- The Last Jedi’s box office success means the Star Wars franchise has officially surpassed Harry Potter (NME)
- Roku’s CEO on how the Disney-Fox merger will affect streaming (The Hollywood Reporter)
- US kids are raking it in, earning an average of US$454 in allowance per year (CNBC)
- Famous YouTuber Jake Paul launches online courses to teach youngsters how to be “social media famous” (Tube Filter)
- PAW Patrol, Daniel Tiger among Amazon’s most popular rented or purchased series (Digital TV Europe)
- SVOD users are willing to shell out more bucks for content, but they don’t want to see any ads (eMarketer)
- There were only eight female directors behind the top 100 movies in 2017 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Inside the mind of the man playing SpongeBob on Broadway (Vulture)
- AR glasses may be the next big thing, but who will succeed in the space? (WIRED)
- The world’s most popular YouTubers are seeing stunted growth (Business Insider)
- Live and well? As movie ticket sales show modest gains, the Broadway box office is soaring (The Hollywood Reporter)
- An Australian principal convinced 600 kids to give up their phones at night (Australian Financial Review)
- Nintendo’s president wants to sell 20 million more Switch consoles by next April (PC Mag)
- Is Amazon trying to compete with YouTube? The tech giant applies for trademark on “AmazonTube” (Tube Filter)
- Mattel CEO says the toyco needs to take smart risks (Fortune)
- It may seem like kids are all over the web, but 350 million of them worldwide are still not online at all (London School of Economics)
- Walmart is developing a personal shopping service for moms (Recode)
- A new app wants to teach parents how to talk to their kids (Tech Crunch)
- The Last Jedi toys aren’t living up to the film’s hype (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Intelligence fail? Highly motivated kids have more advantages than their smarter counterparts (Quartz)
- Netflix’s new film Bright is changing how movies market themselves (The Verge)
- Musical.ly is putting US$50 million into an account for its creators’ college funds (Tube Filter)
- With US$1.7 billion raised to date, Magic Leap will release its first AR headset in 2018 (Variety)
- Toys “R” Us UK is potentially on the verge of a collapse (The Guardian)
- Netflix and cable are nearly tied in terms of US subscribers (Fast Company)
- Do kids still believe in Santa? The numbers may be higher than you’d think (CNN)
- Phones aren’t what children are addicted to, it’s social media (Bloomberg)
- How people watched TV this year (Forbes)
- AT&T/Time Warner antitrust woes could be a sign of what’s to come for the Disney/Fox merger (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Star Wars: The Last Jedi had the second-largest film opening of all time, bringing in US$450 million worldwide (The Guardian)
- Why teaching kids about poetry can inspire them to read more (PBS News)
- The demographic changes that globally affected us in 2017 (PEW Research)
- From Minions to cats with funny glasses: What kids’ backpacks look like around the world (The Atlantic)
- What does the Disney-Fox merger mean for all of the superheroes out there? (Vulture)
- Tensions are cooling: Amazon to start selling Google Chromecast and Apple TV (CNET)
- Samsung is betting on smart speakers for 2018 (Bloomberg)
- Facebook is adding pre-roll videos to its Watch platform, even though the company’s execs are against it (Recode)
- There is a multi-billion-dollar industry in keeping up a happy family facade on YouTube (Slate)
- More than 10% of UK tweens/teens are gambling on in-game items (Games Industry)
- The pink and blue toy aisles aren’t going away, in fact, things are more divided than ever before (Toronto Star)
- Nintendo is looking into more mobile partnerships after the success of Animal Crossing Pocket Camp (Rolling Stone)
- Ready to compete with Amazon? Target is buying a same-day delivery app for US$550 million (Tech Crunch)
- What exactly are parents’ responsibilities around screen time in the digital age? (London School of Economics)
- How Warner Bros. is betting on Harry Potter to broaden its mobile games business (Games Industry)
- Apple beefs up its original content team with new execs from Hulu and Legendary (Variety)
- How net neutrality affects students and the growing popularity of video in schools (WIRED)
- Facebook has opened up its platform and now anyone can create an AR filter (Recode)
- Directors from some of this year’s biggest animated movies discuss the risks of making toons for all ages (The Hollywood Reporter)
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