- UK public broadcasters could have a chance to attract more viewers as streamers disrupt the market again (Digital TV Europe)
- Sesame Workshop wins a Creative Arts Emmy for its When You Wish Upon a Pickle special (Deadline)
- Theater subscription service MoviePass has shut down (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Minecraft quietly grew its audience to 112 million monthly players (Engadget)
- Vudu has launched a feature that will automatically skip inappropriate scenes for young viewers (The Verge)
- How Build-A-Bear is trying to survive the retail apocalypse (Cheddar)
- Inside ViacomCBS’s plans to create a “virtuous ecosystem” for content, starting with Star Trek (Variety)
- We already know that seeing smoking and suicide on screen can harm kids, but what about sexual assault? (The New York Times)
- Why WarnerMedia was able to best its rivals and lock in J.J. Abrams (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is reportedly letting toys go on sale without proof of safety documents (CNET)
- Apple TV+ appears to be focusing on quality over quantity (The Verge)
- Instagram is at it again, baking in a new feature that appears to copy TikTok (Business Insider)
- Now that Chinese film Nezha grossed US$675 million, people are asking was it a fluke or the future of Chinese cinema? (Variety)
- Disney+ has scrapped a Muppets comedy series that was in the works (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …Meanwhile, Disney is reportedly planning to sell Fox’s game division (Bloomberg)
- Could the next big player in voice assistants be McDonald’s? The fast food chain thinks so (WIRED)
- The Green Army Men are finally getting women in the ranks, thanks to a little girl’s handwritten letter (NPR)
- They talk the talk, but is Hollywood really doing enough to fight climate change? (Variety)
- Walmart is set to lose US$1 billion competing with Amazon this year…which doesn’t seem to be a problem (Recode)
- An à-la-carte SVOD world is getting pricey for consumers, which could lead to an increase in subscription hopping (Wall Street Journal)
- A fun question for today: What movie is the biggest box-office bomb ever? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney has inked a long-term deal to work in a historic studio outside of London (Deadline)
- Nielsen is adjusting its ratings to include “out-of-home” viewing (Variety)
- Rather than betting on the international kidcasters, India needs its own offering (Financial Express)
- Why a well-known YouTuber is quitting the platform and moving to China to find social fame (Tubefilter)
- Toyco Jakks Pacific reportedly recieved a takeover offer from Jazwares (LA Times)
- New research suggests Disney+ will hit 82 million subscribers by 2024, which is still less than Netflix (The Hollywood Reporter)
- DreamWorks’ Abominable is a huge test for Universal at the box office (Forbes)
- Netflix and Amazon doubled their spending on UK-made TV shows in 2018 (The Guardian)
- Google is not out of the woods yet, as a new state attorneys general’s probe is looking into accusation of antitrust (Washington Post)
- Watchdog group Truth in Advertising has accused Ryan ToysReview of blurring the lines between content and ads (New York Times)
- Etsy’s founders’ dream of an e-commerce utopia is hitting some major bumps competing against Amazon (Vox)
- Nintendo announced a bunch of new plans today, including old-school games for its Switch console (The Verge)
- Following a similar move on Instagram, Facebook is removing “like” counts (Tech Crunch)
- Brian Goldner is banking on a bit of magic for his Hasbro transformation (Forbes)
- Odd Squad is using a new team to complete its previous missions to get kids to tune in (Variety)
- LEGO’s global expansion plan is simple: Use the malls that other retailers are fleeing (CNBC)
- Netflix has applied for a license under the new Turkish broadcasting regulations, sparking concerns over censorship (Reuters)
- It’s not just YouTube fighting inappropriate content—R- and M-rated shows are slipping into Hulu’s kids section (Inc.)
- How did mid-size prodcos get squeezed out of a growing film industry? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- …And that focus on blockbuster films may not be paying off, as the box office dropped 2% this summer (Variety)
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