- Sony’s Spider-Verse breaks Disney’s seven-year Best Animated Feature Oscar winning streak (Variety)
- But Disney still grabbed four Oscars, thanks to three wins for Black Panther and one for Pixar’s Bao (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How to Train Your Dragon 3 soars to franchise-best US$55-million North American debut (Collider)
- Something to consider as kids creators get into podcasts…everybody is making them, but is anybody making money? (Bloomberg)
- More than a dozen children’s advocacy groups accuse Facebook of tricking kids into racking up game fees (New York Times)
- Will Smith is bringing back his iconic character with new children’s book series Fresh Princess (Entertainment Weekly)
- After a flock of advertisers left, YouTube says videos can be demonetized based on inappropriate comments (Tube Filter)
- Turns out the key to talking to aliens is… kids? Scientists are turning to the youngest generation for help (Vox)
- How did the all powerful “influencer” become a dirty word? (BBC News)
- Paramount announces studio-wide diversity drive (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney reportedly joins Fortnite maker and McDonald’s in pulling YouTube ads after child predator controversy (Variety)
- Pokémon GO has turned itself into an AR photo machine with its new update (Endgadget)
- Land of Oz TV series in development at Legendary (Screen Rant)
- Netflix’s new Toronto production hub to support nearly 2,000 Canadian jobs (Toronto Star)
- Emma Thompson quit Skydance Animation film after the hiring of John Lasseter (Variety)
- With its rising stock and popular products, Funko is the toyco to watch (CNN)
- Total digital ad spending in the US will grow to US$129.34 billion this year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Women played only 36% of major characters in the top-grossing movies of 2018 (Variety)
- Amazon has big film plans, but they won’t be anything like what Netflix does (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Apple has acquired the voice tech startup behind Hello Barbie (Engadget)
- Minecraft builds itself to new heights, earning US$110 million in 2018 (Venture Beat)
- Survey says Disney has surpassed Apple as the most intimate brand in the US (Fortune)
- Now that it’s gaining popularity, TikTok is testing native video ads (Tech Crunch)
- …But politicians in India are considering banning the app (Tube Filter)
- How new toy retailers are filling a hole at this year’s New York Toy Fair (Bloomberg)
- Apple plans on unveiling its streaming service on March 25 (Bloomberg)
- Europe considers new rules to force YouTube and Facebook to block copyright-protected material (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Roblox is the latest platform to ban internet-mega-star PewDiePie (Tube Filter)
- How two of the Oscar-nominated animated shorts weave similar stories about memories (IndieWire)
- Shortly after announcing its best-ever financial results, Activision Blizzard lays off nearly 800 (Variety)
- LEGO is launching a limited-edition clothing line that you can only buy through Snapchat (CNBC)
- A former Driver Digital and Frederator exec gets into how to develop original content for YouTube (Tube Filter)
- If Disney is launching its own streamer, why exactly is it building up Hulu’s Marvel content? (WIRED)
- The new head of content for WarnerMedia says it’s a bad idea to share content with third-party streamers (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The digital voice assistant market is expected to triple by 2023 (Advanced Television)
- You can breathe a sigh of relief, the Oscars announced both animation categories will still be broadcast (The Guardian)
- Despite it’s recent financial report, Hasbro says Toys “R” Us closure is only a brief disruption (CNBC)
- Former Disney CEO, Ron Miller, has died (Variety)
- The LEGO Movie 2 brought in half what the original did on opening weekend, but still came out on top (The Hollywood Reporter)
- The future of phones is all about the foldable 5G (Tech Crunch)
- Why big theaters are buying in to VR even when IMAX bowed out (WIRED)
- Another day, another streamer: MGM-owned Epix is diving in with EpixNow (The Verge)
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