- China is cracking down on westernized children’s books (The Guardian)
- AI Mickey is coming to Disney parks in the not-so-distant future (The Independent)
- Will Viacom suffer from no live-TV deals with Hulu, YouTube TV and Sony PlayStation Vue? (TeccCrunch)
- Is Netflix’s reign everlasting? (Fortune)
- The play truth: These toys understand the factual science of fun (Forbes)
- An interactive storytelling feature may be coming to Netflix (Forbes)
- Health Canada says playing with DIY slime isn’t actually that safe (The Toronto Star)
- Disney will cast Middle Eastern leads in its live-action Aladdin (The Independent)
- Does TV hinder school readiness among poor US kids? (Reuters)
- Barbie, the 58-year-old feminist (Irish Times)
- The pitch for Nintendo’s Switch, and why Netflix will be coming to the console “in time” (The Washington Post)
- Meanwhile, the SVOD vs. cable war is getting pretty ugly (Forbes)
- As its premiere draws near, experts wonder if Disney’s US$300-million Beauty and the Beast gamble will pay off (The New York Times)
- Amazon’s brick-and-mortar bookstores are multiplying (Recode)
- The wearables market remains static, with 74% of people not buying into it at all (eMarketer)
- The 2017 holiday season will bring slower e-commerce growth, even though US consumer confidence is at a new high (eMarketer)
- The spoils of love: Nearly half of parents say they have gone into debt buying something their kids wanted (CNBC)
- The UK has banned junk food ads for kids online, so should Canada follow suit? (The Globe and Mail)
- Circle with Disney zeroes in on Amazon’s Alexa (Engadget)
- Even as the diversity discussion heats up, children’s shows have really had it down since the ’90s (The Huffington Post)
- Disney Research puts bots and tots together to understand verbal interactions (TechCrunch)
- Hollywood and movie-goers are ready for more escapism (The Hollywood Reporter)
- YouTube Kids gets into the spirit of Women’s History Month (Tubefilter)
- The real reason why kids are inactive—and no, it’s not TV’s fault (ABC Australia)
- The rumors are back: A possible Disney acquisition of Netflix could be just what the Mouse House needs (Forbes)
- Mini-millionaires: A look at the kids raking in big bucks on YouTube (stuff)
- In its pledge to never make toys in China, this US company has become a manufacturing anomaly (CNN)
- Beauty and the Beast‘s gay character isn’t going over well in Russia… (Variety)
- …But this isn’t the first time Disney has featured LGBT themes in its movies (The Guardian)
- These may be the most brilliant female cartoon characters that ever existed (TIME)
- NBCUniversal makes a US$500-million bet on Snap. And here’s why. (Recode)
- Disney Media Distribution boss Ben Pyne is leaving the Mouse House after 25 years (Variety)
- Retailers are doubling down on STEM toys, much to the delight of parents (Fast Company)
- Musicon puts a melodic new spin on helping kids’ psychosocial development (Springwise)
- Target outlines a US$7-billion spending plan, but some questions still remain (CNBC)
- Perhaps online marketers are spending their dollars in the wrong places (eMarketer)
- 25 movies with toy tie-ins will bow this year. What does this unprecedented number really say? (Bloomberg)
- Netflix pours almost US$2 billion into European productions (Variety)
- Snap makes its official market debut with a US$24-billion valuation (CNET)
- Beauty and the Beast will have the first interracial kiss in a Disney live-action film (BBC)
- Perhaps Amazon isn’t as big of a retail threat as we all thought? (Wired)
- Hasbro wants to trademark Play-Doh’s scent (The Independent)
- Calling all cord-cutters: YouTube officially unveils a live TV subscription service (Wired)
- More glitter is in the air for Trolls, which will get a sequel in 2020 (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Can Nintendo right its previous marketing wrongs with Switch? (alistdaily)
- Grover makes a lot of mistakes, which makes him perfectly suited to teach kids about STEM (Atlantic)
- Lego is making a set dedicated to the women of NASA (CNET)
- Disney is optimistic ahead of kids upfronts (Variety)
- The world is watching a billion hours of YouTube every day… (Engadget)
- …While Comcast will add a YouTube app to its Xfinity X1 set-top boxes this year (TechCrunch)
- Why we should put mobile safety awareness into teens’ hands (NPR)
- How Star Wars’ Rey forever changed the way kids play (CNBC)
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