- Analysts keep looking for the Netflix killer, but at this point, the SVOD might be too big to fail (Vox)
- Amazon, meanwhile, is gearing up to take on OTT heavyweights like Roku (Business Insider)
- Facebook is rewriting its algorithms and favoring video again (Tubefilter)
- Playing Pokémon video games as a kid may rewire your brain: Scientists find an area activated by Pikachu (Engadget)
- Walmart-owned streamer Vudu will launch this year with free-to-watch programming (The Verge)
- Avengers: Endgame earns US$2 billion in record time, and has the biggest second weekend ever (Variety)
- NBCUniversal is going to let viewers buy products directly from a show with ShoppableTV (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Does this count as aging down or aging up? Why Hollywood can’t stop making big kids movies for adults (The Guardian)
- Disney is eyeing a US$10-billion deal to sell Fox Sports to Sinclair Broadcast Group (Variety)
- Broadcast TV viewership among French youth ages four to 14 has declined 10% year over year (Advanced Television)
- How Amazon created Prime—the most successful membership program of all time (Vox)
- A guide to Hollywood’s unconscious bias, and how we can all do better (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube’s CEO defends shutting down comments on videos with kids in them (Variety)
- There may be more STEM and girls in kids shows, but the two aren’t mixing (MarketWatch)
- Hulu hits 28 million subscribers (CNBC)
- How SpongeBob memes took over the internet, and why Nickelodeon is leaning into that movement (Vox)
- Who can play diverse roles on screen? Screenwriters weigh in on how far representation goes (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Even though iPhone sales fell 17% in March, Apple posted better earnings than expected (Variety)
- There’s a reason that CBS is making a quarter of its shows for rival platforms (Wall Street Journal)
- In the battle for voice control, Siri and Google beat out Alexa in usage (Digital Trends)
- Following several meetings with high-profile YouTubers, Susan Wojcicki is focusing the platform more on creators (Tubefilter)
- Podcasts still have a smaller audience than radio, but the listeners are much more engaged (eMarketer)
- We don’t know how Disney+ will launch internationally…could China lead the charge? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Amazon will reportedly spend US$7 billion this year on video and music content (Digital Music News)
- Marketers are wary of how Facebook’s new privacy/encryption focus will affect them (Business Insider)
- Hasbro no longer sees business sense in the pink and blue aisle, appealing to parents that boys can also play with dolls (Forbes)
- Avengers Endgame superpowers its way to a US$1.2-billion global opening weekend (Variety)
- It’s not live action…it’s virtual reality: How Disney made the new Lion King movie (Entertainment Weekly)
- Spotify has hit 100 million paid subscribers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Now that cellphones are ubiquitous, Samsung thinks the next generation wants vertical TVs (The Verge)
- Screen time should be very limited for kids under five, says the WHO, primarily because it doesn’t want them to be sedentary (Gizmodo)
- Comcast is reportedly in talks to sell its 30% stake in Hulu (CNBC)
- …And with so much promise, why isn’t Hulu better? (Harvard Business Review)
- The future is still all about coding and AR: Kidtech startup Rosie Reality attracted US$2.2 million in seed funding (Tech Crunch)
- Well, that was quick…India has lifted a TikTok ban that only went into effect earlier this month (Gizmodo)
- Meet Hollywood’s newest producer: Airbnb is shopping travel content around Tinseltown (Reuters)
- The Switch continues to drive Nintendo’s revenue, but the company is predicting growth will be modest moving forward (The Verge)
- China’s Pearl Studio is working on new domestic animation that it thinks can go global (Global Times)
- Those US$100-million overall deals seem great, but they might be shortchanging creators (The Hollywood Reporter)
- People keep counting it out, but Snapchat added another four million daily users in Q1 (LA Business Journal)
- After all of the personnel changes, AT&T’s Q1 revenue is down as WarnerMedia falls short (Variety)
- Tencent has imposed two-hour time limits on video game play and is requiring mandatory parental consent for kids under 16 (Games Industry)
- Netflix can chill: The Oscars ruled that it won’t change its rules around streaming eligibility (Fast Company)
- Kidfluencers are disrupting child labor laws (The Guardian)
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