- Court documents reveal that Facebook knew kids were spending parents money and didn’t stop it (Engadget)
- As Netflix tries to become more Hollywood, other studios are annoyed about its secrecy (LA Times)
- What’s next after Baby Shark? Maybe Baby Penguins, do-do-do-do-do-do (Bloomberg)
- Scammers are impersonating top YouTubers on the platform and messaging fans (The Verge)
- How Fox’s Kuala Lumpur theme park became a melting Ice Age disaster (Variety)
- Bad news: Hulu is upping the price of its live TV, but basic subscriptions are going down (Vulture)
- Mattel named her a “role model” and now she’s challenging the toyco to make more inclusive dolls (CBC News)
- Worried that cellphones have become a bit dull? Well, they’re about to get really weird (WIRED)
- YouTube TV is now available in 98% of US homes (The Verge)
- Netflix has become the first streaming company to join the Motion Picture Association of America (Variety)
- Viacom acquires AVOD Pluto TV for US$340 million to pursue “alternative” direct-to-consumer offerings (Engadget)
- China is expected to surpass the US in total retail sales this year (eMarketer)
- Google was fined US$57 million for breaking GDPR laws (New York Times)
- The 10 biggest influencers under 10, featuring lots of twins (Ad Age)
- Two Disney flicks, one from Japan, a Wes Anderson film and a superhero pic—these are the Animated Oscar nominees (Deadline)
- Inside the race to become the first successful SVOD service for video games (Engadget)
- Once a powerhouse, film studio Paramount has accumulated US$900 million in losses over the last two years (New York Times)
- How Netflix is capitalizing on FOMO to draw in viewers (Business Insider)
- Sesame Street snagged the PGA for Children’s Program over the weekend (Deadline)
- Disney’s streaming attempts took an early hit, losing US$580 million last year thanks to Hulu (TechCrunch)
- Facebook’s latest attempt to capture a young audience is a meme-sharing app called LOL (The Verge)
- The profound cognitive and behavioral effect of children’s books (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix now reaches nearly 140 million people, and says it’s competing more with Fortnite than HBO or Amazon (Engadget)
- Hasbro and Lionsgate are teaming up to make a movie about Monopoly (Deadline)
- Executive producers dive into why they rebooted Carmen Sandiego (Variety)
- Microsoft is bowing out of the voice assistant race and taking a different approach (The Verge)
- Why broadcast TV actually increased viewership last year…when most houses with kids are all about online (Fortune)
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame is set to be Disney’s latest live-action remake (Polygon)
- WeChat is the reigning social media champ in China, but TikTok is moving in (TechCrunch)
- There’s a growing gap in what ads are presented to white teens versus minorities (NBC News)
- Korean OTT players are joining forces to fight Netflix (Variety)
- In the race to crush each other, can media companies avoid being crushed by debt? (Variety)
- Video programmers are growing frustrated with the lack of data from OTT platforms (Digiday)
- Mattel’s CTO dives into how to strike the right balance between digital and physical play (Biz Journals)
- Why do kids want to become YouTubers so badly? The truth lies in a new video game (Vice News)
- Paramount Animation boss tells staff they don’t have to work with Skydance’s John Lasseter (The Hollywood Reporter)
- NBCUniversal is set to join the streaming wars in 2020 with a new standalone service (Reuters)
- Turns out screens are just as bad for you as…potatoes. And who doesn’t love a potato? (WIRED)
- How prodco BES is taking the Australian animation scene by storm (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Netflix hikes price of US streaming ahead of its Q4 forecast (Variety)
- Why Viacom is looking to sell majority control of its Chinese TV operations, including Nickelodeon (Bloomberg)
- Aquaman becomes first DC Extended Universe feature to top US$1 billion worldwide (CNET)
- Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse snagged the Critic’s Choice Award for Animated Feature (Comicbook)
- Even though the market might be saturated, Apple will roll out three new iPhones this year to boost sales (Wall Street Journal)
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