- Ratatouille creator to direct VR-based Google Spotlight Story, Piggy (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Kids’ suicidal thoughts and actions have doubled in the past decade, according to American Pediatrics (Chicago Tribune)
- See who is really benefiting from the DIY slime trend (AdWeek)
- The best way to capture an audience is to make them fans, but that’s not always so simple (Strategy + Business)
- The first of Facebook’s long-form shows could hit the web as early as mid-June (Tube Filter)
- Emma Watson and Felicity Jones rule the best actor and hero categories at the MTV Movie and TV Awards (The Washington Post)
- With Star Wars IIX on the horizon, a look at how Lego creates its branded toys from concept to completion (CNBC)
- Kids may not be learning anything from educational apps after all (Melbourne Herald Sun)
- Disney is researching animated face projections…or essentially real-life Snapchat filters (Quartz)
- Toys “R” Us is completely revamping its online presence after admitting it dropped the ball (USA Today)
- Guardians 2′s US$427.6 million rockets Marvel’s Cinematic Universe past US$11 billion in combined global grosses (Variety)
- Facebook is shuttering its two-year-old Oculus Story Studio (TechCrunch)
- Netflix may be doing incredibly well, but investors continue to worry about the cash burn (Variety)
- Scientists are using Lego to experiment with sound vibrations on time reversal (Quartz)
- DanTDM weighs in on why kids love YouTube so much (The Huffington Post)
- Hoverboards, Hatchimals and fidget spinners: Are toy trends boring? (Maclean’s)
- Hulu has officially launched its live TV service with more than 50 channels (CNBC)
- Meanwhile, this is how Snapchat is approaching the small screen (TechCrunch)
- AMC is making big headway in China, mainly because of Minions (eMarketer)
- Serious pushback: Cartoonist who falsely claimed he created Kung Fu Panda gets two years in jail (The Guardian)
- Why Disney doesn’t care if Star Wars 9 and Avengers 4 duke it out at the box office (Forbes)
- Microsoft vies for classroom attention (The Washington Post)
- Disney narrowly escapes copyright suit for Pirates of the Caribbean (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Don’t count wearables out just yet: Apple Watch sales doubled in the past year (The Verge)
- Time Warner surpassed earnings expectations, thanks to The Lego Batman Movie (Variety)
- Amazon’s kidtech extends to all Android phones and tablets (Tech Crunch)
- Midnight madness: Writers and studios have averted a strike (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Teens are spending a whopping three hours and 38 minutes per day on their phones (eMarketer)
- App downloads were up in Q1, especially for those of the Google variety (App Annie)
- Hong Kong Disneyland is about to get a US$1.4-billion expansion (Variety)
- Samsung is the latest to step into the ring of parental controls (The Verge)
- Leaked document reveals Facebook helped advertisers target vulnerable teens (Forbes)
- It’s more than just dress-up…how damaging are plastic surgery apps to little girls? (ABC Australia)
- A Netflix hacker is holding new episodes of the SVOD’s original show hostage (The Guardian)
- Once valued at US$400 million, Yik Yak is sold off for a scant US$1 million (The Verge)
- This Japanese bot wants to help toddlers think logically (Springwise)
- Amazon shatters earnings expectations (CNET)
- Sony, meanwhile, sees its profits cut in half (Variety)
- Why Roblox has the potential to surpass Minecraft as a cultural phenomenon (Games Industry)
- Kids need better social media education in order to avoid disturbing live videos (CBC)
- Retail’s new stand in the internet era (Advertising Age)
- Senators are saying Australian Kids TV is in a ‘fight for its life right now’ (Huffington Post)
- Disney takes a swing at another live-action remake with Ewan McGregor playing Christopher Robin (Hollywood Reporter)
- Four out of five children say they aren’t protected from inappropriate content online (ITV News)
- Remember the kids who crashed the BBC interview? They now have their own cartoon (Mashable)
- Still don’t believe in the power of influencers? They doubled a fashion company’s profit last year (Guardian)
- YouTube Kids officially touches down on smart TVs (TechCrunch)
- Disney is trying to avoid the competition by announcing release dates for The Lion King, Frozen 2 and more (Vanity Fair)
- A Doritos bag that plays the Guardians of the Galaxy 2 soundtrack? Talk about a bold marketing move. (Advertising Age)
- After making its way into China, Netflix now gains ground in South Korea (The Hollywood Reporter)
- It just keeps growing, and growing, and…Instagram hits 700 million monthly active users (The Verge)
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