- Dumbo fails to meet box-office expectations—perhaps the shine of Disney’s remakes is wearing off? (New York Times)
- Discovery and BBC team up for a non-fiction SVOD (The Hollywood Reporter)
- How Netflix is taking over children’s screen time with its modest animation studio (Fast Company)
- Are you more likely to trust a robot if it has a body? Alexa’s chief scientist thinks so (Digital Trends)
- Mark Zuckerberg asks for new internet regulation (Washington Post)
- CN’s Steven Universe becomes the first animated show to win a kids category GLAAD Award (Out Magazine)
- BBC plans to attract a younger audience with its online services (Rapid TV News)
- Surprise, surprise: Netflix is 2019’s fastest-growing US brand (Variety)
- Dig into some writing tips from a pair of former Sesame Street songwriters (The Atlantic)
- PAW Patrol and Odd Squad were the big winners in the kids categories at the Canadian Screen Awards (ET Canada)
- It may not be the biggest, but Amazon Music is set to be the fastest-growing audio streaming service this year (eMarketer)
- Licensing doesn’t actually drive kids to choose junk food over healthy snacks, but it does influence parents (The Takeout)
- Apple Arcade is looking to take on the massive free-to-play monster the techco itself created (The Verge)
- According to YouTube, all of the advertisers that fled the platform in February have since returned (Tubefilter)
- All at once, game streaming is all anyone can talk about…and it’s the battle every techco now wants to win (Tech Crunch)
- How Google’s robotics program has shifted from flash to substance (New York Times)
- What are the ramifications of moving Fox’s big Avatar sequel to Disney? (The Hollywood Reporter)
- A look at Peter Stern, the man in charge of Apple’s new subscription services (Digiday)
- We keep telling you not to count Snapchat out—the app’s US ad business will grow 24% this year (eMarketer)
- TikTok acquired animated, location-specific overlay tech for users to add to their videos (Tech Crunch)
- LatAm will only add five million pay-TV subs by 2024 (Digital TV Europe)
- Inside indie theaters’ battles to stay alive (Variety)
- YouTube is stepping out of the original content space, cancelling plans for high-end dramas and comedies (Bloomberg)
- Netflix tests mobile-only streaming in India (The Hollywood Reporter)
- MoviePass’s CEO on what went wrong, and what’s next (Tech Crunch)
- Nintendo reportedly plans to bring out two new Switch options (Wall Street Journal)
- Fox 2000 is the first casualty of the Disney-Fox merger, as the House of Mouse kills the label (Variety)
- Are unboxing videos exploiting kids and dodging advertising laws? (Vox)
- Walmart plans to take on Amazon with artificial intelligence (Wall Street Journal)
- Netflix experimented with changing episode orders for different users with its new Love, Death & Robots series (Tube Filter)
- Global box-office revenue hit US$41 billion last year (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Disney and Fox employees are not having the easiest transition (Variety)
- A data scientist created a 100%-automated Instagram influencer account…and it’s popular (BuzzFeed News)
- As the sheen wears off of Pokemon GO, Niantic looks to Harry Potter for its next AR hit (Wall Street Journal)
- Disney has officially closed its US$71-billion Fox acquisition (The Hollywood Reporter)
- On the heels of TikTok’s success, parentco Bytedance is getting into games (Tech Crunch)
- Viacom and AT&T are at each other’s throats, which could affect DirecTV subscribers (USA Today)
- How human YouTubers are fighting algorithms to make good content that actually reaches kids (Motherboard)
- It shouldn’t be a surprise, but Netflix confirms it isn’t partnering with Apple on the techco’s new SVOD (Recode)
- But Netflix will dive deeper into interactive storytelling with a new Bear Grylls series (The Verge)
- You can now buy products directly on Instagram without ever leaving the app (Engadget)
- Chinese entertainment giant iQIYI is going after TikTok (Bloomberg)
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