- The EU warns TikTok to change its “addictive design” or face fines (BBC)
- Amazon’s content spend increased by 10% last year to US$22.4 billion (Variety)
- Mattel says it’s introducing new products for Ken’s 65th birthday (Toy World)
- Bill Nye will receive a Lifetime Achievement Award at the Children’s Emmys (Deadline)
- YouTube generated a record US$11.38 billion in global ad revenue in Q4 (Variety)
- President Trump says he’s staying out of the battle for Warner Bros. (NBC News)
- Cool job alert! Mattel is looking for a senior director of kids & preschool animation (Mattel)
- Amazon will test AI tools to streamline film and TV production next month (Tech Crunch)
- How The Muppet Show is staging a comeback after years of mismanagement (TheWrap)
- Disney’s new CEO promises to embrace AI, but won’t replace human creativity (Collider)
- Universal unblocks an Olympic figure skater from using its Minions music (The Guardian)
- A former Henson exec is suing the company for US$7.5 million (TheWrap)
- Netflix will live-stream the comeback of Korea’s iconic boy band BTS (BBC)
- MAGA has a plan to disrupt the Netflix/Warner Bros. merger (Deadline)
- Check out the new Stranger Things animated series…which looks like a video game (Tudum)
- Amid anime fever, Crunchyroll hikes up the price of its fan tier (The Wrap)
- ICE raids are making kids feel anxious and unsafe in US schools (HuffPost)
- KPDH‘s “Golden” takes home the K-pop genre’s first-ever Grammy (NYT)
- …and Ariana Grande and Cynthia Erivo won one for a Wicked performance (Vulture)
- Pixar’s next film Hoppers could face the same box-office woes as Elio (BoxOffice Pro)
- NVIDIA’s CEO denies that it’s scaling back its investment in OpenAI (TechCrunch)
- SAG-AFTRA preps for its next round of contract negotiations with AMPTP (Deadline)
- Google DeepMind lets users try its AI game-world generator (TechCrunch)
- Study urges the BBC to avoid “token” color-blind casting and preachy storylines (Deadline)
- Game industry layoffs are up by 6%, and a third of studios are using GenAI (GDC)
- Leaks suggest Paramount+ is planning a short-form video and UGC push (Business Insider)
- The Incredibles and The Karate Kid have entered the US National Film Registry (THR)
- Comcast Q4 earnings are down by 10% as Peacock struggles (Variety)
- Tonies wins Best Baby & Infant Toy at Nuremberg Toy Fair (The Toy Book)
- Hasbro is getting sued by shareholders for overprinting its Magic cards (PC Gamer)
- Amazon to lay off 16,000 more staffers across Prime Video and retail (Deadline)
- As Toys “R” Us rebounds globally, its Canadian operation is collapsing (The Toy Book)
- Not every LEGO SMART Play set comes packaged with the new brick (Gizmodo)
- Lady Gaga reimagines “Won’t You Be My Neighbor” for Super Bowl 2026 (YouTube)
- France’s lower house passes a bill to ban social media for kids under 15 (The Guardian)
- Users are seeking alternatives to TikTok following a US ownership change (TechCrunch)
- TCM inks an agreement to become the new “home” for WBD’s Looney Tunes library (THR)
- Jo Redfern says the next major sports format will come from Roblox (The Long Game)
- TikTok US experienced technical difficulties in its first weekend (The Verge)
- The Super Mario Galaxy Movie premiere has been moved to April 1 (THR)
- Roblox’s Bruno Mars concert in Steal a Brainrot attracted 12.8 million users (GamesIndustry.biz)
- 60% of Fortnite and Roblox players leave within three months (Ampere Analysis)
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