- That’s the spirit: In the US, Halloween has reached record candy, costumes and decor sales (NPR)
- Leeds University research is raising concerns about VR technology and kids (The Guardian)
- Spider-Man: Homecoming and PS4 games drive up Sony’s Q2 earnings (Variety)
- Why Disney needs to make some big video game acquisitions (CNBC)
- Google is set to dominate the voice-assistant market by 2021 (AdWeek)
- Content piracy is expected to cost streamers a whopping US$50 billion by 2022 (Variety)
- Strangers Things merch signals a change in Netflix’s monetization model (Advertising Age)
- Here’s how Halloween has become a US$1-billion industry in Japan (Quartz)
- Why Snap’s Spectacles glasses never really saw the light (Tech Crunch)
- Dialing in: Viacom looks to US mobile phone networks to help with loss of young viewers (Reuters)
- Samsung wants to compete with Amazon’s line of low-cost, kid-friendly tablets (The Verge)
- YouTube viewership on TVs is up 70% from last year (Recode)
- Netflix looks to Asia for its next 100 million subscribers (CNET)
- Food for thought? Why dressing up as Moana for Halloween is more controversial than kids think (Quartz)
- No matter how much money Netflix and Amazon spend, 80% of people are still watching old content (Quartz)
- Move over princesses, the most popular Halloween costume this year may be Wonder Woman (Reuters)
- A Silicon Valley shoe company is stepping into the kids footwear space (CNBC)
- Hulu’s CEO is jumping ship to Sony Pictures Television (Engadget)
- Great migration: Popular Nintendo game Animal Crossing is heading to mobile (Polygon)
- Why Grammy-winning producers shifted gears to create live YouTube events (CNET)
- How Disney creates its incredibly realistic animated foliage (TechCrunch)
- Dora’s venture to the big screen is being propelled by Hollywood heavy-hitters Michael Bay and Nick Stoller (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Netflix is going into another US$1.6 billion in debt to keep up its content spending spree (Variety)
- Why are investors jumping at the chance to fund US$6-billion AR company Magic Leap? (The Verge)
- People mostly use Snapchat at parties and at home, according to new data released by the tech company (Recode)
- How is directing a kids movie different from a moody drama? It isn’t, says director of upcoming Wonderstruck (Fast Company)
- What Roy Price’s departure means for Amazon Studios going forward (Vulture)
- Even with all the buzz around Facebook Watch and YouTube Red, broadcasters have nothing to worry about (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Beyond the retailers’ lists: Here’s what kids think are the best toys of 2017 (Good Housekeeping)
- The Switch continues to sweep the competition, accounting for two thirds of monthly hardware purchases (TechCrunch)
- Verizon’s new streaming service has been delayed until at least the spring (The Verge)
- Netflix says Nielsen’s new measurement of the streamer’s viewership “is not accurate, not even close” (Fortune)
- Statistics Canada says kids are spending too much time on screens (CBC)
- Inside Ireland’s booming animation industry (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Snapchat turned its hot dog AR filter into a real-life costume just in time for Halloween (TechCrunch)
- Netflix uncovered: Nielsen says it can now measure viewership numbers on the streaming giant (Advertising Age)
- US consumer groups warn that GPS-tracking smartwatches for kids are being hacked (CBS News)
- Why toymakers are making a big play for YouTube campaigns over traditional advertising ones (Bloomberg)
- Toys “R” Us is turning its focus to the Asian market (The Toronto Star)
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