- Kidcos are teaching streamers to adopt a non-exclusive approach to content (Financial Times)
- Netflix spent a record-breaking US$1 billion on production in the UK this year (TBI Vision)
- ViacomCBS is selling its Simon & Schuster publishing unit to the owner of Penguin Random House (Variety)
- Amazon is trying new ways to fight counterfeiters by helping businesses trademark their IPs (Tech Crunch)
- Disney+ will exclusively premiere Taylor Swift’s new concert film (Toronto Star)
- Arts organizations are transforming into media companies to weather the pandemic (Variety)
- Growing kidtech company Kahoot is acquiring language-learning startup Drops (Tech Crunch)
- A number of major UK distributors are teaming up to launch a virtual screening event (Deadline)
- How My Little Pony reached across the toy aisle and broke all of the gendered CP rules (Polygon)
- Cineworld locks down US$750 million in extra liquidity to help weather the pandemic (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix has racked up 35 nominations at the Inaugural Critics Choice Super Awards, with quite a few going to its kids content (Deadline)
- Snapchat will dish out more than US$1 million to creators daily in its bid to take on TikTok (Variety)
- Baby Yoda could be coming to a room near you, as Google launches a Mandalorian AR app (Engadget)
- Don’t forget! Today is the last day to fill out our Kids Industry Survey
- Universal and theater chain Cineplex have signed a premium VOD deal (The Hollywood Reporter)
- ViacomCBS has unveiled its post-COVID WFH model (Variety)
- The future is public: Roblox is looking to become a public company to increase profits (Tech Crunch)
- HBO is testing a theatrical/streaming day-and-date release strategy for some of its upcoming flicks (Variety)
- ViacomCBS has been hit with another round of layoffs (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Tencent Music is looking to bring a wave of virtual concerts to China (TechCrunch)
- Kahoot is launching an educational game subscription service to support kids learning at home (Engadget)
- The next gen of exec talent: 35 rising stars under 35 in the entertainment industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- TikTok is rolling out new parental controls for teens (Tech Crunch)
- One bright spot for retail this year is toys, which are flying off the shelves (CTV News)
- Want to get into an elite kindergarten? The key is being proficient on Zoom…at age four (Bloomberg)
- With a preschool show already in the works, Marc Anthony’s prodco has signed an overall deal with ViacomCBS (The Hollywood Reporter)
- VOID, the poster child for the future of VR, is teetering on the brink of extinction (The Verge)
- This year’s holidays were supposed to save retail, but with the virus surging, that’s seeming less likely (Bloomberg)
- Forget flour and roller skates; the hottest lockdown item is delivery boxes (Wall Street Journal)
- HBO Max and Amazon have finally put their differences aside and signed a deal (Tech Crunch)
- Now that Disney+ has surpassed its five-year targets, analysts are predicting it will hit 194 million subscribers by 2025 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- No wonder everyone turned to Animal Crossing—researchers have found that video games can help with mental health (The Guardian)
- Mattel is rolling out a new Barbie line that has a little something…extra (USA Today)
- Amazon Prime Video is committing US$1.2 million to COVID-19 relief for Italy’s entertainment industry (Variety)
- Instagram is revamping its app to more directly compete with TikTok, but will anyone notice? (Forbes)
- …And Netflix is also borrowing from the app with its own full-screen vertical humor videos (Tech Crunch)
- While everyone is focused on consoles and cloud gaming, Nintendo is rolling out more retro options (The Verge)
- Profits for China’s Tencent surged by 89% this quarter (Investing)
- Netflix’s Bela Bajaria has plans for the streamer internationally…which will likely involve more cancellations (TBI Vision)
- Electronic Arts is getting into TV production, but only so it can direct people back to video games (Variety)
- Forget Prime Day—China will likely see three billion packages shipped for Singles Day (Tech Crunch)
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