- British channel ITV bans all-male writing teams for its comedies (Vulture)
- Now that Disney has the reigns, Hulu is expected to significantly increase its original content push (Engadget)
- With film, TV, game and music departments all under one company, is it time Sony looked at breaking up? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- MGA’s CEO Isaac Larian says he’s giving up the fight and is no longer interested in merging with Mattel (LA Times)
- Check out this time-lapse model showing how social media has changed since 2003 (How Things Work)
- Why Amazon pulling back from kids programming has been a long time coming (LA Times)
- Even though YouTube Kids is a safer place for children, most shun the app in favor of the main site (Bloomberg)
- …And YouTube may be too big to ever really filter out harmful content, says Google’s CEO (CNBC)
- It seems we’ve finally found the consumption peak: UK media usage is leveling off (eMarketer)
- Disney’s CEO says the company is bad at video games, but is a smaller catalogue really a problem? (Polygon)
- Just because Disney can do it doesn’t mean everyone can—sequels and spinoffs are struggling at the box office (Wall Street Journal)
- Amazon’s chief technology officer says what’s coming next could completely change the company (BBC News)
- Make room, family vloggers: Why there’s a strong appetite for Dadfluencers and #dadcontent online (WIRED)
- TikTok is getting into the advertising game with a big push at Cannes Lions (Financial Times)
- Target is fulfilling the need for speed with same-day delivery (The Verge)
- Alexa, please stop listening: Amazon sued after the voice assistant allegedly recorded kids’ voices (Fast Company)
- Facebook, meanwhile, settled a class action alleging it inflated video viewership metrics (The Hollywood Reporter)
- In-store play areas keep kids occupied while parents shop, and they’re one retailer’s key to selling more merch (Bloomberg)
- Disney Televisions Studio’s new chairman Dana Walden explains the strategy behind the merged company’s reorg (Variety)
- Netflix is expanding its empire with new Stranger Things and Dark Crystal video games (Bloomberg)
- Meanwhile, Nintendo announced a raft of new games at E3 that have people talking (The Verge)
- Twitch isn’t playing around: It’s growing as a popular destination for content (Digiday)
- Apple wants to limit data sharing on kids app…but it’s negatively affecting companies like PBS (Recode)
- MGA’s latest merger offer to Mattel was rejected, and now the CEO is considering going hostile (Bloomberg)
- Amazon is updating its Echo Kids Dot Edition with a new look and a few tech improvements (The Verge)
- How Disney taught a generation of kids to love stage musicals (Variety)
- Fortnite isn’t just a game—it’s emerging as a new social platform for gen Z (Ad Age)
- YouTubers have been feeling like they can’t experiment on the AVOD…so they built a new platform (Tubefilter)
- At this year’s E3, gamecos are showing signs that the industry might not be able to play nice with pop culture (LA Times)
- As WarnerMedia preps its SVOD, the Wild West streaming frontier shows signs of ending (The Atlantic)
- How YouTube is trying to keep its kids app safe while maintaining the free-form elements that made it popular (Fast Company)
- Secret Life of Pets 2 claws its way to the top of the US box office (Variety)
- More than half of UK TV viewers have spent eight consecutive hours binge watching, according to a new study (Telegraph)
- Instagram has added a lyrics function to its app to compete with TikTok (CNET)
- More than 20% of US consumers are likely to sign up to Disney+, and Disney hasn’t even begun marketing it (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube’s problems could grow, as kids continue to be the site’s core audience (Wired)
- A Canadian prodco is using VR games and partnering with hospitals to help kids with autism (The Toronto Sun)
- Amazon is making Alexa more conversational and connecting it with more service providers (Variety)
- Fox and Disney are facing off against Netflix in a legal battle that could stop executive poaching (The Hollywood Reporter)
- With J.J. Abrams’ contracts set to expire soon, WarnerMedia and Apple are vying to sign massive deals with him (Variety)
- YouTube has banned supremacist content and expects thousands of channels across the platform to be taken down (The Verge)
- Mattel and Hasbro are able to grow during the retail apocalypse by turning IPs into movies and TV shows (CNN)
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