- Instagram is working on creating manually reviewed bully-proof School Stories (Tech Crunch)
- Deck the halls: Holiday sales are expected to surpass US$1 trillion this year (eMarketer)
- Social media growth is all but over in the US, so now what? (Recode)
- How the CEO of Illumination became one of the most powerful people in animation (Variety)
- Influencer-dedicated database Famous Birthdays has launched its own video platform (Tube Filter)
- HQ Trivia was a massive hit when it launched, but now the company’s future is a question mark (Recode)
- Canadian producers are wondering—whatever happened to that promised Netflix investment? (CTV News)
- Meanwhile, Prime Video is planning on investing in local content out of India (Economic Times)
- Adobe analyzed sales data to find what toys are likely to win at retail this holiday season (Business Insider)
- Not just for kids? Why TV is in the middle of an animation boom (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Apple will no longer announce how many laptops, tablets and phones it sells in its earning reports (CNN)
- Netflix isn’t content with ruling the SVOD space; it’s gunning for the silver screen now too (The Verge)
- The new head of Nick talks about the enduring legacy of All That and film development (The Hollywood Reporter)
- What’s the best way to drive people to your YouTube series? Film it live at VidCon, says LEGO (PR Week)
- Failure to launch: The story behind Hasbro’s console that never saw the light of day (Polygon)
- Amazon is building a new potential workforce by teaching 10 million kids to code (CTV News)
- Snap sues influencer for failing to influence—what precedent does that set? (Variety)
- WhatsApp continues to battle fake news, but the app has found a way to show ads now (Economic Times)
- Facebook copied Stories from Snapchat and is now banking on the feature hard (Recode)
- Meanwhile, Snap is hoping to bring back users with 25 new shows out of the UK (TechCrunch)
- That was fast: Disney has recouped the US$4 billion it spent on buying Lucasfilm six years ago (CNBC)
- How Black Women Animate and Cartoon Network are opening up new opportunities in production (Forbes)
- Hotel Transylvania 3 boosts Sony Pictures’ Q2 earnings (Deadline)
- The UK is working on a new digital tax that could generate more than US$500 million a year (CBC News)
- Why a holiday season without Toys “R” Us is good news for some (CNBC)
- PAW Patrol’s creator on why there may never be another blockbuster preschool IP again (Bloomberg)
- The unexpected digital divide: How rich kids stay away from screens in school, and poor kids are exposed to more (New York Times)
- Study: Few preschool apps are developmentally appropriate and teach kids anything (The Hechinger Report)
- Snapchat is expanding its AR technology to desktop and Twitch streams (Tech Radar)
- It’s getting harder to go see a family-friendly film—half of all movies released in the past 50 years are rated R (Variety)
- Is the future of British kids TV threatened by OTT platforms? (The Sunday Times)
- It’s not all roses: Netflix’s corporate culture is reportedly turbulent (CNBC)
- A compilation of surveys on Gen Z shows that…honestly, nobody knows anything about this generation (Quartz)
- Disney is reportedly looking at rebooting Pirates of the Caribbean to safe-guard against franchise fatigue (Forbes)
- Lesser of two evils—why Millennial parents think TV is the “good” screen (MediaPost)
- Facebook is apparently building a TikTok competitor to court the tween audience (TechCrunch)
- Why DHX’s SVP of animation production thinks this is the best time to be making kids content (BIV)
- UK government fines Facebook US$643,000 for failing to protect user data (The Guardian)
- Who will come out on top? The 25 animated films submitted for the 2019 Oscars (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Studios are digitally preserving their biggest stars to use beyond the grave (MIT Technology Review)
- Apple is reportedly planning a global rollout of its streaming service in the new year (9 to 5 Mac)
- Meanwhile, the techco’s CEO says he wants a GDPR for the rest of the world (TechCrunch)
- Esports is about to get a lot more lucrative and a lot less kid-friendly with the introduction of betting (Financial Post)
- The holiday e-commerce wars have begun: Target is offering two-day shipping and no minimums (CNBC)
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