- Ex-DreamWorks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg’s new venture just raised US$600 million (The Hollywood Reporter)
- More departures at ABC Australia—this time it’s the pubcaster’s COO (News Australia)
- Boys and girls become affected by gender stereotypes at age six (Mashable)
- Cinematic virtual reality is trying to make its breakthrough, starting with Sundance (The Verge)
- The only online ad that costs as much as a Super Bowl TV spot? A sponsored snapchat filter (AdWeek)
- Spying new tech and STEAM trends at London Toy Fair (New Atlas)
- The best kind of boredom leads to creativity (Wired)
- MTV and Nickelodeon are using data in an innovative way to improve customer experience (Forbes)
- At least Paramount overshadowed Disney in one area last year (Barron’s)
- The advertising world is ready for quality over quantity (Recode)
- Game-changer or late to the game? Amazon launches a US$20 monthly subscription service for STEM toys (The Verge)
- Warner Bros. has taken over the former Disney studio behind Infinity (Polgon)
- Apple’s ad agency sees the future of tech toys in these two startups (Fast Company)
- Will parents put their trust in the latest kids personal assistant, NannyBot? (Springwise)
- One more point for mobile TV: Snapchat is going to use Nielsen ratings to sell ads (AdWeek)
- Amid slumping box office returns in Asia, Japan finds a way to soar (Variety)
- Stop, rebuild: Verizon cuts 155 Go90 staffers and is tapping former Vessel execs to reshape the streaming service (Variety)
- See who scored this year’s Best Animated Feature Oscar noms (Mashable)
- Daddy’s girl: Mattel’s new Barbie marketing campaign shows fathers playing with the iconic doll (AdWeek)
- Where do kids get their screen addictions? From their parents, of course (The New York Times)
- Android is now letting its users try out mini versions of apps without ever downloading them (The Verge)
- Livestreaming may be down, but global app revenue continues to climb (AdWeek)
- Wanda Group’s AMC is paying US$930 million for a group of theaters in the Nordic and Baltic regions (Variety)
- Rogue One crosses the US$1-billion mark, with Moana right behind it (Forbes)
- The Razzies are out and a lot of YA films made the list (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Wait, that’s all? Teens make up only 8% of 1.9 billion mobile gamers worldwide (alistdaily)
- ABC Australia’s TV director calls it quits (The Sydney Morning Herald)
- A judge approves a US$50-million settlement in the wage-fixing lawsuit against DreamWorks Animation (Variety)
- Peppa Pig at the forefront of Brexit? House of Lords member begs Theresa May to think about the children’s animation sector (City A.M.)
- Meanwhile, UK retail sales took a tumble in December (Reuters)
- The anime makeup app that is taking off online is collecting a lot of unusual data (Wired)
- Young players are driving mobile gaming growth in Southeast Asia (eMarketer)
- Target’s disappointing holiday sales point to a larger problem within the company—and retail at large (Forbes)
- In this breakout year of robot assistants, consumers care more about the bots’ brains than their bodies (Wired)
- Sony says there’s going to be a standalone animated Spider-Man movie (The Verge)
- Last order of business? Among President Obama’s final acts in office is answering letters from children (NPR)
- Brexit is helping Tinseltown (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Northern exposure: Canadians are first to get YouTube’s new in-app messaging feature that shares videos with friends (TechCrunch)
- Birdwatching hasn’t flown the coop. In fact, the hobby is coming back in a big way for kids, thanks to apps. (CBS)
- For those in doubt of Facebook’s stamina, data shows teens are using the platform more than last year (eMarketer)
- Meanwhile, a “Facebook for seven-year-olds” launches in the UK (Manchester Evening News)
- Super Mario Run for the border? Apple UK App Store prices are going to rise 25% following Brexit (The Verge)
- US viewers deem Netflix more “indispensable” than any linear TV brand (Digital TV Europe)
- Meanwhile, pay-TV subscriber growth is decreasing ever so slightly (eMarketer)
- New and expanding US Walmart stores mean 10,000 jobs will be up for grabs at the world’s largest retailer (The Globe and Mail)
- The Shorty Award nominations have been announced and there are more social media categories than ever before (The Hollywood Reporter)
- Lego is looking to fund a professor who can teach fun (The Guardian)
- Sorry, Dory—Rogue One is officially 2016’s top-grossing film in the US. Of course, the ultimate winner is Disney. (Newsweek)
- Sesame‘s Count may be one of them, but foreign characters are few and far between in children’s TV (The Guardian)
- The Chinese government is cracking down on digital detox camps that treat teens with electroshock therapy (The New York Times)
- Are straight-A students actually a little clueless? How the school system could be failing kids (Forbes)
- There’s a chance superhero culture could lead to more aggressive children (CTV News)
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