- Excessive holiday discounting is part of what’s hurting toy retailers (The Guardian)
- The Canadian government may be next to ban food advertising to kids (Global News)
- Tech’s next frontier is AI, but without an ethical watchdog it could all go awry (WIRED)
- MIT is teaching kids to code with wooden blocks (Quartz)
- In a streaming-obsessed world, Disney continues to command DVD and Blu-Ray sales (Variety)
- They’re not like Millennials, so what makes young Gen Z-ers tick? (Wired)
- Some Toys “R” Us suppliers are cutting shipments over financing fears (Bloomberg)
- Hulu steps up its original content spend to US$2.5 billion, but still lags behind Netflix and Amazon (Variety)
- The LEGO movie sequel is going to look at the differences between how girls and boys play (Gizmodo)
- TV ad spend may have taken a hit, but mobile is driving massive growth worldwide (Recode)
- US viewers spent a billion hours watching YouTube videos on mobile in July (TechCrunch)
- Snapchat doubles down on augmented reality, bringing bitmojis to life (Recode)
- Job insecurity: High-profile directors getting replaced more quickly when it comes to superhero film franchises (The Toronto Star)
- My Little Pony, UNO and Pez dispensers are some of the finalists to enter the Toy Hall of Fame (CBS)
- A new Ofcom report says TV broadcasters are failing to represent society (BBC News)
- The Last J.J.edi: J.J. Abrams returns to the director’s chair for Star Wars Episode IX (Wired)
- Turns out it was the power of YouTube that pivoted Netflix to original video (Recode)
- US TV ad spend is taking a bigger hit than expected, as audiences will shrink 10% by 2021 (eMarketer)
- Apple is embracing augmented reality with its new animated emojis (AdWeek)
- Netflix’s CFO says the SVOD giant could spend US$20 million on a single episode (Variety)
- Girl powered: Females are playing games on their phones more often than males (eMarketer)
- After massively selling out last Christmas, Nintendo is bringing back the NES Classic (The Verge)
- Despicable Me 3 crosses the US$1-billion mark (Bloomberg)
- Is original content enough to bring in subscribers to Apple, Facebook and Disney’s new SVODs? (Forbes)
- This 10-year-old has created a US$2-million Amazon business (Fast Company)
- Why the allure of traditional toys is still strong amid myriad tech options (The Guardian)
- There’s a push for fewer stereotypes in kids advertising, but what if ads were cut back altogether? (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Space reigns supreme for LEGO, as NASA and Star Wars drive the company’s most popular sets (CNET)
- The FTC has reached a settlement with Let’s Play YouTubers, but sends out a warning to other influencers (Tube Filter)
- Artificial Intelligence has learned to play Super Mario better than any human player (The Verge)
- It’s official: Disney prepares to pull Marvel and Star Wars content from Netflix (Variety)
- Facebook is the latest to dole out US$1 billion on content in 2018 (Tech Crunch)
- There’s a lot riding on this year’s holiday toy sales, but can Santa save retailers? (CNBC)
- Sales of fidget spinners have finally cooled, but there’s still a lot to learn from the trendy toy (The Economist)
- Red-hot fury: Studio execs say Rotten Tomatoes is to blame for a soft summer box office (The New York Times)
- Spotify has found its new head of content—freshly poached from Disney (Variety)
- The obsession with the right amount of screen time is missing the point (London School of Economics)
- Sweden’s game industry swelled by 950% to US$1.54 billion in 2016 (VentureBeat)
- When it comes to influencers Gen Z doesn’t care how many followers they have (Forbes)
- Genres are so last year: Netflix is overhauling its categories (Financial Post)
- Ahead of its IPO, Roku launches an ad-supported movie channel (TechCrunch)
- Trouble in toy land? How a weak summer box office is impacting the world of play (MarketWatch)
- Gen Z is so over video ads (Forbes)
- This crochet-clad robot has high-tech ambitions to help kids with autism (Fast Company)
- Be careful what you tell Australian kids: Peppa Pig episode saying spiders aren’t dangerous gets pulled (CNET)
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