for another season (TBI Vision)
- …At the same time, the SVOD plans to double its spending in Asia (BNN Bloomberg)
- Disney is closing Touchstone TV and migrating its execs elsewhere (Deadline)
- Guess what dominated Apple’s most downloaded apps in 2020? Zoom and Among Us, of course (The Verge)
- Without a middle class, department stores would have died anyways, but Amazon and the pandemic gave them a push (Recode)
- Quibi is officially dead…will we even remember it? (Variety)
- The impact of this year on business travel isn’t temporary—36% of work trips could be gone forever (Wall Street Journal)
- A psychologist has been using music to help kids cope with stress (CNN)
- Croods 2 surpassed box office expectations in the US…but it wasn’t a big weekend (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Bowing to pressure, Netflix will begin declaring its revenues in the UK (TBI Vision)
- …Meanwhile, the UK government will let small shops stay open 24/7 to make up for the lockdown (Evening Standard)
- The Mandalorian, the Avengers and Stranger Things are the top entertainment franchises (Variety)
- Alibaba and Tencent are looking at buying iQIYI, but costs and regulations are giving them pause (Digital TV Europe)
- England lays out its cinema re-opening strategy (Variety)
- …Meanwhile, a “winner takes all” techco mentality has motivated the UK to regulate competition (Tech Crunch)
- Without features like follower counts and comments, Snapchat’s TikTok competitor won’t get far (AdWeek)
- Disney ups its anticipated layoffs to 32,000 in the first half of 2021 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Ryan’s World landed the first YouTuber float at the Macy’s Thanksgiving parade (Adweek)
- What did TikTok do right and wrong? Here’s a timeline (Tech Crunch)
- As their importance grows, toy drives are having trouble adapting to the pandemic (Marketplace)
- Which big names have made a splash in the G-rated space this year? (Variety)
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